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Authors Electric is an interesting and varied collective of professional writers, formed in summer 2011. Julia joined that autumn and has contributed on the 9th of every month ever since.
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The Authors Electric collective is an interesting and varied group of professional writers, formed in the summer of 2011; Julia joined that autumn, and since then she has been consistently posting - on the 9th of each month - on the AE blog:
Julia’s Posts
2026
January 2026 “An Editor’s Day Out”
February 2026 “Don’t mention the … horizontal bricks?”
March 2026 “'which human hands have made' - PD and the fitting out season”
April 2026 “My Friend, in Life and Fiction”
May 2026 “The Mystery Box – a prison or a refuge?”
June 2026 “No shit, Sherlock!”
July 2026 “Barnacle Goose, her story”
2025
January 2025 “Will the door just open and you walk in?”
February 2025 “For what little time there might be left to them, they frolicked”
April 2025 “A Country Burglary”
May 2025 “My Voice or AI Nothers?”
June 2025 “In Praise of Little White Ponies”
July 2025 “Trick or Treat: Margery Allingham’s first novel”
August 2025 “The End of Term at Dorland House 31.7.2025”
September 2025 “Publishing ‘A Story of Hope’”
October 2025 “Republishing ‘The Tuesday Boys’”
2024
January 2024 “Why Would You Vote For Peter Duck? You don’t have to”
February 2024 “A Week of Three Libraries”
March 2024 “How To Live with the End in Mind: Wendy Mitchell’s Choice”
April 2024 “Margery Allingham - and knitting? Casting on a summer mystery”
June 2024 “Everlasting Flowers: a concert for Francis Palgrave”
July 2024 “Navigating by the Stars”
August 2024 “The Adventure That Didn’t”
September 2024 “Deaf in High Places? Still hoping for the success of the UK COVID Inquiry
October 2024 “Every Story Matters”
2023
January 2023 “Solo Yachtgirl Lost from Records”
February 2023 “Emotional Geography - a thank you tale for Alexa and Johnney”
March 2023 “Wasted Journeys to Westminster”
April 2023 “Hush! Most Secret! De-censoring a wartime memoir”
May 2023 “A Request — for human Kindness sake”
June 2023 “As True a Picture as Possible”
July 2023 “Ou Est le Capitaine?”
August 2023 “Goodbye Goldenray”
September 2023 “Is anyone shooting at me? Surprise lessons from an Ocean Race”
October 2023 Jan Needle — an Appreciation re posted as an Obituary
October 2023 “His Own Little Ship”
November 2023 “A Post Traumatic Tale”
December 2023 “1000 words a day leaves little more to say”
2022
Jan 2022 “This Week (just passed)”
Feb 2022 “Suffolk and the Sea (and in Jubilee month as well)”
Mar 2022 “By the time you read this I'll be...”
May 2022 “Twelve hours and several lifetimes: a day sail on the Deben with books”
June 2022 “Event Cancelled? Not if we can help it.”
July 2022 “A Ditty Locker for the Yachtsmen Volunteers”
August 2022 “Lionesses of the Sea”
September 2022 “Strong Winds and Sponsorship”
2021
Jan 2021 “The Snow Goose & the Dorrien Rose”
Feb 2021 “‘I'm leaving you all my books - except the dirty ones’”
Mar 2021 “Not Another Episode!”
Apr 2021 “2021, Daffodils Denied”
May 2021 “The Dead Can't Give Permission”
Jun 2021 “Publications or Proceedings?”
Jul 2021 “Festivals - words fail me”
Sep 2021 “‘Out of my knowledge’ – sailing with John Clare”
Oct 2021 “Our Fathers: Or, How One Thing Might Lead to Another”
Nov 2021 “What God Said (or why I enjoy writing programme notes)”
2020
Jan 2020 “For the Blessed Virgin Mary and other (unmarried) Mothers”
Feb 2020 “(while writing) Intelligent Irregulars”
Mar 2020 “Travellers' Tales: Jan de Hartog is a Liar”
Apr 2020 'The delirious joy of not being dead'
Jul 2020 “From a Publishing House”
Sep 2020 “Johns Campaign v. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care”
2019
Jan 2019 ‘He thought of the noise of the wind in the shrouds…’
Feb 2019 “Secret Water, eighty this year”
Apr 2019 “Poignant Publication Days”
May 2019 “The possible perils of fact”
Jun 2019 “Cold War Child: hearing what wasn't said”
Jul 2019 “On First Looking into The Cruel Sea”
Aug 2019 “That Festival Feeling”
Sep 2019 “So, where were you on September 3rd?”
