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Liam M. Taylor

Goodreads Author

Born

in Auckland, New Zealand

December 02, 1967

Website

http://www.theshard-chronicles.com

Twitter

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Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult

Influences

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Eddin ...more

Member Since

July 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/liamtaylor

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Liam Taylor was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on a sunny Saturday, early December, to an English mother and Kiwi father.

From an early age, he loved books, a wide variety of reading, but with a particular fondness for science fiction/fantasy.

Throughout his formative years, he held something close to his heart – a burning desire to write – something fueled by various comments and accomplishments in English and one special competition win at the age of nine. However, the specter of an antiquated belief that a son must follow his father’s vocation, coupled with some extraordinarily bad advice, influenced a naïve adolescent into unfulfilling jobs.

Eventually, he left the shores of his home-country and ventured out into the world, to the birthpla Liam Taylor was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on a sunny Saturday, early December, to an English mother and Kiwi father.

From an early age, he loved books, a wide variety of reading, but with a particular fondness for science fiction/fantasy.

Throughout his formative years, he held something close to his heart – a burning desire to write – something fueled by various comments and accomplishments in English and one special competition win at the age of nine. However, the specter of an antiquated belief that a son must follow his father’s vocation, coupled with some extraordinarily bad advice, influenced a naïve adolescent into unfulfilling jobs.

Eventually, he left the shores of his home-country and ventured out into the world, to the birthplace of his beloved mother, England. It was there that life really took off – meeting many an amazing person and experiencing many a wonderful thing on his travels around the globe.

Yet still, he pushed away his true yearning, thinking that the opportunity to write was lost, even with all the great ideas that leapt into his mind, urging him to expand upon their fledgling concept. Write about me, they would say!

After moving to Australia, he reconnected with a special person who has given him the second thing he thought he would never have – two beautiful children. A special person who has been his light, his beacon, through the darkest of hours.

Inevitably, bleak days lay ahead, with the same old rut rearing its extremely ugly head. But Karma, in all its infinite wisdom and consequences, had a plan, and on a night in November 2009, wrapped in despair, that plan slammed into his mind with the force of a Rocky Balboa roundhouse.
Write, Liam M. Taylor, write. Write now... right now.

And so his journey starts, with a thought that began on a delayed train outside London in 2002 and just kept on growing. Now, The Shard Chronicles is well underway, and he’s an awfully busy man, juggling family life and his true career.

He’s loving every minute of it! ...more