I'm a British author and I live in the south-west of England writing, reading, drawing, learning languages and gardening.

I haven't always wanted to be a writer. It didn't even occur to me to try until I was in my forties, but the moment I did, I was hooked. 

I started out with scripts. There are many rules to writing scripts. Brevity is the key, but scriptwriting is a very competitive field, and the Internet was rapidly becoming somewhere where publishing your writing was a possibility, so I turned my hand to writing short stories. The transition made sense, because brevity is the key with short stories, as well. This brought some success. I had stories published in women's magazines (under the pen name of Lily Bond), on a Big Finish Doctor Who CD, in anthologies and online publications and I was placed in one or two small competitions. I found I particularly liked writing very short stories (also known as flash fiction). This is still the case. Towards the end of 2012 I started to experiment with longer pieces of work and independently published several novels and short stories. 

I don't like to restrict myself to one genre. Most of my writing could broadly be called young adult, mainly because of the character ages. However, I have written for an even younger audience, middle grade.

As of 2025, I am gradually removing my books from sale on websites. At present, they are still available on Amazon. There are many reasons for this. I am not going to elaborate upon that other than to say that I believe LLMs are not an author's friend.

Right now, I am writing short stories and poems exclusively, most of which I am publishing first in Italian, on my A Language Learning Tale YouTube channel, and then some of them in English, on my author Youtube channel. There are also readings of some of my older stories on there. You'll find a couple of those at the bottom of the page. The channel is aptly named JulietBoydAuthor and you can find it at: youtube.com/@julietboydauthor.

What's a section about language-learning doing on an author's website? Well, because I'm also a language student and I have a channel about that on YouTube, too.

Languages were always some of my best subjects at secondary school. Everyone, at that time, had to learn French. For my second language, I opted for Spanish. I continued on to A levels and then to what was, at the time, Birmingham Polytechnic, to do a Diploma in Foreign Languages for Business. 

After that, I did go on to use Spanish in my working life for about ten or eleven years. This was mainly typing in the language, but it did enable me to travel to Mexico, Colombia and Spain with my work. However, once I left that work, I never had need of using Spanish again.

Fast forward to December 2020 - you know, those times - and I decided to learn another language to fill the hours. I plumped for Italian and started learning on Duolingo. Within six months I had completed the Duolingo course and had already read my first novel in Italian. I had also started a YouTube channel to document the journey. Since then, I have refreshed my dormant languages and started learning others.

If you're interested in watching my language journey, or starting on one yourself, the channel name is A Language Learning Tale and you can find it at: youtube.com/@alanguagelearningtale.

Although I used to engage on social media channels, I no longer do this. I have deleted many of my social media accounts and only use those that still exist to keep in contact with specific people. Just to be clear, in case you find something with my name, or names related to my YouTube channels, that is posting and reacting to comments, I have no public accounts on X (Twitter), Threads, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Bluesky, Telegram, LinkedIn, Tumblr or Pinterest.

I have also removed my email from this website, because I was getting too much unwanted email. If my decision on this ever changes, I'll put the email here.

If you have enjoyed my writing, or my videos, the best thing you can do to support me in my endeavours is to share these things with people you know, who you think might also enjoy them. 

Thank you so much for your interest.