SARAH STEWART TAYLOR

I was recently giving a talk about my books and an audience member asked me for my top writing tips, the ones I have come to after a lot of trial and error. It was a great question, though I had to think hard to come up with them on the fly. This is not an exhaustive list and I really believe we all need to learn what works for us as individual writers (see tip#1). But here they are, my greatest hits of writing advice: 1. Don't try to be someone you're not. Instead, learn abo

I made my first Bûche De Noël (or Yule Log) ten years ago. It seemed like a fun and creative project with kids — all those cute meringue mushrooms — and I had offered to make a dessert for a holiday gathering. So I searched for a recipe and dove in. Twenty-four hours later I was covered in chocolate and powdered sugar and egg whites. The result was declared delicious by all but I wondered if there was an easier way. The first recipe I used was this one, from Saveur magazine,

I had so much fun working on this piece, about novels where professional detectives try to go on vacation, for CrimeReads. What are you favorite vacation mysteries?

I was so excited to see The Drowning Sea reviewed in Sarah Weinman's crime column in The New York Times. I've been following Sarah's writing for a long time and it was a dream to have my work so thoughtfully considered by her in the pages of the Times! I loved this review in Shelf Awareness by crime fiction maven Oline Cogdill! BookPage had a really nice review of The Drowning Sea in its July issue! Book Reporter also reviewed The Drowning Sea!

Come and say hello! I'm so looking forward to seeing readers again and to saying hello, and signing books, and eating cookies, and just generally being out and about again. And if Zoom is more your thing, I've got some virtual events with fabulous bookstores too. All the details are right here . . .