Look and Listen

Biography

J. Gayle Kelly has written hundreds of newspaper articles and features from Washington to Nevada. She had her own column THE WAY I SEE IT, in one Nevada newspaper. Some of her features have been published in national magazines. Most of her first novels were written on the tupewriter which entailed a lot of re-typing and patience. Fortunately, due to modern-day inventions, the computer is now her writing machine. She has raised one husband (of 52 years), four children, and many animals. Her first published work, THE WATERMELON PATCH, came out December 2006, and is available through Publish America, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon, or at your local bookstore.

Inspiration

J. Gayle Kelly has always loved to read and create a story. Any kind of story. She needs a large home just to house her book collection alone (but doesn't have one). She has been inspired in her writing by her family, animals, experiences, and people in general. She loves being with people, especially those who are pleasant to be with. She loves her animals and has had a lot of them. Although The Watermelon Patch, a story set in rural Nevada in the Fifties, is not her first effort, it was a book she longed to write from the time she lived it. She's a deep thinker and a deep writer but enjoys inserting humor into her stories to give the reader something to laugh about Kelly loves going to movies, taking photo's and scrapbooking; she longs to travel, hopes one day to see Italy where her ancestors came from. Being born a gold miner's daughter and part of a mining family, instilled in her a love for history and the west. She is currently writing a novel about a mail-order bride from Yugoslavia who meets some of our country's infamous outlaws.