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Julie Ellis (1933 – February 2006)
Feb. 28th, 2011 09:00 am
Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1933. During her high school years she was part of the school drama group and wrote her first novel. She shipped it off to a major New York publisher, received a fast rejection slip, tossed the manuscript into the garbage--vowing to do better. At sixteen she moved with her parents to New York (after high school graduation and a very brief stint at the University of Georgia), where she focused on drama studies and wrote one-act plays performed by her drama class. Julie Ellis was torn between an obsession for writing and for acting (she'd read every play in her Columbus, Georgia, library)--and soon triumphantly combined the two by writing three-act plays (one was briefly optioned for Broadway--the prospective sponsor decided instead to invest in a sugar-free jelly operation) and acting on the Off-Broadway scene. One play, called DANGER SIGNAL (dealing with the ugly Joseph McCarthy era), became a recent Severn House novel, renamed Small Town Dreams.
Julie Ellis married her producer/director, lived in the colorful East Village, continued to act on Off-Broadway (and toured summer resort hotels and bungalow colonies) until after the birth of her second child, daughter Susie. During the Off-Broadway period she sold several radio and television scripts--and gradually, along with her husband--became realistic. Raising two kids required some financial stability--missing in our Off-Broadway existence.
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First Book - Vendetta Castle (1971) as Susan Marino
Last Book - The Long Weekend (2008)
Source: http://www.julieellis.net/
The first thing you notice of this book is the trick the author used to make “normal” the paranormal side of the novel: the story takes place in 2042, but this is not really a sci-fi novel; since the author wanted to “legalize” the existence of vampires, she imagined that around 2030 a group of vampires petitioned to the UN to be recognize as nation and as such to be given a place for themselves; the place was located in Spain, near Barcelona, and now they are living in a community outside Begues. Once the author planned everything out, this novel simply turns in a classical cat-and-mouse cop novel, with the vampire, Andreas, in the role of the hunter, and Xavi, the little street-rat, in that of course of the mouse. 
The first thing you notice of this book is the trick the author used to make “normal” the paranormal side of the novel: the story takes place in 2042, but this is not really a sci-fi novel; since the author wanted to “legalize” the existence of vampires, she imagined that around 2030 a group of vampires petitioned to the UN to be recognize as nation and as such to be given a place for themselves; the place was located in Spain, near Barcelona, and now they are living in a community outside Begues. Once the author planned everything out, this novel simply turns in a classical cat-and-mouse cop novel, with the vampire, Andreas, in the role of the hunter, and Xavi, the little street-rat, in that of course of the mouse. 
