About Julie Golston
Author Julie Golston's Journey
I'm Julie Golston—writer, advocate, and perpetual questioner of systems. My work explores transformation at every scale: personal, systemic, and cosmic.
After a decade in crisis intervention and refugee protection, I was DOGE'd in February 2025. Now I'm discovering that unemployment might be the most creative catalyst—building Chrome extensions with code skills from the 90s, writing mythology that questions everything, and proving that career pivots are really just plot twists.
I write to reveal the patterns we accept as unchangeable. Sometimes that's helping teen girls navigate relationships safely. Sometimes it's Norse gods discovering they're parasites. Sometimes it's consciousness itself keeping documentation. The thread connecting everything: transformation begins when we recognize our cages.
Currently in Southern California, building tomorrow while applying for today, painting mathematical proofs when time allows, and discovering that losing everything might be the only way to find what you're meant to create.
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Documentation November 2025
What starts as a thriller about disappearances becomes something stranger when patterns reveal documentation rather than predation. Currently seeking representation.
At the Well of Urd
A philosophical Norse mythology where the Norns discover their perfect system is killing everything it was meant to protect. Launching on the Fall Equinox, when balance becomes choice. The beginning of an accidentally-connected trilogy about consciousness recognizing itself.
Norns: Weavers in Nordic Mythology
Experience the Norns through vivid retellings, from their daily ritual of watering Yggdrasil to their encounters with Odin, Thor, and even the trickster Loki. Each chapter includes "A Deeper Weave" sections that explore the historical, linguistic, and philosophical meanings behind the myths, while maintaining the narrative magic that has kept these stories alive for over a thousand years
"Things I Want My Daughter to Know About Dating"
A guide for teen girls navigating relationships, born from years of crisis intervention work. Because young women deserve truth before they learn it the hard way.
Building in Code
Returning to programming after 20 years (started with C when pointers were terrifying, learned multimedia with LINGO when Peter Small was teaching emergence). Currently developing Chrome extensions and discovering that understanding memory allocation makes modern JavaScript feel like cheating.
WRITING
Fiction:
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The Documentation - November 2025 Release
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At the Well of Urd (September 2025)
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Norns: Weavers of Fate in Nordic Mythology - selected for Apple Books audio narration
Non-Fiction:
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Things I Want My Daughter to Know About Dating (Available now)
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Articles on systemic transformation and consciousness