Oct 2019 “The Pull of the Deben”
Nov 2019 “A blog for Schicksalstag 2019: 3 rededications for Hitler’s ‘piece of kitsch’”
2018
Jan 2018 "To be left someone's books is a wonderful thing."
Feb 2018 "Premium Patients" and the septuagenarian NHS”
Mar 2018 “Thank you for the music”
Apr 2018 “Drawing out the stories”
Jun 2018 “The Domesday Book of John's Campaign pledges 2015-2018”
Jul 2018 “You Want One of These: a tale of three bits of paper (the Preferred Place of Care form)”
Aug 2018 “Adventures without adults”
Sep 2018 "Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark / The beggars are coming to town"
Oct 2018 “Goldenray and ‘Goldenray’: a tale in two hemispheres”
Nov 2018 “Go with the flow. Three days away”
2017
Jan 2017 "My Name is Jones...George Jones"
Feb 2017 “It's about knowing when to stop”
Mar 2017 “The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home”
May 2017 “Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen's Manifesto for the Novel”
Jun 2017 “NOT Forgotten Lives: Felixstowe 2017”
Jul 2017 “NOT Forgetting Life-Writers: Felixstowe 2017”
Aug 2017 “Her is me: a tale of two Trac(e)ys”
Sep 2017 “Sometimes I have to Pinch Myself: in praise of medical innovations”
Oct 2017 “No Letters Please -- for Andrea Sutcliffe and others”
Nov 2017 “Not whingeing or drowning: women writers on board”
2016
Jan 2016 “Don't Mention the War”
February 2016 “The NHS Constitution - a Must Read?”
March 2016 “Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it”
April 2016 “In Praise of Daffodils”
May 2016 “Anyone can be an artist - can they?”
June 2016 “Work in progress, no (good) end in sight”
July 2016 “ABDUCTED AND INCARCERATED!!”
Aug 2016 “An Elegy Written for a Country Church”
2015
January 2015 “Unlocking the Hard Word Box”
February 2015 (post date used to mark death of Pauline Fisk)
March 2015 A Thunderclap - or two
April 2015 “We are not in Purdah!”
May 2015 “Unlocking the Word Hoard”
June 2015 “Oh, it's the 'Orfer!"
July 2015 “Reflections on Black Waters”
August 2015 “What to write about when all you want to do is go sailing”
October 2015 “Antarctica from Suffolk Mud”
2014
January 2014 “Tales from the Marshes”
February 2014 “In Praise of Picture Books”
Jan Needle writes on The Lion of Sole Bay
April 2014 “No LSD on my Kindle”
June 2014 “My uncle the editor - a five star review”
July 2014 “Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?”
August 2014 “Listening to the Salt-Stained Book”
September 2014 “I wish I could write a Short Story”
October 2014 “A Tale of Three Festivals”
November 2014 “X marks the legacy”
December 2014 “John's Campaign -- and June's and 800,000 more”
2013
January 2013 “Comparing Accounts"
February 2013 “Margery Alligham: After the Afterword"
March 2013 “Arcadia on the East Coast of England"
June 2013 “Anyone for History?"
July 2013 “Why do you flap your hands in front of your face?"
August 2013 “Just Add Children"
September 2013 “Stop Press it's the CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition"
October 2013 “Scary Stories - but it's the writer who's afraid"
November 2013 “Strong Winds and Common Sense"
December 2013 “Goodbye Great Age of Print & Farewell Herbert Allingham”
2012
January 2012 “Season's Greetings from YouGov, FutureBook and Julia Jones"
February 2012 “Making ebooks visible - Happy Birthday Mr Dickens"
April 2012 “He wrote all his life, he wrote for the Million - but was he an author?"
May 2012 “They Took His Life and Threw it on a Skip"
June 2012 “Relating to Ransome"
July 2012 “The Duck, the Hippo and the Goblin"
August 2012 “Should I stop reading?"
September 2012 “This book is for …”
October 2012 “Mother Love - the story of a story"
In November 2012 I wrote a blog post called Sparkles which was my notes towards the anthology that eventually became SPARKS. Somehow in one of my late-night finger-tangling panics I managed to delete it from the site. ...