Meeting with the lovely author~ JESSICA TAYLOR

(Kelly Kemmerly, Jessica Taylor, and Tawna Taylor)

Catching up over coffee. What happens at Peet's stays at Peet's. 😉

Thank you ladies for the relaxing afternoon and the enlightening conversation. Wonderful to know we share common interests, passions, and dreams. Jessica, I am extremely proud of you and cannot wait to see what lies ahead for you. Whatever it is, it will be phenomenal! Please let me know if I can help with anything! I can be your cheering squad, coffee runner, set up queen, just ask and I'm there.

Much love and gratitude for the book and swag, too!!

XXOO

Kelly

 

Today I had the honor to meet and have coffee with the lovely, Jessica Taylor and her mother Tawna. 

Jessica has written two novels,

Wandering Wild

Synopis:

Raised by Wanderers, sixteen-year-old Tal travels the roads of the southern wild in her Chevy by day and camps in her tent trailer at night. Hustling, conning, and grifting her way into just enough cash to save her fifteen-year-old brother, Wen, from bare-knuckle fighting was once enough to keep her dreams of traveling the whole world at bay. Everything changes when the Wanderers set up camp in a little town called Cedar Falls.

There, Spencer Sway, a boy Tal tried to hustle at a game of billiards, keeps popping up into her life—and worst of all—into her scams. Buttoned-up, starched-and-ironed Spencer talks of places where Tal’s truck can’t take her. His promises of traveling across oceans are almost enough to shatter her love of the Wanderer life.

When a boy shows up at camp, ready to make good on a nearly-forgotten arranged marriage to Tal, Tal and Wen make a pact: No matter the cost, they will use their limitless skills of grift to earn the bride price and buy back her future—even if Spencer Sway gets used along the way.

A Map for Wrecked Girls

 A Fall 2017 Junior Library Guild Selection!
Synopis:
We sat at the edge of the ocean—my sister Henri and I—inches apart but not touching at all. We'd been so sure someone would find us by now.

Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them.

I'd trusted Henri more than I'd trusted myself. Wherever she told me to go, I'd follow.

Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart.

For the first time, I was afraid we'd die on this shore.

To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there’s no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?

 Jessica Taylor adores atmospheric settings, dangerous girls, and characters who sneak out late at night. She lives in Northern California, not far from San Francisco, with a law degree she isn’t using, one dog, and many teetering towers of books.
 

Book ordering info:

 If you pre-order between now and August 14, 2017, send me your receipt and mailing info - I'd love to send you a limited-edition lapel pin. Details at www.jessicataylorwrites.com/preorder-...

xo,
Jessica

A little bit about Jessica Taylor

A MAP FOR WRECKED GIRLS, her first young adult contemporary thriller and a Junior Library Guild Selection, will be published August 15, 2017 by Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House.

Represented by Melissa Sarver White at Folio Literary Management.

Follow Jessica on Twitter at @JessicaTaylorYA, on Instagram at @jessicataylorwrites, and check out her website at www.jessicataylorwrites.com