J. Gayle Kelly has always loved to read and create stories. She needs a large home just to house her books, but doesn't have one. She has been inspired in her writing by her family, animals, life experiences and people in general. She loves being with people, especially those who are pleasant to be with. She loves her animals and has raised lots of them. She's a deep thinker and a deep writer but enjoys inserting humor into her stories to give the reader something to laugh about. Kelly loves going to movies, taking photo's, making quilts, and scrapbooking. She longs to travel, hopes one day to see Italy where her ancestors came from. Being born a gold miner's daughter and part of a mining family, instilled in her a love for history and the west.

J. Gayle Kelly has written hundreds of newspaper articles and features from Washington to Nevada. She had her own column: The Way I See It, in one Nevada newspaper. Some of her features have been published in national magazines. She is a self-taught writer and most of her first novels were written on the typewriter; rewritten on the computer. She has raised one husband (of 52 years), four children, and many aniimals.

J. Gayle Kelly recently published her first novel, The Watermelon Patch, a story set in rural Nevada in the Fifties. Although it isn't her first written novel, it was one she longed to write from the time she lived it. She is currently penning a novel about a mail-order bride from Yugloslavia who meets some of our country's infamous outlaws.