Jodi Taylor

Jodi Taylor is an English author of fantasy-style historical fiction[2] and romance[3][4] novels.

For the English footballer, see Jodie Taylor.

Jodi Taylor
BornBristol, England[1]
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
Website
www.jodi-taylor.com

Biography

Taylor was born in Bristol.[1] She attended school in Gloucester.[1]

With her then-husband, Taylor moved to Yorkshire.[5] She worked for North Yorkshire County Council for almost 20 years,[5] in positions including library facilities manager.[6]

Her first book, Just One Damned Thing After Another, was self-published on two download websites.[3] That manuscript was subsequently purchased by Accent Press,[5] which published all her subsequent works through December 2018. Headline Publishing Group became responsible for publishing her works as of January 2019.

Taylor lives in Gloucestershire.

Reception

Just One Damned Thing After Another appeared on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list on 21 January 2016 at #74.[7] It earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it "a carnival ride" in a "world ... depicted in lush detail".[8] The review in Library Journal lauded the book's "appealing cast of characters", with "plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance."[9]

Many of Taylor's books are Amazon Best Sellers in categories such as "Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Time Travel",[10] "Fiction > Fantasy > Historical", and "Fiction > Romance > Science Fiction".[11] As of August 2017, Just One Damned Thing After Another ranks #40; also in the top 100 are seven of the other St Mary's novels, one of the short stories, and The Long and Short of It short story collection.[10]

Bibliography

The Chronicles of St Mary's

Taylor’s flagship series follows the staff of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, especially historian Dr. Madeleine “Max” Maxwell, as they time-travel to “investigate major historical events in contemporary time”.[12]

Novels[13]

  • Just One Damned Thing After Another (June 2013)
  • A Symphony of Echoes (October 2013)
  • A Second Chance (February 2014)
  • A Trail Through Time (July 2014)
  • No Time Like the Past (February 2015)
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (August 2015)
  • Lies, Damned Lies, and History (May 2016)
  • And the Rest is History (April 2017)
  • An Argumentation of Historians (May 2018)
  • Hope For the Best (May 2019)
  • Plan For The Worst (April 2020)

Short stories[13]

  • "The Very First Damned Thing" (October 2015)
  • "When a Child is Born" (November 2013)
  • "Roman Holiday" (June 2014)
  • "Christmas Present" (November 2014)
  • "Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings" (November 2015)
  • "The Great St Mary's Day Out" (August 2016)
  • "My Name is Markham" (December 2016)
  • "A Perfect Storm" (August 2017)
  • "Christmas Past" (December 25, 2017)
  • "The Battersea Barricades" (April 23, 2018)
  • "The Steam Pump Jump" (July 12, 2018)
  • "And Now For Something Completely Different" (December 25, 2018)
  • "When Did You Last See Your Father?" (September 5, 2019)
  • "Why is Nothing Ever Simple?" (December 25, 2019)

Collections[13]

  • Long Story Short (Summer 2019) - The second anthology of short stories
  • The Long and Short of It (June 2017) - An anthology of short stories
  • The Chronicles of St Mary's Boxset, Volume 1 (February 2015) - novels 1-3

The Time Police

Novels

Doing Time (October 2019)

Hard Time (October 2020)


Frogmorton Farm

Novels[1]

  • The Nothing Girl (May 2014)
  • The Something Girl (July 2017)

Short stories[1]

  • "Little Donkey" (February 2015)

Elizabeth Cage
  • White Silence (September 2017)[14]
  • Dark Light (September 2018)

Writing as Isabella Barclay
  • A Bachelor Establishment (July 2015)[4]
gollark: Programming languages are optimised for computers, and if it can build and maintain nuclear reactors I'm sure it can do that too.
gollark: Yes, but they operate at something like 10Hz and you couldn't just temporarily retask them without breaking things horribly.
gollark: Offloading computing to humans sounds tricky and inefficient.
gollark: What is the APL command for "build nuclear reactor"?
gollark: In real reality? Wrong public opinions.

References
  1. "Jodi Taylor". Amazon. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  2. "Books". Accent Press, A Distinctive Voice in Publishing. Accent Press. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  3. Novelicious (9 October 2014), "Novelicious Chats To...Jodi Taylor", novelicious.com, retrieved 4 August 2017
  4. "Isabella Barclay". Amazon. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. Scott, Catherine (24 April 2014). "Getaway to the sun brings new chapter for first time novelist". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  6. Taylor, April (2 September 2014). "Interview with comedy/history writer Jodi Taylor". Luke Ballard, Detective, Apothecary and Elemancer keeping the Tudors safe at Hampton Court Palace. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  7. "Just One Damned Thing After Another". USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  8. "Just One Damned Thing After Another". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  9. McArdle, Megan M.; Chadwick, Kristi (23 May 2016). "Chambers's Debut of the Month, Durbin, Vyleta, plus Newcomer Merbeth & Series Lineup / SF/Fantasy Reviews, May 15, 2016". Library Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  10. "Best Sellers in Time Travel Fiction". Amazon. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  11. "Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Mary's)". Amazon.co.uk. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  12. Taylor, Jodi (2013). Just One Damned Thing After Another. Abercynon, Wales: Accent Press Ltd. p. 11. ISBN 978-1910939482. ‘Although the phrase “time travel” is so sci-fi. We don’t do that. Here at St Mary’s we investigate historical events in contemporary time.’
  13. "The Chronicles of St Mary's Series (9 books)". Goodreads. Goodreads Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  14. Taylor, Jodi (25 June 2017). "White Silence". Jodi Taylor. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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