NHS grad publishes first novel

Before book reviewers declared “Grannie Panties are UnderRated” as “engaging,” “entertaining and suspenseful” and being full of “raw honesty,” Gayle Erickson’s best-received written works were her highly anticipated, hysterical annual Christmas letters to friends and family.

The story of the book’s heroine, Elle, percolated in Gayle Erickson for three years and is now a published debut novel. “It’...