Guest-blogging at The Book Binge

So today I’m guest-blogging over at The Book Binge on “The Writing Life.”  Those girls over there rock!  (And I’m not just saying that because Holly also just so happened to post her review of Just the Sexiest Man Alive.)
They’ve got all sorts of Julie James-related stuff going on over there (seriously, they must be [...]

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Inspired by Austen

I can admit it:  I’m a huge Jane Austen fangirl.
Because of that, I was so pleased to learn that The Jane Austen Society of North America-Greater Chicago Region included Just the Sexiest Man Alive in their Winter 2009 newsletter.  Here’s what they had to say:
“Chicago author Julie James’ first novel was reviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times. [...]

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The Second Official Review is In!

So today I received word that Romance Reviews Today gave Practice Makes Perfect their prestigious Perfect 10 award!  
Wow!  
The review hasn’t been posted yet, but here’s a snippet of what they said:
“What a fun story!…  The dialogue is excellent, funny, and realistic.  Their bantering and insults will make you smile and laugh out loud.  PRACTICE MAKES [...]

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Q&A: Practice Makes Perfect, writing sex scenes and what I’m writing now

I thought I’d share the Q&A that will be going out with the press release to Chicago media, where I talk about my soon-to-be-released book, Practice Makes Perfect, Chicago, writing sex scenes, and a little bit about the book I’m currently writing…   
 
Q: What was your inspiration to write Practice Makes Perfect?
JJ: I guess it’s like [...]

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What is Chemistry?

Today I stopped by Jennifer’s Random Musings, where she was discussing Just the Sexiest Man Alive as her January Book of the Month.  One of Jennifer’s comments was that the book reminded her of some of her favorite romantic comedy films, which was interesting because Just the Sexiest Man Alive was originally written as a screenplay.  (Although, back [...]

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Two exciting things… (to me, anyway)

So now that I’ve decided to include a blog as part of my website, the next question is… what am I going to blog about?   The thing that makes this decision relatively stress-free is that I’m pretty positive that nobody is actually reading this.   Hellooooo…  anybody out there….??  So in light of that, [...]

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