Julie Christensen is the author of The Truth About Dating, its sequel, The Truth About Happily Ever After, Searching for Meredith Love, and the Ruby Neptune mystery series, which includes Murder Beyond Words and Murder with Art. A native of New York, she studied painting at Pratt Institute and worked briefly in advertising on Fifth Avenue before she realized that her "creative" job was sucking the life out of her soul. Julie worked as a live-in Au Pair in Brooklyn, taught preschool, and lived in Barcelona and New Mexico before finally going back to school to get her Masters in Audiology. Julie continues to paint (juliechristensen.net) and write (julielivingthedream.blogspot.com). She is currently at work on another Ruby Neptune mystery, due out in 2013.