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Gayle Martin, nee Gayle Homes, graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor's Degree in art and later attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California. She was a free lance graphic designer who picked up an award or two along the way, including the Unsung Heroine of the Year from the Denver Advertising Federation for designing Presenting DAF today, a monthly magazine insert in Advertising and Marketing Review, a Colorado trade publication for the advertising industry.
Gayle began writing in 2005 when she self-published her first book, Anna's Kitchen: a
Compilation of WWII Ration Recipes That You Can Create in Your Kitchen Today.
This was followed in 2006 by Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Luke and Jenny Visit
Tombstone, the first book in her Luke and Jenny series of historical novels for
young readers. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral won an honorable mention at the 2007
Hollywood Book Festival and was followed by Billy the Kid and the Lincoln
County War: a Luke and Jenny Adventure, a finalist in the 2007 Indie Book
Awards of Excellence. The third book in the Luke and Jenny series, Riding with
the James Gang: a Luke and Jenny Adventure, was released in January, 2010.
Gayle is currently working on the fourth installment of the
Luke and Jenny series, The Mystery of the Lost Dutchman Mine: a Luke and Jenny
Adventure, as well as Rosie's Riveting Recipes: Cooking on the Home Front Line, an updated version of her WWII era cookbook. She
currently resides in Tucson, Arizona, and in her spare time she enjoys quilt-making and cake decorating.
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