Currently in Progress -- My Barbaric Yawp!

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 include:

1. Introduction by October Santerelli
2. The Sweaty-Toothed Madman: Reading Is Becoming; Writing Is Telling Who We Are
3. The Great White Savior (Or Why It's Way Past Time To Retire Tarzan, Sheena, and The Last Samurai)
4. Visceral Writing + Nostalgia = Effective Writing Every Time
5. Envy and Imitation
6. Help! I'm Stumped and I Don't Know What To Write!
7. 15 Action/Adventure Tropes That Need To Die a Painful Death
8. This Week's Theme Is, Well, Theme
9. Bono and Flannery: Harder to Believe Than Go Crazy Tonight
10. What I Learned from Dead People (Mostly)
11. Do, Do, Do, Da, Da, Da: The Day The Police Taught Me About Character Dialog
12. The Centre Is Not Central—Normal Heroes Among Dragons
13. The Description Toolbox: 3 Tools Every Writer Needs
14. Close to the Vest—Embracing the Mystery in Your Fiction
15. Writing for Comics—A Basic Primer for Newbs
16. O' Captain, My Captain: Taming the Writers' Group Monsters
17. 35 Books (Almost) Everybody Should Read
18. My Backstory Story
19. The ABC (Plots) of Ongoing Storytelling
20. Wrote Rage
21. Hard to Market, But It's Okay
22. Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, or Ruining the Magic Trick for All the Right Reasons
23. Tightening the Tension
24. Creating Religion in Your Stories
25. Geek Culture: Leading the Way AND Pulling Us Back?!
26. The Editing Onion
27. My Diversity Soapbox (Or Don't You Throw That "Woke" Shade at Me)
28. It’s the End of the Literary World As We Know It (But Don’t Be Afraid—It’s a Good Thing)

The Dead Speak: Sean Taylor's Corpse Delivers the Eulogy in His New Collection!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Atlanta, GA (March 1, 2024) -- Comic and prose writer Sean Taylor introduces his newest collection of essays, short stories, and poems, THE CORPSE DELIVERS THE EULOGY AND OTHER WORKS. 

Designed as an introduction to Taylor's writing for new readers and a re-introduction to current readers, this collection features both old and new creations in a single volume. THE CORPSE DELIVERS THE EULOGY showcases new essays about the art of writing and reading, old and new poetry between 1992 and just last month, and stories that set him on the path to fiction writing, both literary shorts and even a superhero short from the days of Cyber Age Adventures magazine. 

"For those who only know my work from my comic book writing or those who only know me from my pulp adventures and superhero tales, this is the book to let you discover the writer I like to be when I'm writing for myself as the main audience," Taylor says. 

Readers can see in this collection how Taylor, who has written for such properties as Zombies Vs. Robots, The Bad Girls Club, The Black Bat, and the Golden Amazon, along with his own creations Fishnet Angel and private detective Rick Ruby (co-created with Bobby Nash), has grown, changed, and expanded as a writer. 

"I'm so excited to see this released," he says. "These are the words that shaped me as a storyteller and continue to shape me, and it's quite amazing to see them in print."

THE CORPSE DELIVERS THE EULOGY is available as a trade paperback for $9.99 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWR21ZTB/), and already available as a Kindle eBook for $2.99 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVLH8MS3/), both from Amazon. 

Sean Taylor writes short stories, novellas, novels, graphic novels, and comic books (yes, Virginia, there is a difference between comic books and graphic novels, just like there's a difference between a short story and a novel). In his writing life, he has directed the “lives” of zombies, superheroes, goddesses, dominatrices, Bad Girls, pulp heroes, and yes, even frogs, for such diverse bosses as IDW Publishing, Gene Simmons, and The Oxygen Network. Visit him online at www.thetaylorverse.com and www.badgirlsgoodguys.com.

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INTO WRITING AND READING (AND RAY BRADBURY)? GET ‘GIDDY AND EUPHORIC’ WITH ESSAYIST SEAN TAYLOR!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sean Taylor wants to be a time machine.

Sean Taylor believes redemptive stories still matter.

Sean Taylor knows that Ray Bradbury lives forever.

Don’t believe us? Then this book is for you. GIDDY AND EUPHORIC, now available from Pro Se Productions and its nonfiction PULPSTUDIES imprint, collects the essays of author and comic book writer Sean Taylor. In these pages, Sean shares his thoughts on subjects across the board, including his love for Ray Bradbury, why diversity is important to artists, and even the right way to become a short story reader!

“I’ll sum it up as simply as I can: you’re going to care. That’s what Sean does with his characters and the stories they inhabit. He makes you care.”
-- Erik Burnham, Ghostbusters

“Once you’re done reading, you’ll know you read a well-crafted, fully rounded piece of work.” 
-- Dan Jurgens, The Death of Superman

Featuring a cover by the author and print formatting by Antonino lo Iaocono, GIDDY AND EUPHORIC is available for 11.99 via Amazon. 

Formatted by Antonino lo Iaocono and Marzia Marina, Taylor’s stellar collection of essays and insights is available as an ebook for only 99 cents from Amazon. Kindle Unlimited members can read for free!

For more information on this title, interviews with the author, or digital copies for review, email editorinchief@prose-press.com.

To learn more about Pro Se Productions, go to www.prose-press.com. Like Pro Se on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions.

Coming Soon -- Giddy and Euphoric: Essays on Writing and Reading (and Ray Bradbury)!!!

I'm thrilled to announce that the galley for my first nonfiction book has been approved and is in the process of getting printed courtesy of Pro Se Press. This one features my essays and tutorials about writing, reading, and as advertised on the cover, a little bit of my favorite sci-fi author Ray Bradbury too. 

With luck, timing, and the gods and goddesses of shipping (would that be Apollo and Diana?) on our side, we'll hopefully see this one in time for my appearance at Mid South Con at the end of next month. 

Fingers crossed. 

Coming soon!

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#ESSAYS

#NONFICTION 

HerStories Project Looking for Essay Writers -- Pays $80

The HerStories Project publishes first-person essays about what it’s like to be a Gen-X woman at midlife. It also considers opinion pieces and informational articles or features. (Note: We have a pretty loose definition of Gen X — anyone who’s now in their late thirties to late fifties.)

Although we are interested in essays about how any facet of your life at midlife — work, kids, marriage, care taking, and all the rest — affects your particular experience, we are not a parenting publication, per se. In other words, we are less interested in essays about how to parent or how to raise good children and more interested in you.

Suggested word count: 750-2000 words

To submit to The HerStories Project, please send your completed piece to submissions@herstoriesproject.com, in an email (no attachments, please). Also, please include a short bio (2-3 sentences) and 2-3 links to other published pieces (if you have them).

Pay: $80 for a personal essay or opinion piece (Pay is negotiated for longer feature articles.)

If you are interested in writing a feature article, please pitch your idea(s) to submissions@herstoriesproject.com and write “PITCH” in the subject line.

For full submission guidelines: http://www.herstoriesproject.com/herstories-voices/