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Cally Taylor was born in Worcester, spent her childhood guarded by soldiers in Germany (oh okay, her Dad was in the army), studied Psychology in Newcastle and has had a variety of jobs including fruit picker, waitress, post woman, receptionist, shipping co-ordinator, graphic designer and web developer. She currently works as an E-Learning Manager for a London university. In 2011, after thirteen years in Brighton (the longest she's ever lived anywhere), Cally moved to Bristol where she lives with her boyfriend and baby son, and their ridiculously large DVD/book/music collection. She shares her 'study' with the washing machine and a surf board and writes her novels in any spare moments she can squeeze in between the day job, being a mum and her social network addiction . When she was eight Cally was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. She knew she wanted to be an author but, for some reason, told her teacher she wanted to be Marcia from the Brady Bunch instead. It was about the same time that Cally received a rejection letter from Penguin Publishers; her book The Evil Weed (complete with illustrations and wool binding) wasn't quite what they were looking for. Pint-sized Cally took the rejection on the chin and carried on writing. Twenty-*cough* years, and several more rejections, later Cally finally became an author, but still doesn't feel like a proper grown up. 'Heaven Can Wait', Cally's debut novel, has been translated into 13 different languages, scooped the Debut Novel of the Year and Book of the Year prizes in chicklitreviews.com book awards 2009 and was the first novel ever to receive a 10/10 review from chicklitclub.com. Her second novel, 'Home for Christmas', will be published by Orion in October 2011 Cally is also the 2011 winner of the Romantic Novelist's Association Elizabeth Goudge Trophy Cally regularly blogs about writing, films, music and everything else at Writing about Writing (and other random waffle) p.s. The only thing Cally doesn't write is poetry so if you've seen some Cally Taylor poetry she swears it's not hers! p.p.s For visitors from the USA who are interested in my age because they'd like to use my story 'Slipping Down the Sky' in a reading aloud competition I can confirm that yes, I was born after 1960! A LONG time after 1960 :)Site content & design (c) Cally Taylor |