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Taylor Tyng

@taylortyng.bsky.social
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Author of fantastical fiction. The CLARA POOLE series (Pixel+Ink, 2023-24), SPROUT (Random House Children’s Books, 2026).

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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dear Elon, This is what I did last week. 1. Not buy your dumb car. 2. Not think about MARS, but the health of my own planet. 3. Not destroy democracy and thousands of lives that amount to a rounding error for your tax break. Instead, I was kind and decent to people. All people.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good grief are we treating each other horribly these days.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yesterday I abandoned the book I’ve been writing because I hit on a story I have to tell. In 24hrs, I’ve written 15k words. I’ve snort-laughed many times and teared up twice. It’s a book about labels and how the ones thrust upon us shape who we believe we are—or aren’t—and, how we rise above them. ❤️
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That's it! If celebrities keep debuting children's books, I will have to debut my breakout Hollywood acting role or my new Spotify-topping single! Yeah, that's right, celebrities! Two can play that game! Well, er, kind of, hmm ... maybe not. 😖 Whatever! The point is still the same!
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I was super excited to see this article on @sljournal about young teen lit. This is exactly the space where my upcoming book, SPROUT, lives. I am a huge proponent of books that fill the gap between 8-10 readers and YA. We need more of these stories. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/02/06/m...
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Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel
This story begins with two middle school librarians, miles and miles apart, who both feel passionately that what publishers call middle grade literature is not what their students need or want.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Looking for a new fantasy adventure series for your young reader? Take a look at the THE CLARA POOLE SERIES. It's got a big, funny cast, immense world-building, and a journey you won't soon forget. #middlegradebooks
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New book outline complete! Why do I love this part of writing so much?
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I started a new book, which is going to be somewhat different for me. For one, it may be for adults—at least YA. It is a story of long-held secrets and things that heal but never fully. Comp: Green Mile + Tuck Everlasting + Ava Lavender. Here is the prologue. www.instagram.com/reel/DFipf56...
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I get to write today. I’m excited.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So, I learned a good publishing lesson today. That lesson? Never do a cliffhanger in a series b/c your publisher might implode, and you won't get another book to finish the full arc. I'm hoping to get my rights back to bring the story to a close. Fingers crossed. Anyhow... cliffhangers... drat.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
After what feels like a never-ending home renovation, we finally got to unpack our children's books. This column is board books, picture books, and early readers. (The middle grade section, equally as plentiful, lives to the left). These books might be my most prized possession. 😊
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Time to fur some puppets!
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I lived in LA for decades. Heartbreaking to see what has (is) happening. Friends have lost homes, places I loved now ashes. So much devastation. So so sad.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I just learned from the Random House folks who is illustrating the cover for SPROUT. 👀👀👀
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Often when working on a fantasy/mystery novel I feel like I’m writing an episode of Scooby Doo just without the dog—as in always. 🐕
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
So my agent decided to leave agenting. It’s such a downer. She’s absolutely wonderful and brought so many great books into the world (3 for me). It’s a dark (yet unsurprising) sign for the future of publishing that it can’t support these great professionals. I extend this to editors, too. Boo.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Returning to a 1/2-drafted book and realizing it might be better served if written for adults. (Comp would be The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender meets Big Fish) Conflicted about moving it from MG where I've found publishing success. Curious if anyone else has grappled with this? #mg
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Went to the pottery store to buy clay and they had $5 dog sweaters. Tuck hates it, but I think it’s bad ass.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Light box I made for our annual homemade yankee swap.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I can’t wait for you all to meet Sprout and her friend EB, a boy with his own unseen challenges. Theirs is a tale of hope, friendship, and being okay with who you are. Set in a small town fighting gentrification and cultures of sameness, Sprout and EB dare to show us the beauty of being different.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Made this light box for my father, Jim. It’s a recreation of a painting that a neighbor made when he was a child—young Jim building a driftwood shack on the beach. It’s been such an iconic image growing up, and it’s so wonderful to honor it in another form. There were a few tears. It was awesome. ☺️
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
I’ve decided I don’t want to write a best-seller. I want to write a children’s classic.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Sometimes writing is hard. Other times is it also hard.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I have written 625 words today, most of which are screamingly bad. But I did use the word "replete" which I am very pleased about, and which any editor from this century will promptly cut without mercy. Good times. #amwriting
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
A few weeks ago I read this short story around a campfire at a writing retreat. It seemed to get a lot of laughs, so I’m sharing it here. www.taylortyng.com/post/brain-d...
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Today's book research: - Female hummingbirds - Wooton's Patent Cabinet Office Secretary desk - The color of dried blood - The anatomy and styles of grandfather clocks - The Spanish missions of California. Oh, the many places middle grade writing takes me.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
What? 1989? My name is Taylor? That's a sign, right? Sounds like you need this book!
