Gail Gaymer Martin
Check out her web site at: www.gailmartin.com
This is my first encounter
with author, Gail Martin. She writes under both Gail Martin
and Gail Gaymer Martin from what I understand. I enjoyed
her the first (and so far only) book I read as the main
character is a teacher and I can relate to that being one
myself!! :) There are several other reasons I also enjoyed
her book, A Love for Safekeeping as well. Please
follow the link for a review on this book.
Here are some of Gail's
own words in an e-mail to me about her writing:
I've been writing for
only a few years - started in 1997, sold my first novel
in 1998 to Barbour Publishing, my second to them in 1999
- and then I sold to Steeple Hill Love Inspired in 1999
- the book came out in Oct 2000 and won the Holt Medallion
and was a finalist in the National Readers Choice Award.
Since 1998 I've sold 13 novels and 5 novellas - with certainty
of more to come. Besides Barbour and Steeple Hill, I
write for Silhouette Romance - which is a sweet traditional
line. I am a contributing editor of The Christian Communicator
- monthly magazine of the American Christian Writers - and
I've written 17 church program/service books. Those are
listed on my site. But I love writing woman's fiction and
romance.
"Putting pockets in
the backs of her family's hardcover books, then loaning
them to her little elementary-school friends (never to see
them again) should have been an omen that Gail was headed
for a literary career. In the third grade, her teacher wrote
a note on her report card: "Gail is a good writer." This
prophetic statement didn't surface fully until many, many
years later when she began submitting church programs and
services for publication. A Christmas worship service book
was her first published work. Yet even before that, Gail
wrote poetry, Nancy Drew-style mysteries, love stories that
usually ended with the heroine getting run over by a truck
(she had a lot to learn), and humorous skits to entertain
her fellow schoolteachers. Following a marriage that failed,
Gail met the man of her dreams at a divorced singles' organization.
Bob shared her love of family and music, values, and faith
in God. They were married 11 months later - a "marriage
made in heaven," everyone said. And they were correct. After
15 years of marriage, her husband still tucks little presents
in her luggage when she travels, proofreads all her work
(and understands point-of-view - a writing term - problems),
and doesn't leave her side without a kiss. Retired as a
public high school English teacher, Gail became an adjunct
English instructor at Davenport University and a published
author. She spends her time planted in front of a computer
and loves every minute of it."
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Home for Christmas
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A Love for Safekeeping
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