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Gayle at Chris Rice's party with a bevy of award-winning suspense novelists, fromleft to right: Denise Hamilton (Last Lullaby); John Morgan Wilson (Blind Eye); Christopher Rice (Light Before Day) and Barbara Seranella (Unwilling Accomplice). |
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Happy revelers on the deck overlooking the garden. |
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Gayle cracking up with Denise Hamilton. |
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The view from Anne Rice's new La Jolla home. |
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Sunset in La Jolla. |
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Gayle
and Dennis had adventures in early October at the 35th
annual Bouchercon World Mystery and Suspense Conference,
held in beautiful Toronto. For more on this amazing
city, see our Spy Spots feature in World of Espionage. |
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The conference was housed in the Metro Toronto Convention
Center, one of Toronto's many marvels of modern architecture. |
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Two great
authors (and pals), David Morrell (THE PROTECTOR) and
Raelynn Hillhouse (RIFT ZONE) are enjoying a chat at
Gayle and Dennis's table at the lively Toronto Bouchercon, October
2004. |
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Terrific authors (also pals!) Joe Finder
(PARANOIA) and Katherine Neville (THE EIGHT) join Dennis
and Gayle at the 2004 Bouchercon banquet.
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See the
beautiful Channel Islands in the background? Here they
are at sunset, viewed from Gayle and Dennis's top deck
in Southern California, where Gayle goes when she's
having plot or character problems. With a notepad on
her lap, inspired, she often finds answers. 10/04
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Many fans may not know Gayle wrote
three young adult mysteries in the Three Investigators
series.
The 3-I's have achieved an almost cult-like international
popularity; check out this 3-I "radio-play party"
in Hamburg... more like a rock concert than a literary
gathering! 2-04
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Dennis
and Gayle greet friends and sign novels at the booth
of Los Angeles's terrific Mystery Bookstore during the
Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival, 8-04. |
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Barbara Seranella, author of the renowned Munch Mancini
mystery series, stops signing long enough to say hi to
Gayle at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival,
8-04. |
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Wayne Jessup, extraordinary
Borders inventory manager, hangs out with Gayle, talking
about books and Jaguars (cars & cats both) at the
Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival, 8-04. |
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Gayle and dear friend and fellow author Melodie Johnson
Howe (BEAUTY DIES) created the Mystery & Suspense
Pavilion at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival
in 2002. Here they're sharing a longed-for glass of wine
under stormy skies, laughing and recovering. |
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Shady
is a manx cat, very old and opinionated. She often visits
Gayle in her office and gives her writing tips. 8-04. |
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The Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival is an annual
event held in September in the historic De la Guerra Plaza.
Look at those gorgeous blue skies. 8-04. |
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Dennis was awarded the
prestigious Marlowe Award in recognition of his literary
contributions and body of work at the Friars' Club in
Beverly Hills in June 2002. Among the presenters, questioners,
and roasters were (standing, left to right): Tom Nolan,
author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography and Wall Street
Journal reviewer; Robert Levinson, author of wonderful
novels set in Hollywood and president of MWA SoCal chapter;
Charles Champlin, retired Los Angeles Times art critic
and reviewer; Jonathan Kellerman, whose novels delight
millions of readers; and Dick Lochte, novelist, reviewer,
critic, essayist, and Renaissance man. It was a great
day! |
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It's an authorial moment — three of Gayle's pals
— award-winning authors Barbara Seranella, Jerrilyn
Farmer, and Jan Burke join her under the swaying palms
at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival, 8-04. |
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