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Latest Taylor Book Just Published: Change Your Life’s Direction

I’m please to announce that Roman & Littlefield has just published my 18th book, Change Your Life’s Direction: Break Free from Your Past Inertia and Chart a Better Future. Here’s a brief summary: Many people think of inertia as an object at rest will stay at rest unless a force is exerted on it, like a […]

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Taylor Inks New Book Deal

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve recently signed a contract with Rowman & Littlefield (the publisher of my last three books) to write my second self-help book. The tentative title is: Change Your life-inertia: Break Free from Your Past and Take Control of the Four Forces that Propel Your Life Trajectory. As the title indicates, I […]

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Taylor’s First Self-help Book Just Published about Crisis

I’m pleased to announce the recent publication of my latest book, and my first in the self-help category, How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: 9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis. Here’s the book description: Few of us go through life without experiencing some sort of crisis, whether health, financial, […]

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Taylor’s Latest Mental Training Book is Now Available

I am so excited to announce that my latest mental training book, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals (Rowman & Littlefield) is now available in hard cover and e-book. Train Your Mind is the culmination of a decades of work with athletes from top juniors to professional and Olympic athletes […]

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Taylor’s Latest Sport Psychology Textbook

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my 3rd edited sport psychology textbook, Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology, by Human Kinetics. Along with a team of 42 experts in the field, Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource that offers both students and professionals the opportunity to hone their skills to help their clients, starting with […]

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Taylor Inks Two New Book Deals!

I’m really excited to announce that I’ve signed two new book contracts with Rowman & Littlefield, the publisher who will be publishing my next book, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success (to be published in August, 2017). The first of the two new books is tentatively titled Prime Sport Parenting: Raising Young Athletes to be Victorious […]

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Help Choose the Cover for My Next Book

My next book, Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence, will be published in a few months. My publisher has provided two wonderful choices for the cover design. We just can’t choose, so we decided to ‘crowdsource’ the decision. Cover #1                             […]

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Taylor’s Latest Book Just Published

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my 14th book, Practice Development in Sport and Performance Psychology. Along with a team of experienced authors, I provide a foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to establish and maintain a consulting business in sport and performance psychology. Says Kate Hays, Ph.D., Past president, APA Division of Sport & Exercise Psychology, “This […]

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Latest News: Taylor Gets #1 Featured Blog Posts on HuffPost Book Page

I’m pleased that my latest Huffington Post blog post, Are Self-Published Authors Really Authors or Even Published?, has received the #1 Featured Blog Posts position on the Book page today.  

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Are Self-published Authors Really Authors or Even Published?

Disclaimer: Four of the 14 books I have written have been self-published with the ready admission that I couldn’t find a traditional publisher to publish them because of their decidedly niche nature. The topic of self-publishing, which I include to mean both printing one’s own books and paying a so-called vanity press, is one that […]

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