Julie Hodgson aged 49 now living in Portugal with her husband John, has travelled extensively all over the world writing for children. Working on the children’s page of the Kuwaiti times for about a year. Just before the first Gulf conflict in 1989. And the story tellers page for the Dumfries and Galloway standard, and the press and journal Banff Standard, plus numerous other papers and short story books to her credit.

She has also been featured twice in the Portuguese newspaper Aponte. She will appear in a few Portuguese childrens magazines in the spring.

She now settles for a quieter life and has more time to write stories, and is in popular demand for storytelling and has visited many schools in Portugal

She has just put together a book of childrens Poetry called Rhymes for smiling times, and will be out very soon.

Latest news... September 30th 2011

Her sci fi novel has been entered for the Childrens book Prize "The Pearson prize"

Her next novel due out is Jodie and the library card...

Her next small child picture book is The moonlight farmers...