Judy Bagshaw

Judy Bagshaw was a retired elementary school teacher and writer in Southern Ontario, Canada. As a plus-sized woman, she longed to see stories featuring full-figured central characters. Much of her work features such women leading rich and active lives, as she did. Romantic suspense was her genre of choice, but she also wrote humor, some non-fiction... , and childrens stories. Her currently available works include several novels, work in multiple anthologies, and a short story collection. She was also part of the writing team for the Ginn Reading Steps from Pearson Educational, a program widely used in elementary schools. Judy sadly passed away in 2015 but her legacy of size-positive romance novels lives on. Judy Bagshaw describes herself as a woman with a mission and a unique vision. Her mission is to write romantic stories that show plus sized women living rich involved lives. This mission grew out of her own personal struggles living as a large sized person in a world where fat is reviled. It wasnt until her late twenties that she realized that she had wasted a good portion of her time obsessing about her weight and looks. At about this point, she discovered NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a size acceptance organization in the United States. And she experienced an epiphany. She did not have to accept the notion that there was something about her that had to be fixed. She could be acceptable as she was. And she began a journey of self-acceptance that eventually led to her writing career. Part of her involvement with NAAFA was to write a semi-regular column for the SuperSIG (special interest group for Supersized members) newsletter. Some of these articles can be found here. Writing has always been a part of Judys life, but it became a serious pursuit when Judy reached her mid-thirties. She started taking writing classes and one summer stumbled upon an ad for a publisher seeking plus-sized romances. So she sat down and wrote one. I can remember a writing instructor telling me ...Read More