Elia Mirca spent her childhood in the Romanian village Neustadt, which is called Noiştat in the local language and Noul in some dialect. Later she moved with her family to the United States, where she lived for a short time in Boston and then moved to Germany, where she finished her degree in mathematics. After working some years as a software engineer for aerospace companies, she decided to follow her inner voice and her passion to write. To finance this, she took a job as a teacher, which also offered her the opportunity to teach at various schools in Asia. In a course at the University of Queensland, Australia, she learned to know and love that country. Most of her time she spends in Brisbane interrupted only by occasional visits to California. A word about my books: After a friend read the first version of "Julie's Passion" he turned back to me saying: "Never judge a book by it's cover. Or in your case, by the first impression". Yes, my books are about sex, erotics, love and some kind of romance. But if one dives deeper into them other topics become the golden thread: psychology and the way we communicate. The way Juliane (or later Julie) makes her way through the world is one I call the "Bonobo way". Don't know about Bonobos? The are a kind of apes, close to chimpanzees. Other than the latter Bonobos solve any conflict through sex and tenderness. They even communicate by having sex. Chimpanzees solve conflicts violently. Humans share both sets of genes with these primates. So we can choose how we solve our problems. What way wins?