Welcome
Thanks for visiting my site. I am the author
called Tim C. Taylor who lives in Bromham, England. If you were looking for a Canadian named Tim Taylor, or some guy who worked with Baldrick
on Time Team, then you'll need to go back to Google.
News
22nd
December 2007 – Looking
forward to Christmas. James will love it and we'll all enjoy watching his
cheeky grin. Also looking forward to finishing the first draft of my novel,
Stain Blossoms. I've written all
the chapters, just a little more tidying to do. It works out to be 223,000
words or around 850 pages. I will send it off to Lulu for printing before
the end of the year. It will be a private printing for my editing but I
want to read start to finish to get a sense of consistency and pacing, and
that will be easier than with a box of A4 printouts. I've designed a dust jacket
to go with the book and that was interesting learning what Paint.NET can
do. I'll bear that in mind with my photographs. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: Join
Northampton SF Writers Group.
14th
June 2007 – Thought I'd
better post something to let any readers know I haven't forgotten this
site! James had his first birthday on Monday, and had so much fun playing
with his presents that he's still not got around to opening them all yet.
Photos: since I got a fancier camera my picture file size has got a lot
larger (esp for videos!). So I'm not updating
James photos but am uploading them to Photobox. If anyone wants to see
them, drop me an email. Finally the writing: it looks very bleak on this
news page because no one's bought my stories for a while. On the other
hand, I am currently 178,000 words through my first draft of Stain
Blossoms. I hope to finish the initial draft of this novel soon at some
point below 200,000. Once I've posted that for review, I'll tidy up My Future in the Past.
16th
July 2006 – Aphelion
have published my story, Speak,
Vaccine! Speak! in their July issue. You can read it here.
After July you can read it in their archives.
15th
July 2006 – I've added
some more pics and videos of James in the
galleries section. For the videos, you need to have installed Apple Quicktime.
13th
July 2006 – I've
registered my domain, which means you can find this page more easily now at
www.timctaylor.com
7th
July 2006 – Forgotten
worlds issue#3 is out and I'm in it with The Meandering Mayhem of Thogron Throatbiter. Get your copy here.
25th
June 2006 – Family are
home; all is good. I've created a new picture gallery for James. Click on
'Galleries' to the left to find it.
11th
June 2006 – 5pm. Became a father! James William Rushby Taylor was 8 lb
2oz. Mum and Dad tired but well.
I've updated the 'breeding programme' section of the galleries.
31st
May 2006 – My story 'Key
to Forever' is up in the May edition of Creative Singularity
here. Stick a comment in the forum telling the world what you think of
it so far! Nursery is finished. There's a picture in the galleries section.
3rd
May 2006 – Sold my story
'The Meandering Mayhem of Thogron Throatbiter" to UK print magazine Forgotten
Worlds. My favourite story title! Due out on June 30th. http://www.forgotten-worlds.co.uk
14th
April 2006 – Got the
floor down in the nursery. Looks very good. You can see it too in the
galleries section. Also realised that with Griffin taking Key to Forever for Creative Singularity, then
I've placed half of all the SF short stories I've written. I'm quite
chuffed about that.
12th
April 2006 – Two things
today. Griffin Wray at Creative Singularity
said nice things about my story Key to Forever and wants to publish it. And
I started a baby page. We haven't finished making the baby yet, so I've put
a photo of the teddy bear I painted onto the nursery here. I know Bigus
Mickus can monitor my DIY remotely from New Hampshire. Talking of which, I've entered the strange science
fiction world of web cams, so if anyone wants to talk to me on MS
Messenger, then give me a buzz.
26th
Feb 2006 – Found a very
good Hard SF site here: www.hardsf.net
They were kind enough to publish Red Queen for me. That's great for me as
that was the hardest SF I've written and that's not popular in many places.
Fits right at home here.
15th
Feb 2006 – About 40,000
words through my second novel. Almost done all my OWWW crits
to get the first novel critiqued. Melia is due to give birth 23d June.
Poker results for 2006 are here. (Items not
necessarily presented in order of importance!)
29th
Sept 2005 — Finished all
the typing up of my first novel. Looks very nice. I'm getting it printed.
That's not the same as being published, and it is certainly not for sale.
But I'll have a few copies around in paperback format, courtesy of the
Daily Mail. So if anyone wants to have a read, and give me feedback, then
let me know. This weekend I'm going to the Newcon3 SF convention Northampton. I'll bike there and back both days. About 90 miles in
total!
19th
Sept 2005 — Got my
copies of Aoife's Kiss issue #14. My name is on
the front cover, which makes me feel very proud. Cost you $9 including
international postage from various online retailers such as Project
Pulp. Buy it and enjoy it. I've read most of my 'stablemates'
in Issue #14, and they're a good bunch to be associated with.
9th
Sept 2005 — Finished the first draft of
the novel in the Swan on Monday. Still typing up and editing to do. Feels
great, though. Wordcount worked out at 130,000.
Get a little distracted last month by writing five chapters of my second
novel. BTW: we got a new bathroom last week.
21
June 2005 — My draft of the novel 'My
Future in the Past' reached 104,000 words.
25
Feb 2005 — I sold
'Geometric Growth' to Aoife's Kiss, due to be
printed in the September 2005
issue. This is particularly pleasing as this is the first short story I
ever wrote (back in 2002, although it's been significantly edited since
then) http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/aoife/main.htm
22
Feb 2005 — We're getting replacement patio doors put in. They're
halfway through tonight and it's snowing. Brrr.
I've abandoned my last web site because my ISP's host server couldn't give
me the access rights I needed to make the Flash site work. I'll add in the
rest of it soon.
17
Feb 2005 — 'Feed the Worlds 2484' short is accepted for
publication in Transfinite #6 (currently we're on issue#2). http://www.geocities.com/methuslah/ [Looks
like that magazine folded. Rats!]
14
Feb 2005 — My draft of the novel 'My Future in the Past' passed
85,000 words.
05 Feb
2005 — 'Search. Destroy. Deceive.' Published in Aphelion.
This was originally entitled 'Future Speculation'. http://www.aphelion-webzine.com
Tell me what you think of it on Aphelion's discussion board.
23
Jan 2005 — 'Virtual Parenting' published in Planet Magazine. (You
may want to select 'Jan 2005 archive') http://planetmag.com
Latest
poker results: here. Nice to see that the
cumulative total after nine sessions (that we remembered to record) only
one person has won or lost more than their £5 stake: Robbo!
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