After graduating from law school, New York Times bestselling author Julie James clerked for the United States Court of Appeals. She then practiced law with one of the nation’ s largest firms for several years until she began writing screenplays. After Hollywood producers optioned two of her scripts, she decided to leave the practice of law to write full-time. Julie’ s books have been listed on the American Library Association’ s Reading List for Top Genre Novels and Booklist’ s Top 10 Romances of the Year, and have been featured as one of Cosmopolitan magazine’ s Red Hot Reads. Julie’ s books have been translated into seventeen languages, and her most recent novels are The Thing About Love, Suddenly One Summer, It Happened One Wedding, Love Irresistibly, and About That Night.