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I’m delighted to announce that my first full-length science fiction novel, The Curiosity Killers, will be released by Dog Star Books in 2016. Dog Star is the science fiction imprint for Raw Dog Screaming Press, home to Stoker Award winners and all-around amazing writers, scholars, and imaginative folks. I am honored to be in such good company.

Fellow newly-Dog Star-ified author J.L. Gribble (Steel Victory) covered my book’s acquisition on her own blog recently, where earlier in the month she completed the Confessions of a Writer Tag survey. I’ll be blogging my own answers to those questions in batches over the next few days to celebrate The Curiosity Killers.

While I will obviously acknowledge these folks and more in my book itself, I want to take a big of space here to give special thanks not only to the aforementioned MC Scribble Gribble but also to Heidi Ruby Miller and Tim Waggoner for helping me get this book in great shape, all my critique partners (Todd, Chris, Crystal, Anna, Carrie, and Jen), members of my old writing group who read bits of this in its infancy (Steve, Mike, and Cynthia), and my husband Tom, the editing guru, for being willing to do a continuity edit on what is admittedly a very convoluted time travel knot. Tom is single-handedly responsible for helping me remain paradox free!

Huge, huge thanks, too, to Dog Star’s delightful Jennifer Barnes for taking a chance on this book. I’m excited to see what the future holds.

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I have fairly exciting other publication news going on as well. My Kindle exclusive “Method Writing” is doing great and will soon be my very first audiobook, available through Audible on Amazon and iTunes. The ebook is still only 99 cents (free for Kindle Unlimited customers). More news on the audio when it’s all done.

A brand-new second edition of Grinning Cracks, my short story collection, is coming out in November. As a teaser, here’s an excerpt from the back-copy blurb:

Thirty-five short works filled with the upsetting and uncanny, from the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series (Alliteration Ink) and the horror novella We Shadows Have Offended (Etopia Press). This newly revised and updated second edition includes eight pieces not found in the first release, featuring the never before published stories “The Apple Box,” “Colleagues,” and the poems “Floater” and “Il Necromantiosmo.” Taylor reimagines both classic, familiar fairytales and superstitions (“Abaddon,” “The Apple Box,” “Rabbit Rabbit,” “Trichotomy”) and a sequence of Breton folk stories (“The Ankou,” “Bugul Noz,” “Dahut and the Destruction of Ys,” “Gradlon,” “Iannic-ann-ôd,” “The Korrigan,” “Les Lavandières,” “The Lovers,” “The Morgen,” and “Yan-Gant-Y-Tan”). She experiments with surrealist science fiction (“Alter Ego,” “Arcus Senilis,” “Encounter,” “Eden”) as well as gruesome body horror (“Ornithology,” “Pseudanor”), crime noir (the multi-chapter “Christmas Wrapping”), and a literary fiction cycle based on the concept of the four humors of Hipprocratic medicine (“Choleric,” “Melancholic,” “Phlegmatic,” and “Sanguine”).

This one should be out well before holiday shopping time in trade paperback and (for the first time) Kindle edition. I’m planning an audio version of this as well but it may be abridged and a 2016 release. A few other things are in the priority queue ahead of that, but I think you’ll be excited about what they are.