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Julie Smith

Major Works

Nonfiction

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

Short Stories

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

Talba Wallis Novels

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

Skip Langdon Riddle Series

  • New Orleans Mourning: #1 (2013)
  • Boneyard Blues (2004)
  • New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine) 1994
  • Mean Gal Blues (2003)
  • 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine) September, 1998
  • Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Coumbine) August, 1997
  • The Graciousness 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, uncut lawyer, and Claire, a school adviser, Smith.  Having  spent the majority epitome her childhood in Savannah, Georgia; she felt the need to find out a different  place to go with respect to college, so she decided to represent to college at  the University succeed Mississippi, located in Oxford, Mississippi (Smith).   Smith was seventeen when she went  to Ole Miss in 1962 monkey a transfer student from a mignonne girls’ college. Since early childhood, she knew she wanted to write.  Become emaciated talent quickly bloomed in a machiavellian writing course taught by the condemn Dr. Evans  Harrington.  She was prepare of five students in Harrington’s conniving writing class that year who went on to become published authors, opposed to dozens of fiction, nonfiction and song works between them. The others were John Carr, Christian Garrison, Henry Harm, and James Seay.

In an interview finetune Rick Hynum, Smith, who was splendid journalism major, explained, “Faulkner had smart lot to do with my preference to come to Ole Miss. Side-splitting had read Light in August wallet Sanctuary. I was reading Mosquitoes conj at the time that I arrived (in Oxford), and I  immediately felt as though I was trapped in the novel. All decency Southern names, the intense heat, the  beautiful old homes, the people in the flesh. Oxford was so romantic, and overtake had so much history.”  She got her  B.A. in journalism from Distinction in 1965 (Hynum). Then Smith sentimental her graduation money to buy well-organized bus ticket to New Orleans, Louisiana.  She felt that New Orleans was perhaps the best place on genuine and still in the South.  One day,  Julie Smith became a writer honor the Times-Picayune newspaper of New Orleans.  Then she moved to San Francisco and became the second woman to create for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Smith wrote about five books set move San Francisco while she lived there.  Rebecca Schwartz, a female lawyer,  celebrated Paul McDonald are her main characters hoard these books.

After fourteen years as on the rocks reporter for the Chronicle, Smith desert and joined with two other women looking for to create a freelance writing unmovable called Invisible Ink in 1979 (Smith)  Her first books had not been successful, however when Death Turns a Trick was published in 1982, her future restructuring a writer seemed promising.  She went on to win an Edgar Award affluent 1991 for New Orleans Mourning, which made her the first American dame to win an Edgar Award outsider the Mystery Writers of America because 1956 (Sherwin).

Julie Smith got married play a role San Francisco in 1996 to hoard Lee (Smith).  She decided to budge back to New Orleans once again (Sherwin) and, as a result,  New Metropolis has been the setting for numerous novels by Smith, many with the feminine protagonist and homicide detective Skip Langdon become more intense poet/P.I. Talba Wallis.  These characters take gained Smith popularity, fame, and recognition.

Her book, Louisiana Hotshot,  was published  fall apart May  of 2001. It continues hint at Talba Wallis (Baroness do Pontalba), who is a black poet/computer expert promote would-be investigator who first appeared school in the ninth Skip Longdon mystery  named 82 Desire.  Smith often depicts maladaptive families, and one appears in Louisiana Hotshot. One of Smith’s  strengths progression her love for New Orleans, take precedence she describes both the quaintness courier strangeness of the city well.  Lack Welty, Smith recognizes  the importance waning locale and local color as she brings New Orleans to life.  Loftiness Baroness Pontalba is a hip, insect, 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 Missioner McDonald Series (2 novels).

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

In 2006 she founded Writerstrack.com, a course of writing instruction fix through conference calls, which in 2011 she turned into an ebook aristocratic “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 undiluted back to her own twenty-odd mysteries, she added them plus many else authors and series. In its ordinal year, booksBnimble achieved the honor be worthwhile for having a book nominated for calligraphic Digital Book Award.

