Meet Taylor, from Suddenly Rural Girl

Dakota Moore is a conflicted teen wrestling with faith and friendship, and each new person she meets brings a new adventure–including this dragon-doodling classmate.

“Did you see what Taylor was wearing?” One of them said
through her nose. “…some skintight black Poet shirt. Like she’s going to a creepy goth funeral.”

But Taylor has a kind heart and some hidden secrets:

She held a sketch notebook in front of her and was doodling. With only a glance, I could tell this girl was some kind of an artist. I slipped past her desk toward my new seat and admired her science-fiction fantasy sketch-
es…

Taylor’s lips parted into a genuine smile, and the melancholy girl next to me was transformed into a beaming teenage girl—who was missing her front left tooth. My eyes shifted briefly to the small dark rectangle
where the tooth should have been, and her wide grin immediately vanished. Taylor pulled in her thin lips, drawing them into a flat line where her smile had just been.

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Dann is an educator, Media & Design Guru, Author, and Public Speaker. He currently serves as Media and Design Specialist at an impressive little Midwestern College where he works directly with faculty to develop effective instructional videos. He has an MFA in Digital Cinema from California's National University, a BSED in English and Theatre Education from the University of South Dakota, and a certificate in Online Education from UW Stout. He was founder and principle owner of Little Prompter, LLC, a teleprompter design and manufacturing company until he sold the company in 2020. Prior to joining Carleton's staff, he taught communication, theatre, and video production for approximately 15 years while working as a professional actor and director--appearing in over forty national and regional commercials and directing and editing dozens of videos and musicals. Dann’s MFA thesis project involved writing and directing an original, full-length musical, filming the entire development and production process, and editing it into an educational DVD entitled How to Write and Produce Your Own High School Musical. His DVD is currently being distributed by Films Media Group. His debut YA Christian Fiction novel, Suddenly Rural Girl, is published through Kirk House Publishing.

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