Judy Douglas Knauer
Biography:
Judy Douglas Knauer got her first critical author review for a poem she wrote while in second grade. One of the little girls in her Peoria, IL Brownie Troupe disapproved of the way Judy depicted her in the poem, even though it was true. Multiple years later her first novel, Ecstasy Reclaimed by Brandy LaRue (a pen name) sold to Berkley Publishing without ever seeing a rejection. Years later she was hired as chief editor, reporter and photographer for The Citizen, a weekly newspaper that covered Livingston County, IL. During seven years in the newspaper business she won 14 journalism awards including eight from Illinois Press Association. She has sold non-fiction to Buckeye Farm News, Time/Warner, and Countryside magazines and a short mystery to Over My Dead Body. One novel never being rejected notwithstanding, she admits to having a bulging folder of rejections compiled over many years for multiple novels yet unsold. Her motto is “You never fail until you stop trying.” She has three published novels with the latest, her first private eye novel, released in August 2010.
Judy is the proud mom to two daughters and two sons and gramma to three boys and one girl. She lives with her husband, Dennis, on four acres about 75 miles south of Chicago. When she’s not working on her current thriller-in-progress, she enjoys gardening, fishing, reading, cooking, refinishing antique furniture, learning, walking, and travel.
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