About Gail

Gail had a very successful book launch at ARM Book Nook, located in Miramichi where she got to share her children's book for the first time. Moonbeam is a children's book based on her culture, it is about how children got traditionally named. The amount of support before, during and after the launch was phenomenal! The support continues to pour in, Thank you everyone!. 

Ten months after her first book launch, Gail launched Moonbeam in  ​Wolastoqey and Mi'Kmaq. This was a  great accomplishment as these are the two First Nations languages in the Province.
She went back to where it began with the first launch at ARM Book Nook to release Moonbeam in Wolastoqey and Mi'kmaq.

With the translation of Moonbeam into the two Indigenous languages, Gail was able to put Moonbeam into the education system thanks to the First Nation Education (Branch) with the Dept. of Education. Her book now can be used to help kids learn these two languages.  The introduction into the Education system is a great honour as it means more younger kids will be learning and expanding their knowledge of these languages as well as the culture. 

Gail Francis is a local award-winning self-published author originally from Neqotkuk (Tobique). She now presently lives in Miramichi with her husband. Gail is well educated with a Bachelors Degree in Education, Masters in Adult Education and a Masters in Curriculum Instruction/Design from the University of New Brunswick (UNB).  
In 2004 she would write a book, originally hoping that it would be picked up by a publisher but unfortunately it was not that simple. 
After years of submitting her book religiously to publishers, Gail's illustrator, also her niece Tara Audibert, suggested they self-publish. This journey started in the spring of 2019 and by the end of 2019 Moonbeam was on Amazon!

Within one year of Moonbeam being launched Gail was awarded the Dr. Marylin Trenholme Indigenous Literacy Award!