Publishers Marketplace: Julie K. Rose

Welcome! I am an author of speculative literature: magical realism, historical fiction, and historical fantasy/timeslip, currently seeking representation for my novels THE MIDNIGHT SON and THE PILGRIM GLASS, a finalist in the 2005 Faulkner-Wisdom creative writing awards.

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.

THE PILGRIM GLASS 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.

Jonas Flycatcher, a well-respected but prickly artisan in his early 30s, is contracted to repair a stained glass found deep in the ancient altar of the cathedral of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay. He travels from California to Burgundy for the project and there meets his contact, Abbot Dubay, a worldly priest with a painful secret. Jonas begins the laborious work of restoring the stained glass offering, but when he meets and falls for Meredith, an ex-pat photographer who seems to be channeling a 12th century pilgrim, his carefully constructed world – and the ancient glass – are threatened. When lives are seemingly shattered, he is forced to decide whether he can pick up the pieces once again.

Both novels would appeal to readers who enjoy, for example, Alice Hoffman's THE ICE QUEEN or Timothy Findley's PILGRIM.

Website: http://www.juliekrose.com
Blog: http://juliekrose.blogspot.com
Podcast: http://juliekrose.blogspot.com (The Word-Hoard)

This writer is looking for an agent.