JUDY HIGGINS
Judy was born in South Georgia where she grew up playing baseball, reading, and taking piano lessons. To pay for her lessons, she raised chickens and sold eggs to neighbors. She attended Mercer University for two years, and then Baylor University from which sheJudy was born in South Georgia where she grew up playing baseball, reading, and taking piano lessons. To pay for her lessons, she raised chickens
JUDY HIGGINS
I’m a Georgia girl, born and raised in the heart of the deep South where crickets sang us to sleep. We ran around barefooted and snuck into our grandfathers’ watermelon patches to steal watermelons. And learned to skin catfish and love boiled peanuts. We knew the proper way to eat corn on the cob and fried chicken. My ambition: to be a famous concert pianist! I raised chickens and sold eggs to neighbors to pay for music lessons. Eventually, I realized I didn’t know diddly about what it took to be a famous concert pianist so I studied German, earning an MA from the University of Michigan. Then I married a Yankee, moved to Massachusetts, and shed my southern accent (yikes!).
Being an avid reader (loved Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy to name two in a very long list of favorite authors), I occasionally considered becoming a writer instead of a concert pianist. My mother told me I didn’t want to be a writer. Uncertain income, she said. I won a slew of student writing awards which gave her bragging rights but didn’t bring about a change of mind on her part. Nope, it was definitely a very bad idea, she said.
Maybe because she told me I didn’t want to be a writer, I decided I did want to be one. So I wrote a book. About a girl growing up in Georgia who wants to be a concert pianist! When The Lady was named a finalist in the Amazon Break-out Novel Contest, I floated on a canopy of clouds for several months, assured that fame and fortune were just around the corner.
I wrote three mysteries, followed by a book about Naomi from the Book of Ruth. After living in Qatar for eight years, I tried my hand at a suspense novel set partially in Saudi Arabia and in Lexington, Kentucky where I now live. Next? A novel with an entertaining mix of fantasy, sex, humor, and suspense. Sign up for my VIP list to get the publication announcement for The Laws of Physics.
I still play the piano. Not as well as I once did, but music will always be one of my greatest loves. My other passion is travel. Favorite city in the world: London. Favorite countries: Myanmar and Nepal. Favorite site: Westminster Abbey. And favorite part of any trip: Coming home to write.
