J.K. Marlin lives in a cottage across the street from Lake Erie with her gentle husband and brilliant dog. She also loves gardening, art, music, and searching out tid-bits of history.

Marlin set out from seminary to write historical biblical plays for churches. Contemporary Drama Service in Colorado Springs published four of her one act plays, then suggested a musical which they also published: Ruth the Love Story.

She spent her career scripting plays and musicals, and collaborating with other creative minds through all the various aspects of play production.

Over these seven years of the Lazarus saga, human issues arise that call for more time and care than brief blog posts. One was the issue of childhood grief; so Julie wrote a novella, a journal voiced as one of the children of the time traveler Lazarus — How Still Waters Run. This was a free pdf posted and available through a footnote in March 2023 blog posts. It was downloaded more times than the blog has followers. Go figure?