Sapphire: A Celestial Twist Historical Fiction

About the Book

"Sapphire" takes the reader on a journey through time from a bird's eye view. This is a story based on true events of a family's emigration from North Dakota to New York to Joplin, MO and Tulsa, OK, ending in the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho [Burke, ID]. The novel is full of roller-coaster events and emotion, suspending the reader for a part II story and the history of Wallace, Idaho.

"Sapphire" is a novel style inspired by renowned African-American novelist, Toni Morrison and her novels "Love" and "Home." Sapphire herself, struggles with truth, temptation, and toil leaving the reader on a quest to find the narrator's voice. "Sapphire" is a journey within a journey. The setting is late Nineteenth Century to modern day. This is the first of a two-part collection, true and historical events mashed with fiction. "Sapphire" is a must read for the Twenty-first Century.

About the Author

Julie Lilienkamp resides in beautiful Liberty Lake, near her family in Hayden, Idaho and Spokane, WA. Her grandfather used to say to her mother, “Northern Idaho is God’s country.” That explains her failed attempts to live in other part of the country such as Colorado, California, and even New York, where many writers/artists find their niche. Idaho has allowed the author great escapes into fresh air, beautiful open landscapes, and four extreme seasons. She enjoys family time and her granddaughter, and working outside of writing in sales, tutoring, traveling, teaching, public speaking, and sports entertainment. She considers herself a “chronic starving artist,” mostly due to her giving nature, and jokes she will probably always stay busy with more than one job.

Julie attained her Associate's Degree in Communications with emphasis in English in 2004, from North Idaho College and her Bachelor's Degree in English, Creative Writing in 2012, a late academic bloomer following a career in Banking and raising two children. She now works for the CdA Press, in beautiful Downtown Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She is a second generation Idahoan, and plans to eventually retire to full-time writing in Idaho, within the next 10 years. Ms. Lilienkamp's hobbies are biking, trail running, camping, hiking, snowboarding, traveling, hopes of mountaineering again, interviewing inspiring people in the Pacific Northwest, and mentoring kids whenever possible. You can find and chat with Julie on social sites such as LinkedIn, Skype, and MySpace.

"Sapphire" is her life-long work of art, now in print in its first stage. Plan to see more, along with "Daisy Tails" a children's book, with an adult version of a Beagle's life with her owner/master in epic travels.