A word about 'The  Keeper of Secrets.' I've unpublished it at Amazon and Smashwords because I have signed a contract with Harper Collins USA and it will be published as a Trade Paperback, under the William Morrow imprint, due out June 1st 2013. And it will be re-released as an ebook as well. So I'm sorry, you can't buy it at the moment, but in time, it will be in all the major chains and independents everywhere!!

I have FACEBOOK FAN page for me and for 'The Keeper of Secrets'. Please pop over and have a look, there is some really interesting background info on the book.

http://www.facebook.com/julie.thomas.writer

I've been in the media for 25 years, in radio, TV and film and had my own production company, but last year I decided it was time for a change. So I sold my house in Auckland (North Island of New Zealand) and moved about two hours south to Cambridge, which is a lovely rural English style village with a village green and lots of horses and people who ride bicycles with baskets in front. I absolutely LOVE it here and have found I am very happy being creative. I have time to write and knit and cook and paint and play with my highly intelligent and manipulative cat.

My major influences are classics, I love Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. I also love crime fiction, both historical and modern. I grew up loving James Bond/Ian Flemming and that is reflected in the first story in my book of short stories, "Stirred not Shaken." I was also deeply influenced by my late Dad who was a marvellous writer. I have all the letters he wrote home during his posting to the RAF, he was a Spitfire pilot in WWII. I have turned them into a non-fiction book, "Our Father's War.". One of the short stories in "Shaken" is based on his diary as he sailed to England, it started out as a holiday cruise and ended watching Liverpool burn and hearing men scream in the water.

So that is me, please feel free to browse the links and have a look at my work.