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November, 2024 Excerpt from The Historical Novel Society This evocative novel is everything a reader could want in a family saga: love, loyalty and secrets, which, through seemingly necessary lies,…

Barbara J. Taylor, author from Scranton, speaking with WVIA’s News Director Julie Sidoni, about her new novel titled, “Rain Will Break No Bones,” a Kaylie Jones Bookissued by Akashic Books. Listen…

Excerpt from interview Curtis Smith: Congratulations on Rain Breaks No Bones. It’s a great read. This is the final book in your Scranton trilogy. Can you discuss the process of writing a…

Excerpt from The Times Tribune Scranton author Barbara J. Taylor is launching the last book of her well-reviewed Scranton Trilogy with a reading at Lace Village, the recently rehabbed historic…

Excerpt from The Collagist There’s a scene near the end of All Waiting is Long by Barbara J. Taylor where Lily, one of the main characters, is attending a lecture hosted by…

Excerpt from The Historical Novel Society Sisters. Good relationships or bad, they are fraught with rivalry, jealously, and loyalty. Such it is with Violet and Lily Morgan. After Lily becomes…

Excerpt from Publishers Weekly Set in the 1930s, Taylor’s suspenseful and intricate follow-up to Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night tells the story of sisters Violet and Lily Morgan. When 16-year-old…

Excerpt from The Historical Novel Society Barbara J. Taylor’s debut novel is the moving story of a family from Scranton, Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century. Scranton is located…

Excerpt from Publishers Weekly I adore scrappy Violet, the eight-year-old protagonist of this novel, who is blamed by just about everybody in Scranton, a hardscrabble, blue-collar town in Pennsylvania’s coal…

Excerpt from Publishers Weekly A family legend inspired Taylor to shine a spotlight on her hometown of Scranton, Penn., in her debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night. Your…