Really chuffed to be interviewed by Phoebe Morgan for her brilliant and informative The Honest Editor Substack.

You can read it here:

open.substack.com/pub/honested...

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Out now! Red Szell interviews me for the My Life in Books podcast. Available on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

open.spotify.com/episode/0133...

Picture of a book cover showing a sunset behind a house with 2 people in one lit up window. “Always the Husband” by C.L. Taylor

I got it! I can’t wait to dig into this book by @callytaylor.bsky.social! It sounds like my kind of story.

Hope you enjoy it!

The second splendid book I review on the podcast is #ItsAlwaysTheHusband by @callytaylor.bsky.social
#booksky #readsky

Oh that's wonderful. Hope you're doing okay.

Thank you!

In other news...

It's Always the Husband was reviewed in The Times by Joan Smith and she called it clever. Mind blown and day made!

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Lovely to receive a finished copy of my friend @drhelenkara.bsky.social 's 'Writing creatively for work or study'.

I was lucky enough to read an early copy of this book and recommend it to business owners and students who want create memorable copy.

Just £9 on Amazon and in Asda

Jude's boyfriend may have killed his last two wives. Is she next?

Read the book readers can't put down.

Hardback now just £9.

www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Always-H...

Off to Chester for the literary festival this evening. Looking forward to my event with @FionaAnnCummins Hayley Scrivenor and @louiseminchin

Don't give up!

I’ve listened to a *lot* of episodes of Page One, and this episode with @callytaylor.bsky.social is hands down the funniest I’ve ever heard.

💯 worth your time!

Thank you, that makes me very happy!

Thank you, Karl.

It's publication day for It's Always the Husband.

Huge thanks if you've already bought your copy. If you haven't you can grab a copy from Sainsbury's, Asda, Waterstones, Amazon or ask your local independent book shop.

Amazon: bit.ly/4407r1g
Waterstones: bit.ly/4kUjFhH

This podcast was so much fun! Do give it a listen, particularly if you want to know how I bounced back from being dumped by my first publisher.

Spoiler: I did write a bestseller, eventually.... but not for them!

Thank you for coming along!

Thank you so much!!

It's Always The Husband by C. L. Taylor Single mum Jude is relatively new to the area of Lowbridge and doesn't want to become embroiled in school gate politics with the other mot...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#ItsAlwaysTheHusband from @callytaylor.bsky.social and Avon Books UK is filled with lies, deceit, blackmail and murder. I was left reeling trying to keep up with all the twists.

Published 5/6/25

#BookSky #BookBlogger

Reading For Leisure review: tinyurl.com/ms4zwwbh

A huge thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered a copy from Bert's Books!

Not too late to put your order in, but it will be soon!

You'll get a copy, made out to you, with a message from me, signed, a doodle and a bookmark.

And you'll be in with a chance of winning a bookish art print, by me!

Man holding proof copy of a book called It’s Always The Husband by CL Taylor

Going back to my roots slightly and doing a review of the first eleven minutes (ish) of the next @callytaylor.bsky.social novel ‘It’s always the Husband’.

Out 5th June on @avonbooks.bsky.social

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All the pre-order names will be entered into a draw and randomly selected. There will be 25 Bert's Books winners and 25 MM winners. You've won if there's artwork within the pages of your hardback when it arrives!

No correspondence will be entered into etc.

WIN ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY ME!

50 people who pre-order It's Always the Husband from Berts Books or Max Minervas will win a hand painted, numbered & signed watercolour lino print, by me!

'Motherland meets The Staircase'

Pre-order:

maxminervas.co.uk/products/its...

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Having just about calmed down from the ending of #HumanRemains from @jocallaghankat.bsky.social and @simonschusteruk.bsky.social, I’m now ready for more thrills and chills from #ItsAlwaysTheHusband from @callytaylor.bsky.social and Avon Books UK

A graphic image showing the cover of It's Always the Husband and listing the events CL Taylor is doing this year: Sunday 8th July Chester literary festival, Thursday 19th June Tring book festival with Mark Billingham, Friday 20th June Hungerford Book Shop with Mark Billingham, Saturday 21st June Hillingdon libraries cre festival, Saturday 5th July The Book Party Bristol. More information at www.cltaylorauthor.com/events.

Chester, Tring, Hungerford, Hillingdon, Bristol!

If you live in or near any of those places I look forward to seeing you at one of my events this year.

More info: cltaylorauthor.com/events

A graphic image showing the cover of It's Always the Husband and listing the events CL Taylor is doing this year: Sunday 8th July Chester literary festival, Thursday 19th June Tring book festival with Mark Billingham, Friday 20th June Hungerford Book Shop with Mark Billingham, Saturday 21st June Hillingdon libraries cre festival, Saturday 5th July The Book Party Bristol. More information at www.cltaylorauthor.com/events.

Chester, Tring, Hungerford, Hillingdon, Bristol!

If you live in or near any of those places I look forward to seeing you at one of my events this year.

More info: cltaylorauthor.com/events

Annoyingly Blue Sky won't let me share all the books in one post so here are the others.

A HUGE thank you to @andreamara.bsky.social , @lesleykara.bsky.social @nadinematheson.com Claire Douglas @carolinemitchell.bsky.social & @cjcookebooks.bsky.social

Signed copies, made out to you, with a CL Taylor doodle from:

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