Teenager writer follows dream to scribble, publish her very own novel.

How to Write a Book

Dale Myers

08 September 2008

Taylor Joseph made a decision to skip that route and instead found a book publisher.

The Canton girl's 1st novel, The Crossing, will be out on book shop shelves beginning Oct one. The concept for the novel was hatched 2 years back when Taylor, a Salem high school sophomore, caught a news bulletin on illegal immigration.

"A lot of my buddies are dazzled that I wrote a book," she smiled.

"I have always hankered after to be a writer and

'...Taylor Joseph made a decision...'

when I told my pa, he instructed me to go for it and follow my dreams.". Taylor's dad, Lawrence, assisted her complete the book and is overseeing Taylor's budding career. "I knew the book had tons of potential and after reading it, I'd a feeling about it but I never knew it would probably take off like this," he claimed. Lawrence expounded the novel has gotten a good reply from those that have read its 199 pages. "We have a pair buddies who would not hesitate to damage our feelings if they believed it was bad," he claimed. Taylor, who wrote her 1st book when she was eight, asserted she never had any doubts about introducing The Crossing to the globe. "I told myself that if I wrote this, I wanted it out for the public," she announced. As she leafs thru the pages of The Crossing, Taylor, who loves basketball and being with her buddies, grins when debating her future and claims she would not mind staying in the literary world or changing into a nurse or a screenplay writer or a voice over for films. "Everyone has been so supportive," the teenager announces. Taylor Joseph, fifteen, of Canton chats about her book The Crossing, which is set for a state release this October.

JohnnyAngel said:
Cumbie's family moved to Racine, her mummy's hometown, from California whn she was 3 years old. ?
08 September 2008 19:31:06

Ryder Abbott said:
Working with the company would improve a reacute;sumeacute ; tarnete at a teaching career, since Kids Talk Story is getting nods from the Office of Education. !
09 September 2008 18:04:17

Sine270 said:
The late, great Teo Macero, Miles Davis's producer, was one such.
11 September 2008 00:52:11

Mauricio Jennings said:
His poDtry is so pretty, so full of ease and grace as to appear simple, each sentence lovingly made. ?
11 September 2008 10:20:08

NV38 said:
But without the physical effortwanted to keep a business running, he got fat, in spite of smoking three packs of cigarettes.
18 September 2008 01:59:58

Fisher said:
My best wishes with it .
18 September 2008 19:36:32

Khalil Morin said:
I can't seem to control my mind except to say great post .
25 September 2008 04:48:36

Isaac Dillon said:
"I lived outside of the city and I didn't have a vehicle, so I rambled round the woods lot, tried to work ot if Bigfoot existed, methods to make the world a better place, why God made zits all that sort of standard stuff.".
17 November 2008 18:17:39

Holden Vickers said:
I feel like adding Q What is your routine these days, and what do you suspect abo)t Jerk, CalifJrnia when youread it now? Regularly I am getting a paragraph done, but if it is a paragraph that feels real -- that is my test, does this feel emotionally real -- it might just be a paragraph a day, but I am an euphoric camper at 4 o'clock.
07 January 2009 19:00:55

Gaven Cash said:
Morrow sent a film crew to Salem to make a video of csenes debated in the book, as well as a lacemaker. !
11 January 2009 15:19:32

Jefferson Turner said:
Adults are shockingly distant in these girls ' lives. ?
08 February 2009 11:22:49

Tyshawn said:
Aha the 3 word version. I'll pass ta !
07 June 2010 19:48:49

saunaboy said:
Fans of comic fiction might not be unsatisfied.
31 July 2010 15:18:19