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Julie Rieman Duck

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Born in Los Angeles and raised in San Clemente, California, Julie Rieman Duck wrote her way through school on an old-fashioned typewriter. Somewhere along the line, she was sidetracked by careers in magazine publishing and copywriting. While Julie honed her skills at writing print ads and articles, the stories that moved her heart and soul were bubbling underneath, waiting to escape.

It took a medical scare and the loss of her job — on the same day and within 30 minutes of each other — to finally allow her stories to free themselves and be put to paper.

Julie currently works as a medical copywriter by day and fiction writer by night.

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Writing is in the blood. It must be, or else why would you do it? Like drinking water, writing must be done; however, when does one become “successful” at writing? Is it when a book deal lands on the desk? Perhaps success means a promotion into a managerial position that, surprisingly, doesn’t allow you to […]

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Average rating: 3.79 · 152 ratings · 57 reviews · 4 distinct works

	A Place in This Life 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swell 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joy & Torture of Joshua James 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place In This Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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On Marketing & Human Design: Embody Your True Self & Reclaim Your Power For Magnetic Online Visibility

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The Life That's Waiting

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The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

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“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
― C.R. Strahan

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“Vulnerability is not oversharing, it’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

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