Julie Hogan was born and raised in a small town in Northern
San Diego County before she headed slightly north to Los
Angeles where she earned her BA in English at UCLA in 1989.
During college, Julie kept herself distracted from her
schoolwork by toiling at various deadend jobs -- undercover
department store security, "hotwalker" at the Santa Anita
and Hollywood Park racetracks, "secret shopper" for a
discount shoe store chain, a Teamster for a shipping company
and an advertising lackey for a surfwear manufacturer. All
the while, one of the only constants in her life was the
same romance novels she'd been reading since the age of ten
when she began spending every summer devouring books faster
than her mother could buy them.
Although writing was always her secret dream, after college
Julie chose the safe road and worked in public relations and
special events for a major department store where her main
creative outlet was writing ad copy and press releases. A
few short years later, she finally clawed her way up to
being able to hand out business cards that said National
Marketing Director for a national event ticketing company.
But after breaking every bone in her ankle while on a
business trip to New York, Julie took a fortuitous look at
her dreams and aspirations, then took one of the first true
risks of her life in 1999. With her husband cheering loudly
beside her, she quit her job that required a laptop, a Palm
Pilot, two cell phones and frequent customer status at some
of the nation's finest hotel and airline companies and began
to write. With the help of her very committed mentor,
Silhouette author Barbara Ankrum, and several critique
partners, Julie completed and then sold her first novel,
Tangled Sheets, Tangled Lies, to Silhouette Desire in 2002.
When she's not writing, Julie loves hunting for new toasters
for her collection of 1940's gems, watching old movies,
reading voraciously, camping, riding horses, traveling and
generally being with her handsome and talented husband, Jud.
Right now, Julie and her husband live in a pretty cool
Southern California beachpad with their two cats, Bob and
Lulu, but recently the cats have encountered some stiff
competition: Julie and Jud were thrilled to herald the
arrival of their little boy, Liam, in early January.
The only thing Julie loves more than reading and writing
romances is hearing from readers who share her mania. Visit
Julie's website at www.juliehogan.com, email her at
julie@juliehogan.com or do it the old fashioned way by
writing to P.O. Box 3991, Palos Verdes, California 90274.
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