She lives with her husband, an obnoxious cat, an Australian Shepherd who is too smart for his own good, and a hyper-active Papillion. Julie now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the frequency of shark attacks are at an all time low.

She worked as a professional dog trainer for several years, dodging Chihuahua bites and overly enthusiastic Labradors, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full time. So she turned to her other passion: training animals. It’s no secret I’m one of the few people (among those I know or follow) who are still deeply involved with this series. We just have to find that breaking point. To pay the rent, Julie worked in different bookstores over the years, but discovered the managers frowned upon her reading the books she was supposed to be shelving. You will serve Talon, one way or another. The gory tales faded with time (okay, at least the illustrations did), but the passion for writing remained, long after she graduated and was supposed to get a Her love of reading led her to pen some very dark and gruesome stories, complete with colored illustrations, to shock her hapless teachers. When not swimming for her life, Julie immersed herself in books, often to the chagrin of her schoolteachers, who would find she hid novels behind her Math textbooks during class. She spent much of her time in the ocean, when she wasn’t getting chased out of it by reef sharks, jellyfish, and the odd eel. BOOK REVIEW: Legion (Talon 4) by Julia Kagawa Octo/ Chelsea / 6 Comments. So, at the age of nine she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes. But nothing exciting really happened to her there. Julie Kagawa, the New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series was born in Sacramento, California.

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