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About Julie Castillo
Author, The Long Man’s Pillow
Literary Eco-thriller
A lifelong story-lover and professor of anthropology, Julie Castillo has a passion for stories that explore social problems and global issues. She gravitates toward post-apocalyptic, dystopian, and survival stories that explore the human experience.
Julie Castillo is a professional writer, editor, and story coach with more than 25 years' experience in the writing and publishing industry. She has ghost-written more than a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction, including two NY Times Bestsellers (I Ain't Got Time to Bleed and Do I Stand Alone?) as well as for Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Her professional work includes writing nonfiction books, novels, book proposals, press kits, back jacket copy, cover letters, synopses, and screenplay coverage. She has coached creative writers in developing their projects for the commercial marketplace and specializes in structuring both fiction and nonfiction.
Julie teaches creative writing and publishing in addition to topics such as anthropology, world religions, and futurism. She speaks and facilitates discussion forums at a variety of events and venues.
She is currently writing, coaching, and teaching as a digital nomad while traveling the world with her husband and two dogs.
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Featured Work
The Long Man's Pillow
Literary Ecofiction / Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
During a catastrophic drought, Vicki Truax, a lonely Baltimorean, inherits land outside a remote Appalachian town. Amid the quirky townsfolk, she finds herself at home for the first time in her life. Her neighbor, Steen, a merciless businessman with a lucrative well, tries to seize her land, while desperate water thieves rove the mountain at night, seeking to tap its aquifer. While fiercely patrolling her land, Vicki meets and befriends Alaric, an eccentric local who supplies townsfolk and moonshiners alike from his own meager water source. One night, Vicki discovers a small trickle on her own land.
Thirsty refugees and profiteers keep pouring into town despite the townsfolks’ efforts to keep them at bay. Fearing a water war, Vicki keeps her newfound source a secret. But then Alaric’s source runs dry, and in the aftermath of a poorly planned raid, Steen’s well collapses, leaving Vicki’s tiny spring the only water source for far too many desperate, thirsty souls. Vicki must now make the ultimate decision: who gets to drink, and who gets to die.
