Gayle Lynds along with her prolific and talented multi-genre husband Dennis Lynds have been long time supporters and members of the Santa Barabra Writers Conference for many years.

Dennis has passed on and is sorely missed, but Gayle continues being an inspiration to the SBWC family.

Gayle is an American former journalist, editor and author and is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her spy fiction or spy thrillers novels. She is also the co-founder of International Thriller Writers.

She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona and was an editor at a government think tank, where she also acquired a Top Secret security clearance.

Her fiction career began with literary short stories published under her own name and several pulp fiction novels under male pseudonyms such as G.H. Stone, Gayle Stone, Nick Carter, and Don Pendleton.

In 1996, her first novel Masquerade was published. She also wrote three novels in The Three Investigators, a YA mystery novel series. With Robert Ludlum, she created the Covert-One series and wrote three of the books.

The Hades Factor, which she co-wrote with Robert Ludlum, was a CBS television miniseries in April 2006.

You can find out more about Gayle and her works here:

https://gaylelynds.com/