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Jun 12, 2019
3 min

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,...

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Jun 11, 2019
4 min

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...

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Jun 6, 2019
3 min

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,...

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Jan 17, 2019
4 min

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,...

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Dec 26, 2018
3 min

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!"...

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Oct 29, 2018
7 min

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...

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Sep 3, 2018
3 min

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...

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Aug 21, 2018
2 min

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...

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Aug 13, 2018
3 min

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...

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Aug 12, 2018
1 min

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...

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