Julia Mae Staley has been writing since she could put words together. At the age of 8, she wrote her first short story entitled: "The Adventurer", a twist on an Australian folktale that also gave her a motto for life: "Every great woman was once alone".
At the age of 13, she longed for a story about a strong but imperfect female heroine. She realized quickly the best way to find such a character was to write one herself, and it was then that Ebony Havenworth and the world she inhabits first walked into Julia's head. Her debut novel is the result of over ten years of hard work and writing practice. She is in the process of submitting the YA fantasy trilogy to agents.
While she reads voraciously, Julia's favorite works tend to be in the realm of fantasy. Escapism and shirking duty is a motivating factor in this. Don't tell anyone. She attends a bi-weekly or thereabouts writer's group with other local published and unpublished authors, where they discuss the elusive perfect novel over cups of steaming tea. (Thank you, ladies.)
She lives with her parents in a house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her cats: the queen Alpha, and the mischievous Maui.
