About
Web content strategist
creative thinker-content curator
web designer
interior designer-stager
social media manager
influencer- online
market guru
a voracious reader
reviewer
book promoter
blogger
Early Childhood
As a child, growing up in the (Southeastern US —Piedmont Region), a native of North Carolina,
Most of the time, you could find her with her nose in a book.
Her favorite childhood pastime—taking books into the woods or somewhere beautiful and peaceful to find solace, a rainy day, or perhaps a porch swing, escaping — caught up in the characters, stories, and dreams, transported to another place or time. (She still enjoys and not a lot has changed).
Shortly thereafter, by the time she was twelve, she was redesigning rooms for her babysitting parents' homes- space planning, interior design, and rearranging their furniture to create balance.
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A vegan, wanderlust
lover of nature- adventure
rustic log cabins- walks in the woods-waterfalls
porch swings- evening breezes-hammocks-rain-
tin roofs - mountains-seaside-islands, travel,
solitude, reading, design, art, architecture,
historic cities, photography, books,
healthy living, cycling, and hiking.
About Judith
Judith D. Collins (Judy) is a media professional with over 40 years of experience in publishing, advertising, media, finance, interior design, hospitality, commercial real estate investments, and online marketing, based in Atlanta, the Carolinas, and Florida.
She started a marketing consulting company sixteen years ago, specializing in web design, web management, development, storyboarding, revenue management, graphic design, SEO, SEM, and content management.
Judith has a variety of hotel, resort, B&B inns, and bestselling New York Times author clients. She facilitates their website design, maintenance, blogs, newsletters, events, tours, social media, and book promotions. Delivering stand-out blogs and newsletters, plus more.
Judith is a super reader and book blogger who loves new and upcoming releases. A fan of fiction: thrillers, psychological, domestic, crime, mystery, suspense; historical, legal, and literary fiction, and non-fiction. (see more below).
She started her popular blog #JDCMustReadBooks in 2014. A Top Reviewer on NetGalley, Goodreads, and other popular book sites. She loves e-books and audiobooks; however, she likes to collect autographed hardcover copies of her favorite authors for her ever-growing home library. She enjoys connecting with authors and fellow book lovers. Her popular monthly newsletters.
In 2018, she introduced the #ElevatorAuthorSeries, #LitLitMiniAuthorChats, and #AudioElevatorSeries, creator and host, featuring monthly Interviews (newsletters) with top-named authors and new book releases. Connecting readers and writers with the behind-the-scenes (author/book).
She resides full-time in West Palm Beach, FL, in a high-rise downtown in the Arts and Entertainment District, overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway and Palm Beach. A lover of South Florida urban living (minus the hurricanes); however, in a perfect world, she would also have a second home in the NC/GA mountains.
An advocate for human rights and justice has an extensive background in fundraising and sponsorships and has served on the boards of directors of top organizations. A lover of nature and the autumn-fall season; scenic views, waterfalls, porches, log cabins, mountains, hammocks, swings, historic towns, rocking chairs, rain, and tin roofs.
She is active across social media; enjoys reading, research, quaint inns, creating, designing, cycling, and hiking (and misses the Big Canoe, GA mountain cabin) and Highlands, NC.
Her favorite thing to do is read at home, with no interruptions. She enjoys listening to audiobooks. She is a lover of solace. A lifelong insomniac, she envies anyone who can sleep restfully. The only music she enjoys is either jazz or soothing nature spa music. Her mind is too busy thinking and creating.
She loves (demands) organization in her business and personal life. A perfectionist, a workaholic— loves anything creative. A true Virgo (and proud of it). A vegan, she is into healthy living and eating, and a must for plant-based cooking. (severe food allergies)
Must-haves: good pillows, luxury bedding, air conditioning (preferably set at 65 degrees year-round), air purifiers, prescription sunglasses, decaf cafe americano or espresso, ultimate organization, a laptop, a tablet, and books.
Where you will never catch her: A shopping mall, a concert, a casino, Black Friday, a buffet, or a cruise.
FAVORITE AUTHORS: You will find authors who appear year after year. See her book blog and interviews for more.
When she is not reading (not much free time since she reads hundreds of books a year and audiobooks /podcasts), she loves binge-watching the following videos/shows (while multitasking):
Pearson, SUITS, Younger, Council of Dads, Bosch, Good Behavior, Schitt's Creek, Ordinary Joe, Will and Grace, This is Us, The Village, Life Itself, Bull, The Good Fight, NCIS New Orleans, The Mentalist, The Affair, Goliath, Virgiin River, The Good Wife, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Great Gatsby, Red Oaks, Greenleaf, Lincoln Lawyer. Queen Sugar, Underground, and The Notebook.
A mother of two grown sons (financial and legal) and "Nana J" to two fabulous grandchildren, Avery and Brady, in North Carolina.
Book Blog
JDC Must Read Books Blog
In 2014, Judith started her first book blog, centered around new and upcoming book releases at #JDCMustReadBooks @JudithDCollins
A top reviewer on NetGalley, Goodreads, B&N, and active on Storygraph, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
Features include Reviews, Top Books of the Month,
Newsletters, Top Books of the Year, #AuthorElevatorSeries #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats and #AudioElevatorSeries.
Genres
Fiction: Adult, suspense, legal, crime, urban noirs, psycho, cop procedural thrillers, and mystery; southern, novellas, short stories, coming of age, contemporary, women's, literary, and historical fiction.
Non-Fiction: Christian, memoirs, biography, literary, autobiography, legal, social, political, travel, business, plant-based cooking- especially vegan and gluten-free, due to allergies as well as integrative medicine.
Not a huge fan of romance, science fiction, gothic, horror, supernatural, or paranormal.
Please contact Judith via her contact page for book review requests, and include a link to the book; if interested, she will respond. She has a full editorial calendar, working with NetGalley,
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