Carol Taylor

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Carol Taylor is a 2-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author

Carol Taylor, a former Random House book editor, has been in book publishing for over two decades and has worked with many of today’s top black writers. Carol has been featured in Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, Honey, BET, Heart and Soul, The Boston Globe, The Daily News, The Chicago Sun-Times and Publisher's Weekly among many other publications. She has also appeared on BET Tonight with Ed Gordon and ABC Eyewitness News. Carol has written nine books and also teaches the editing and publishing process, and creative writing at City College and New York University (NYU) in their publishing certificate programs.

She is the editor of the bestselling Brown Sugar series. You can find her relationship column, Off the Hook: Advice on Love & Lust at BrownSugarBooks.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.  You can reach her at Carol@BrownSugarBooks.com

Taylor is also the co-founder and editor with Edit 1st, AALBC’s manuscript editing service.  She is also an AALBC book reviewer.

Learn more at Carol Taylor’s official website


Carol Taylor has Written 27 Book Review(s) for AALBC.com
  1. Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens by M.J. Fievre
  2. Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams by Yvonne Orji
  3. Bibsy by Brenda Ross
  4. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  5. Blind Light by Glenda R. Taylor
  6. Dear Mary, Dear Luther by Jill Marie Snyder
  7. Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned In Kindergarten by Kevin Wayne Williams
  8. Finding Heaven in the Dark by William L. Ingram
  9. Fool Me Thrice: Money Changes Everything by Dean Conan
  10. Granddaddy by Cavis Adams
  11. Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village by Carrolyn Pichet
  12. How To Knock A Bravebird From Her Perch (The Morrow Girls) by D. Bryant Simmons
  13. Life AFTER the Down Low by Ingrid M. Ellis
  14. Life Is A Canvas by Joy Elan
  15. Martin Luther King Bullavoid by Etta B. Harbin
  16. Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life by C. Nicole Mason
  17. My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections And Precious Memories by Carrolyn Pichet
  18. My View From The Summit (Vfs) by Nicole Thomas
  19. Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love by Jonathan Anthony Burkett
  20. Once Upon a Lie by Michael R. French
  21. Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels by Sharon Bennett & Beatrice Moore
  22. Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer
  23. Tales Of A Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging The Juvenile Justice System One Book At A Time by Marybeth Zeman
  24. Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna by Carrolyn Pichet
  25. The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones by Wendy Jones
  26. White Gold by W. B. Garvey
  27. Wounded by Ben Burgess Jr.

10 Books by Carol Taylor