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Gail Champion Barber and Alice Sullivan

E-book Title: Fleecy Clouds: One Girl’s Story of Surviving and Thriving after Childhood Abuse

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What’s your guide about and when was it printed?

Gail’s household was poor however wealthy with love. When her mom was within the hospital giving start to the youngest little one, their home burned. Earlier than leaving the hospital, Gail’s mom was identified with most cancers.

When her mom handed, Gail and her siblings went to stick with household, ultimately residing at her grandmother’s home. Though warned that this was not a great resolution, Gail’s father felt it was his solely choice. Nevertheless, it was almost deadly for little Gail. Her father—her hero—saved her within the nick of time.

The Welfare Division quickly eliminated Gail and her two youthful siblings and positioned them in foster houses. They have been in the end positioned at Childhaven, an orphanage for lucky youngsters.

Regardless of nice disappointment and ache of their early years, Gail and her siblings grew as much as be robust, loving, and faith-filled adults. However these early traumatic childhood occasions weighed on Gail’s physique, thoughts, and spirit till she was in her forties. Lastly agreeing to hunt assist, she began seeing a Christian counselor. That was the start of her therapeutic journey.

Irrespective of how a lot harm you’ve endured, there’s all the time a path to therapeutic and wholeness. In Fleecy Clouds: One Girl’s Story of Surviving and Thriving after Childhood Abuse, Gail’s story is proof of the resiliency of the human spirit, the ability of affection, and the unending mercies of a loving Father.

What impressed you to jot down your guide?

Alice Sullivan: As a ghostwriter, it’s a privilege to be chosen to assist somebody write their guide. After I spoke with Gail and discovered about her story, I used to be so intrigued and touched that she had endured a lot hardship and abuse however was nonetheless keen to stroll by means of all of it once more to inform her story, so it might assist others heal.

As somebody who additionally skilled childhood abuse, I had a deeper curiosity in understanding how and why she survived, and why she selected the trail of therapeutic, particularly when so many others by no means discover freedom from the previous.

What success did you obtain together with your guide that you simply’d wish to share?

Gail and her husband, Jerrie, have finished wonderful work with advertising and marketing the guide. They’ve bought almost 1,000 copies, which, for a self-published guide, is a big feat to be celebrated! They’ve additionally shared that on Kindle Limitless, readers have learn 18,919 pages because it was launched, which is 38 instances by means of the guide. They’re presently engaged on the audiobook with their daughter, Christi, studying it.

Gail has continued to tour and talk about her experiences. Continuously readers will contact her sharing their very own tales, after having been inspired by hers. Jerrie Barber says the guide, “has blessed us and lots of others.” Truthfully, I’ve been blessed immensely by engaged on the guide alongside them and seeing firsthand the encouragement and hope it continues to convey to readers.

How lengthy did this take to attain? What steps did you are taking that helped?

Gail and I started video interviews within the fall of 2021 and by the spring of 2022, we had a strong first draft that was prepared for a number of rounds of modifying and beta studying. It was printed in January of 2023.

Gail has stored written journals for years, and one of many first issues I wanted to do was to transcribe her journals so I might have them in a Microsoft Phrase doc. I wished to make use of as a lot of her authentic writing as attainable, since she has such a stupendous reward of storytelling that brings you proper into the second. Being in line with our interviews and making regular progress on drafting chapters was the important thing to creating such a compelling memoir for Gail.

Was there something concerning the course of that didn’t assist?

My cursive studying abilities have been dusty. It took me a short time for my eyes to regulate to cursive writing once more, however after I discovered her script and elegance, I actually loved studying her journals and I discovered the transcription turned a lot simpler.

I might have liked to have had in-person interviews, but it surely was nonetheless the time of Covid. Video calls labored nicely. Gail and I had a good time speaking every week, turning into associates within the course of.

What’s subsequent for you? 

I’m presently ghostwriting a guide proposal for a memoir about psychological well being and am excited to see the place that guide lands. I’m additionally ending edits for 2 further memoirs—one is a medical memoir discussing a near-death expertise, and the opposite is for a medical machine inventor.

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