NORMAL, Ill., Oct. 16 -- Illinois State University issued details related to the following event:
Julie Navickas is a multi-award-winning romance author represented by Chip Rice of WordLink, Inc., a TEDx speaker, and host of the Just Write Julie podcast. She writes emotionally rich love stories that blend humor, heartbreak, and hope.
Her Trading Heartbeats trilogy has earned a Literary Global Book Award, five first-place wins from The BookFest Awards, a Clarion Award, and honors from the American Writing Awards.
She is also a senior public relations specialist in external affairs at COUNTRY Financial, where she brings storytelling and strategy together. Navickas also teaches at the college level as an instructor at Illinois State Univers...