Julie Lambeth Pitts (Deborah Judges)

My name is Julie Lambeth Pitts, I am currently almost forty-eight years old. I chose the pen name Deborah Judges because I loved the story in the Bible about the judge named Deborah. There is a lot to her story but my favorite part of her story is when God told her to send the men out to meet their enemies and they would be victorious. She immediatrly told her men to go and fight and one man answered "I will go if you will come with us?" And so, she gathered her belongings and went with them. If you have ever read the story you know they were victorious! She not only believed in God she believed in herself and that's the kind of woman and writer I have become.. Strong and courageous going into unknown territory and forging ahead where the action will be found.But here is a little personal background on myself. I was nine years old when I started writing and keeping diaries. My first diary was one that had a lock and key and it was my prized posession I have stories that I've kept over the years written long ago, primarily by my teenage self. I also wrote poetry. I loved English and American Literature. Edgar Allen Poe always enthralled me, Just by how he could harbor your full attention. Dickens was a favorite, and of course Hemingway, Although my favorite poet is Emily Dickinson, I too, treasured my works yet seldom Have I shared them. Not because my works were not high quality but because I put my whole soul into writing and when others read what I have created it seems to me they are mingling with my very soul. Words are important they have power and can hurt or elate in seconds. They can entice you to grow courageous and they simply seem to fill your heart as they fill your mind. I published my first piece of fiction and it was published in a newdletter that came out of San Francisco, called "The Healing Woman". That piece actually being published fueled the literary artist in me and I have compiled thirty years of Journals. Mind you I didn't write every day but there would be some times in my life when I would open a journal and just write for hours pouring forth my own life stories..:Last year I compiled some of them into the first book of a series that I'm writing. "Scar Wars, Forged in Fright" will hit the shelves by Christmas 2014. It is an outstanding book about healing from childhood trauma that caused me to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder better known as just P.T.S.D and how I overcame its debilitating effects on my life.. Look for it on Amazon and Books-a-Million.