Judith Edna Earley
Her writing credits include hundreds of magazine, newspaper, and web-content articles published in national, regional, and trade publications. She authored The Forest for the Trees, an original full-length screenplay optioned for direct-to-video production. Eight to Five, her first novel, is set in Venice, a fictional suburb of Dayton and is based on her personal experiences as a marching band geek in high school and college. The manuscript was a finalist
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After unsuccessfully pitching the subject of autoimmune beauty as a magazine article for years, she decided to just write the book herself. She was diagnosed with Scleroderma in 1992.