Piper Bayard is an author and a recovering attorney with a college degree or two. She is also a belly dancer and a former hospice volunteer. She has been working daily with her good friend Jay Holmes for the past decade, learning about foreign affairs, espionage history, and field techniques for the purpose of writing fiction and nonfiction. She currently pens espionage nonfiction and international spy thrillers with Jay Holmes, as well as post-apocalyptic fiction of her own.
Jay Holmes is a forty-something-year veteran of field espionage operations and a senior member of the Intelligence Community with experience spanning from the Cold War fight against the Soviets, the East Germans, and the various terrorist organizations they sponsored to the present Global War on Terror. He is unwilling to admit to much more than that. Piper is the public face of their partnership.
Together, Bayard & Holmes author non-fiction articles and books on espionage and foreign affairs, as well as fictional international spy thrillers. They are also the bestselling authors of The Spy Bride from the Risky Brides Bestsellers Collection and Spycraft: Essentials, a primer on espionage.
To keep in touch with Bayard & Holmes and to receive notices of their upcoming releases, subscribe to the Bayard & Holmes Covert Briefing.
You can contact Bayard & Holmes at their Contactpage, on Twitter at @piperbayard, on Facebook at Piper Bayard, or at their email, BayardandHolmes@protonmail.com.
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What’s the female version of ballsy? Ovarysy? Hmmmm. Anyway, Pale Writer, you is IT!!! Loving it and laughing along with you,
J.
Lol. Thank you. Overysy sounds good, as long as it’s not “over easy.” 🙂
Please keep ’em coming. Thanks for the chuckles. Reminiscent of Lewis Grizzard at his best.
Thanks, Neal. I appreciate your support. 🙂
OMG, “where the only real law is natural selection”. A great line. I hope you don’t mind if I steal it. It is strange to want to write an entire story based on one plagerized line? Love your quick wit. I will be cruising more here very soon!
I’m very flattered. Steal it with my blessing, and thanks for stopping by. Wish I had time for pancakes this morning.
For my other readers, she is referring to a comment I made on her awesome blog at notsospanish.wordpress.com in which I said I grew up in a small American Southwest town where the only real law is natural selection. Drop by and visit her. It will brighten your day.
Without a doubt, this intro is one of the coolest in town. By coolest I mean you rock the mic like the Rid Bay Rapper. By town I mean the internet.
Wow, Clay, I didn’t know I could still blush like this. Thank you. I must say, though, that I owe my bio to Kristen Lamb. She adopted me as her guinea pig from from the Writers Shelter last spring, and the first thing she did was clue me in to the fact that no one cares where I went to school. That’s when I came up with what you see here. Kristen is a marketing expert, as well as a writer, social media maven, and ruthless editor, and I highly recommend her book, We Are Not Alone: A Writer’s Guide to Social Media. Thanks, again, for the compliment, and thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Came over to your blog after seeing the link on Kristen Lamb’s blog. So glad she introduced me to your ramblings here.
Nice to meet you, Maryann. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
LOVE LOVE your blog! You made me an instant fan! Look forward to reading more in my spare time. 🙂
Thank you, Celeste. I really enjoy your blog, as well. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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LOL. Cool! I’ll check it out. 🙂
Hey there, Piper! Just wanted to let you know that River will be facing off against Sherlock starting Friday for the Fictional Hunger Games semifinals. Feel free to write a bit for her cause. Good luck!
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
Thank you for liking my post on my blog TroupinAround. I loved your intro section..so hilarious!! Can’t wait to read more stuff from you. Thanks!
I’m so glad I found your blog. Thank you for sharing your adventures, and I love your pictures. Nice to meet you.
Great Bio. I love it and hope you dont mind if I start to follow your blog. I have much to learn from your combination.
Thank you, Rob. I apologize for not responding sooner. Sometimes WordPress buries things on us.
Love the story. What a exciting pass and present you have. I can only suspect a future nothing short of spectacular.
Thank you. We appreciate your support. 🙂
Your tagline is perfect.
Thank you. 🙂
Thanks for following my blog! I’m always humbly honored when real writers follow me. 😀 I’ve purchased your book and really look forward to reading it!
Thanks, Jeff. That makes my day. 🙂
I have finished Firelands and absolutely LOVED it!! I wrote a review on Goodreads.
I saw that last night. Tried to find your Twitter handle to thank you and wasn’t able to locate it–but I’m a technomoron so it was probably pilot error. That was just awesome of you. I really appreciate the time you took to do that, and your kind comments letting me know you connected with the story are the best reward for my efforts. THANK YOU!!! 🙂
You’re very welcome, and yes, I did connect with it. My twitter is RedSoxTexan1967. 😀 You probably weren’t looking for something like that.
So you want we storytellers to comment on the real way B & H met. Seems that I had been assigned to watch the KGB agents who were watching Holmes. Sounds like a cliche but it was a dark and stormy night in the heart of the jungle of New York City. To get out of the rain, H ducked into a movie theater. Can’t remember the movie but I think it was a Bond. H had purchased a bag of popcorn and went into the theater. The two KGB boys purchased popcorn and slipped into the movie theater. I was broke. The ticket price had cost me an arm and a leg. So I didn’t get any popcorn. I sneaked into the dark theater. It was hard to keep my eyes on my victims. Bond was on screen, making his move. The KGB agents had taken their seats. But H moved down close to the front and he found your row two rows from the screen. As he made his way down the row, he came to your seat and tried to get by you. You were a brunette in those days. H dropped the whole bag of popcorn on you. He was stunned by the lovely woman in the seat. I remember he distinctly went to his seat and kept glancing over your way. I am not sure what happened after the movie. Before the lights came on, the KGB agents sneaked out. I didn’t want to lose them. But I am happy you too are together and creating wonderful stories. Keep it up. And, by the way, wonderful interview.
Ah, yes. I remember that night well. The movie was Thunderball, and I can tell you what happened after the lights came up. We decided that the best chaser for popcorn was peanut M&Ms, so we went to the corner store and picked up a one pound bag. We walked around downtown for hours, popping M&Ms and laughing over the completely impossible diving sequences in the movie. And so our friendship began. After twenty years of loyalty and laughter, we decided we should write down some of the things we talk about. Thank you for distracting those KGB agents long enough for Holmes and I to “Bond.”
So glad you enjoyed the interview. Thank you for the BS fodder. 🙂
Your very welcome.
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What a story!
You can certainly spin a yarn and keep your reader hooked, Piper, and I wish I could write under your editorship.
You are kind. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I loved your ‘story’ of how you two met; it was very entertaining.
Thank you, Carol. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