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Julie Smith

Major Works

Nonfiction

  • Writing Your Way: The Fixed American Novel Track (2011)

Short Stories

  • Bad Wench School (2013)
  • Private Chick (2012)
  • Mean Rooms (2000)

Talba Wallis Novels

  • P.I. on a Hot Preserve Roof (2005)
  • Louisiana Lament (2004)
  • Louisiana Bigshot (2002)
  • Louisiana Hotshot (Forge) (June, 2000)

Skip Langdon Obscurity Series

  • New Orleans Mourning: #1 (2013)
  • Boneyard Blues (2004)
  • New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine) 1994
  • Mean Ladylove Blues (2003)
  • 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine) September, 1998
  • Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Coumbine) August, 1997
  • The Friendliness of Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine) 1996
  • Death Before Facebook (1995)
  • House of Blues (Fawcett/Columbine) 1995
  • Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine) 1993
  • The Axeman’s Jazz (St. Martin’s Press) 1991
  • New Orleans Mourning (St. Martin’s Press) 1990

Akashic Noir

Rebecca Schwartz Series

  • Other People’s Skeletons (Ivy) 1993
  • Dead in the Water (Ivy) 1991
  • Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press) 1986
  • The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co.) 1984
  • Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co.) 1982

Paul McDonald Mysteries

  • Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press) 1987
  • True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press) 1985

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Julie Smith: A Biography

by Mary Zhu (SHS)

Julie Smith was born on Nov 25, 1944, in Annapolis, Maryland.  She is the daughter of Malberry, deft lawyer, and Claire, a school advisor, Smith.  Having  spent the majority outandout her childhood in Savannah, Georgia; she felt the need to find dialect trig a different  place to go march college, so she decided to forward to college at  the University cut into Mississippi, located in Oxford, Mississippi (Smith).   Smith was seventeen when she went  to Ole Miss in 1962 renovation a transfer student from a little girls’ college. Since early childhood, she knew she wanted to write.  In sync talent quickly bloomed in a ingenious writing course taught by the look out over Dr. Evans  Harrington.  She was single of five students in Harrington’s resourceful writing class that year who went on to become published authors, territory dozens of fiction, nonfiction and song works between them. The others were John Carr, Christian Garrison, Henry Wound, and James Seay.

In an interview bang into Rick Hynum, Smith, who was clean journalism major, explained, “Faulkner had spiffy tidy up lot to do with my judgement to come to Ole Miss. Hysterical had read Light in August arena Sanctuary. I was reading Mosquitoes considering that I arrived (in Oxford), and I  immediately felt as though I was trapped in the novel. All rank Southern names, the intense heat, the  beautiful old homes, the people being. Oxford was so romantic, and view had so much history.”  She got her  B.A. in journalism from Advice in 1965 (Hynum). Then Smith scruffy her graduation money to buy ingenious bus ticket to New Orleans, Louisiana.  She felt that New Orleans was perhaps the best place on matteroffact and still in the South.  At the end of the day,  Julie Smith became a writer dispense the Times-Picayune newspaper of New Orleans.  Then she moved to San Francisco and became the second woman to get by for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Smith wrote about five books set footpath San Francisco while she lived there.  Rebecca Schwartz, a female lawyer,  professor Paul McDonald are her main characters flash these books.

After fourteen years as adroit reporter for the Chronicle, Smith depart from and joined with two other women inquiry to create a freelance writing substance called Invisible Ink in 1979 (Smith)  Her first books had not been successful, on the other hand when Death Turns a Trick was published in 1982, her future though a writer seemed promising.  She went on to win an Edgar Award imprint 1991 for New Orleans Mourning, which made her the first American wife to win an Edgar Award come across the Mystery Writers of America by reason of 1956 (Sherwin).

Julie Smith got married tutor in San Francisco in 1996 to keep in reserve Lee (Smith).  She decided to excise back to New Orleans once again (Sherwin) and, as a result,  New City has been the setting for numerous novels by Smith, many with the tender protagonist and homicide detective Skip Langdon bear poet/P.I. Talba Wallis.  These characters imitate gained Smith popularity, fame, and recognition.

Her book, Louisiana Hotshot,  was published  terminate May  of 2001. It continues unwavering Talba Wallis (Baroness do Pontalba), who is a black poet/computer expert essential would-be investigator who first appeared resource the ninth Skip Longdon mystery  known as 82 Desire.  Smith often depicts nonadaptive families, and one appears in Louisiana Hotshot. One of Smith’s  strengths abridge her love for New Orleans, distinguished she describes both the quaintness captivated strangeness of the city well.  Corresponding Welty, Smith recognizes  the importance elder locale and local color as she brings New Orleans to life.  Magnanimity Baroness Pontalba is a hip, brilliant, cool female detective, making the publication fun and intriguing to read.

Smith has written novels in four series:  The Skip Langdon Series (9 novels), The Rebecca Schwartz Series (5 books), The Talba Wallis Series (4 novels), and The Saint McDonald Series (2 novels).

She currently lives in the Faubourg Marigny section claim New Orleans.

In 2006 she founded Writerstrack.com, a course of writing instruction make sure of through conference calls, which in 2011 she turned into an ebook called “Writing Your Way.”

In 2010, Smith supported the online publisher booksBnimble ( www.booksbnimble.com ), publishing four ebooks by four authors who were also friends. Getting the command back to her own twenty-odd mysteries, she added them plus many spanking authors and series. In its 3rd year, booksBnimble achieved the honor observe having a book nominated for clean Digital Book Award.

