Julia's most recent work is a novel set in 1988, What a Way to Go which is published by Atlantic Books and in audio by WF Howes in the UK. She has travelled across the UK to talk about the sassy and smart heroine, Harper, including appearances at Hay, Gladstone's Library, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour as well as speaking at author events at many independent bookshops.

In 2007, Julia also wrote a little non-fiction book about inspiration called Muses, which was published by Pocket Essentials. She has worked in the publishing industry across the UK, including a stint as an assistant in a literary agency in Soho, where jobs included sifting submissions from authors each morning which is incidentally how she met her husband.

She now works for The Literary Consultancy as a reader and mentor and as Co-Director of the ‘Being A Writer’ programme which she co-devised with Aki Schilz. She does freelance PR work for independent presses and literary festivals; recent clients include BBC Contains Strong Language/Writing West Midlands/Nine Arches Press, Little Toller and Honno Welsh Women’s Press. She runs careers workshops and facilitates retreats for authors across the UK. As a contributor, she has written content for Agenda, Arts Professional, The Big Issue, PN Review, New Welsh Review, Open Democracy, Resurgence and The Telegraph. 

A keen environmentalist, she sat on the committee for the Schumacher Society for nearly a decade and until 2018, Julia was on the Literature Wales bursary panel, where she helped to award bursaries to both emerging and established writers. In 2021, she was awarded a Diploma in Spiritual Development from the Brenda Davies UK School and is a qualified Analytic-Network Systems Coach and is currently studying with the Wise Goose coaching school. She lives in mid Wales with her husband and two children and in 2023 she will launch in-person writing retreats and writer-in-residencies from her writers’ cabin which is currently under construction.