THE WRITING ROOM | Taylor Simonds

Mar 221 min

AN INFINITE PULL: Prologue Sneak Peek!

Surprise! Today was supposed to be a cover reveal day, but you win some and you lose some in the high-stakes world of indie distribution...

Jun 12, 20193 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,...

Jun 11, 20194 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...

Jun 6, 20193 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,...

Jan 17, 20194 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,...

Dec 26, 20183 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!"...

Oct 29, 20187 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...

Sep 3, 20183 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...

Aug 21, 20182 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...

Aug 13, 20183 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...

Aug 12, 20181 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...