Julie Ditrich is an Australian freelance writer, editor and publishing consultant and a director of the Black Mermaid Productions creative team based in Australia.
Ditrich has a background in therapy and publishing. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Professional Writing (University of Canberra, 1986) where she majored in freelance writing, script writing and theatre/media, she worked in bookselling and publishing, and coordinated a children's literary program for several years. She was also employed as the publications manager at the Australian Society of Authors where she commissioned, wrote and edited books on authorship. Concurrently, Julie worked as a writer on various comics including the Australian independent Oblagon, as well as the US original ElfQuest: WaveDancers series and the Dart miniseries. She also ran a clinical hypnotherapy and PSH therapy practice in the Sydney CBD for over eleven years, and during that time had several articles published in various professional journals.
Since 2004 she ghosted five biographies, an Australian local history coffee table book, and edited several Mind Body Spirit books in the Australian mainstream fiction and non-fiction publishing arena. She is currently focussing specifically on writing comics, graphic novels and books.
Also now the ASA (Australian Society of Authors) Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio Holder.[1]