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Gaylord Dold

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Kansas, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers, Crime, Travel

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Gaylord Dold was born in Kansas and raised in southern California during the good old days. He was educated at the University of Kansas, the University of California, and the London School of Economics, where he took an advanced degree in international law. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a chauffeur, theater usher, legal services attorney, law professor and volunteer mentor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Watermark Press which published works like Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien, which later became a film directed by Mike Figgis, starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue. Dold has published eighteen novels and five travel guides. Many of his crime novels have received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Gaylord Dold was born in Kansas and raised in southern California during the good old days. He was educated at the University of Kansas, the University of California, and the London School of Economics, where he took an advanced degree in international law. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a chauffeur, theater usher, legal services attorney, law professor and volunteer mentor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Watermark Press which published works like Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien, which later became a film directed by Mike Figgis, starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue. Dold has published eighteen novels and five travel guides. Many of his crime novels have received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist; many have been praised by Marilyn Stasio and others in the New York Times Book Review and in newspapers like the Portland Oregonian, The Washington Post and Boston Herald. His novel Schedule Two was picked as the best crime novel of 1996 by the Portland Oregonian, while his legal thriller The Devil to Pay was picked as one the best ten crime novels of 1998. His novels have been published in Japan, England, and Brazil. Dold has read his work throughout the United States and has conducted numerous writing workshops. He published The Last Man in Berlin in 2004, a novel set in pre-Nazi Germany during the early 1930s. Most recently he has completed and published three contemporary crime novels, two featuring ex-Marine Jack Kilgore, and one a dystopian science fiction thriller called The Swarming Stage.
After twenty-five years of non-stop work, Dold has, since 2006, taken time off to travel and write five books, including novels, a memoir, and a YA that takes place in Wyoming. At present he continues researching non-fiction books about fly fishing on the old Mountain Man rendezvous sites and along the Continental Divide, writing science fiction, and is busy on a new fiction suspense novel about dream research
These days, Dold is at home on the southern prairie. He is an adept fly fisherman, an ardent gardener and an amateur pianist and guitarist. He rides horses poorly and loves dogs. He continues to travel widely in the Caribbean, the south Pacific and the western Rockies.

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Gaylord Dold There are many, many books on my reading lists. I keep two. One is a
general list of political, social, economic, history and philosophy books. Anothe…moreThere are many, many books on my reading lists. I keep two. One is a
general list of political, social, economic, history and philosophy books. Another is a list of fiction, poetry and travel. I work my way through them. I expect to die clutching a reading list that extends to hundreds of books I'm hoping to read. Perhaps if there is a heaven it will be stocked with books, dogs, horses and trout.

Right now I am reading "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The evolution of minds" by the neurobiologist and philosopher David Dennett. Next up is "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Nobel prize winning cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman.(less)

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How come the Mitch Roberts books aren't labeled like so many other series books here? Mitch Roberts #1, Mitch Roberts #2, etc. Also, I'm reading Bonepile now and I was best man at a wedding in the Methodist church in Dennis, KS. Been down that way a lot, especially to Parsons. I live in SEK now.

Gaylord Dold Hello RetroHound:

It is wonderful to hear from someone who knows Dennis, Kansas. My
grandmother raised my father and his brothers and sisters there in t…moreHello RetroHound:

It is wonderful to hear from someone who knows Dennis, Kansas. My
grandmother raised my father and his brothers and sisters there in the
Depression. I know the Church well and attend services there when I
visit my mother who lives in Ft. Scott. Two of the parishioners were
best friends with my dad, played sports with him and herded cattle
out of the village in the mornings and herded them back into the village
after school as their jobs. Parsons is where my mother grew up as part
of the extended Sawyer clan, many of whom still live there. Many of
my cousins were part of my "playmate" clan and some still reside in
Parsons. Dennis is very special to me and I drop by when I can to see
how it is going there. My grandmother was a "pillar" of the village during
the 30s-60s. In the 30s Dennis was a "going concern", with a High School,
lumberyard, merchants, post office, bank, grocery store and mechanics.
There was as legendary bank robbery there in the 30s that hurt the
village badly. The railroad pulled out too.

As for "numbering" the Mitch Roberts books, it wasn't done during the
80s when they were first published by Avon and Fawcett. I didn't think
it mattered a whole lot then but maybe numbering them now as e-books
is a good idea. Thanks.

Best regards,
Gaylord Dold(less)

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“The Swarming Stage” now available in E-book format: A dystopian novel about Los Angeles

Synopsis: The Swarming Stage by Gaylord Dold

The blown mission was on Quinn. The body count was on Quinn too—one Syrian cloneslogger Quinn had killed, a stateless slogger smoked inside the Mulholland mudshield perimeter, and twelve commercial germline clones incinerated by cleanup crews. More important in a political sense was the death of WinstonD, a programmed natural trainee discove