Gladys Strickland writes art and history adventure thrillers under the pen name G.B. Strickland. She has also written a selection of personal essays.
A lifelong reader, she didn’t begin writing creatively until 2017. Beginning with personal essays about her life, she said she would never write fiction because she didn’t have any ideas for a book.
A walk on the beach changed all that. The seed of the idea was to write a story that featured the medieval carvings of minstrels in Beverley Minster. By the next day she had a rough outline. The first draft was completed during National Novel Writing Month, and the The Stonemason’s Secret, the first book in the Sarah Walker series, is now in revisions.
More ideas for fiction stories continue swirl in her head, . Many of these ideas feature art and history. With a Bachelor of Arts in History (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1985) and a Master of Arts in Art History (Southern Methodist University, 1995), there is no end to the ideas for stories. It was the research for her Master’s degree thesis that inspired The Stonemason’s Secret.
You can learn more about the book here, and read some short stories at this link.
You can read her personal essays at this link, as well as posts with information for readers at this one.
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