Taylor MacDowell

Historical Fiction

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About Me

I've always loved historical fiction: Michener, Frazier, Auel, Gabaldon. So when my search into genealogy started my mind wandering about what might have influenced my ancestors, I naturally started weaving "what ifs" into their lives. It seemed more honest to start writing fiction. So, here I am.

Recent Posts

  • The forest wilderness
  • Welcome to Indiana Territory
  • Shiny New Idea
  • And finally… the conclusion
  • Words 301-400

Blogs I Follow

  • The Kitchen’s Garden
  • A Smile and A Gun
  • Jane Austen’s World
  • The Prairie Ecologist
  • Living History Farms
  • The Girdle of Melian
  • A Year in the Life of a Farmer
  • In Cold Ink
  • Lincoln Highway News

Audios

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The internet of the 30s

As you read this, I am without cell signal and internet, deep in the remotest reaches of the world, otherwise known as East Texas. So, I’ve been thinking a bit about what folk’s in Rose’s time did to unwind after a hard day in Continue reading →

April 24, 2017macdowelltaylor humor, music, radio 2 Comments
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Viewer Discretion is Advised

WARNING: The following contains sexual content not suitable for some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. 

If music came with the disclaimers we’re used to seeing on our television programs, the 1930 hit by Louis Armstrong, Body and Soul, would have come with the above warning. It was, after all, banned from the radio for almost a year¹ Continue reading →

March 14, 2017macdowelltaylor jazz, music, radio 2 Comments
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A Little Christmas Music

Only three more days until Christmas. Are you ready?

Rose is. She finished up Harold’s gift—embroidered hankerchiefs—yesterday, and, today, she and Harold chose and cut their modest pine. Of course, she’s done crafting her ornaments and is settling in, just now, to trim the tree.

Cue the Christmas music. Continue reading →

December 21, 2016macdowelltaylor Christmas, jazz, music 3 Comments
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Working title: Moonlight and Roses

Titles are difficult. Not only that, but conventional wisdom says the book’s title can best be determined after the book is finished.

But it has to be called something in the meantime, right? If only so one can preface that terrifying question that comes after one admits to writing a novel: “What’s it about?”

So, what, you ask, does moonlight and roses Continue reading →

October 11, 2016macdowelltaylor music 3 Comments

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