I grew up in a home full of books and I began to read them at an early age. My parents’ encouragement brought me to where I am today and I selected my pen name to honor their memory. Julia, for my ...view moreI grew up in a home full of books and I began to read them at an early age. My parents’ encouragement brought me to where I am today and I selected my pen name to honor their memory. Julia, for my mother’s nickname and Rohatyn where my father lived until he fled Europe.
After years as a child psychologist in Boson and Washington DC, my life turned 180 degrees. We moved to Israel and I began a new profession managing major hotels.
Finally, my sister asked me a fateful question. “If you love reading mysteries so much, why don’t you write one?” So, I did.
I didn’t publish the first, or the second, or the third. They were a valuable learning experience. You may get to read them after I do a serious edit. My early books were about the world I knew best, hotel mysteries. From there...anywhere.
I am fortunate to live in a small pastoral community between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Several of my neighbors have written and published. Some of us have banded together to form Neve Ilan Books which include mysteries, children’s stories, and musicology.view less