Julie Kramer is a freelance news producer for NBC's Today show, Nightly News, and Dateline. Prior to that she was a national award-winning investigative producer for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. Julie grew up along the Minnesota-Iowa state line, fourth generation of a family who raised cattle and farmed corn for 130 years. Her favorite childhood days were spent waiting for the bookmobile to bring her another Phyllis A. Whitney novel. An avid reader, she tired of fictional TV reporters always being portrayed as obnoxious secondary characters who could be killed off whenever the plot started dragging. So her debut thriller, STALKING SUSAN, features a TV reporter as the heroine and takes readers inside the world of television news. She lives with her husband and sons in White Bear Lake, MN. From Journalist to Novelist: My Debut Story Author Faces Camera for the First Time My favorite crime reporter, Caroline Lowe, profiled me for their late news. Being on the other side of the interview was a freaky experience, but I must have done alright, because WCCO-TV won the ratings that night and even went up at the quarter hour. Caroline Lowe's Crime Scene Blog The Big Thrill: Author Q & A