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Tara Staley

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Born

Kernersville, The United States

Website

https://tarastaley.com/

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Genre

Fiction, Ebooks, Literary

Member Since

October 2012

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Tara Staley is the author of the upcoming biographical novel CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE, a book launching in ebook and paperback formats on April 23, 2013. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE is the story of a Kitty Hawk woman who falls for one of the love-shy Wright brothers.

Her debut novel, NEED TO BREATHE, was selected as a "LitPick of 2012" on the popular Twitter forum LitChat. It was also named a Top Pick by Underground Book Reviews.

Tara Staley's writing background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Creative Writing, an RWA award for a past novel, and involvement with the North Carolina Writers Network. She is also a founding member of the online writers' community Backspace. She grew up, lives, and will most likely die in K ...more

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Tara Staley's Blog

William’s 5th grade graduation: an open letter of thanks

William’s 5th grade graduation from Cash Elementary is this coming Friday morning, and it will be especially sentimental to us because he entered Cash when he was only 3 years old. As a student in the Pre-K program for children with developmental delays, our son–along with his teachers and parents–had a lot of work to do. He was diagnosed just months earlier with mild-moderate autism, having an IQ

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Average rating: 3.6 · 341 ratings · 51 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Need to Breathe 3.71 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conditions are Favorable 3.48 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Advanced Copies for Review & Book Giveaways — 16070 members — last activity 21 hours, 49 min ago
A place to help authors and reviewers come together to get the word out about new books as well as a group for anyone to post or enter listings for bo ...more

LitChat — 3 members — last activity Oct 16, 2012 07:58AM
The Goodreads connection to the popular #litchat discussions held through Twitter each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4pmET.

Q&A with author Jerry Hatchett — 19 members — last activity Jan 30, 2013 01:19PM
...January 24, 2013 to February 23, 2013...Jerry answers questions about PAWNBROKER or other story-related issues, and might even give away a little i ...more