Gary D. Kessler

Gary D. Kessler is a former news agency managing editor; CIA official; diplomat; newspaper columnist; stage actor, director, and producer and movie consultant; and is currently a freelance book editor and novelist. He is the volume editor for the Blue Ridge Anthology, the prose and poetry anthology of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Virginia Writer’s Club. The anthology is now in its fourth biennial edition.

He has lived and written in Japan, Thailand, and Cyprus. In Thailand he was consultant on movies that included The Deerhunter, The Killing Fields, Volunteers, and Good Morning Vietnam; wrote the drama reviews for the Bangkok Post; produced and directed plays and concerts; and, as president of the Bangkok Music Society, was the official host of a concert tour in Thailand of the New York Philharmonic. In Cyprus he produced and directed plays and was the entertainment columnist for the Cyprus Sun.

He has edited more than 150 books for mainline publishers, and his own book projects include a short story collection, On the Downtown Mall; volume editor for the two-volume WritersNet Anthology of Prose; coauthor, with Carol Kluz, of a publishing reference, Finding Go! Matching Questions and Resources in Getting Published; and coauthor of a Bible study, (Re)Tell Me the Stories, with his minister sister, Carole Stockberger. A Charlottesville-setting novel, What the Spider Saw, will be launched at the Virginia Festival of the Book in March 2012. He writes e-books-to-paperback international intrigue novels under the pen name Gina Drew and detective mystery novellas under the pen name Olivia Stowe.

He has won and placed in the UVa Art Museum Writer’s Eye prose contest, won the Virginia Writer’s Club flash fiction contest, and placed in the VWC’s statewide annual fiction contest.

He consults on writing and publishing, conducts writing and publishing workshops, and hosts the www.editsbooks.com and www.publishingquestions.com websites. The latter has been listed as a Writer’s Digest 101 best site for the last three years.

Author photo by Jen Fariello



Available - MARCH 1, 2012
What the Spider Saw
(Mystery & Crime - Detective Fiction)

ISBN 978-0-9839192-3-0   
Paperback   5-1/2 x 8-1/2   240 Pages   $18

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