Bellamy Gayle began her writing career as a sports stringer for a local newspaper in Cajun country. A monthly column in a regional woman’s magazine followed. Other work afforded a wide variety of writing experiences, from politics to a development director for a nonprofit organization, with stops in real estate and owning travel agencies back in the day. A member of the local Writers’ Guild, Bellamy studied the basics of novel writing and met many gifted writers.

Bellamy’s stacks of short stories grew until NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) nudged her to write a murder mystery which became the first novel of the Sazerac Series. The second book, AN ORDINARY WOMAN, is in the editing phase. A third novel, tentatively titled ODETTE: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE shall follow.

Gayle and her husband live in south Louisiana’s Lafayette parish, happily listening to the summer sounds of the cicadas and visiting with the neighborhood cats Baby, Bob, and Blackie, who regularly drop by. The couple has a passel of grown children and a swarm of precious grandchildren scattered across the nation.