Welcome to our mini-series on A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology, which celebrates the writers whose stories are featured in Volume 2 of our yearly anthology.
Today, Julie A. Sellers is sharing what inspired her story “The Takedown.”
Everyone has probably had one of those coworkers—an insufferable individual with a nails-on-a-chalkboard personality that blends utter incompetence with bootlicking and credit stealing. I certainly have, and in truth, I’ve known more than one in my years in the workforce. I’ve often imagined what it would be like if such a detestable colleague finally met his comeuppance. “The Takedown” was inspired by this line of thought as I envisioned poetic justice for all those coworkers.
Julie A. Sellers is the author of the 2023 High Plains Book Award Finalist novel Ann of Sunflower Lane (Meadowlark Press, 2022) and Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables (Blue Cedar Press, 2021). She was the Kansas Author’s Club’s Prose Writer of the Year (2020, 2022, 2023), and the Kansas Voices Contest Overall Winner in Poetry (2022) and Prose (2017, 2019). Julie’s creative prose and poetry have appeared in publications such as Flint Hills Review, Kansas City Voices, 105 Meadowlark Reader, Cagibi, Wanderlust, A Warm Mug of Cozy: Volume 1, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, Unlost, The Very Edge, and Kansas Time + Place.
Julie was born and raised in the Flint Hills near the small town of Florence, Kansas. Those great expanses of tallgrass prairie and reading fueled her imagination, and she began writing at an early age. After living in several states and countries, she is happy to make her home in Atchison, KS.
Website: https://julieasellers.com
Thank you for sending us your story, Julie! We know people will love reading it as much as we have.
In the meantime, don’t forget to order your copy of A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2.
Cendrine & David
