Publishers Marketplace: Julie K. Rose

Welcome! I'm an author of literary and historical fiction with a touch of the fantastic, currently seeking representation. Currently available are two novels:

THE PILGRIM GLASS (a semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards) is the story of an artist, a priest, and a photographer, and the restoration of a stained glass one summer in Vézelay, France. This is no ordinary glass, however; it has a strange, almost hypnotic effect on them, changing them in positive and destructive ways.

Beyond the honor of having been a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthough Novel Award competition, all 500 quarterfinalists also received a review of their manuscript from Publisher's Weekly:

Combining religious and secular elements, history with mystery, and plenty of internal conflict, this agreeably suspenseful story centers on the Romanesque Basilica of St. Mary Magdelene in the quaint French village of Vezelay, once a major medieval pilgrimage site. Eight hundred years later, Abbot Michel Dubay has uncovered a jewel-like stained glass depiction of Mary Magdelene, which must be repaired in time for the millennial celebrations for her feast day just weeks away. Jonas Flycatcher, an expert in stained glass repair but as damaged as the medieval artifact, embodies the oft-merited stereotype of an earthy, foul-mouthed American in contrast to the elegant French Abbot and retired medieval academic Marie-Laure. Meanwhile, Meredith, a US expatriate with plenty of mental scars of her own, has returned to the town and remains guiltily immersed in her past, heightened by strange unrecognizable visions. All four suffer the revelations of a beautiful woman whose connection to the glass forces them to face their demons. Throughout the manuscript, a consistent smattering of French and vivid descriptions of the architecture heighten the authenticity of the setting and together with the fast pace creates a highly enjoyable French mystery.

THE MIDNIGHT SON is the story of a boy abandoned by his parents just weeks after his older brother mysteriously disappears. Twenty years later he is contacted by his estranged father – and suddenly begins seeing his lost brother everywhere he goes. Is it wishful thinking? Is his brother still alive? A ghost? Or is he going insane?

Erik Myklebust, a thirty-something shop assistant in Bergen , Norway , has lost direction in his life. When his father, Erlend, contacts him after 20 years of silence, Erik reluctantly returns to his grandparents’ fjordland farm to face his father. On the way, Erik meets Carrie, an enigmatic American tourist who seems to have information about his missing brother – whom they both see in the wilds above the Sognefjord, in the streets of Oslo, in the tall stave church in Borgund. When Erik learns that the mother who abandoned him as a child has returned to Norway , he and Carrie embark on a journey to uncover his past – and recover his future.

Website: http://www.juliekrose.com
Blog: http://juliekrose.blogspot.com
Podcasts:http://juliekrose.blogspot.com (The Word-Hoard), http://writersoundtracks.blogspot.com (Writers & Their Soundtracks)

This writer is looking for an agent.