GSFE Newsletter-May 2022

Also last month, we had an educational workshop conducted by Angelique
Mac Arthur. We learned a lot from her workshop. She provided valuable tips
and references. All registered attendees received a copy of all her tips and
references and recorded session of the workshop. What a valuable workshop!
Thank you, Angelique.
This month, we are delighted to feature one of our new members, Julie
Belmont.
Julie Belmont grew up in Madrid, Spain. From an incredibly early age, she
showed signs of a creative calling. Julie’s parents supported and nurtured her
artistic interests and budding talent with their regular visits to the beautiful
and historical Prado Museum officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado.
There she wandered the galleries and open her heart and mind to the
great works of the Masters. This led to a continued love to explore her own
creative endeavors. Later her family moved to Toronto, Canada to be close
to her older sister and her husband. Attended school starting in fifth grade,
where not only she immersed herself in the academics while learning two
new languages, English and French, simultaneously. Even though the years
have passed, and her French is not fluent, she believes she recalls enough
French to keep her from starving if she visits Montreal or France.
Julie has been a freelance writer and artist for over 25 years. Her creative
path has always been there, even when taking detours. Her background has
encompassed a variety of professions from modeling and acting. Becoming
Canada’s First Poster Girl, with four International Posters which shared the
walls with her contemporary Farrah Fawcett and other glamorous celebrities
of the day--to attending the Police Academy at Golden West College in
Orange County and obtaining employment as a law enforcement officer at an
Orange County City. This later led her to work as a private investigator.
One of her greatest creations is her daughter, now an adult in her thirties.
When her daughter was about seven years old, Julie’s husband decided
to ask for a divorce. She became a single mom overnight, and with the exhusband
eluding his financial responsibilities and leaving the country, she had
to fend for herself and raise her daughter on her own. Julie’s determination
to keep herself and her daughter in an affluent area in Southern California
directed her to maintain three jobs at once for a time. She managed to work
as a private investigator specializing in Workmen’s Compensation Fraud
cases, interpreting legal documents, and court proceedings, and working as
an executive assistant for a Fruit and Nut Broker in Laguna Beach. Of course,
her primary responsibility remained to her daughter, she had a great support
system of friends who helped her from time to time to pick up her daughter
from school if she ran late while working on a case. Most of the time she
was there to pick her up, and never missed any of her daughter’s recitals, or
other after-school activities. After enjoying a nice dinner, she would draft her
investigative reports while overseeing her daughter doing homework. After
her daughter went to sleep, Julie would switch her mindset and embark on
her fiction writing in order to feed her creative muse.
Angelique
Mac Arthur
Julie Belmont
Currently, she is an author, artist, editor, digital designer, and creativity
consultant/coach. She loves to empower others to follow their talents and
bring their projects to fruition. Her body of work encompasses articles, blog
posts, a monthly column, some under her name and others under her nom
de plume Jennifer Rogers, and ghostwriting. Julie has authored non-fiction
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