Welcome to my little house.

a very little house…

I don’t live there. Or not usually. The little house lives inside a human-sized house on a hill overlooking the Hudson River and so do I. Am I lucky? Yes I am.

If you’re reading this, maybe you saw a post or newsletter I wrote or something I commented on and you decided to pop over and find out a wee bit more about me. Here’s the bigger house.

just a bit larger…

I live and write here with my husband. Also living with us is one daughter and one cat. I write spooky, weird stories, sometimes with my husband, David. I have a novel brewing with alchemists, poets and ghosts.

Howl

Some of the best fun I’ve had is in leading writing workshops. That moment when a writer reads their stuff for the first time and hears a gasp or a laugh. The look on their face is priceless. It is always surprise.

My newsletter is about that, writing, thinking about writing, words and where they come from. How everything comes from story.

Join me here, or stop by every now and again. Please comment when you like, Reach out to me if you can.

Hope to hear from you.

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Julia Rust is a writer and teaching artist living in the Hudson Highlands within view of the Hudson River.