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Gail grew up in a small town at the foothills of the North Carolina mountains. The granddaughter of a minister
and niece of several English teachers, she inherited their interests in storytelling along with her mother's love of people.
Her first writing appeared in a grammar school newspaper she and a friend put out about their classmates. Much later at Western
Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., she enrolled in the college's first professional writing class, placing several poems
in the literary magazine and one in The Anthology of American Poetry, published by Royal Publishing Company in Dallas,
Texas.
After graduation she worked in Atlanta, Georgia, as an editor and copywriter until she married and started
helping her husband, Rick, with his business. In her spare time she wrote freelance articles, most of them about people; others,
historical. While some were selected for anthologies two historical pieces she wrote ended up in museums. After being nudged
by others to do more with her writing Gail published her first book, Now Is The Time, a Christian novel. In 2004, the
year it was released, The American Christian Writers Association named her a regional Writer of the Year. She also has been
listed in Who's Who in Writers, Editors and Poets; Who's Who in the South and Southwest; Cambridge Dictionary of International
Biography; and The World Who's Who of Women. Married for thirty-eight years, she and Rick live in Georgia. When Gail isn't writing, she enjoys swimming, reading, traveling, and visiting friends and relatives.
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Worship and Fellowship
A member of the same church for twenty-five years, Gail likes spending time there with her friends. Over the years
some of the responsibilities she's shared with them include teaching Sunday school; working with Club 330, an after school
program; helping with Christmas international house; and writing devotionals. Currently, she's on the flower guild, recently
participated in a prayer triad, and is helping with the church's 175-year anniversary celebration.
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