Graham Taylor

Background

Taylor grew up in Yorkshire, but moved to London in the 1970s where he worked in the music industry with such bands as The Stranglers, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello and Adam and the Ants.

Education

Taylor completed the manuscript of his first book, Shadowmancer, which he self-published.

Career

Before taking up writing full-time, he was a police officer, motorcyclist and former rock band roadie turned Anglican vicar in the village of Cloughton, North Yorkshire. Taylor has three children and currently resides in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He became involved in the occult, and lived a life that was, in his own words "into all sorts of weird and wonderful things and wasn’t leading a godly life".

Following its launch at Taylor"s local bookshop, The Whitby Bookshop, the title garnered a publishing deal with Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom and General Рractitioner Putnam"s Sons in the United States for a further six novels, following which he resigned his position as parish priest.

His third novel, Tersias was published in the United Kingdom in 2005. In August 2006, Faber published a follow up to entitled The Curse of Salamander Street.

In October 2006, Taylor released The Tizzle Sisters & Erik through Markosia. A mixture of prose and graphic novel that he deemed an "illustronovella", Taylor was joined on the book by collaborators Tony Lee, Dan Boultwood, and Harry Potter artist Cliff Wright.

He also contributed text to a book on the Yorkshire coast by photographer Mark Denton. film In 2008 Taylor signed a deal with film production company Entertainment Motion Pictures (East-Motion) to make a film based the series.

In March 2012 it was announced that the film would star Michael Sheen, Lena Heady, Sam Neill, Ioan Gruffudd, and Aneurin Barnard as. The title was changed to The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box and the film opened in the United States in January 2014 to generally negative reviews.

Achievements

• His second novel, Wormwood, was nominated for a Quill Award.

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Quotations: "into all sorts of weird and wonderful things and wasn’t leading a godly life".