about me

I have written for newspapers, magazines, websites and Fortune 100 companies. I prefer to write novels, and has been doing so full time for the past few years. There are two completed and several more underway.

My first novel, DESTINED, a magic realism novel with a Tarot theme, was published in e-book in 2010 and trade paperback in 2011. My second, SECRETS WE KEEP, is being revised thanks to the very useful suggestions of readers on this website, and will soon be ready to send out in search of an agent.

I live on a farm in New England with my family and dogs, cats, chickens, black bears, blue herons, bobcats, rushing streams and wide, windy skies.

Comments are welcomed and reads will gladly be returned.

Follow my photo blog "Circle of the Seasons" at www.blipfoto.com/gcleare, Amazon.com, Twitter, or at Goodreads.

favourite books

Anything by Paulo Coelho, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, Luanne Rice, Susan Wiggs, Kristin Hannah or Elizabeth Strout. I just read all of Susannah Kearsley's books and especially loved The Winter Sea. I also liked The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. For sci fi/fantasy, it's the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders series and Stawhawk's novel "The Fifth Sacred Thing". And I adore mysteries if they're not too gorey, especially Laurie King's series about Sherlock Holmes, Dolores Stewart Riccio's Circle of Five witchcraft mysteries, Martha Grimes' Inspector Richard Jury books and the intense writing of PD James, who has the largest vocabulary of English words I have ever encountered. For the classics: The Great Gatsby, A Farewelll to Arms, Heart of Darkness, Pride and Prejudice and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

my websites

http://www.gailcleare.com      http://www.blipfoto.com/gcleare