Venus as She Ages takes an unflinching female artist from youth to her late sixties as she grows through love, mistakes, the vicissitudes of life, and commitment to her work.
The Collection consists of six literary novels.
Book One: STRINGS ATTACHED -A girl raised solely by her British renegade father grows to find marriage difficult, knowing nothing of normalcy. (Second Edition, for the first time in paperback, ebook, and audiobook)
Book Two: TO ANY LENGTHS - A woman frightened of being co-opted in marriage visits a friend in prison who awakens her to her what freedom really is.
Book Three: PRISON SEX - This is a book about longing and how three people have to break free of their prisons, whether literal or metaphoric.
Book Four: THE BED YOU LIE IN - Two adult children of holocaust survivors work out their family pain when one seemingly betrays the other.
Book Five: WRITE, SHE SAID - Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys come back to life to help a hapless modern day writer rewrite herself in love and in being an artist.
Book Six: MAGNETISM - An older woman on a quest to desire be desired.
A letter from the author and the publisher included.
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978-1-955314-19-0 (9781955314190)
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British born, Montreal raised, New York City honed, Jacqueline Gay Walley, under the pen name Gay Walley, has been publishing short stories since 1988 and published her first novel, Strings Attached, with U Press of Mississippi (1999), which was a Finalist for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner Award and earned a Writer's Voice Capricorn Award and the Paris Book Festival Award. the erotic fire of the unattainable: aphorisms on love, art and the vicissitudes of life was published by IML Publications, in 2007 and was reissued by Skyhorse Publishing 2015. This book, the erotic fire of the unattainable was a finalist for the Paris Book Festival Award and from this, she wrote a screenplay for the film, The Unattainable Story (2016) with actor, Harry Hamlin, which premiered at the Mostra Film Festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil. From this same book, Walley adapted a screenplay for director Frank Vitale's docufiction feature film, Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Longing to be Found (2020), which was featured in Brooklyn Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival in San Jose, ReadingFilmFest, American Fringe in Paris. Her novel, Lost in Montreal (2013) was published by Incanto Press, along with the novel, Duet, which was written with Kurt Haber. Walley's e-books, How to Write Your First Novel, Save Your One Person Business from Extinction, and The Smart Guide to Business Writing are featured on Bookboon, as well, How to Keep Calm and Carry on without Money and How to be Beautiful with amazon.com. In 2013, her play Love, Genius and a Walk opened in the Midtown Festival, New York, and was nominated for 6 awards including best playwright, in 2018, it also played in London at The Etcetera Theatre above The Oxford Arms pub as well as at three other pub theatres. It is scheduled to open September 2021 at Theatro Techni in London. October 2021, Jacqueline Gay Walley's 6 novel Venus as She Ages Collection: Strings Attached (second edition, under her pen name, Gay Walley), To Any Lengths, Prison Sex, The Bed You Lie In, Write She Said, and Magnetism is being launched worldwide through IML Publications, distributed by Ingram.
