JULIAN GYLL-MURRAY

Another New Year: New Website and Updates

December 16, 2025

End of year update and announcements... including my revamped website!

It’s been a long time.

The last blog post was all about me dedicating myself to posting more regularly. That was many years ago.

This puts me in the category—and there are far too many of us— of authors having a barely-there website and a blog about how they don’t have time to blog. We are legion.

My excuse? You know that quote from Jurassic Park, life finds a way?  Well, the opposite happened: life got in the way.  As is the case for any author trying to balance writing with work and family, time and energy have always been elusive. But, with many fraught years put behind me, I am now optimistic that a particularly difficult part of my life is over. I look to a future with a clearer mind and clearer schedule, and hope that 2026 will bring about a whole new phase of my writing life.

Life will, of course, still get in the way. It does that. But I’m blowing caution to the wind and recommitting anyway. Here’s to 2026 and being a better author, a better blogger. Or here’s to failing far better than I failed the last time, at least.

In this spirit, I finally got my act together to make a proper website, something that represents me and my work. I am genuinely excited about how it looks. I am so happy that the website portrays different parts of me: my fantasy, my thrillers, my short stories, and my love of all things creepy. I love that Dave Reeder, who created the website for me, was able to use imagery from my beloved Sussex and include pictures of my favourite haunts. He was a delight to work with, and I’d recommend Media Made Simple to everyone.
 

More than anything, I’m just relieved that I no longer have to cringe inside when someone tells me that they’ve visited my shoddy website!

In other updates, there’s lots to look forward to in 2026. I am knee deep in brilliant ghost-writing projects that I can’t wait for readers to get their hands on, but I unfortunately cannot discuss them. But I’m also currently writing the finale to the Lost Sect series, and if I work hard enough that will conclude this year, and the largest project of my life will then be over. I am having brilliant fun writing the last instalment, and I hope that this comes across.

It will be sad to say goodbye to that world; it has brought me so much joy. But when one door closes, another opens. I have the next big project to look forward to coming over the horizon. I am currently working with my agent, Euan, to figure out the best next step. Fingers crossed things slot into place, and I have something exciting to announce before too long!

There’s not much else to say apart from the fact that I’ve finally joined Instagram‑please come and say hello! I don’t know what authors actually post: pictures of blank word documents, lattes, the odd cover reveal? Selfies of tearing their hair out? But I’m going to give it a go. Putting the website together has meant that I’ve revisited all my publications so far, and so I’m going to post a string of throwback images, charting my publishing ‘journey’ (shudder). Hopefully this will be a fun way to get into the Instagram game.

From the author who wrote New Year’s Eve—which tells the story of the worst possible New Year’s Eve ever, where someone’s resolution is to commit murder—happy Christmas and New Year, everyone!