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Julie Kistler

Julie Kistler is the author of 30 romance novels and five shorter works, including one Cat Crime, two chapters for charity projects, an online serial and a novella. Julie won the Madcap Award for the best romantic comedy of 2001 for JUST A LITTLE FLING, a Harlequin Temptation, and she was nominated for Romance Writers of America's Rita Award for BLACK JACK BROGAN, a Harlequin American Romance. Several of her books have hit the Waldenbooks Best-Seller Lists.
She and her husband, Scott Johnson, co-authored ONCE THERE WERE GIANTS, the story of how tiny Hebron High School won the Illinois High School basketball tournament in 1952. That book came out in 2002 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hebron's amazing run to the state championship.

Julie was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois (yes, she "played in Peoria") but moved to the Chicago area for high school, where she met her husband Scott in 10th grade. (He sat in front of her in math class and she was attracted to his tall, dark, handsome and very smart ways.) Scott and Julie both attended the University of Illinois, and Julie graduated with a BA in history (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) in 1978. She married Scott in 1980, and then 1) got a law degree (cum laude) from the University of Illinois, 2) passed the Minnesota bar exam, 3) ran off with Scott for a two-month trip to Europe, and 4) moved to Minnesota to be a lawyer (in that order).

But law didn't suit her very well, and Julie left the legal world to be a full-time writer in 1985. She also sold her first book in 1985 (nine days after quitting her job.) That book was THE VAN RENN LEGACY, a madcap treasure hunt with a quote-acrostic for readers to solve, and it also earned Julie her second Golden Heart nomination.

Julie and Scott moved back home to Illinois in 1989, and have lived in Central Illinois ever since. A lifetime movie and theater lover, Julie began a side career as a theater critic for the Champaign News-Gazette in 1990. She has now joined the Board of Directors of Heartland Theatre, in Bloomington, Illinois, and she initiated an annual ten-minute play contest there which has proved to be very popular. Julie's play, "Hopeless Romantics," was performed in the first year of Heartland's Ten-Minute Playfest.

In her life, Julie has been a student, front desk clerk, room service waiter, switchboard operator, pizza chef, criminal prosecutor, singing and dancing law book, prose reader, legal research expert, member of the Board of Directors of Romance Writers of America, president of Novelists Inc, marketing manager, romance writer, sportswriter, reporter, critic, Fred Astaire fanatic, cat lover, White Sox fan, daughter, sister, wife and friend.

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  • Cover of: Hot Prospect
    First published in 2004 4 editions

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  • Cover of: It's in His Kiss
    First published in 2005 4 editions

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  • Cover of: More Naughty Than Nice
    First published in 2014 3 editions

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  • Cover of: Just a Little Fling
    First published in 2014 3 editions

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  • Cover of: Lizzie's Last-Chance Fiance
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    First published in 2011 2 editions

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    First published in 2012 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Ryan's Bride
    First published in 2012 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Always a Bridesmaid: Backseat Bridegroom Love Is a Beach Fair Game

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  • Cover of: Tuesday's Knight
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  • Cover of: Scandal (Harlequin Blaze)
    First published in 2006 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Packing Heat
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  • Cover of: Scandal
    First published in 2007 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Stand-In Bride and the Sister Switch

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  • Cover of: In Bed With the Wild One / In Bed With the Pirate (Duets, 30)

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  • Cover of: More Naughty Than Nice
    First published in 2002 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Fantasy Wife
    First published in 1995 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Cut to the chase
    First published in 2004 2 editions

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    First published in 1993 1 edition

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