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Roger
Taylor was born in Heywood, Lancashire, and now lives in
the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer,
a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, instructor/student
in aikido, and an enthusiastic and loud but bone-jarringly
inaccurate piano player.
He
wrote four books between 1983 and 1986 and built up a handsome
rejection file before the third was accepted by Headline
to become the first two books of the Chronicles of Hawklan.
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Taylor titles available at Fictionwise
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A
word from Roger Taylor himself...
Those
of you who are unfamiliar with my stories might like to
know that though they are categorized as fantasy, they are
much more. I take some pains to avoid prophesies, curses,
magic artefacts, trolls, elves, dragons, wizards etc. In
my opinion Tolkein dealt with these both excellently and
definitively and he casts a long shadow. One of the unfortunate
aspects of modern book marketing is that lumping works in
‘genres’ automatically deters many readers. It
is difficult to see the point of this peculiarly negative
(British?) approach. It would be far better, surely, to
encourage as many people as possible to read as broadly
as possible. Certainly, I would very much like to see my
own books in ‘General Fiction’ as well as ‘Fantasy
& Sci-Fi’.
Those
of you who are familiar with my stories will know that while
from Dream Finder on, each book stands alone, they also
contain slightly disguised characters who are wandering
the landscape and the plot for various reasons set in train
by the events in the four Chronicles of Hawklan. ‘The
Return of the Sword’ draws many of these characters
back together again. It proved to be quite a challenge.
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