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
After sketching this blind portrait of my daughter, I am now convinced that Picasso's whole career was "Okay, just sit there, and I'm going to draw you without looking."
I black and white line sketch of a girl, highly abstracted.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
5 days left to win one of five copies of CLARA POOLE AND THE WAY ROUND! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Home is where your dog is. ☺️
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
When the main character of your next book is named Hattie Wheeler, your background writing music must be The SUNDAYS. Or maybe your character is named that because it's fall and this is your go-to album. Either one works really.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Started my writing retreat off with a hike through the foliage. Glad I stuck my laptop in my pack because I found a nice swing in the woods to sit and write ✍️ 🍁🍂⛰️
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!! Enter to win one of five first-edition signed copies of CLARA POOLE AND THE LONG WAY ROUND! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
For a while, I've been wanting to write a Big Fish-like story about a family in crisis, a possibly magic recluse neighbor, and a museum of broken things. Monday, I went to hear Alix E. Harrow talk about Starling House and came away knowing exactly how I'd tell this tale. I've almost written half. 😊
An old man stands with his back to the camera between tall stacks of wire cages and broken clocks, some of which arch over his head from branches. The scene is moody, semi-magical, cast in a fading yellow light.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Well, hey, I’ve got a cover for book 2 of my middle grade adventure series and I couldn’t be happier about it.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Today, I wrote 5,000 words for a Bigfish-like story I've been thinking about for over a year. I've already brought myself to tears twice. This one might be tough, but it could be super special.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Well, either people like free stuff or this book might have some appeal. Maybe both! Either way, 999 entries in a day is super fun! Keep it going! Enter here: tinyurl.com/43byy8hp
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
After writing BOOK 1 of the CLARA POOLE series, I thought I had exhausted every description of skies and clouds I could think of. Now, after finishing BOOK 2, I'm grabbing at wisps for BOOK 3. Wait... wisps...🤔 #kidlit #mglit @PixelandInkBks #newseries #middlegradebooks #childrensbooks #kidsbooks
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Just want to go on record that my family left me alone with the last chocolate chip cookie from the patisserie they went to yesterday, and I can’t be blamed. It’s just too good and no one should be expected to maintain that much will power.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
This comment I both adore and am alarmed by: “This action-packed balloon race deserves a lot more buzz than I've been seeing in my circles.” I’m ecstatic CLARA POOLE is better than perceived, but worried people don’t get it's also about grief, forgiveness & father/daughter relationships.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Take a look at my Shepherd.com review of some of my favorite middle grade series to laugh out loud, cry, and grow with. (There are so many more, but I thought these were a good mix). shepherd.com/best-books/m...
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The best middle grade series to laugh out-loud, cry, & grow with
Taylor Tyng shares the 5 best books on middle grade series to laugh out-loud. Have you read The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves 1?
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
I am rereading something this morning that I hope to share soon, feeling incredibly grateful that I get to be a writer, to know other writers, and to spend my day immersed in stories. Pretty damn cool.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
time to start cutting the meadow for the Halloween labyrinth!
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
So when I first started writing, I’d gawk at the writers listed in The Horn Book, fantasizing that my book might grace its pages some day. So it’s pretty dang exciting to appear twice in two months. Think I’m going to appreciate this one for a long while. ☺️🙏🙏🙏
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Win a signed copy of CLARA POOLE AND THE LONG WAY ROUND, plus bookmarks, stickers, and even a hat! The auction begins at 6 AM HST/Noon EST Monday, 8/21, and ends at midnight HST on Friday, 8/25. There are tons of amazing items! tinyurl.com/2bpwbj6a @booksformaui #BooksforMaui
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
I am doing research today for a new series which feels very much like Edward Gorey meets Potter. Too. Much. Fun. #plotting #amwriting
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Hi #mglit folks! I would be forever grateful if you'd vote for CLARA POOLE on any of these Goodreads lists! Every vote counts! www.goodreads.com/list/book/61775130
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Lists That Contain Clara Poole and the Long Way Round by Taylor Tyng
Goodreads members voted Clara Poole and the Long Way Round into the following lists: Great Girl-Powered Middle Grade Fantasy & Adventure , Adventurous Bo...
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Meet Clara, Hatsu, and Binder—three heartwarming and funny characters from the new middle grade adventure series CLARA POOLE AND THE LONG WAY ROUND from @PixelandInkBks.
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
"A cast of characters you won't forget (high five, Hatsu! Love the hat!), and an adventure of the skies as well as the heart, fans of Middle Grade Fiction will not want to sit this race out!" tinyurl.com/y3mm5bxs
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Taylor Tyng @taylortyng.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
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