Pamela Mccoll
2012 Publisher- Grafton and Scratch Publishers. Title to be released Twas The Night Before Christmas. Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st.Century .
As the publisher I was compelled to act on Santa's wish that the reference to smoking a pipe simply drop from the pages to protect young readers from nicotine use.
Publisher of 8 books.
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com
Pamela McColl
Biography
A children’s advocate and smoking cessation coach, Pamela McColl is releasing a smoke-free version of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas.
She handles sales and marketing for Allen Carr North America, whose book, The Easy Way To Stop Smoking, is a best-seller with over 13 million copies sold worldwide. His program has helped influence millions of people to quit smoking, including Ellen DeGeneres, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Hopkins, and Sir Richard Branson.
McColl also hosts an online peer group for smoking cessation through www.depressionrecoverygroup.com entitled “You Can Stop Smoking Now” and blogs through the associated website www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com. She has a special interest in maternity and smoking cessation and previously was a labor support doula and prenatal yoga instructor.
She works in collaboration with the University of California in San Francisco – Smoke-Free Movies
Campaign (www.smokefreemovies.com), helping to put pressure on the film industry to rid its movies of scenes connected to smoking. She also successfully contributed, with a letter-writing campaign, to the movement to convince Major League Baseball to remove smokeless tobacco from the game.
When she was 18 she fled her house, which was engulfed in flames as a result of her father falling asleep in bed with a lit cigarette. Though she had taken up smoking as a teen-ager, she quit over three decades ago.
She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn, which United States Senator Frank Murkowski, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, labeled as “one of the most important works on forest management” in recent years.
The Canadian has been featured in major media in her country, including Maclean’s magazine, CBC Radio, and National Canada AM-TV.
Her diverse career includes previous experience in publishing, as a health care worker with Canadian Mental Health and as labor support doula. Her early career was spent the field of costume design for film and theatre and she attended the National Theatre School in Montreal Quebec and worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the CBC. The Vancouver resident earned a BA in History/Sociology attended Queen’s University, The University of Manitoba, and did postgraduate work in Theatre History at the University of Victoria, she returned to study as a mature student in the faculty of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds certification in Peer Counseling. Most recently she has trained with the Legacy Maternity in Brief Tobacco Intervention.
McColl, age 54, has 23-year-old twin daughters (neither of whom smokes).
Pamela is a member of The Ewomen’s Network and Grafton and Scratch Publishing is a member of the
Independent Book Publishers Association of America.
For more information, please consult:
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmopkingnow.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
@twas4kids
@pamelamccoll1
@booksthatfit
Pamela McColl
“never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you”