G.B. Strickland, Adventure Thriller Author

Gladys Strickland, author of adventure thrillers and personal essays.

Gladys Strickland writes action/adventure/thrillers under the name G.B. Strickland. She also writes personal essays and memoir.

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.

Personal essays continue to swirl in her head, along with ideas for fiction short stories and books. 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 my Master’s degree thesis that inspired The Stonemason’s Secret.

You can read more about the book here, and the personal essays here.

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