Piper Selene Bayard is a bestselling author and a recovering attorney. She writes fiction and nonfiction espionage books with Jay Holmes, a 45+ year veteran of field intelligence operations. When she isn’t writing, she is creating fine art and functional pottery in her home studio, Quietude Art.
Piper is a Western girl who grew up outside a small town on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico. The daughter of a former Kansas City homicide detective, turned high school teacher, turned high mountain guide, she is naturally eclectic in her talents and interests. After enjoying a somewhat wayward youth which included horse wrangling, a writing degree, professional bellydancing, and practice in the martial art of aikido, she settled down to graduate from the University of Colorado School of Law and marry the man of her dreams. When their son was born, Piper decided to cut her practice back to only clients who weren’t crazy and who could pay. When their daughter came along, Piper left law to embrace full time motherhood.
Somewhere in all of that, Piper met Jay Holmes, who became her brother from another mother. When the kids were finally both in school, she hit up Jay one day with, “Want to write a book with me?” To her surprise, he said yes, and Bayard & Holmes was born. Since that time, she and Jay have published numerous fiction and nonfiction works, which can be found at their website, Bayard & Holmes.
Being as eclectic as her father, Piper also has a pottery studio, where she creates fine art and functional ceramics, which will soon be available through Quietude Art. She is also working on an upcoming podcast series for insomniacs, Sleeping with Selene, in which she uses her naturally soft and soothing voice to lull people to sleep with recitations of the classics.
You can contact Piper at bayardandholmes@protonmail.com and visit her website, Bayard & Holmes.
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