Works by
Julia Watts
(Writer)

• Wildwood Flowers (1996)
  When Bev's lover, Andie, receives an assistant professorship at a Christian-affiliated college, Bev does her best to be supportive. Before she and Andie are even unpacked, a nosy neighbor is at the door with a welcoming cake and a basket full of personal questions.

• Phases of the Moon (1997)
  Growing up dirt poor in a Kentucky coal mining camp in the 1940s has made Glenda Mooney hungry for everything that life has to offer. She discovers early on the two vital forces that will sustain her throughout her life, music and love... in the arms of a preacher's daughter.

• Piece of My Heart (1998)
  Okay, you're a lesbian. Now what??? That's the question that newly out Kentucky graduate student Jess Hamlin tries to answer in this heart warming and hilarious account of her southern days and nights.  From making and losing acquaintances, to finding and keeping real friends.  Through bars and coffee houses, school and work.  Surviving family drama and ex-lover trauma.  Dealing with well-intentioned matchmakers and dates from hell.  Having crushes and getting crushed.  Coping -- and sometimes not coping.  Falling in lust and, slowly, exquisitely, surrendering to love.  In other words, all the stuff that dreams -- and real lesbian lives -- are made of.

• Wedding Bell Blues (1999)
  When Lily's lover, Charlotte, is killed in a tragic car accident, Charlotte's homophobic family threatens to exert their legal rights and seize custody of their daughter's biological child, Mimi. Grief-stricken over the loss of her lover, Lily vows to do anything she can to keep from losing her beloved daughter too. The solution? A marriage of convenience to her Bugle Boy-wearing, trust fund-spending gay neighbor, Ben -- and a quick move to Ben's hometown in rural Georgia where his powerful family will ensure that their new 'daughter-in-law' gets custody of Mimi. Provided, that is, that the two can convince Ben's parents that their marriage is the real thing. Living as a married couple, Lily and Ben soon discover the outrageous perks and pitfalls of compulsory heterosexuality. Determined to keep up appearances in order to keep her child, Lily ignores her own inner needs -- until a beautiful country veterinarian offers her a prescription for some sexual healing.

• Finding H. F. (2001) -- Winner of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Children/Young Adults
  Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American South awakens both teens to the realization that there is a life waiting for them that is very different from what they have known and that the concept of family is more far-reaching than they had ever imagined.

• Mixed Blessings (2001)

• Women's Studies (2006) -- Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
  It is the fall semester of 1990, and three students - all with the first name of Elizabeth - are on the roll for Professor Angela Rivers' Women in Literature course at William Blount University. Like so many college students, each of these "Elizabeths" is on a journey of self-discovery which will determine the course of the rest of her life.
  
  With humor and heart, Women's Studies follows one school year in the lives of these three young women and shows that in college, one's extracurricular activities are often much more educational than what goes on in the classroom. Funny and romantic, sexy and insightful, Women's Studies captures a time in women's lives which is full of freedom, passion, and discovery.

• The Kind of Girl I Am (2007 release)

Other

• Once upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians (2004) by Barbara Johnson, Julia Watts, Karin Kallmaker, and Therese Szymanski -- Finalist 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

• Bell, Book and Dyke (2005) by Barbara Johnson, Julia Watts, Karin Kallmaker, and Therese Szymanski

• Stake Through the Heart New Exploits of Twilight Lesbians (2007) by Barbara Johnson, Julia Watts, Karin Kallmaker, and Therese Szymanski