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Julia has spent most of her life living in Cambridgeshire, England - atmospheric and the perfect inspiration for ghost stories. She devoured horror stories as a teenager, including James Herbert and Stephen King in her list of favourite authors, moving on to Clive Barker and Peter Straub. As a child she would watch anything that even vaguely looked as if it may be scary... so perhaps it is only natural that this is the area her writing tends to wander into - even if she don't always intend it to!
She has taught creative writing classes for the last ten years, whilst writing screenplays, tackling a novel and experimenting with short stories.
A true Scorpio, her tastes definitely err towards the dark side – her favourite painting is Salvator...more


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Today sees the publication of my short story Safe Harbour in Sanitarium horror magazine.


To find out more about Sanitarium, including where to purchase a copy, stop by their website: http://sanitariummagazine.com/sanitarium-magazine-issue-009-is-out-now/

My thanks to editor and founder of Sanitarium, Barry Skelhorn, for accepting Safe Harbour!
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Published on May 21, 2013 07:10
Average rating: 4.55 · 29 ratings · 12 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
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“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
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“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
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