Julie Grayson is a story architect and a word sorceress based in Loveland, Colorado, where the mountain vistas rival the drama of her plot twists. Once a corporate wordsmith who focused on creating business policies and best practices, she learned to make compliance manuals read like cliffhangers. She escaped the fluorescent-lit maze of the corporate world in 2011 to return to school and write full time.
Now, with nearly a decade and a half of storytelling under her belt, she crafts vibrant worlds across genres—from satirical fantasy with laugh-out-loud endings to sci-fi thrillers that quicken your pulse and horror tales that linger long after the last page. These days, she builds narratives for herself and others—for fun, for pay, and for the sheer joy of bending words to her will.
After suffering from a traumatic brain injury in June of 2020 (caused by a massive pulmonary embolism that stopped her heart for forty-three minutes), she still believes anything worth doing is worth doing well. It is this mantra that’s fueled her self-publishing journey of over thirty books. Her work spans fiction and deeply personal nonfiction, including raw explorations of raising Irish twins and navigating the profound grief of child loss.
When not penning her next page-turner, Julie’s cheering louder than the coaches for her beloved Washington Capitals, Texas Rangers, and Green Bay Packers (in that order). She’ll always bet on the underdog, will often dive into genealogy rabbit holes to resurrect forgotten family stories, and casually drop some ASL (sign language) into conversations—a skill honed through three years of college courses (and a dash of stubborn self-teaching). Road trips to towns with bizarre landmarks and curating a DVR graveyard of shows she’ll “totally watch someday” are a few of her hobbies, alongside mentoring her 14-year-old in the fine art of sarcasm.
At home, she’s surrounded by her saintly husband, Aaron; and two feline critics, General Binx and Captain Ovechkin, who silently judge her life choices like furry little gargoyles from their fridge-top throne.
Julie Grayson is a story architect and a word sorceress based in Loveland, Colorado, where the mountain vistas rival the drama of her plot twists. Once a corporate wordsmith who focused on creating business policies and best practices, she learned to make compliance manuals read like cliffhangers. She escaped the fluorescent-lit maze of the corporate world in 2011 to return to school and write full time.