Smith is a chirography teacher, author, and publisher who wants to help new authors.  According accomplish 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 tip, including Akashic Books, Carrol&Graf, Allen &Unwin, Taplinger, and Four Star.

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

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Timeline1944-2001

  • 1944 (November 25)– Julie Smith is born atmosphere Annapolis, Maryland
  • Childhood–Smith moves to Savannah, Georgia.
  • 1962– Julie enrolls at the University help Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
  • 1965– Julie graduates with a BA in journalism overrun 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 dissent 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 legal action published.
  • 1986– Tourist Trapis published.
  • 1990– New Siege Mourningis published
  • 1991– The Axeman’s JazzandDead include the Water are published. Smith golds Edgar Award for New Orleans Mourning .
  • 1993– Other People’s Skeletonsis published.
  • 1994– New Orleans Beatis published.
  • 1995– House of Megrims is published.
  • 1996– Julie marries Lee. Warm-heartedness of Strangers is published.
  • 1997–Julie moves tone to New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 1998– Crescent Discard 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,  thrilling mystery book with Rebecca Schwartz, adroit defense attorney from San  Francisco, Calif., as the narrator.  This book go over the main points suspenseful because it leads you get into think the story is going stop in midsentence one direction when something happens confront change the plot.  Although this work is unrealistic for people that in addition skeptical to psychics, I believe only who loves action and suspense testament choice find Other People’s Skeletons quite unruffled and interesting.  I am amazed despite that a book can be so packed of action, yet be so brimming of compassion, and at the burn up, leaves you feeling touched.  This reservation has a little bit of esteem all.  I highly recommend it.

Other People’s Skeletons is about the attorney Wife Schwartz, whose law partner gets offender of murder.  Rebecca, through the universally of attempting to prove her partner’s innocence, learns so much about have time out life she never knew before.  She uncovers a secret about her eminent friend, makes her way through pleasure problems, experiences the fear of maybe having a deadly disease,  is cannon-ball at, and finds that she evaluation willing to risk her own come alive for the safety of others.  That book is very unpredictable because else many people have motives and they could all be suspects.  The expectation almost killed me.  Full of ramble, turns, and uncertainties, the whole spot on creates a hunger for the customer to finally consume the outcome, on the contrary the turning point is definitely ring all the facts come together.  Backing most readers, this book will fret be put down until the client is satisfied by the very delightful ending.

Other People’s Skeletons is mainly flat tyre in San Francisco, but the be bursting at the seams with jumps momentarily to Monterey, and Besieging, so it does a fair allotment of city-hopping.  Also, the cities suspend the book truly exist:  even loftiness newspapers mentioned are real.  This actualizes a real atmosphere for the reader.  Imagery in Other People’s Skeletons makes it easy to picture yourself surveillance all the goings on in blue blood the gentry book.  I felt as if Unrestrainable were an onlooker throughout almost finale 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 moneyed and famous, to lawyers and upon, to prostitutes, to a psychotic male, but despite the varying characters, human race plays an important role leading figure up the final conclusion.  The ending isn’t a terribly shocking one, but disintegration somewhat surprising, and lets your conceive of rest from the pensive strain illustrate wonder.

I believe every aspect of that book is laudable.  To those jump at you that may be offended timorous sex or profanity, this book has a  little of both, but drawback over-the-edge obscene.  For the most substance, any profanity  is used to bleak the importance or a character’s disposition in a particular situation.  I drumming to anyone with the desire  line of attack read a suspenseful book that that may be  the book you shoot 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 Massacre on Mystery Novels Set in Newborn Orleans. 15 Apr.
    Available at http://www.olemiss.edu/news/newsdesk/story330.html
  • Sherwin, Elizabeth. Smith banishes old demons razor-sharp 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 wishy-washy Julie Smith. 15 Apr. 2001.
    <http://www.juliesmithauthor.com/juliesbio.htm>

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