thrillers!
Essays about reading and writing!
Upcoming Appearances!
Coming soon from New Legend! Jukebox Thrillers: Solid Hits of the 80's is a totally awesome anthology of short stories by top talents inspired by top tunes from the 1980's. You may be familiar with the songs and even the videos, but you've never seen them like this! Check out this wickedly epic playlist:
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Jim Beard “One Thing Leads to Another”
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke “The Old Man Down the Road"
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Sara T. Bond "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
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John C. Bruening "Only the Lonely"
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Darin M. Bush "Cult of Personality"
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Ryan Cadaver & Nicole Ghouled Cadaver "No Easy Way Out"
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Christopher Collins "Electric Avenue"
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A.R. Cook "Danger Zone"
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Joe Crowe "Walk Like an Egyptian"
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Keith R.A. DeCandido "Road to Nowhere"
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Kevin Eldridge "Ride Like the Wind"
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Michael Falkner "Stand"
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Kelley M. Frank "Automatic"
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Nicole Givens Kurtz "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
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Michael A. Gordon “Centerfold”
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Justin Gray “Valley Girl”
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Darrell Z. Grizzle “Time After Time”
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Joe Heath “Ghost Town”
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Robert Jeffrey II "If This World Were Mine"
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Bernadette Johnson “Every Breath You Take”
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Dan Jolley “Somebody’s Watching Me”
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Darin Kennedy “Only Time Will Tell”
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Mike Lyons “Money for Nothing”
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Violette L. Meier “Nasty Girl”
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Adam Messer “Hungry Like the Wolf”
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J.R. Mounts “Round and Round”
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Bobby Nash “Running Down a Dream”
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Jessica Nettles “Major Tom (Coming Home)”
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Kelly Oechslin “Jessie’s Girl”
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Mary Ogle “I Ran (So Far Away)”
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James Palmer “99 Red Balloons”
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Ashley Marie Pauls “Holding Out for a Hero”
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Alan J. Porter “Two Tribes”
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Sarah J. Sover “Careless Whisper”
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Sean Taylor “Sugar Walls”
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Vincent EM Thorn “The Number of the Beast”
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Kelly Young-Silverman “In the Air Tonight”
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Ricky Zero “Where the Streets Have No Name”
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and more!!!
Jukebox Thrillers is scheduled to be released in November 2025. More details coming soon!
In the meantime, enjoy this music video playlist.
CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
My Barbaric Yawp: More Essays on Writing and Reading
In this follow-up to Giddy and Euphoric: Essays on Reading, Writing, and Ray Bradbury, Sean Taylor continues his fascination with the nuts and bolts of the writer's life.
Essays will include:
1. The Sweaty-Toothed Madman: Reading Is Becoming; Writing Is Telling Who We Are
2. The Great White Savior (Or Why It's Way Past Time To Retire Tarzan, Sheena, and The Last Samurai)
3. Visceral Writing + Nostalgia = Effective Writing Every Time
4. Envy and Imitation
5. Help! I'm Stumped and I Don't Know What To Write!
6. 15 Action/Adventure Tropes That Need To Die a Painful Death
7. This Week's Theme Is, Well, Theme
8. Bono and Flannery: Harder to Believe Than Go Crazy Tonight
9. What I Learned from Dead People (Mostly)
10. Do, Do, Do, Da, Da, Da: The Day The Police Taught Me About Character Dialog
11. The Centre Is Not Central—Normal Heroes Among Dragons
12. The Description Toolbox: 3 Tools Every Writer Needs
13. Close to the Vest—Embracing the Mystery in Your Fiction
14. Writing for Comics—A Basic Primer for Newbs
15. O' Captain, My Captain: Taming the Writers' Group Monsters
16. 35 Books (Almost) Everybody Should Read
17. The ABC (Plots) of Ongoing Storytelling
18. Wrote Rage
19. Hard to Market, But It's Okay
20. Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, or Ruining the Magic Trick for All the Right Reasons
21. Geek Culture: Leading the Way AND Pulling Us Back?!
22. The Editing Onion
23. My Diversity Soapbox (Or Don't You Throw That "Woke" Shade at Me)
24. It’s the End of the Literary World As We Know It (But Don’t Be Afraid—It’s a Good Thing)
Upcoming Appearances!
Multiverse Con
October 17-19, 2025
Peachtree City, GA
Snellville Book Festival
November 8, 2025, 10 am - 4 pm
Snellville, GA