Ask the Author: Julia Justiss
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Julia Justiss
Since your work is portable, you can take it anywhere--home, traveling, to conferences. You aren't restricted to going to the same office every day. And you can work on your couch in your pajamas!
Julia Justiss
I've got two projects going. The first, for Tule, is one of four linked Christmas Whiskey River (Texas) stories, mine going first, that are a take on Dicken's "A Christmas Carol." My hero, a wounded WWI soldier, returns after months in hospital, intending to marry his fiancee at Christmas, but she dies of influenza. She loves him so much, she wants him to be happy, so she stays on as the "ghost of Christmas past," helping him to find love again. Having enjoyed that experience, she returns each Christmas to help the star-crossed lovers of the three contemporary stories find happiness. A TEXAS CHRISTMAS PAST will be out in November 2017. The second project is the story of the first of the "Scandal Sisters," the twin sisters of Christopher, hero of my September 2017 release, SECRET LESSONS WITH THE RAKE.
Julia Justiss
If you write as a job, you have to do it whether you are inspired to write or not LOL. Lots of writers have special music, or a special ritual, but I'm pretty boring. To jump-start the cranky creaky steam engine of progress, I try to make some detailed notes about what will happen in the next scene after I finish writing for the day. So when it's time to start the cranky engine the next time, I have some "starter fuel" available to get me going.
Julia Justiss
The idea actually was a result of a secondary character from a Wellingford book, FROM WAIF TO GENTLEMAN'S WIFE. A young farmer's orphan helps rescue the heroine, so impressing the hero that he later sponsors the boy at Oxford. I knew Davie would go on to become a reform politician, and of course, he needed friends. So I created the Hadley's Hellions group, the other three of aristocratic birth but all having reasons that make them not fit in with their ton peers. Christopher (legally the son of a nobleman, but actually the son of one of his mother's lovers) is the final Hellion.
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