Julia Osborne

Julia Osborne chose to self publish her YA novel - "The Midnight Pianist" through Paper Horse Design & Publishing - launched in November 2013. A second edition was released in 2016 by ETT Imprint in association with Paper Horse Design. An audio book is planned by ETT Imprint, yet to be finalised. Sequels "Playing with Keys" and "Song for Emilia" are in the pipeline.

"A delicious little book" one reader has described it. Apparently many baby boomers have relished their nostalgic hit of life in less frantic times. This is truly a 'crossover' novel. You'll find more comments on Julia's website http://juliamaryosborne.com/

Julia was born in Sydney, Australia, but lived for many years in country New South Wales and the south coast. Her short stories have been published in Australian and overseas literary journals, anthologies and magazines. You can read some of these on her website.

In the mid-2000s, ABC Radio National broadcast many of her short stories, also commissioning 2 one-act plays which she adapted from her fiction for radio and stage performance.

In 1991 she was awarded a grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and self-published her novel, "Falling Glass" in 2002.

Julia now lives on the NSW mid-north coast and continues to make up stories.