Debut novelist Julie Dillemuth, PhD, is an award-winning picture book author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. Her six picture books with Magination Press encourage kids to get outside, explore, draw and tell stories with maps, and her poetry has appeared in Scientific American, Highlights for Children, and literary magazines. In all her writing, Julie’s aim is smart, thoughtful stories that entertain and inspire.
restoring noralie– a novel in free verse
restoring noralie is at turns sweet, sophisticated, surprising, and at the end, utterly satisfying—the way an unexpected treat on a hard day hits the spot. The novel introduces Noralie, a thoughtful, introspective, 40-year-old woman languishing in a perfectly adequate marriage and Struggling with mom burnout. In her youth, an art professor’s verbal smackdown derailed Noralie's dream of a painting career and severely damaged her sense of self-worth. Now, as a work project dredges up her art-school failure and an empathic, inappropriate infatuation with the UPS guy awakens an undeniable need to be seen, Noralie must find her voice, without destroying her family and the comfortable—now suffocating—life she's built.
