Julie Bates Mystery Author

Why I write . . .

As a child of frequent moves, I buried myself in the comfort of books. Text allowed my imaginiation to fly away to worlds I had never dreamed of and comforted me when I was alone. As I grew older, I began to write down the images in my imagination into stories. My first professional writing was covering local life in my community, then I branched out into fiction where I stay, hoping to provide others with a little escape and enterainment from the stresses of life.

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About Julie Bates

Julie Bates enjoys exploring different worlds and times through literature. In addtion to being a prolific reader, she enjoys writing in a variety of formats Along the way, she has written a weekly column for the Asheboro Courier Tribune (her local newspaper) for two years and published a few articles in magazines such as Spin Off and Carolina Country. She has blogged for Killer Nashville and the educational website Read.Learn.Write. She currently works as a public school teacher for special needs students. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Southeastern Writers of America (SEMWA) and Sisters in Crime. When not busy plotting her next story, she enjoy doing crafts and spending time with her husband and son, as well as a number of dogs and cats who have shown up on her doorstep and never left.

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