Bio:
GAYLE
ROPER is the award winning author of more
than forty books. She has been a Christy
finalist three times for her novels
Spring Rain, Summer Shadows and
Winter Winds. Her novel Autumn
Dreams won the 2004 Romance Writers of
America’s RITA Award for Best Inspirational
Romance of the year.
She has won
the Holt Medallion three times for
TheDecision, Caught in a Bind, and
Autumn Dreams. Summer Shadows
won the Inspirational Readers Choice Book of
the Year (tied with Brandilyn Collins),
The Decision won the Reviewers Choice
Award, and Romantic Times Book Report gave
Gayle the Lifetime Achievement Award. She
has also won the Award of Excellence for
Spring Rain and the Golden Quill for
Summer Shadows and Winter Winds.
Her Amhearst
mystery series, Caught in the Middle,
Caught in the Act, and Caught in a
Bind , originally published by
Zondervan, has been reprinted in 2007 by
Love Inspired Suspense with a fourth
original title added, Caught Redhanded.
Another original single title, See No
Evil, is also being released.
Balancing Women’s Emotions
, an updated and expanded version of her
title Balancing Your Emotions, is
also seeing release in 2007. Another
nonfiction title, Riding the Waves,
has been called a “thinking woman’s look at
contentment”.
For her work
in training Christian writers Gayle has won
special recognition from Mount Hermon CWC,
St. Davids CWC, Florida CWC, and Greater
Philadelphia CWC. She directed St. Davids
for five years and Sandy Cove CWC for six.
She has taught with Christian Leaders,
Authors and Speakers Services (CLASS),
serving for several years as their writer in
residence.
Gayle enjoys
speaking at women’s events across the nation
and loves sharing the powerful truths of
Scripture with humor and practicality. “It
is always a delight to talk about the issues
of life in the light of the Word of God.”
She lives with
her husband Chuck in southeastern
Pennsylvania where they enjoy their family
of two great sons, two lovely
daughters-in-law, and the world’s five
greatest grandkids. Gayle enjoys reading,
gardening, and eating out every time she can
talk Chuck into it.
