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Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen grew up in the mountains in the west of Maine. The town was small and the paper mill emanated a strong surfer scent; it was called the smell of money. She spent many hours walking from her house up the hill to the library, back and forth with her nose in a book.

She had a goal on becoming a writer and was excited to finally have her own books on the shelves of the Rumford Public Library. Now she lives in the south of England and gets teased about her “accent”.

Brought up in the mountains of Maine, there wasn’t too much to do so she started making stuff up. With her nose constantly in books, at eleven years old, she was inspired to write her first novel using a spiral-bound notebook.

Creating her own maps and illustrations,
she wrote a fantasy tale about a girl who was a teenage wizard. In high school, with her best friend, she wrote unlikely, fanciful romances featuring their rock star idols.

She earned her English degree with honors, summa cum laude, from Brown University in Rhode Island. Later she earned a Masters degree in English literature from the University of Reading in the UK. While at university she wrote feature stories for the newspaper as well as a weekly cartoon strip. It was a silly little thing about an Elvis look-alike who had a pet squid.

Ms. Cohen spent a year at Cambridge University in England, where she fell in love with the old country and the totally sexy accents. Afterwards she moved to England to research nineteenth century children’s literature fairy stories towards her postgraduate degree.

In her spare time, while teaching high school English, she wrote sexy, amusing stories. Her first Harlequin romance was written in Maine on a blueberry farm. She completed it in Greece on a beach.

Ms. Cohen’s first story and several more were soundly rejected by publishers. But things looked up when she placed in the finals of the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart contest. After that, she sold stories to Harlequin Mills & Boon.

Her books have been translated into fifteen languages and have sold over three-quarters of a million copies. The Richard and Judy Book Club, a British television chat show, chose “Dear Thing” and later, “Together”, to feature on their show.

Ms. Cohen teaches creative writing workshops for The Guardian, Writers’ Workshop, and Literature Wales, among others. She also has a literary consultancy and mentoring business for fiction writers
that is somewhat “oversubscribed” that helps writers get published. She’s also Vice President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She’s also been a founding member of the RNA Rainbow Chapter for LGBTQ+ authors. Ms. Cohen is also a Patron of the literary charity ABC to Read.

Like most avid readers, Ms. Cohen reads everything in sight. Living with her son and husband in the south of England, she takes long walks, travels, listens to loud music, and loves to eat way too much popcorn.

In Ms. Cohen’s first story, Dear Thing, which has been very highly received and reviewed, touches on a delicate subject for many couples. For some couples, getting pregnant is like falling off a log, but for others it’s a heartbreaking journey with too many procedures coupled with too many failures.

Ben and Claire have had IVF procedures ten times. After her last miscarriage, Claire is done trying. The physical challenges and the resulting heartbreak is more than she ever wants to bear again.

Ben wants to keep trying but he’s not the one who’s body has to endure the medications, the shots, the invasive procedures, and the visible heartbreak when it all fails… again.

Romily has watched her best friends, Ben and Claire, try for years for a baby. She feels for them and wants to help out, if possible. Romily decides to offer them the one thing they want most that she can give.

Romily is already a single mother and has no desire to have any more children. It seems it would be an easy surrogacy. She’s young, healthy, and has childbearing experience.

Ben and Claire happily accept her offer. Romily easily got pregnant and is doing well. However she is caught off guard when she has overwhelming feelings towards the baby she is carrying. And feelings towards Ben.

If Romily doesn’t get a grip on her feelings she could ruin her friendship with Claire and Ben and potentially even destroy Ban and Claire’s marriage. Three-two-one. A seemingly insurmountable decision has to be made. Three friends, two mothers, and just one baby.

This is a thoughtful, heartbreaking, and emotional story that is sure to strike chords with many readers who’ve experienced this situation from one side or another.

Ms. Cohen has transitioned from her American roots to the British way of speaking and writing that makes her sound like a native. She writes about putting Squash in the children’s teapot for play (a fruit-flavored drink), the doll houses aren’t houses, they are castles, “oven chips” are baked french fries, baby showers are “an American habit”, and of course, diapers are called nappies. Ms. Cohen has settled in very well in her adopted England.