Book description
A short conversation with Gail Ranstrom will convince readers that she
should have written a book titled "Jobs I Have Had. " Before
taking up the pen, her work experience ran the gamut from a seamstress
making waitress uniforms for a German beer garden, to inventory clerk at
the University of Montana where she was attacked by a chimpanzee,
stepped on dead lab rats in dark basements and located missing satellite
spy cameras in--oh, wait, that's classified--to advertising coordinator
and PR writer. Most recently Gail was a commercial property manager in
the Los Angeles area, troubleshooting incidents as wide ranging as
having a SWAT team surrounding one of her buildings, a naked men in the
ladies' restroom and rattlesnakes coiled in front of tenants' doors. In
between, she partnered with a good friend in an antique business. Don't
even get her started on her experiences at antique auctions! She enjoys
traveling frequently to see her children in Montana and Florida and to
visit friends and a brother in London. As an unabashed Anglophile, she
says she could easily spend months in the Cotswolds, an entire summer in
Scotland or a year in London. Sometimes that "other Eden"
feels more like home to her than her real home. Gail writes historical
romance fiction because she loses herself in the past more completely
than she can in the present or future. Combine that with her lifelong
love of words and reading, the desire to entertain and the fact that
she's too shy to do stand-up comedy, and what was left?To aid her in
writing romance fiction, she credits fabulous friendships with
remarkable women, from family and bridge clubs to work mates and
writers' groups. They are the models for her heroines: strong,
intelligent and beautiful, while still managing to be caring and
vulnerable and very human. Gail says that it is their strength of
character and grace under fire that have been her inspiration. And every
hero must be a man worthy of them. Readers can contact Gail at
GailRanstrom@cs. com. A short conversation with Gail Ranstrom will
convince readers that she should have written a book titled "Jobs I
Have Had. " Before taking up the pen, her work experience ran the
gamut from a seamstress making waitress uniforms for a German beer
garden, to inventory clerk at the University of Montana where she was
attacked by a chimpanzee, stepped on dead lab rats in dark basements and
located missing satellite spy cameras in--oh, wait, that's
classified--to advertising coordinator and PR writer. Most recently Gail
was a commercial property manager in the Los Angeles area,
troubleshooting incidents as wide ranging as having a SWAT team
surrounding one of her buildings, a naked men in the ladies' restroom
and rattlesnakes coiled in front of tenants' doors. In between, she
partnered with a good friend in an antique business. Don't even get her
started on her experiences at antique auctions! She enjoys traveling
frequently to see her children in Montana and Florida and to visit
friends and a brother in London. As an unabashed Anglophile, she says
she could easily spend months in the Cotswolds, an entire summer in
Scotland or a year in London. Sometimes that "other Eden"
feels more like home to her than her real home. Gail writes historical
romance fiction because she loses herself in the past more completely
than she can in the present or future. Combine that with her lifelong
love of words and reading, the desire to entertain and the fact that
she's too shy to do stand-up comedy, and what was left?To aid her in
writing romance fiction, she credits fabulous friendships with
remarkable women, from family and bridge clubs to work mates and
writers' groups. They are the models for her heroines: strong,
intelligent and beautiful, while still managing to be caring and
vulnerable and very human. Gail says that it is their strength of
character and grace under fire that have been her inspiration. And every
hero must be a man worthy of them. Readers can contact Gail at
GailRanstrom@cs. com.
