Julia Robb - Official Author Site

Julia is a former journalist and editor. She spent 20 years in the newspaper business and is now a free-lance writer/editor in Marshall, Texas. For fun, she drives across Texas to the deserted corners, the wide spaces, heading west past Waco, watching the mesas float in the distance.

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  Julia is a former journalist and editor. She spent 20 years in the newspaper business and is now a free-lance writer/editor in Marshall, Texas. For fun, she drives across Texas to the deserted corners, the wide spaces, heading west past Waco, watching the mesas float in the distance.

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  "I began writing "Scalp Mountain" in 2009, when I saw images in my mind; a man kicking his horse into a gallop, racing away from a crime, two men fighting in a Texas valley, a woman hugging an Indian baby, refusing to let him go."
   
  -- Julia Robb, Author of "Scalp Mountain"
   
  Buddies in the Saddle said about "Scalp Mountain":
   
  "This is a fine novel. If you drew a line between "Lonesome Dove" and "All the Pretty Horses," you would find "Scalp Mountain" somewhere along the way.....there were times when this one had me and refused to let go. For anyone who likes their westerns well grounded in history, this is one you don't want to miss."

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  Julia published "Saint of the Burning Heart" in February, 2013. Saint is about a half-Hispanic child who is left homeless and alone in small-town Texas. A powerful rancher, Frank Kendall, and his family, adopt Nicki and give her a life of comfort and position. But family intimacy leads to a obsessive, violent love affair between Nicki and Frank. Nicki is forced to leave town and when she returns finds the town at war with itself, with Anglos pitted against Hispanics. And two of the people she loves best are struggling against each other. Frank leads the Anglos and Nicki's best friend, David Rodriguez, leads the Hispanics.