Judy Douglas Knauer, Professional Writer

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Some of the stuff I've done over the years as a writer...

PUBLISHED WORKS

NOVELS

  • ECSTASY RECLAIMED, contemporary romance by (aka) Brandy LaRue, Berkley/Jove; Editor Carolyn Nichols; subrights to Harlequin: Canada, Yugoslavia, Holland, Finland, Germany and Australia

  • BAD CATHOLICS, A NOVEL OF DARK SUSPENSE, by Judy Douglas Knauer, ISBN 1-59286-025-7
  • BAD CATHOLICS, A NOVEL, (some 2010 edit changes) by J. Douglas Knauer, available NOW as a digital download from AMAZON.COM KINDLE STORE - new cover below

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  • If you're not a writer than you should know I've written over a dozen completed novels including a romantic western, several category romances, and a thriller romance, plus have begun four more novels in the thriller, amateur sleuth, and private investigator categories.  Having written and having published are not the same.

SHORT STORY

  • THE BIG CHANGE, Over My Dead Body magazine

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

  • YOU CAN BE AN UNFORGETTABLE BREADMAKER, Times Mirror magazines (in my Judo outfit with bread dough for six loaves - never did see it published) 
  • MOMMY, WHERE DO CALVES COME FROM? Countryside magazine (my title was: Artificial Insemination of the Family Cow)
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT 4-H MOTHERS, Buckeye Farm News (about our oldest son's award-winning rabbits)

JOURNALIST 1988 - 1995

  • Editor (reporter, photographer) of The Citizen owned by Cornbelt Press, Inc., covered Livingston County, IL  - second largest county in the state
  • Feature Editor, The Blade, Cornbelt Press, Inc., Fairbury, IL
  • Columnist, "Thoughts that Breathe...and Gasp and Wheeze!" The Blade, Cornbelt Press, Inc.
  • Editor, Reporter, Sports Editor, Managing Editor, Regional Editor, Photographer, The Blade; and later El Paso (IL) Record then back to The Blade, American Publishing of Canada 
  • Investigative Reporter, Daily Leader, Pontiac, IL

One of the best creative minds ever is possessed by Stephen J. Cannell.  This was the second time I've had to chance to see and listen to him in person.  Check out his novels!

2010 Sleuthfest in Deerfield Beach, FL
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Stephen J. Cannell, writer/creator and me!

Favorites

Here's some of my favorite movies:

My kids remember movie scripts; I can't even remember titles!  Here's my shot at it -  Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie and that sexy guy; Viewpoint (I think it was) with Harrison Ford; A Fish Named Wanda

Favorite music?

All the Eagles stuff; Pink Floyd; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Mama's and Papa's; Lenny Kravitz; Norah Jones; Pure Prairie League; Santana; Bad Company; Barbra Streisand; Little River Band; Robert Palmer; Ozzie Osborne; The Who; and Pat Sheridan's clean guitar!