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COLLATERAL DAMAGE Chapter 2 Sneak Peek!

HI!! STOP!! Your eyeballs are about to look at Chapter 2 of my angry-superhero-movie-background-extras debut novel, COLLATERAL DAMAGE,...

A COLLATERAL DAMAGE Deleted Scene!

If you're familiar with the process of writing at all, you know that the final product that gets published is, uh... not even a little...

15 Hypothetical Scenarios that Would Put Me In Crisis

HI it's me, Taylor, the author of COLLATERAL DAMAGE (out 6/25 through Parliament House). COLLATERAL DAMAGE is a book about a sarcastic,...

The COLLATERAL DAMAGE Official Cover is Here!!!

There's something magical about seeing your book's cover for the first time. Suddenly, everything is real--your characters have faces,...

The Only 2019 Most Anticipated List That Matters

Scene: Me, sitting on my desk chair incorrectly, scrolling through Twitter. "The 50 YA books everyone is going to be reading next year!"...

What Your Favorite Halloween Horror Nights House Says About You

As the spooky season draws to a close, so wanes my interest. This is the problem with living in Florida--when you start Halloween in...

3 Books I Will Never Stop Hyping

So, I recently realized that as a certified Book Person™, I get asked for recommendations pretty frequently, and that my go-to list...

Alexa, play Fall Out Boy.

Writing is hard. In an ideal world, you'd be able to seamlessly transfer whatever scenes you're imagining in your head right onto the...

Superman's Neighbor: How Collateral Damage was Created

This probably goes without saying, given the topic of my upcoming book, but I like superheroes. I like going to the premiere of MCU...

Book Acquisition!

COLLATERAL DAMAGE, my debut novel, has been acquired by Parliament House Press in a single-book deal. This YA novel tells the story of...