Gary Kessler, author of the detective procedural mystery novel, "What the Spider Saw," now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, following years of U.S. embassy service in East Asia and the Mediterranean, a twenty-seven-year career in an intelligence agency, and managing editor of a news agency. While abroad, he also served as entertainment columnist for four national-level foreign newspapers in Thailand and Cyprus and was a consultant for such movie productions as "The Deerhunter," "The Killing Fields," and "Good Morning Vietnam."Gary currently is a freelance book editor (http://www.editsbooks.com), working almost exclusively for mainline book publishers. His short story/essay collection, "On the Downtown Mall," is set in Charlottesville, Virginia. He coauthored, with Carol Kluz, a basic guide to publishing for new authors, "Finding Go! Matching Questions and Resources in Getting Published," which now is available on the Internet at http://www.publishingquestions.com as a Writers Digest 101 best site. He also is coauthor with Carole Stockberger of Bible study "(Re)Tell Me the Stories." He is volume editor of the biennial "Blue Ridge Anthology" and was the volume editor for the two-volume "WritersNet Anthology of Prose" for the WritersNet website.He writes both cozy and espionage mysteries under pen names.