Gail Z. Martin

Author Gail Zehner Martin was born on December 1, 1962 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Martin got her BA in the field of history in the year 1984 from Grove City College, and two years later, got her MBA from Pennsylvania State University in the field Management and Marketing Information Systems. She had roles in marketing and was a Vice President of Corporate Communications for seventeen years.

The best place to start is The Essential Handbook series, the earliest of Gail Z. Martin's multi-book series: it opens with The Essential Supervisor's Handbook (2007) and runs to 10 books across 2007–2019, ending with The Essential HR Handbook (2019). Gail Z. Martin's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Gail Z. Martin has 141 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2007 and 2026. 124 of them belong to 18 named series — the largest being the Deadly Curiosities Adventures series with 26 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Gail Z. Martin's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Essential Handbook (2007–2019, 10 books), Chronicles of the Necromancer (2007–2009, 4 books) and The Thrifty Author's Guide (2010–2011, 2 books), plus 15 more.

This guide splits Gail Z. Martin's 141 books into 18 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Deadly Curiosities Adventures (26 books, 2013–2022); Jonmarc Vahanian Adventure (24 books, 2013–2018); Spells, Salt, & Steel (10 books, 2018–2025); The Essential Handbook (10 books, 2007–2019); The Storm and Fury Adventures (8 books, 2015–2017), plus 13 further series.