The setting for author P.J. Devere’s romance novels is a Southern college town called Starkford which is a combination of Starkville and Oxford. Having grown up in Clarke County, Devere knows all about southern life, and stated that everything is better in the South including the food and the writing.
Devere was on hand at the Winston County Library on Wednesday, November 20 to sign books and for a short reading from her first novel, Pour Choices, which she says is fast-moving and contains many twists and turns that no one has been able to figure out the far. It is a book that will make one laugh and is hard to put down. Also available was her second book, Pour House, and a third book, Pour Attitude, is in the works.
Devere, whose real name is Pamela Bittick, is a prosecutor for the City of Meridian and also trains police reserves at Meridian Community College. She stated that she always wanted to write and during an extended down time she began to put to paper her ideas which grew into vignettes, then scenes and chapters.
According to Devere, there has been a major change in the publishing business in recent years, and her books are actually self-published, and are available in paperback or e-book versions. Sales have been very good on Amazon.com and she has been ranked as high as #152 in the romance novel category, which is quite an achievement considering there are fourteen-hundred new books published daily.
Devere said that she is proud to be a member of the esteemed Mississippi writing community which boasts such a rich legacy, and at the same time does not feel worthy.
