Julie Ditrich

Julie has a BA in Professional Writing (University of Canberra), and has worked in mainstream publishing as a bookseller, publicist, marketing manager and author. She was a co-coordinator of a children's literary program called ALOUD IN THE PARK and ALOUD IN THE POWERHOUSE for several years, and was employed as publications manager at the Australia... n Society of Authors (ASA) where she commissioned, wrote and edited books and professional papers on authorship. Concurrently, Julie contributed to the Oblagon comics anthology for Kaleidoscope (Australia) and worked as a co-writer on ElfQuest: WaveDancers for Warp Graphics (USA) and the Dart miniseries for Image Comics (USA), which resulted in sales of over 270,000 comics all over the world. During that time, she also ran a clinical hypnotherapy and PSH therapy practice in the Sydney CBD for over 11 years, and later between 2015 and 2018 she became the editor of the Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis. Since 2004, Julie has worked as a freelance writer, editor and publishing consultant. During that time, she ghosted five biographies for Sydney publisher AKA Publishing (This is My Story), and wrote an Australian history coffee table book called Realising the Promise for Icon Visual Marketing. Julie worked as a manuscript assessor and editor on several short stories and graphic novels for Australian writers and publishers, and taught comics and graphic novels at the NSW Writers' Centre, City of Sydney, Broken Hill Library, JMC Academy and the Nepean Mental Health Centre in Sydney. She has been a panelist on various comics sessions run by the South Coast Writers' Centre and the NSW Writers' Centre, and presented workshops on the comics medium at the Gloucester Writers' Festival (Gloucester), ComicsCraft (Dubbo), Central West ComicsFest (Parkes), ComicGong (Wollongong), and Comic Con-versation (Ashfield). Julie was the co-founder of the ASA Comics / Graphic Novels Portfolio and was the co-portfolio holder between 2007 and 2012. Julie has also ...Read More