An essay Julie wrote for Mother's Day, in honor of her late mom and dad, was published in the May 8th edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Kirkus gives Tell No Lies a starred review and says, "Compton's debut is a taut, tense cautionary tale complete with courtroom drama and a surprise ending."

"Readers will like this debut by a practicing attorney for its fluid prose and insight into the legal system." Library Journal

"It's a compliment to Compton that Tell No Lies bears comparison to Turow's landmark 1987 debut, which has launched numerous imitations if few equals. The prose is solid, the plotting assured, and the characters believable. There's even a marvelous surprise ending." Fort Myers News-Press.

"Compton proves she has real storytelling skills. Tell No Lies' final twist is as stunning as that classic surprise in Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent." South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Compton "does better in getting inside the mind of males than most male writers do in describing the thinking of females." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The UK's Guardian says Tell No Lies is "an absorbing account of an honourable man gradually yielding to multiple temptations," and "a strong debut from a writer who knows her law, and more importantly, can depict the ebb and flow of relationships, the conflict between love and desire and the irresistible urge to self-destruct of a 'man who has everything'."

"[A]n excellent psychological thriller and an extremely polished debut. I will watch Julie Compton's new career with interest..." says Trashionista.

"A real seat-edge thriller packed with the heady ingredients of power, passion, lies, lust and disaster." Peterborough Evening Telegraph.

The novel also garnered a blurb in the UK's Daily Mirror: "Compton adds a very sexy pair of legs to Scott Turow legal thriller territory."

"A seductive debut." Mom Writer's Literary Magazine.

Julie talks about writing from the male point of view at Jungle Red Writers, and about genres with Fiona Veitch Smith at the The Crafty Writer.

Jay McDonald of the Fort Myers News-Press talked to Julie about writing a legal thriller, or not.

Click here for Martha Phifer's Q & A with Julie for the Orlando Sentinel.

Julie was interviewed for the May edition of The Big Thrill, the International Thriller Writers monthly webzine.

For more of a mom's perspective on writing and publishing, check out the interview of Julie by Sue Donckels, managing editor of Mom Writer's Literary Magazine.

Martin Edwards interviewed Julie for Shots Magazine, an online crime and thriller magazine. Read the interview here.

The UK legal site, Law and More, also interviewed Julie. Read it here.

Julie was interviewed about Orlando for the Travel section of the London Telegraph. To read the interview, click here.

Tell No Lies will be released in the UK on February 1, 2008, with the US release to follow a few months later, on May 13.

Rights to publish and translate the novel in the Netherlands have been sold to the Dutch publisher, Unieboek.

The Spanish book club Circulo de Lectores (part of the Random House Mondadori group), has acquired rights to publish and translate the novel in Spain.

Macmillan displayed Tell No Lies at its booth this past October at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. To see a picture of the great display, click over to the October 10, 2007 Notepad entry.

Julie has just started writing a new book column for Lake Mary Life Magazine. The Lake Mary Life Book Club is a new column devoted to books and their readers, but with a decidedly "Lake Mary" flavor. She'll write about what's going on in Lake Mary, Sanford, Heathrow and Longwood as it relates to books, book clubs, literary events, writers, you name it. Check out the first column in next month's Jan/Feb '08 issue.

Ideas for the column? Click on the About Julie page for the link to send her an email.