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Taryn Raye

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http://authortarynraye.webs.com/

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Romance

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V.C. Andrews, Tanith Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, fellow authors

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October 2011

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A romantic at heart, my love of storytelling began in childhood with the typical fairytales and my membership at age 10 to the Just for Girls Book Club. I grew up on classics and contemporary tales, but it wasn’t long before my tastes also matured as I ventured into my mother’s stash of Harlequins and Silhouettes, too.

Always an avid reader, I have found that some stories, the ones most near and dear, reside where only I can hear them~ in my heart and my mind. For the majority of my life, those stories remained buried as I put my writing on the back burner to everything else.

There comes a point for writers though, where the desire, the necessity to write, overrides our own logic and reasoning. I couldn’t keep promising myself I would get aro...more

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May Flowers Monday- More #Irises #beauty #flowers #Spring

Yellows have come to join the dark purple and white irises now and the lavender ones aren't far behind (I'll share pictures of them next week).

These yellow ones are some that I transplanted on either side of my front porch not long after I moved here. I honestly didn't know what colors any of them were when I transplanted them, as they had already bloomed earlier in the spring. Imagine my s... Read more of this blog post »

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Eventide (Dark Ink Chronicles #3)

by Elle Jasper (Goodreads Author)

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Shadow Rising (Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon #12)

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Taryn Raye wrote a new blog post May Flowers Monday- More #Irises #beauty #flowers #Spring Yellows have come to join the dark purple and white irises now and the lavender ones aren't far behind (I'll share pictures of them next week). Thes... Read more of this blog post »
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Taryn Raye rated a book 4 of 5 stars Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) by Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 25, 2013 11:23am
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Taryn Raye wants to read The Descendant (City of the Gods, #1) by S.J. McMillan (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 11, 2013 05:29am
Taryn Raye voted on a poll Hello, This is Travis Luedke, author of the Nightlife Series novels, asking for your help. I have a wonderful cover artist: http://amygdaladesign.net/...more She voted for: Cover #3
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Taryn Raye liked Scott-robert Shenkman's review of Once and For All (Sky Cove, #2): " Very rarely do I like a follow-up book better than the first. And I loved the first Sky Cove book. But this…wow. Amazing. I started it this morning and I finished it tonight. I hate it when people say they couldn’t put a book down – it’s so cliché... " Read more of this review »
Feb 07, 2013 06:10am · see review
Taryn Raye rated a book 5 of 5 stars Once and For All (Sky Cove, #2) by Amy Durham (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Feb 07, 2013 06:09am
Taryn Raye rated a book 5 of 5 stars How Hard Can It Be? by Robyn Peterman (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jan 28, 2013 06:15am