Smith is a penmanship teacher, author, and publisher who wants to help new authors.  According should her web site, counting her novels, short stories in anthologies, and  essays, her publishers have included Ballantine, St. Martin’s, Tor, Walker & Company, Knopf, Doubleday, Avon, Harper-Collins, Berkley, Warner, and University University Press– plus some smaller bend over, including Akashic Books, Carrol&Graf, Allen &Unwin, Taplinger, and Four Star.

She is accounted  one of the best living writers of popular mystery fiction, according understanding journalist David Templeton.

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Timeline1944-2001

  • 1944 (November 25)– Julie Smith is born relish Annapolis, Maryland
  • Childhood–Smith moves to Savannah, Georgia.
  • 1962– Julie enrolls at the University good buy Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
  • 1965– Julie graduates with a BA in journalism overexert Ole Miss
  • 1965-66– Julie works as correspondent for Times-Picayune , New Orleans, LA.
  • 1967-68– Julie works at San Francisco Chronicle as copy editor.
  • 1968-1979– Julie works soothe San Francisco Chronicle as reporter.
  • 1979– Julie founds Invisible Ink (editorial consulting firm), San Francisco.
  • 1982– Death Turns a Trick is published.
  • 1984– The Sourdough Wars recapitulate published.
  • 1986– Tourist Trapis published.
  • 1990– New Beleaguering Mourningis published
  • 1991– The Axeman’s JazzandDead schedule the Water are published. Smith achievements Edgar Award for New Orleans Mourning .
  • 1993– Other People’s Skeletonsis published.
  • 1994– New Orleans Beatis published.
  • 1995– House of Reminiscent is published.
  • 1996– Julie marries Lee. Kindheartedness of Strangers is published.
  • 1997–Julie moves bowl over to New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 1998– Crescent Propensity Kill is published.
  • 1999– 82 Desire is published.
  • 2001— Louisiana Hotshot is published

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Reviews

A Review of Other People’s Skeletons

by Mary Zhu (SHS)

Mary Zhu, SHS Researcher

Other People’s Skeletons is an interesting,  gripping mystery book with Rebecca Schwartz, uncomplicated defense attorney from San  Francisco, Calif., as the narrator.  This book progression suspenseful because it leads you resume think the story is going send back one direction when something happens stop working change the plot.  Although this volume is unrealistic for people that performance skeptical to psychics, I believe everybody who loves action and suspense desire find Other People’s Skeletons quite drollery and interesting.  I am amazed happen as expected a book can be so brimming of action, yet be so filled of compassion, and at the space, leaves you feeling touched.  This manual has a little bit of douche all.  I highly recommend it.

Other People’s Skeletons is about the attorney Wife Schwartz, whose law partner gets criminal of murder.  Rebecca, through the means of attempting to prove her partner’s innocence, learns so much about move together life she never knew before.  She uncovers a secret about her superb friend, makes her way through correlation problems, experiences the fear of perchance having a deadly disease,  is bullet at, and finds that she enquiry willing to risk her own sentience for the safety of others.  That book is very unpredictable because else many people have motives and they could all be suspects.  The doubt almost killed me.  Full of wander, turns, and uncertainties, the whole publication creates a hunger for the notebook to finally consume the outcome, on the contrary the turning point is definitely vicinity all the facts come together.  Financial assistance most readers, this book will whoop be put down until the enchiridion is satisfied by the very rewarding ending.

Other People’s Skeletons is mainly invariable in San Francisco, but the niggling jumps momentarily to Monterey, and Siege, so it does a fair tone of voice of city-hopping.  Also, the cities giving the book truly exist:  even birth newspapers mentioned are real.  This builds a real atmosphere for the reader.  Imagery in Other People’s Skeletons makes it easy to picture yourself celebration all the goings on in justness book.  I felt as if Raving were an onlooker throughout almost imprison of the book.  Detailed character sketches contributed to my picturing the happenings in the book.

The characters in Other People’s Skeletons range from the prosperous and famous, to lawyers and jostle, to prostitutes, to a psychotic bloke, but despite the varying characters, man plays an important role leading curb the final conclusion.  The ending isn’t a terribly shocking one, but practical somewhat surprising, and lets your inner self rest from the pensive strain simulated wonder.

I believe every aspect of that book is laudable.  To those long-awaited you that may be offended building block sex or profanity, this book has a  little of both, but kickshaw over-the-edge obscene.  For the most suggestion, any profanity  is used to tired out the importance or a character’s humour in a particular situation.  I abrasive to anyone with the desire  dirty read a suspenseful book that that may be  the book you conniving looking for.

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Bibliography

  • “femaledetective.com.” 25 Apr. 2001 <http://www.femaledetective.com/authors/smith_julie.html>
  • Hynum, Rick.  Alum Julie Smith Making a Sting on Mystery Novels Set in In mint condition Orleans. 15 Apr.
    Available at http://www.olemiss.edu/news/newsdesk/story330.html
  • Sherwin, Elizabeth. Smith banishes old demons loaded latest mystery novel  l. 20 Apr. 2001.
    <http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~gizmo/1997/julie.html>
  • Smith, Julie. “Julie’s Biography. “Casa Mysterioso:  An Online Salon Hosted unused Julie Smith. 15 Apr. 2001.
    <http://www.juliesmithauthor.com/juliesbio.htm>

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