Julia London

Julia London

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WILL WRITE FOR FOOD. Julia London tried that approach when her parents told her to get a job many moons ago, but surprisingly, no one was interested in her total rip-off of Alias Smith and Jones with one minor change--Alias Smith, Jones, and Julia, the-Girl-They-Fought-Over. Unfortunately, Julia had to get a real job, which led her to discover that working for a living really is as awful as it sounds. So she decided to try her hand at writing again, and lo and behold, when she took Julia out of the starring roll, the writing clicked. Her first book was published in 1998. Soon thereafter, she left behind a cush government job where she spent your hard-earned tax dollars and began to write for a living, which truly is the greatest gig on the planet...except for maybe being the next American Idol, which looks pretty cool, too.

Julia is the middle Whine Sister with a raging case of middle-child syndrome. Her attempts to get noticed usually go unnoticed, so she has to keep reminding everyone that she is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical and contemporary romance. This usually elicits a big yawn from the Sisters, but Julia doesn't care because she likes saying it. She is fourth generation Texan and lives with the man of her dreams and two old and stinky Labrador retrievers in Austin.

Astrological sign: Pisces: lives in fantasy world, overly sensitive, ultra popular.

Favorite Leading Man: Colin Firth, especially in period films. Big Yum.

Favorite Comfort Food: Brownies: nuts, no nuts, brown, blonde, whatever. Bigger Yum


Recent posts by Julia London:

Question of the Week: What’s on Your Spring Cleaning List?

by Julia London

Just like that, the skies turned blue, birds started chirping, and the temperature finally climbed into the sixties and seventies.  It’s spring!  And every spring, I start looking at my closet of sweaters and furry house shoes and dude, I have some serious closet cleaning that needs to be done. What is that?  Is it [...]

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Ooops, I Screwed Up

by Julia London

Somehow I got my blog days screwed up.  I had me down for Saturday.  Sorry!  Whiny Wednesday, huh?  Kathleen talked last week about how she is sick of whiners.  Sorry sister — this whiner is back.  Let me review yesterday for you:
We had a snowfall in Austin of two inches.  Yes, you read that right.  [...]

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Fashion Friday: Olympic Fashion

by Julia London

I just love the Olympics for so many reasons.  I have discovered some new sports that I didn’t know I liked, like moguls and snowboarding.  I have all my old faves, like figure skating and speed skating and downhill skiing.  I’ve been fascinated by the uniforms or outfits, whatever you call them for these sports.  [...]

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The Worst Part of Writing: Tax Preparation

by Julia London

Not that I begrudge the United States of America my fair share, but tax preparation is not only the worst part of writing, but my own personal hell.  When I mentioned to some writer friends I was working on taxes, two of them yelled at me to shut up, so I don’t think I am [...]

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Whiny Wednesday: Charity Muggers and Other Callers

by Julia London

I totally ripped that term off from this picture, but it is my sentiment this Whiny Wednesday.  Have you ever given to a charity, only to be harrassed by them for months afterwards, looking for more?  It is my pet peeve. 
I should state for the record that I am not a big phone person.  [...]

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Smart Phones: Which One Would You Choose?

by Julia London

This is Good Buy Tuesday, and this time, instead of telling you a good buy, I am asking your opinion. The hubot and I have waited patiently for our current phone contract to be up. It is. We really want iPhones, but our provider is Verizon, which doesn’t have iPhones.  Any consultant [...]

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Writer’s Corner: Refilling a Very Empty Well

by Julia London

I had kind of a bad 2009.  A lot of personal stuff zapped my creative energy and I didn’t even know it was happening.  Looking back at the pages I had written during the worst of it (when I thought I was writing my way through it, like well-meaning writers tell you to do) I [...]

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Whiny Wednesday – Airport Screening

by Julia London

Recently, I flew through Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has those full body scanners. I had never been through one before, so when they suggested I step in, I did. I lifted my arms. They took a picture. I got the okay and walked through and got on my flight and [...]

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Pop Culture Monday: The Ubiquitous Gift Card

by Julia London

Gift cards were apparently the thing to give this Christmas. Personally, I used to be a bigger fan of the gift card than I am now.  Since most places offer gift cards, I find that I get them for places I probably wouldn’t go.  And even if I were inclined to go there, [...]

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A Courtesan’s Scandal

by Julia London
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Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant…and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London [...]

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Question of the Week: What Kind of Wrapper Are You?

by Julia London
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In the years that the Whine Sisters blog has existed, I have come into the self-awareness that I am not very domestic.  I don’t cook, I don’t decorate, I don’t do crafts.  I do, however, clean up pretty well and can make everything look nice and neat, which probably suggests that in a previous life, [...]

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Fashion Friday — Mad Men and Petticoats

by Julia London
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I recently began watching The AMC drama, Mad Men, and I am hooked.  If you haven’t seen it, it’s a soap opera set in the heady, sexy, bourbony days of the early sixties before this country experienced a sea-change in culture.  There is lots to talk about in Mad Men, but one thing that always [...]

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Finding your space

by Julia London

Welcome to our wild and wacky Thursdays:  Writer’s Corner.  Every Thursday, one of us is going to blog about writing.  This is a great challenge to me because I don’t have much to say on the topic.  I do what I do, but I can’t really explain how I do it (with that set-up, who [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

by Julia London

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Thanksgiving: Oh, the Pressure

by Julia London
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Prepare for a holiday whine.
As I have mentioned everywhere lately, I am not a cook.  I don’t like it, I never will, and I will never learn.  So when the holidays roll around, I get as special knot in my stomach.  I have to come up with something that someone will eat.
Just because I suck [...]

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Halloween Fun for all you Zombieheads!

by Julia London

It’s so hard to choose which friends to take to a zombie party when I can only take two.  I finally had to go with whose heads best fit the zombie bodies (this is a long-winded way of saying Sherri’s head wouldn’t sit on the zombie right, which is just bizarre, because if anyone has [...]

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While Jacquie Figures Out How to Turn This Thing On….

by Julia London
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I would like to take this opportunity to remind my fellow Whiners that A Courtesan’s Scandal comes out next Tuesday (the 20th).  I will be out of town hiking up some mountain and won’t be here to beg you to rush out and buy the book, so I am going to do it now. 

PLEEEEEEEEEEASE RUSH [...]

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by Julia London

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

You look like a monkey

And you smell like one too!

Nice party outfit

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I don’t get this

by Julia London

I don’t usually get caught up in things like this, but last night I was watching Nightline—admittedly with one eye and ear, as I was sort of working—and there was this bit about Roman Polanski being arrested in Switzerland.  They had an old interview with him in which he said he made a huge mistake [...]

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Life Imitates Art

by Julia London

Kath sent me a news article yesterday that comes so close to my book, SUMMER OF TWO WISHES, it’s kind of freaky.  In my book, the mistake wasn’t discovered for a couple of years.  But can you imagine?  Having lost my sister Karen very unexpectedly and very suddenly this summer, I cannot imagine either the [...]

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Does it get any better than this?

by Julia London

Have you heard the news?  Ellen DeGeneres is replacing Paula Abdul as a permanent American Idol judge.  This is either a brilliant move, or a complete disaster.  I am banking on brilliant move.  She is too funny, too savvy not to make this work. 

What about music, you ask?  Well, yeah, I had that question.  I [...]

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