Valerie Taylor is not a USA Today best-selling author. She does not have a master’s degree in literature. She does consider herself a typical “average Jane” who might remind you of a reclusive neighbor who fancies herself a novelist.

Valerie is the award-winning author of the romantic comedy trilogy: What’s Not Said, What’s Not True, and What’s Not Lost. The inspiration for those novels, as well as the first two cozies in the Venus Bixby Mystery series—A Whale of a Murder and Switched at Death—most likely sprouted from her early years watching Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and The Twilight Zone. Her love of oldies music stems from hours listening and dancing to Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and being in the Bobby Darin fan club.