This site collects together aspects of my genre writing, from professionally published westerns, to Star Wars fan fiction
and Blakes 7 fan fiction and assorted stories and roleplaying material. People who have read something of mine and enjoyed it can use
this site to find more of my work, or to discover more about the characters and worlds in my fiction.
Comments and suggestions on the fiction and this website are welcome. My e-mail address is at the bottom of this page.
| Westerns |  |
I have had 11 western novels published. This section has plot synopses and info on the writing and stories behind the books. There is also a bibliography of western resources. |
|---|---|---|
| Fan Fiction |  |
I write fan fiction; short stories set in the universes of Blakes 7 and Star Wars. Some stories and art can found on-line here, plus info on how to get hold of others. |
| Original Fiction |  |
This is where to find works of original fiction, short stories and a poem or two. Most is s-f or fantasy related but there's some spooky tales and humour |
| Roleplaying Material |  |
This section has a variety of roleplaying material, including an article on one-off roleplaying, and three frivolous adventures |
I'm going to split this website, moving the fanfic to a site of its own. This may take some time, as I have to get the new domain set up, talking to my web host, and shift everything over there. The new site will be Corellia's Dream.com. At the moment, there's an encoding issue with my current host, which means that quote marks and apostrophes are showing as odd symbols in some stories. It's very annoying and rather tedious to resolve. I will get them sorted out, hopefully as part of the move.
This site - gillian-f-taylor - will be soley for the westerns and some odds and ends like poetry. It will be reorganized and hopefully be a little easier to navigate.
I've added a second short Star Wars story, Worth Waiting for. It's a short, sweet Wedge and Iella fic. Iella think it's most unfair that she should get stomach cramps while she's so heavily pregnant. And Wedge doesn't have the decency to be ill as well.
I've added a new Star Wars story All's Fair ?. It's a short, humourous story, that gives a possible reason why the romance between Wedge and Raina Faleur never worked out. And that reason has the initials W.J.
I have added the second Express Westerns anthology,A Fistful of Legends, which features a short story about Jonah Durrell, the hero of Two-Gun Trouble
I've now done a page on my most recent BHW, The Judas Metal. It's the third and final book about Williams and Hyde, and so forms a trilogy with Cullen's Quest and Hyde's Honour. This time, it's not just the mine that's under threat, it's their friendship. Has one of them betrayed the other for the sake of silver ?
There's lots of information about the process of developing and writing the book. I've taken so long to get around to this that the large print edition has also been published, and this is on the page too.
I've updated the page on Silver Express, which came out at the end of September 2009. and added the cover of the large print edition. I decided to combine my love of the X-wing pilots I write about in my fanfic, with my western novels. Just as I put characters from Blakes 7 into the Darrow books, so pilots now appear as lawmen in Silver Express. Sheriff Alec Lawson and his three deputies, get caught up in a plot involving the theft of silver bullion from trains. As they chase the ruthless thieves, they begin to realize that someone else is at work, and there's a more subtle plan here than simply the theft of the silver. The book climaxes with a shootout atop a runaway train, careering along a winding canyon track.
I have copies of Darrow's Badge for sale. This is the third book in the on-going series about aristocratic, arrogant Sheriff Darrow, and his English deputy, Hugh Keating, who is equally aristocratic, but a disarmingly honest coward.
Hugh is getting married, and Govan is getting busy; there's a carnival, Hugh's brother, Richard, is in town, and so are four thieves, who are most interested in the heirloom jewellery that Richard has brought along for Hugh's wife-to-be....
I have copies of Darrow's Badge, Hyde's Honour, and Navajo Rock available at bargain prices. Thesse books are now out-of-print, but I have copies for sale at £5 each, plus P&P. Autographs free ! I can accept payment by personal cheque (UK sterling), Postal Order or PayPal. Contact me to
find out more.
I am a part-time writer who lives in Sheffield, England, which is the best-kept secret in the Universe. No, really; lots of people come to Sheffield to study and half of them never leave again. I have a joint-honours degree in Archaeology and Ancient History, which has been of no practical use to me whatsoever. At university, I was chair of the roleplaying society and of the medieval re-enactment society. I share my flat with Diesel, a brown cat with a turbo-charged purr, Iella, a red and white Norwegian Forest cat, and Tycho, who is a lilac-point Birman. I don't go to the movies often enough anymore. I've been on the TV quiz show '15-1' three times and I won once. I've appeared in two seasons of Mastermind (2008/2010) winning both first round matches with a flawless specialised subject round. Well, if you'd scored 18 out of 18 on Mastermind - twice - you'd brag about it too. When I grow up, I want to be a racing driver :).
E-mail me with your comments
All original material on this site © Gillian F Taylor. Not to be printed, archived or distributed in any form whatsoever without my written permission.
This website was created by me, Gillian, with Wordpad and HTML 3.2. Thanks to Phil Hyde for advice on relative addressing and Steve Yates
for scanning images and general encouragement. Clip art downloaded from free-graphics.com.
All other credit and blame lies entirely at my door (but I'm never in).