HOME   WRITER LINKS    BLOGS Email: JudithAvila_1@msn.com Sample Some of My Writing Please browse through the excerpts from my books and short stories. BALLAD IN THREE VOICES – (adult, mainstream): Tragedy ricochets through a family with surprising results. Three adult siblings, freed from accustomed roles, launch themselves in directions that are sometimes creative, sometimes illegal, but always surprising. read an excerpt... CHICA IN THE PROMISED LAND – (chick-lit): America Davila, a young Latina woman, escapes the stranglehold of her traditional family only to be dragged back by a fearsome foe, her ninety-eight pound mama. read an excerpt... LIFE RAFT BLUES – (adult, mainstream): Success traps a young professional in a job she has grown to hate. Inadvertently she becomes involved in a computer scam that threatens lives, including her own. read an excerpt... SECRETS OF THE CATCHERS – (middle grade, fantasy): A teenager on a distant planet loses her parents and joins forces with four other orphans. Living in a hidden tree house, they forge a secret society dedicated to righting wrongs. read an excerpt... Click here to read excerpts from my short stories.

Hola! from Tijeras, NM After growing up in New York and New Hampshire, I’ve made New Mexico my home. A graduate of Duke University, I worked as an artist, an air traffic controller, and a computer consultant, before finally discovering writing. I dream of developing a career as a novelist whose characters become fast friends with my readers. My fictional characters live, like all of us, in an imperfect world. But they focus on what could be. This requires some transition on their part - kind of like the stages of my own life. My next transition will be from non-published novelist to published novelist. Bookmark this site and watch!