About the author

Julie Weston

<strong>Julie Weston&nbsp;</strong>grew up in Idaho and practiced law for many years in Seattle, Washington. Her short stories and essays have been published in <em>IDAHO Magazine</em>, <em>The Threepenny Review</em>, <em>River Styx</em>, and <em>Rocky Mountain Game &amp; Fish</em>, among other journals and magazines, and in the anthology <em>Our Working Lives</em>. Her book, <em>The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town</em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) won Honorable Mention in the 2009 Idaho Book of the Year Award. She appeared on a C-Span2/Book TV interview in December 2013. Both an essay and a short story were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.&nbsp;<br>She is the author of the Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mysteries: <em>Moonshadows </em>(a Finalist in the May Sarton Award for Historical Fiction), <em>Basque Moon </em>(Winner of the 2017 WILLA Award for Historical Fiction), <em>Moonscape </em>(Bronze Winner of the Foreword Award for Mystery), <em>Miners’ Moon </em>(Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award Winner for Mystery), <em>Moon Bones</em> (Encircle Publications, October 2022), and the newest, <em>Salmon Moon: River of No Return</em>, has just been published by Encircle Publications on November 20, 2024.<br>Julie and her husband, Gerry Morrison, now live in south-central Idaho where they ski, write, photograph, and enjoy the outdoors. You can learn more by visiting www.julieweston.com.