Celebrating the Little Wins on My First Edit

by juliehartig | Oct, 2025 | Writing Life and Craft | Process, Practice and Making Stories

You can’t see me, but I’ve been doing a little celebration dance for the past week. (I’d add a meme, but they tend to interrupt the reading experience.) Why? Two reasons.  First, I’ve edited the first act of my novel Hope and Madness. This is...

Do You Know About the Prechter Bipolar Research Program?

by juliehartig | May, 2025 | Digging Deeper | Exploring Ideas, Systems, and Hard Questions

Unlocking Hope: Discover the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program My writing journey sprang from a burning desire to share the story of my experience helping a relative through a mental health crisis in 2016. During those challenging times, I scoured the...

Struggles of Mental Health: A Look into Hope and Madness

by juliehartig | May, 2024 | Digging Deeper | Exploring Ideas, Systems, and Hard Questions

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked and stigmatized topic of mental health. I invite you to join me as I look at a handful of struggles related to mental illness through the lens of my upcoming novel, Hope and...

The Monster Within – a Short Story of Abuse, Survival, and Power

by juliehartig | Nov, 2023 | Books | Fiction and Creative Works by Julie Hartig

Trigger warning: Domestic abuse, murder, police violence, mental illness, miscarriage Tina believed in monsters. She’d been hunted by one and was being hunted still. His name was Johnny. A patient predator who possessed a talent for deploying psychological...

Book Cover: Inspiration from Van Gogh’s Art and Life

by juliehartig | Oct, 2023 | Writing Life and Craft | Process, Practice and Making Stories

As I prepared to share my first drafts, I felt an overwhelming urge to include a book cover. Maybe it was procrastination, or an attempt to add a professional flourish to compensate for my uncertainty in the writing, but I believe books should be a feast for our eyes....