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FERNLEY - Despite ongoing flood recovery efforts, a Fernley woman, J. Gayle Kretschmer, writing as J. Gayle Kelly, salvaged what she could of parts of a manuscript, rewrote other sections, and submitted it for publication.
Nearly a year to the day after the flood destroyed major parts of the project, she received copies of her second novel, “An Apple for the Teacher.”
Kretschmer, a lifelong writer, grew up in the Tonopah area. She started her journalism career writing for the State Page of the Reno Gazette-Journal. She was a staff writer, and wrote a column called “The Way I See It,” for the Death Valley Gazette. She also freelanced for the Pahrump Valley Times and the Tonopah Times Bonanza in the middle 80.
Kretschmer credits the editor of the Death Valley Gazette for nourishing her writing talents.
“He was the best writing instructor I ever had,” she said.
She worked under his supervision for several years. Meanwhile, she also wrote novels she hoped to have published someday.
Kretschmer’s publishing credits also include magazine articles. Having written non-fiction and fiction, she added critique groups to her learning process, when she moved to Fernley 12 and a half years ago to hone her novel skills.
In 2006 her first coming-of-age novel about teenagers in a fictional community close to the Atomic Testing Site, “The Watermelon Patch,” was published by Publish America.
Kretschmer, along with promoting her first novel, began rewriting and polishing other manuscripts that she had written over the years. When Publish America agreed to consider “An Apple for the Teacher,” Kretschmer had to work the revisions and completion of the book in around the interruptions of trying to get her home restored close to its original state.
Frustrations of a ruined writing room, damaged computer, a failed printer and lost research and documents, stored both on the computer and in hard copy, slowed the efforts of completing the manuscript.
“An Apple for the Teacher” is the result of Kretschmer’s years living in Washington state and her children being involved in high school basketball teams. She came up with a plot that has a new female coach (who coaches boys) and her involvement with the school principal. Mystery surrounds the coach’s past which unravels as the story progresses.
The blurb from Publish America states, “What causes a man to leave a place in the East he loves and a teaching position he enjoys, to move his son clear across the country? Why would a woman leave the home of her heart, her entire family and a successful coaching career to lock horns with a boys’ basketball team and a new principal?
“He doubts a woman can be qualified to coach male jocks, especially when one of them is his son. She is still reeling from a scandal in Montana. Both are running from ‘ghosts from the past,’ yet neither can deny the chemistry that sizzles between them.
“Rayne Summers and Samantha Armstrong are beautiful people caught up in a delicious relationship in a gorgeous corner of the Northwest.”
“An Apple for the Teacher,” ISBN: 1-60703-902-8, is available through Publish America for $19.95 plus shipping. Kretschmer, aka J. Gayle Kelly, will soon be signing her books at local book stores.
Nearly a year to the day after the flood destroyed major parts of the project, she received copies of her second novel, “An Apple for the Teacher.”
Kretschmer, a lifelong writer, grew up in the Tonopah area. She started her journalism career writing for the State Page of the Reno Gazette-Journal. She was a staff writer, and wrote a column called “The Way I See It,” for the Death Valley Gazette. She also freelanced for the Pahrump Valley Times and the Tonopah Times Bonanza in the middle 80.
Kretschmer credits the editor of the Death Valley Gazette for nourishing her writing talents.
“He was the best writing instructor I ever had,” she said.
She worked under his supervision for several years. Meanwhile, she also wrote novels she hoped to have published someday.
Kretschmer’s publishing credits also include magazine articles. Having written non-fiction and fiction, she added critique groups to her learning process, when she moved to Fernley 12 and a half years ago to hone her novel skills.
In 2006 her first coming-of-age novel about teenagers in a fictional community close to the Atomic Testing Site, “The Watermelon Patch,” was published by Publish America.
Kretschmer, along with promoting her first novel, began rewriting and polishing other manuscripts that she had written over the years. When Publish America agreed to consider “An Apple for the Teacher,” Kretschmer had to work the revisions and completion of the book in around the interruptions of trying to get her home restored close to its original state.
Frustrations of a ruined writing room, damaged computer, a failed printer and lost research and documents, stored both on the computer and in hard copy, slowed the efforts of completing the manuscript.
“An Apple for the Teacher” is the result of Kretschmer’s years living in Washington state and her children being involved in high school basketball teams. She came up with a plot that has a new female coach (who coaches boys) and her involvement with the school principal. Mystery surrounds the coach’s past which unravels as the story progresses.
The blurb from Publish America states, “What causes a man to leave a place in the East he loves and a teaching position he enjoys, to move his son clear across the country? Why would a woman leave the home of her heart, her entire family and a successful coaching career to lock horns with a boys’ basketball team and a new principal?
“He doubts a woman can be qualified to coach male jocks, especially when one of them is his son. She is still reeling from a scandal in Montana. Both are running from ‘ghosts from the past,’ yet neither can deny the chemistry that sizzles between them.
“Rayne Summers and Samantha Armstrong are beautiful people caught up in a delicious relationship in a gorgeous corner of the Northwest.”
“An Apple for the Teacher,” ISBN: 1-60703-902-8, is available through Publish America for $19.95 plus shipping. Kretschmer, aka J. Gayle Kelly, will soon be signing her books at local book stores.
