Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor was born in Heywood, Lancashire, and lived in the Wirral. He was a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, instructor/student in aikido, and an 'enthusiastic and loud but bone-jarringly inaccurate' piano player. He died in 2023, age 85.
He wrote four books between 1983 and 1986 and built up a handsome rejection file before the third was accepted by Headline to become the first two books of the Chronicles of Hawklan.
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A word from Roger Taylor
Those of you who are unfamiliar with my stories might like to know that though they are categorized as fantasy, they are much more. I take some pains to avoid prophesies, curses, magic artefacts, trolls, elves, dragons, wizards etc. In my opinion Tolkien dealt with these both excellently and definitively and he casts a long shadow.
Those of you who are familiar with my stories will know that while from Dream Finder on, each book stands alone, they also contain slightly disguised characters who are wandering the landscape and the plot for various reasons set in train by the events in the four Chronicles of Hawklan. 'The Return of the Sword' draws many of these characters back together again.