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Juliette Godot

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Juliette Godot is an American author of the historical fiction novel, FROM THE DROP OF HEAVEN.[1] A lifelong genealogist, Godot has nearly 40,000 ancestors cataloged in her family tree. Her debut novel was published in August 2022 by Brown Posey Press, a subsidiary of Sunbury Press. The story is based on the lives of her twelfth-generation great-grandparents from Lorraine, France , and is set during the Renaissance.

Awards

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Royal Palm Literary Awards Gold Medal

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2021 Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Award Gold Medal for unpublished historical fiction.[1]

Sunbury Press SUNNY AWARD

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2021 Sunny Award for the Brown Posey Press imprint of Sunbury Press[2]

The Historical Fiction Company Awards

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2022. Book of the Year Awards Honorable Mention[3]

2022. 5-Star Highly Recommended Award of Excellence[4]

Chanticleer International Book Awards

2024 Chaucer Award Finalist

Personal Life

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Juliette Godot was born in 1962 near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was raised on her family’s 100-year farm and had a Catholic school education. Juliette received her bachelor’s degree from Geneva College, a private Christian liberal arts college, in Beaver Falls, PA. She worked as a software engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

From childhood, Juliette wondered about her unusual name and began a lifelong genealogical quest to find her roots. Though she never found any royal blood, she has found many noteworthy characters. Her education including differing perspectives on the same historical texts added significant insights when researching the Renaissance.

Juliette has been married since 1985, has two children, and four grandchildren (so far). She enjoys painting and tending to her garden.

References

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  1. ^ "Royal Palm Literary Awards History". www.floridawriters.org (Click 2021 Royal Palm Literary Awards to open a PDF of the winners from that year). p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  2. ^ "2022 Sunny Award". Sunbury Press Bookstore. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  3. ^ "HFC Book Awards | The Historical Fiction Company". The Hist Fic Company. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  4. ^ Marley, D. K. (2022-10-26). "What Defense to An Accusation of Heresy? - an Editorial Review of "From the Drop of Heaven"". The Hist Fic Company. Retrieved 2023-11-16.

5. Mechlenburg Sun, Clarksville, VA, print newspaper (2024-3-20) “Author With Clarksville Ties in running for fiction award.”