Judith Edna Earley
was born & raised in Dayton, Ohio 
& recently returned to the buckeye
state after living in Southern California
for twenty years. She graduated from
 the University of Southern California
with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism
& holds a California Multiple-Subject
Teaching Credential & Master
of Education degree from
Concordia University.

Her writing credits include hundreds
of magazine, newspaper, & web-content
pieces published in national, regional,
& trade publications.  She authored
The Forest for the Trees, an original
full-length screenplay optioned for
direct-to-video production. 

Eight to Five, her first novel, is set in 
Venice,a fictional suburb of Dayton, 
and is based on her personal experiences
as a marching band geek in high
school & college.  The manuscript 
was a finalist in the St. Martin’s
Press Malice Domestic Best First
Mystery Novel Competition under
the title of Lyre, Lyre.

Eight to

 Book.