A. R. Taylor

About The Author

A.R. Taylor is a playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut novel, Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion, won a Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction at the IPPY Book Awards 2015, was a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 12 Most Cinematic Indie Books of 2014. Her second novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, received the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medal in Fiction: Intrigue. She's been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Southwest Review, Pedantic Monthly, The Cynic, the Berkeley Insider, So It Goes—the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Magazine, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud. In her past life, she was head writer on two Emmy-winning series for public television. She has performed at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York, Tongue & Groove in Hollywood, and Lit Crawl L.A. 2016. Find her video blog, Trailing Edge: Ideas Whose Time Has Come and Gone, at www.lonecamel.com.

Books by A. R. Taylor

Call Me When You're Dead

A Novel

By A. R. Taylor
Call Me When You're Dead is a darkly comic novel about payback gone wild, gone sour, maybe even sweet. “If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him.” That's what Eleanor Birch’s glamorous friend Sasha Cole requests of her during a New York City dinner one hot August night. Something bad ...
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Jenna Takes The Fall

A Novel

By A. R. Taylor
Twenty-four years old and newly employed in Manhattan, Jenna McCann agrees to place herself under the dead body of a wealthy, prominent New Yorker—her boss—to hide the identity of his real lover. But why? Because she is half in love with him herself; because her only friend at Hull Industries ask...
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