Cally Taylor

Cally Taylor is an award-winning English author of chick lit published by Orion Publishing Group, and more recently, a Sunday Times Bestselling author.[1] As C.L. Taylor, she publishes psychological thrillers through HarperCollins.

Biography

Taylor was born in Worcester and obtained her degree in Psychology from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle-on-Tyne. After graduating, she moved to London for two years and then spent 13 years in Brighton, where she began to write. She worked as a graphic designer, web developer, and instructional designer. She now lives in Bristol, with her partner and their son, and writes full-time. Taylor is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Crime Writers' Association.

Work

Taylor began writing short stories in 2005. In 2006 she won two short story competitions, the Helen Mullin Awards and the Bank Street Writers competition, and was also runner-up in the Woman's Own short story competition.[2] She has had numerous stories published in women's magazines and newspapers including the Sunday People [3] and the Sunday Express.[4]

Taylor's debut novel, Heaven Can Wait, won the Pink Thong Award for Best Debut in the Chicklit Club 2009 awards and was the first book ever to score ten out of ten in the club's rating system.[5]

Her second novel, Home For Christmas, was made into a film by JumpStart Productions, directed by Jamie Patterson, and starring Lucy Griffiths, April Pearson, Karl Davies, Derren Nesbitt, Amanda Piery and Shirley Jaffe [6]

Her third novel, The Accident, sold over 150,000 copies in the UK alone and reached number 3 in the Amazon UK Kindle Chart.[7] The BookSeller magazine named The Accident 'One of the Top Ten Bestselling Debuts of 2014'.

Her fourth novel, The Lie, ranked at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller charts in the first full week of publication[1] and remained in the top 20 for five weeks. It also hit the number one spots on Amazon.co.uk Kindle, Kobo, Google Books, iBooks and Sainsbury ebooks and took the number 2 spot below The Girl On The Train[8] in The Bookseller Official E-Book Sales Ranking for May 2015.[9] The Lie was shortlisted for two Dead Good Books Reader Awards in 2015: Most Recommended Read[10] and Most Exotic Location.[11]

Taylor's novels have been published in the UK, US, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Taiwan, France, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam, Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic and Macedonia.[12]

Taylor is represented by Madeleine Milburn, formerly of Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency, and now head of Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV and Film Agency.

Bibliography

Chick lit

Heaven Can Wait (2009)

Home For Christmas (2011)

Psychological thrillers

The Accident (2014)

The Lie (2015)

"The Missing" (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 The Weekly Charts. Review Magazine. The Guardian. 9 May 2015
  2. ↑ viewed 21.3.15
  3. ↑ Taylor CL (2015) The Curtain Twitcher. Sunday magazine. 26 April 2015 p 28
  4. ↑ CL Taylor (2015-04-26). "Goodbye My Lover: Short story by The Lie author CL Taylor | Books | Entertainment | Daily Express". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  5. ↑ viewed 21.3.15
  6. ↑ viewed 21.3.15
  7. ↑ Walters HM (2015) A writer with two heads. Writer's Forum #162 p 7
  8. ↑ Tivnan Tom (2015) The Lie fails to derail Hawkins' train. The Bookseller 3 July 2015. p 12
  9. ↑ Official E-Book Sales Ranking. The Bookseller. 3 July 2015 p13
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150615010240/http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/vote-dead-good-recommends-2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150615023932/http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/exotic-location-award2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ viewed 21.3.15
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