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July 29th - Excerpt from the Cobb Community of Faith Section, The Atlanta Journal/Constitution - Marietta resident Gail Pallotta was given the Atlanta Writer of the year award from the American Christian Writers Association at the organization's annual conference in Marietta...

February 7th - Excerpts from "NOW IS THE TIME for Marietta Christian fiction author Gail Pallotta"

by Andrea Yeaman, Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer

     "After writing more than 50 freelance articles and receiving some nudges from her friends, Gail Pallotta felt the calling to write a book. But not just any book -- one with a Christian tone.

     "Now Is The Time" outlines the story of Sarah Calotti as she searches for the courage to face surgery and finds the strength, peace and freedom to enjoy life.  After being dumbstruck by the discovery that she requires a hysterectomy, she eventually realizes she does not have the courage to go through with the surgery. While searching her soul to discover the reason for her fear, she reflects on the past and realizes it is because of insecurities from her childhood.

     Sarah encounters a friend, Meza, who helps her form a close relationship to God to gain the courage for the surgery. Meza also helps Sarah deal with reoccuring frustrations in her family life.

     "We often read how abuse and neglect devastate people's lives. I wanted to give a solution, as well as show the problem," said Mrs. Pallotta... "There are two sides to everything. If evil and sorrow exist, goodness and happiness must.  God makes it so and leads us to them."

     The North Carolina native also hopes the book helps spread her message on the power of prayer. "We should talk to God every day, whether it is big, or small," said Mrs. Pallotta..."

     ...Former neighbor and current friend Dottie Blanchard was one of the first to read "Now Is The Time." Her husband, Jack, joked that it took her two days to finish the novel.

     "I just sat down and kept on going right through it," said Mrs. Blanchard, a Marietta resident. "The dishes didn't get done.  Nothing got done."

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Excerpts from "Southern Writer Releases New Book,"  "The Destin

Log," February 14th.

     "In this fiction women's book (published by Publish America) the main character, Sarah Calotti, searches for the courage to face surgery. However, her story is much more than a medical narrative.

     It's about finding strength, peace and the freedom to enjoy life..."    

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 Quote from 'Time' for book author by Tucker McQueen, Cobb Close-Up, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" - March 25th

     "The book seems to speak to people wherever they are in their lives," she (Pallotta) said.   

May 15, 2004, excerpts from "Christian novelist Gail Pallotta to speak at library" by Fraser Sherman, "The Destin Log."

...Writer Gail Pallotta never imagined how difficult it could be to sell serious Christian fiction...

Pallotta said, "My book wasn't fitting into a category..."

....she found success with Publish America, the company that brought out her first novel, "Now Is The Time," earlier this year.  The book tells the story of Sarah, a woman terrified of an impending surgery until a friend helps heal the scars lingering from Sarah's childhood.

     Pallotta said she wanted the story to show the importance of "talking with God every day about whatever bothers us..."

      Pallotta began her writing career in Atlanta as a public relations copywriter. 

     She quit after her marriage so she could help her husband with his business, then she began selling freelance magazine articles on the side.

     "I had friends, family, even some readers who'd say I needed to do more with my writing," she said.  As I started to get older, it was in the back of my mind (that) I wanted to do something more permanent.

     "I wanted to write something that would be helpful to people and also interesting."