About Me

Wethersfield, Connecticut author Judith K. Ivie

No matter what other work I happened to be doing, I have always been a writer. A lifelong Connecticut resident (except for my flower child period, when I lived in California), I have directed public relations for nonprofit organizations, written advertising copy for an insurance company, promoted national tradeshows for the design and construction industry, and served as executive assistant to several top executives, among my many, many day jobs. So if you, too, live in Connecticut, chances are excellent that we've met!

Along the way, I also produced three nonfiction books, as well as numerous articles and essays. My focus is primarily on work issues, such as two-career marriages, workaholism, and midlife career changes, that affect us all. Second editions of Calling It Quits: Turning Career Setbacks to Success and Working It Out: The Domestic Double Standard are available from Whiskey Creek Press in trade paperback and downloadable electronic formats.

A couple of years ago, I broadened my repertoire to include fiction. A romantic novella, Don't Say Goodbye to Love, and my first mystery, Waiting for Armando, were published by Wings ePress in 2006. Murder on Old Main Street, the sequel to Armando, is set entirely in my home town of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  It is available as of October 2007 from Wings ePress.

Whatever the genre, I strive to provide lively, entertaining reading that takes my readers away from their work and worries for a few hours, stimulates thought on a variety of contemporary issues-and gives them a laugh along the way.

Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary benefits from every book sale.  The protection and humane treatment of all animals is important to me.  I wish I were rich and could donate pots of money to all of the worthy groups working in this area, but like most people, my means are lilmited. Still, one does what one can. For me, that means keeping my day job to pay my bills and donating the proceeds from every paperback book sale to Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary, a Connecticut rescue organization. The dedicated staff and volunteers of Our Companions are working hard to create homes for the state's most abused, most neglected, and neediest pets. Today, they offer dog training classes, one-to-one pet consultations, community education, and many other services to deal with and prevent pet abandonment. 

In the works is a comprehensive Pet Resource Center, which will include a domestic animal sanctuary on 43 acres of donated land. At the sanctuary every animal will be saved from destruction and receive special care. Once healed, they'll become great candidates for adoption into loving, permanent homes.  If you’d like to learn more, please visit www.OurCompanions.org for complete information.