The Red Dress Now Available

It’s official. My new novel, The Red Dress, has been released and can now be purchased in print and eBook formats from Amazon and Smashwords. It’ll soon be available from Apple, Barnes & Noble, and other online resources. The Kindle version is text-to-speech enabled, as you’ll note in the following advertisement, written by Leonore Dvorkin, editor at DLD Books. It’ll eventually be available from Bookshare and through my regional talking book library. If you visit my website, you’ll find an excerpt, ordering links, and more. Happy reading!

Just released!

 

THE RED DRESS

A novel by Abbie Johnson Taylor (C 2019)

 

In paperback ($11.95) and e-book ($3.99) from Amazon and Smashwords.

236 pages in print. The e-book is text-to-speech enabled.

Editing, print layout, e-book conversion, and cover design by DLD Books.

 

Synopsis:

 

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.

Abbie Johnson Taylor lives in Sheridan, Wyoming. Please visit her website at http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com/

 

My Other Books

 

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds

Click to purchase My Ideal Partner from Smashwords absolutely free!

That’s Life: New and Selected Poems

How to Build a better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver

We Shall Overcome

My Other Links

Visit my website.

Like me on Facebook.

 

The Alligator #Poetry

The following was published in the summer 2019 issue of The Avocet. It was inspired by an incident that happened several years ago while I was visiting my brother and his family in Florida. My sister-in-law took the photo of the alligator. You can click on the poem’s title to hear me read it.

The Alligator

 

A warm afternoon under a cloudless Florida sky,
we float down the Loxahatchee River.
I sit on the canoe bottom,
cramped, while brother and sister-in-law paddle.
It suddenly appears.
Not a snake, but just as deadly,
it stands on the bank,
gazes at its reflection in the gleaming water.
I don’t see it—my family does.
After snapping a picture,
we sail far, far away
while icy fingers of fear massage my spine.

 

My Books

 

Coming Soon: The Red Dress: A Novel

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.

 

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds

Click to purchase My Ideal Partner from Smashwords absolutely free!

That’s Life: New and Selected Poems

How to Build a better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver

We Shall Overcome

My Other Links

Visit my website.

Like me on Facebook.

 

New Release from Author David Dvorkin

This book was recently released in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing. The author, David Dvorkin, along with his wife Leonore, are helping me publish my latest book, The Red Dress, due out sometime this week. They’ve also helped many others get their books published in print and eBook formats.

I plan to read and review David Dvorkin’s book soon. Meanwhile, please click on the link to Patty’s blog, where you’ll find a Dropbox link to a document containing more information about the book. Happy reading and happy moon landing.

 

via NEW RELEASE FROM AUTHOR DAVID DVORKIN

 

My Books

 

Coming Soon: The Red Dress: A Novel

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.

 

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds

Click to purchase My Ideal Partner from Smashwords absolutely free!

That’s Life: New and Selected Poems

How to Build a better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver

We Shall Overcome

My Other Links

Visit my website.

Like me on Facebook.

 

Centerfield #Monday Musical Memories

Baseball is considered America’s favorite pastime. My late husband Bill, like one of the characters in my new book that will be out soon, was an avid Colorado Rockies fan. During the spring of my sixth grade year, after watching my mother on a women’s slow-pitch softball team, I decided to join a girls’ league. What I didn’t realize was that due to my limited vision, it was almost impossible to pitch or catch a ball, let alone make a home run.

In the song I’m featuring today, John Fogerty sings about the same desire I had. I don’t know if he has a visual impairment. But if he doesn’t, and he tried and never made it to centerfield, it goes to show that some people don’t have a knack for baseball, whether they can see or not.

John Fogerty–Centerfield (Youtube)

How about you? Did you ever try to play baseball or any sport? Did you succeed?

 

My Books

 

Coming Soon: The Red Dress: A Novel

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.

 

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds

Click to purchase My Ideal Partner from Smashwords absolutely free!

That’s Life: New and Selected Poems

How to Build a better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver

We Shall Overcome

My Other Links

Visit my website.

Like me on Facebook.

 

 

Happy Sunday!: Facebook event, what I am reading, and a walk in the yard (About 15 minutes)

Here’s another story from Patty Fletcher at Tell It to the World Marketing. After you listen, you may want to explore her blog and learn more about her and her clients, me included. You’ll also find out more about the Facebook event in which she and I and other authors are participating.