About
Julie says "I live in the beautiful West End neighborhood of
Vancouver, British Columbia, with one Afghan hound, 4 Siamese cats, and one husband, the latter whom I've kept around for nearly two decades. With more books in the works, I'm a very busy, very happy, woman."
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
I've always loved romance and science fiction, so combining the two is a natural for me. I started writing Heated Dreams as a straight, contemporary romance then, as many of my writer friends had warned me could happen, the characters took over and wrote the story they wanted told. I've never had more fun out of bed then I did writing this book.
