Gay Yellen
Early on, I was a professional actor and Screen Actors Guild Member, then moved behind the camera as Assistant to the Director of Production at The American Film Institute (AFI).
My professional writing career began in journalism, as managing editor of Tennis Illustrated Magazine and later, of D Magazine in Dallas. I was contributing book editor for Five Minutes to Midnight (Delacorte 1980), an international thriller.
My first solo novel is The Body Business, Book 1 in The Samantha Newman Mystery Series. It was a finalist for national and regional awards. A new edition was published in 2020. Book 2, The Body Next Door, earned 1st Place, Mystery & Mayhem category, at the 2017 Chanticleer Book Awards; a Silver Medal, Readers' Favorite Award; and was a Finalist for the Silver Falchion at Killer Nashville. Book 3 will be published in early 2021.
I am researching background for a historical novel. A children’s collection of silly verse is an ongoing project.
www.gayyellen.com
Works
The Body Business Book 1 (New Edition)
A missing friend . . . a jealous co-worker . . . and a mystery man with secrets of his own.
When her best friend at work goes missing, Samantha Newman starts to question the strange staff losses and peculiar profit reports at the company she helped build. To make matters worse, her job is undermined by a tenacious rival. How can she find her friend without getting caught in a web of deceit?
As doubt deepens, Samantha asks the FBI for help. They send Carter Chapman, a mystery man with motives of his own. He’s on a mission, and it doesn’t include the impulsive corporate executive with her own pack of problems. But when a terrible event puts the two of them on the same path to discovery, they each have to decide if some secrets are worth the price.
The Body Next Door /Series Book 2
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Location
Houston, TX
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Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Crime, Poetry, Romance, Children