Julie Smith
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Julie Smith is a New Orleans-based novelist, essayist and short story writer. She is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
In 2006 she founded Writerstrack.com, an innovative course of writing teleclasses.
She began her writing life as a reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and progressed to the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was a copy editor and reporter for the People section for several years until she became the first woman hired for the newsroom since World War II. She spent the next ten years as a general assignment and court reporter.
She has also worked for the Santa Barbara News-Press (logging about sixteen years on newspapers total); for Banana Republic as an advertising and catalogue copy writer; and for the San Francisco District Attorney's office as a public information officer.
She quit the Chronicle to form a freelance writing and editing firm called Invisible Ink with several other aspiring fiction writers, including the distinguished author, Marcia Muller. In 1982 Smith published her first novel.
In 1991, she became the first American woman since 1956 to win the Edgar for best novel, the highest award given by the Mystery Writers of America. Her latest novel is P.I. On A Hot Tin Roof, and in March Akashic Books will publish New Orleans Noir, an anthology she edited.
Some of her other publishers include Random House (Ivy, Fawcett, Ballantine), St. Martin's Press, Tor Books (Forge), HarperCollins, Walker & Company, Warner Books (Mysterious Press), Knopf, Berkley, Black Lizard Press, Delacorte, Bantam, Signet, and Oxford University Press.
WRITERSTRACK.COM
These writing teleclasses are offered in a six-week course using conference call technology. The Great American Novel Track course covers the basic techniques of writing- plot, character, voice, pacing, setting, research, and dialogue.
NOVELS
Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co.) 1982
The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co.) 1984
True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press) 1985
Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press) 1986
Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press) 1987
New Orleans Mourning (St. Martin's Press) 1990
The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press) 1991
Dead in the Water (Ivy) 1991
Other People's Skeletons (Ivy) 1993
Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine) 1993
New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine) 1994
House of Blues (Fawcett/Columbine) 1995
The Kindness of Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine) 1996
Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine) August, 1997
82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine) September, 1998
Louisiana Hotshot (Forge) June, 2001
Louisiana Bigshot (Forge) August, 2002
Mean Woman Blues (Forge) August, 2003
P.I. On A Hot Tin Roof (Forge) July, 2005
SHORT STORIES
"Grief Counselor", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine 1978; reprinted in Miniature Mysteries, 100 Malicious Little Mystery Stories, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Taplinger) 1981; also reprinted in Last Laughs, The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology, edited by Gregory McDonald (Mysterious Press) 1986
"The Wrong Number", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine 1979
"Crime Wave in Pinhole", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 1980, reprinted in The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg (Arbor House) 1981
"Project Mushroom", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1983; reprinted in 101 Mystery Stories, edited by Nill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenbery (Avenel) 1986
"Red Rock", Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, edited by Byron Preiss (Knopf) 1988
"Blood Types", Sisters In Crime, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley), 1989
"Cul-de-Sac", Sisters In Crime II, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley), 1990
"Montezuma's Other Revenge", Justice for Hire, edited by Robert J. Randisi (Mysterious Press), 1990
"A Marriage Made in Hell", Eye of a Woman, edited by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press), 1991
"Silk Strands", Deadly Allies, edited by Marilyn Wallace and Robert J. Randisi (Bantam), 1992
"Strangers on a Plane", Unusual Suspects, edited by James Grady, (Black Lizard Press), 1996
"The End of the Earth", Detective Duos, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini (Oxford University Press), 1997
"Where The Boys Are", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, September, 1998
"Too Mean to Die", Blue Lightening, edited by John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press, 1998
"Fresh Paint", Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins) 1999
"Always Othello", Mary Higgens Clark Mystery Magazine, June, 1999
"Let's Go Knock Over Seaside", Murder and Magnolias, HarperCollins, 2000
"Kid Trombone", Murder And All That Jazz, Signet, 2004
ESSAY
"Splendor in the Mildew", A Place Called Home, edited by Mickey Perlman (St. Martin's Press) 1996
PROGRESSIVE NOVEL
I'd Kill For That (St. Martin's) 2004
==External links==<br />
Biography page at [www.casamysterioso.com]
Writing Teleclasses at [www.writerstrack.com]
Categories: Mystery writer, Writing Classes, New Orleans Author, Edgar Allen Poe Award Winner
