About Jules...

"You hit an age when you’re too old to have “imaginary friends” so I decided to put them onto paper. From a young girl with blond curly pigtails to an elderly man with sparse white hairs, the fictitious people have all talked to me at one time or another. Who am I to ignore these interesting characters? They each have their own story and I am the lucky one they’ve chosen to tell it to.

I always knew writing was for me. When I hit junior high age, I knew I’d attend Ohio University and study journalism. Oh no, wait! I can’t do journalism. Why not? Because I don’t want people telling me what to write. Now what? By the time I graduated high school I was still unsure, so I went to college for a few years, but something was still missing. During this time I still piddled with short stories, but I just wasn’t happy.

At the age of twenty-three, I opened my own beauty salon. I’d married my high school sweetheart and had a wonderful family, but I felt like there was something else I should be doing. How could something still be missing in my life?

One evening I started reading ‘Irish Thoroughbred’ by Nora Roberts and…AH-HA!! My mind started working overtime. I wanted to create believable characters that readers would fall in love with. I wanted to make other people feel what I did…as if the intriguing people on those pages were my new friends.

So I did it. One night I sat down and started working on a summary of the story in my head. My husband found my notes and asked what it was. I told him, “I’m going to write a book.” I held my breath and waited for him to laugh or blow it off as a pipe dream, instead he looked at me, smiled, and said, “This is good. When can I read more?” Ahhh, my first fan.

Since then I’ve carted my laptop from vacation to vacation, from conference to conference. I can’t stop creating new and exciting people. If I never sold a book in my life, I would still write…the passion runs that deep within me. When my husband makes comments about my nose always being in a book, I just tell him it’s “research”.

My small home in southern Ohio is usually in a state of chaos because I’d much rather create a new story than run the sweeper. My husband, daughter and beagle don’t seem to mind that I’m not domestic…that is until I forget to feed them.

Because writing can sweep me away from my little office to anywhere in the world I want, I welcome it. The laundry and dust bunnies will still be there when I return."

 More info on Jules' books coming soon...