Julie Church-Romero came from a family of readers, writers and dreamers. Growing up, a dream was not only supported, it was required. She sites her parents for teaching her the love of reading. "With weekly visits to the library, my mother and I would take out as many books as we could carry. I used to get in trouble just so I would be told to go to my room so I could read, then in later years, I escaped their to write." Her stories were encouraged, her father being her first editor, pr more...