LOUISE GAYLORD'S LATEST BOOK, Xs,
An Allie Armington Mystery is a finalist! CONGRATULATIONS LOUISE!
Independent Publisher Book Awards 2005 - And the IPPY goes
to...
Winners and Finalists in this year's IPPY Awards
The 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards attracted books
from over 1,500 publishers around the world; from all 50 U.S.
states, nine Canadian provinces, and 18 foreign countries.
The ninth annual, 2005 Awards saw a continued increase in quality
and diversity – and the writing and publishing exhibited
great passion. Yes, independent authors and publishers are
passionate about getting their message out, and they are changing
the world, one book at a time…
Thanks and congratulations to all participants for your truly
great work!
14. Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
Xs: An Allie Armington Mystery by Louise Gaylord
(Little Moose Press)
There’s a Bad Apple
in the Big Apple
 The
trouble started with a call from her sister, a supermodel,
in New York City. The next thing she knew, Allie Armington,
young, bright, successful and slightly bored Texas attorney,
was on a plane to the Big Apple. It was downhill from there.
Beautiful women are showing up dead, neat X marks
carved in their breasts with almost surgical precision. Chilling
enough in the abstract, but made all too real when Allie’s
sister’s roommate turns up among them.
Read more about Xs...
Read LAUREN ROBERTS Review of Xs
About Louise Gaylord
 LOUISE GAYLORD is
a natural storyteller, whose life, like her mystery stories,
has been full of surprises. She discovered her love of storytelling
during her days at Saint Mary’s Hall, an Episcopal
girls’ boarding school in San Antonio, Texas. Classmates
gathered round as she read her stories and ended up in tears
by, “ ...and they lived happily (or not so happily)
ever after.” But it was painting, not writing, that
her teachers encouraged, so her writing was put on hold.
Louise studied art history and sociology at Rollins College
in Winter Park, Florida, and later at The University of Houston
where she met and married Ted Gaylord, a promising entrepreneur
from Upstate New York.
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 has it all: seX, eXcitement, eXcess, an
eXecution, eXtreme situations and eXtraordinary
twists. Allie Armington’s back and
she’s gotten herself miXed up in a police
investigation of a seX& drugs operation run
by an elite East Coast monied set. More great characters. More
hold-your-breath moments. More surprises. If you liked
Anacacho, you’ll love Xs.
It’s eXcellent.
Radio Interview with Louise!
Louise Gaylord, author of Xs and Anacacho, is interviewed
by NCPR, an NPR Affiliate in New York.
Listen Now...
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| Heavenly Hearts THE DISH / Martha Smilgis
Santa Barbara News Press
2/15/05
WHO DUN IT: Birnam's clubhouse was the scene
of a swell soiree and book signing by Louise Gaylord. Her
second novel "Xs" is
a chilling Manhattan tale that puts her up there with mystery
queen Mary Higgins Clark. ... Bob Ledner's jazz combo gave
Gaylord's party a Manhattan nightclub atmosphere and provided
perfect background music for Direct Relief International's
Thomas Tighe and wife Carrie when urbanely chatting with comely
Caryl Beadel. ... Louise and her husband Ted are on the Opera
S.B. Board, and support the Houston and Sarasota operas, which
explained the presence of opera buffs -- handsome Chris Carroll,
elegant Joan Rutkowski and industrious Steven Sharpe. ...
TIMELY HEROINES: Louise's tres sexy characters
come from the voice of a hip young woman. "I watch TV to get my material," confesses
the author, who didn't start writing until her three children
were grown. Originally from Houston, Louise and Ted (in trucking
biz) now rotate among Texas, Montecito and Adirondacks residences.
(He's also on the Washington, D.C.-based boards of the Jamestown
and Natural History Foundations.) ... Louise's writing career
has been an arduous climb with requisite rejection slips (badges
of honor!) until success came with her first novel "Anacacho," a
thriller set in Texas. She praises the S.B. Writers Conference
for inspiration and Little Moose Press. "Xs" is available
at Tecolote and Chaucer's. ...
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