Zoe & Sophia is a collaboration of Julie K. Knight and Joan Reitmayer Debow.  Julie does the writing, and Joan pitches many of the ideas and helps with editing.  As with the characters they’ve created, Julie and Joan have been friends for thirty years.  They first met in 1980 in Boston as young mothers of bi-racial children.  Their children are kissing cousins, and now their grandchildren share warm friendships as well. 

Julie was a trial attorney and later a college professor.  Now she devotes herself to full-time writing.  Joan has been in the entertainment industry her entire career.  Although Julie and Joan are recently single women in their fifties, navigating the waters of virtual dating, the stories are fictional.  The settings do reflect some truth in that after Julie moved to New Hampshire, Joan followed suit a few years later, and they do live five miles apart in a sleepy village on a lake.  

Their objective for this project is entertainment with a little philosophy thrown in.   Both women also find that the teachings of of Pema Chodron, the American Buddhist writer, provide a compass for living, especially when people’s lives are falling apart.  It is their hope that everyone will enjoy Zoe & Sophia, but especially those who want to heal and use laughter as a path.