CAROL TAYLOR

October 28, 2009

Hello Beautiful People,

It's been a while. Lemme catch you up on what's been going on while I have a minute.

The Brown Sugar books continue to sell, can I get an amen! My last anthology Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales was published to great reviews. Holla!

A Debt To Pay, the story I contributed to the second installment of the literary journal, Bronx Biannual edited by Miles Marshall Lewis and published by Akashic Books turned out well and is a departure for what you might know me for. So please, check it out. I'll be sure to include an excerpt somewhere around here. Bronx Biannual is a literary journal for the hip hop set. But don't let that hip hop stuff confuse you. It's eclectic, surprisingly diverse and full great stories with something for everyone. A Debt to Pay is a noir ode to Iceberg Slim. Don't know who he is, google him. You'll be glad you did.

After taking a break from anthologies, I've written my first novel, THE EX CHRONICLES, which will be published by Plume in 2010.

THE EX CHRONICLES
In a New York City rife with emotional landmines, four friends search for Mr. Right but often end up settling for Mr. Right Now.

Precious, a struggling writer, discovers her fiancé Darius in bed with another woman, though she breaks off the engagement, this doesn’t stop her from wanting him. Bella, the wise-cracking, over-indulged child of an absent diplomat father and pill-popping socialite mother, knows her musician boyfriend Julius is using her, but before she can give him up she has to give up her first love, alcohol. Half-British, half-Jamaican, Zenobia, sacrifices a successful modeling career for Malcolm, her overly critical boyfriend, but when he strays she fears she’s made a terrible mistake, not only with her heart but also with her career. Bourgie Hope, the editorial director of a high fashion magazine, is working double time to hide the effects of caring for her dementia-ridden mother and her own debilitating depression, while trying to resist a strong attraction to her new driver Derrick, a single dad from the projects.

Funny and sexy, heartbreaking and inspiring, the Ex Chronicles is a novel about faith in one’s self, trust in one’s friends, and the sacrifices we make in the name of love.

Hit me back and tell me what you think of the premise, what do you think of the cover, what you think I should do next, or just to say hi. Or find me on Facebook.

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Love and Happiness,
Carol