Featured Interview With Gail Daley
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
A writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction stories, Gail has received high praise for her beautifully interlaced, imaginative worlds. She populates her universes with vital and interesting characters, skillfully intertwining their everyday lives with world changing events.
An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 46 plus years.
Gail has a background in business and used this expertise to develop a series of pamphlets (lumped together under the title “The Modern Artist’s Handbook) advising artists and authors about how to improve their bottom line by applying business practices to the development and sale of their work.
Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats, and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach, a bout with breast cancer, and arthritis in her hands have slowed her down a little, but she continues to write and paint.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I think I was about three when I became fascinated by books. I started writing in middle school.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My current favorite authors are: Jayne Ann Krenz, Anne McCaffrey and Nora Roberts in sci-fi, Andre Norton in Fantasy, PNR: Amanda M Lee Western: Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey. This list is subject to change at any time.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My next release is book 2 in my Outlawed Colony Series. It's called The Heirs of Avalon. The theft Top Secret technology is the catalyst for a lab tech's murder and plunges two couples into a web of criminal activity on the colony of Barsoom, a hybrid of advanced technology and Renaissance Culture.
Returning home to Barsoom after a successful mission to earth, Randal brings an unexpected dividend with him: A data crystal with the formula for finding earth-type planets. When the data crystal is stolen and a lab tech murdered during the break-in, his father and his fiancée's father come under suspicion. It's up to him, his fiancée Judith, and some new friends to clear their fathers of murder and find and retrieve the stolen crystal before it falls into the wrong hands.
Devon Morton and Tash Higgens came to Barsoom to help set up new programming for the colony's Portal to Laughing Mountain and the other Outlawed Colonies. When an important data crystal is stolen from a lab owned by Randal's father, they join forces with Randal and Judith to clear their fathers' names and recover the stolen technology.
The name Barsoom which is used as the name of a colony in these books, BARSOOM(R) is a registered trademark of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. And Used by Permission.
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