Meet Asa, who is already developing great reading habits. The son of a top-flight book reviewer and writer, Asa was born the same month that The Last Spymaster was published in hardcover. Welcome to the world, Asa.

Thanks to fab reviewer and bon vivant Annie Chernow, here's a photo of Gayle having fun at last June's ThrillerFest, in Phoenix.

Gayle and David Morrell co-founded and are co-presidents of ITW, which created ThrillerFest, the world's first international festival to celebrate thrillers.

Please consider joining them and many great authors (like Clive Cussler, James Patterson, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham — to name a few) in New York this coming June 2007.

Kate Stine, the renowned editor of Mystery Scene magazine, joins David Morrell and Gayle at a 2005 BEA — Book Expo America — party. Kate has revamped, modernized, and made Mystery Scene one of the industry's top resources for news, reviews, and interviews. Many thanks, Kate!

According to omnipresent CNN, retired attorney and astute reader Norm Donald exposed his handsome body to the sun and his brain to literature when he settled down with The Altman Code by Bob Ludlum and Gayle Lynds this past summer at Paradise Valley Resort in Dawsonville, GA. Nudist resorts are great, we hear — you don't even have to pack any bags to go there.

Advertisements for ITW's exciting new anthology, Thriller, were plastered across London, mostly in underground stations. We like the subversiveness of that.

One of our most diligent spies sent us this photo — to prove his report. If you spot ads for Gayle's books anywhere, please brief us and send evidence. Unless you wish to remain anonymous, you'll get full credit.

BTW, the title of Gayle's story in the anthology is "The Hunt for Dmitri."