Published Novelist, Screenwriter, Theater Director
Who Is Julia Teweles?
Julia Teweles grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the eldest of four sisters.
Her first published work was the article “My Adventures on Lonely Sable Island,” which was published by the National Geographic Society in 1967.
She attended Beloit College in Wisconsin with a double major in Comparative Literature and International Relations, during which time she spent two years studying and working in France. In addition to her B.A. from Beloit, she has a degree from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in French Civilization. She is fluent in French.
After college, she lived in New York City for three years working in the motion-picture industry before moving to Los Angeles in 1977 where she raised private capital for the production of several feature films.
In 1984, her first novel, The Stalker, was published by Zebra Books. It has recently been republished in a new edition/e-book/audiobook by Macabre Ink., an imprint of Crossroads Press, and is available on Amazon.
In 1989, Teweles’ second novel, The Wilds, was published by Dell Books. It was republished by popular demand in 2025 by Fantom Books and Macabre Ink. It is available on Amazon.
Teweles established Roxbury Publishing Company, a respected academic press that published books for the higher-education market. The disciplines she published in were sociology, criminology, criminal justice, women’s studies, gender studies, communication, and political science.
MORE ABOUT JULIA
Teweles has been active as a volunteer and has served on the Board of the Odyssey Theatre and the Board of the Los Angeles League of Women Voters. She coedits the Muleskinner (literary) Journal, directs plays, and is writing a period dramatic TV series. She lives in Los Angeles with her nineteen-year-old chihuahua/terrier.My Books
The Stalker
When teenage Lewis begins working at his father’s creepy old seed factory, he unwittingly unleashes a malevolent spirit that preys upon his family’s deepest fears. To save the people he loves, Lewis must uncover the dark secret binding the ghost to his family before it destroys them all.
The Stalker is a multilayered psychological ghost story in which every member of a troubled family is forced to confront the demons they have spent a lifetime trying to hidefrom.
The Stalker combines the psychological intensity of Psycho and the escalating family horror of The Shining. Like those classics, the novel explores how buried secrets can become more dangerous than any monster.
Publisher: Macabre Ink (2025)
Paperback / E-book / Audiobook
The Wilds
When fourteen teenage campers embark on a wilderness survival trek high in the Sierra Nevada, a savage blizzard transforms their adventure into a nightmare where the survivors can no longer tell whether they should fear the storm, the dark thing that may be stalking them—or what they are willing to do to survive.
The Wilds is Stand by Me when the lights go out—a Lord of the Flies twist for the twenty-first century where the monsters may be real.
Publisher: Macabre Ink (2025)
Paperback
