Melody Taylor planned on training wild mustangs to ride in the circus for a living, but realized at a young age that might not be the best career option. So she began to write. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, horse and three cats. She is currently working on her next novel.
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I've been writing since I was eleven and first realized that books came from crazy people like me writing their ideas down.
I never went to school, deciding when college became an option that an aspiring novelist could teach herself everything she needed to know, and avoid student debt at the same time. I still haven't decided if that was a great decision or not.
I set out to read as many books about writing as I could find, joined every critique group that existed in my area, and took as many classes from the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis as I could attend. I also read in my genre as much as I could, and other genres as well.
My first two books were not very good.
But I improved.
My major influences include Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Kelly Armstrong, P.N. Elrod, Terry Windling, Charles De Lint, James Allan Gardner, and Joan D. Vinge.
Birth Place
La Crosee, WI La Crosse
Additional Information
I recently finished the rough draft of my next book, a sequel to my faerie story "A Dark and Twisting Road." I'm hoping to have it edited and released sometime this summer!
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