# S5 Ep8: Thomas Taylor Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor.md Podcast: [The Failing Writers Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374) Published: 2025-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/failing-writers/episodes/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66202cf262f822001203895b/e/68667fbf144973acea1db1b2/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor Duration seconds: 2694 ## Resource Hello Children, welcome to another lovely wuvvly episode of The Failing Writers Podcast in association with Scrivener, a podcast for people who love to write and want to move ever closer to the elusive realm of success. In this episode we’re looking at writing done especially for you.  Yes you, my Kiddiewinklepops. All the younger humans upon this little space rock we call Earth. Why? Because we are turning the spotlight on co-host Tommy Turner. He’s been a bit of a naughty boy and not been writing very much recently.  Can you believe that? Oh you can. Well, perhaps with a bit of inspiration from fabulotastimungouscintilliously brilliant middle grade author Thomas Taylor, he of Malamander fame, it might just be our turn to turn Turner into a page turning turn. Let’s see shall we? Righteeho… enough of this bothersome blather…. on with the show… Oh wait… don’t forget that if you want to write like one of those successful, professional writers – get yourself a copy of SCRIVENER! With our super secret magical code, you can get 20% off! Just go to  https://www.literatureandlatte.com  and pop in the code FAILING And for some SUPERB aged 7 – 12-ish books (Although I loved reading it and I’m quite a bit older than 12 – so maybe just ignore the whole age-thing)  check out Thomas Taylor’s Eerie on Sea series: Visit Eerie on Sea here: https://eerie-on-sea.com Buy Malamander here: https://eerie-on-sea.com/about-the-books/malamander/ Check out Thomas and his other stuff here: https://www.thomastaylor-author.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep8-thomas-taylor.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.