Laura Taylor
Author/Freelance Editor
The author of 22 novels, Laura Taylor lives a double life as a writer and a personal editor to several other successful writers. Her critically acclaimed Honorbound - an RWA Rita Mainstream Fiction Award Finalist and a Literary Guild Alternate Selection - received endorsements from authors Pat Conroy, W.E.B. Griffin, and Stephen King. She is also the recipient of 6 Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement and Career Achievement Awards, 2 Maggie Awards for Mainstream Fiction from GRW/RWA, and the first Golden Rose Award given by the RWA chapter she co-founded. She is an active member of The Authors Guild, International Thriller Writers, and Novelists, Inc. Intimate Strangers, a recent novel, and contemporized editions of Fallen Angel, Desert Rose, and Midnight Storm from her extensive backlist, are scheduled for digital release on Kindle and B&N Nook in August, 2011.
Advance Submission Critique: Mainstream, historical and genre fiction, romance; first 20 pages double-spaced