People in my Neighbourhood: Judy Lawless

By Marcia Perryman

Allow me to introduce another writer with a brand-new book, Being Grace, ready to be bought and read for your pleasure.

Judy Lawless has an interesting story in her own right with love relationships, children, riding a motorcycle, and writing for her own pleasure and now the public. Judy is now settled with her partner, Jim in the Hastings Condominium and describes Hastings as a place where you can meet people easily.

Judy’s book, Being Grace, started as a COVID project with an online writing group who encouraged her to explore novel writing rather than historical research. She presented this group with chapter after chapter and slowly the novel was born. It is a historical romance novel with survival, trauma, family and love.

Judy’s previous writing has included family research after listening to Jim and his mother talk about their family history as they drove down back roads. She has also completed a book about all the residents in Millbrook Manor with historical stories. Both of these books include delightful photographs which bring the stories to life.

Judy Lawless’ story begins in

Brockville, Ontario where she was a surprise baby and the youngest sister. She describes herself as shy, and started reading as a child. Her mother was not a reader and her father was an insurance agent.

Judy went to Algonquin College in Ottawa and graduated as a legal secretary and then moved to Toronto because of employment. She returned to Brockville and worked for the crown attorney. Judy met her husband and lived on a farm north of Prescott and had three children. The relationship deteriorated and Judy headed to St. Lawrence College, Kingston to further study legal administration. She bought a house with her second partner who died of diabetes.

Judy’s story of meeting Jim is another synchronicity in her life. Jim asked her for a ride on a motorcycle and the romance was struck. Judy had her previous partner’s bike and her daughter, who Judy forbade motorcycling as a teenager, gave her mother a motorcycling course so she could ride off into the blue yonder. Judy and Jim lived in Peterborough in a triplex and then a big house until Jim got frustrated

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Proofreading Sarah Stoner with caring for the pool and they moved to Hastings. So the invitation to buy Judy’s book is here. She names herself a Mind Traveler or Freelance Writer and can be reached at www.judylawless.com. Let’s support all of these exciting writers in our community.