Julie Cohen in a cemetery

Welcome to my website.

I write fun, emotional, and sometimes quite strange romantic novels for Headline’s Little Black Dress imprint, for Headline Review, and for Harlequin Mills & Boon.

Please come visit my blog, or check out my appearances and news.

Or if you’re looking for my alter ego, B.H. Dark, please visit the B.H. Dark page.

author photograph by Ruth Ng

Appearances

  1. 6 March 2010:Local Author Day at Reading Central Library, from 11 pm. I’ll be talking from 2-3 pm about researching my latest book, and about writing romance and women’s fiction.
  2. 27 March 2010 (time tbc):I’ll be signing copies of Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom at the Oracle Waterstones, Reading.
  3. 10-11 April 2010: The Festival of Writing, University of York. I’ll be giving two workshops, one on creating character and one on writing chick lit, and will be taking one-on-one appointments to critique work. Book your place at http://festivalofwriting.com/.
  4. 2 June 2010, 7 pm: I’ll be on a panel of Reading romance writers at the Reading Central Library, with Tania Crosse, Beth Elliot, and Janet Gover.
  5. 9-11 July 2010: I’ll be giving my workshop “Character: It’s More Than A Flip of the Coin” at the Romantic Novelists’ Association conference, The Old Royal Naval College, University of London, Greenwich.
  6. 27-29 September 2010: “Teaching Women’s Commercial Fiction”, a residential workshop run by Cornerstones Literary Consultancy
  7. 28 October 2010, 7.30 pm: A launch of my new novel for Headline Review, Reading Central Library.

Details of the workshops I offer are on my news page. If you’re interested in my giving a workshop or talk to your group, please send me an email.

Nre Releases

Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom

NINA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF GLOOM
coming March 2010

Gloom is good.

All work and no play makes Nina a dull girl…

But when you’re PA to a celebrity chef who’s tastier than one of his delicious dishes, you can’t help loving your job. What’s wrong with fancying the pants off your boss? Erm, everything if he’s married to someone else.

So when Nina meets sexy Spaniard Juan, she’s thrilled to escape to a new life abroad…until he does a runner with her hard-earned cash and she’s forced to move to “The Temple of Gloom”—a gothic flat with some unusual inhabitants.

Nina’s had enough of bloodsuckers, but is her mysterious neighbour Viktor really a vampire? Sometimes it’s hard to know who to trust…

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Girl from Mars

GIRL FROM MARS

Headline Little Black Dress, June 2009

“I loved, loved, loved Girl from Mars…definitely highly recommended and has to go into my “best of 2009″ reads.”My Favourite Books

“I, Philomena Desdemona Brown, do solemnly swear to forsake all romantic relationships. There. Do I really have to repeat it in Klingon?”

It’s not like the vow, made by Fil and her two nerdy best male friends so they’d always stick together, was a big deal at the time. Frankly, Fil wouldn’t know romance if it hit her in the face anyway. Her one true love is her job as the artist for the famous comic Girl from Mars. Just like the comic’s alien heroine, Fil’s never had or needed a love interest—just her best friends.

Until one of her friends breaks the vow and falls in love, bringing her smack back down to earth. Could it be that romance is in the stars for Fil after all?

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For more details about these and other releases, see my books page.