 Julie Rae Rickard was first published at the tender age of eight when a short essay she
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wrote about her cat, Tiger, was printed in a school newspaper. Since that time she has written
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numerous stories, novels, poems, songs, plays and screenplays. Currently she is a court
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correspondent for the Courier-Express newspaper in DuBois, PA.
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Her most recent project is the local history book, "Around Curwensville" from the Images of
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America series which was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2007. This is the third local history book
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Julie has penned. The others are "Clearfield County" also form Arcadia's Images of America series
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and "Clearfield" from Arcadia's Postcard History series. In addition, for the 2004 Clearfield County
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bicentennial, Julie wrote, produced and directed a play, "Hidden Treasures: A History of Clearfield
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County".
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Her short story, "The Christmas Stocking" was featured in "Christmas in My Heart 11" released
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in the fall of 2002. It was originally published in the Christmas 1999 issue of "War Cry", the Salvation
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Army magazine. Editor, Marlene Chase, called it "a beautiful story with classic features. It will be
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remembered for a long time."
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In 2001, Julie interviewed Shirley MacLaine for a cover story for "Natural Beauty and Heath" from
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the publishers of "Magical Blend" magazine. The article was reprinted in the French magazine
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"l'essentiel" in March 2002.
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With "The Destiny of Miro", published in 2000, she combined her writing ability with her interest
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in spiritual studies. (For more of Julie's thoughts on "The Destiny of Miro", click on the below link to
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our interview with Julie.)
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In addition to her fiction, she has written many articles as a newspaper reporter and as
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a free lance writer has written for the sport newspapers "Viking Update" and "Shout! (The Buffalo
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Bills newspaper)". For several years she published her own fan club newsletter for the Bee Gees.
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("Mo Time" was retired in 1988.) She was also on the staff of BGQ (Bee Gees Quarterly).
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Her other interests include reading (favorite authors: Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, Stephen King,
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Anne Rice; favorite subjects: different religions, anything spiritual, new age, history); spending time
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with close friends and family; traveling; walking; yoga; doing tarot card readings; NFL football;
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watching movies (favorites: "Planet of the Apes", "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Contact", "Monty
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Python's Life of Brian", "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery"); watching "good" television
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(favorites: "Late Show with David Letterman", "Lost", "Doctor Who”, "Farscape", "Buffy The Vampire
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Slayer", "The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”); listening to music (favorites:
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Bee Gees, Beatles, Clay Aiken, Seal, Sarah McLachlan, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and the Monkees. In
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fact, while living in California, Julie worked for Pacific Arts Video, former Monkee Michael Nesmith's
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company). She is very interested in preserving our environment and supports several environmental
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groups. (For more info, see the below link to our "earth" page.)
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Julie lived in various areas of the country, (Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Florida),
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before settling back in her native, central Pennsylvania where she lives with her cats, Spooky and
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Zorro, Buddy and Buffy.
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She is currently working on several writing projects but is available for freelance work.
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She can be contacted at the below link.
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