Gay Walley
has been a writer/editor of books for the past 15 years, and before that, a
copywriter with major advertising firms.
Her
published novels include STRINGS ATTACHED with U Press of Mississippi (1999),-
Finalist
for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner Award and Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award and
Paris Book Festival.
THE EROTIC
FIRE OF THE UNATTAINABLE, published by IML Publications (2007) reissued by
Skyhorse Publishing 2015, Finalist for Paris Book Festival Award. The
book was made into a film, THE UNATTAINABLE STORY, written by Gay with Harry
Hamlin and premiered at Mostra in Sao Paolo in Brazil.
LOST IN
MONTREAL, another novel, published by Incanto Press, came out in 2014.
Her play
LOVE, GENIUS AND A WALK opened in the Midtown Festival in New York 2013, was
nominated for 6 awards including best playwright, played in 3 pub theatres and
Etc Theatre in London in 2018, and will reopen in 2020 at Theatro Technis.
Gay teaches
writing classes and in one-on-one sessions and many of
her authors find agents and are published. Gay also edits novels and
memoirs and has ghostwritten books (www.yourstoryonpaper.com)
that have won awards.
For Gay,
writing is an exploration in exuberance, inner psyche, truth and a
transformative experience, no matter what type of book a writer chooses to
write. She loves working with people and helping them experience this
disciplined, creative journey. If one writes well, the results are always
meaningful.
