John Taylor (69)

[from Author House website]
John and Joy Taylor spent eighteen years as managing editors of ERC Today, a monthly newspaper published for Litton Systems based in Woodland Hills, California. At its peak, the ERC Today distribution was over 4,000 copies. Joy was employed as executive secretary in the Litton organization. John was technical writer for Litton Guidance and Controls and Litton Computer Services and was the training manager for Litton Guidance and Controls Materiel Directorate as well as administrator of a major main-frame purchasing system. He also served as a software developer, systems analyst and later as computer consultant.

John and Joy published Wake Up America, a book on food and nutrition, circa 1980. They also published Someone Up There Can Cook, a stand up cookbook of easy-to-prepare recipes for the average cook, which was sold locally in Southern California. In 1992 John published JT Kooks, an “online” cookbook for Microsoft Windows, sold in the western United States.

After retiring and moving to Oregon in 1998, John and Joy published Birding Hotspots in Southern Oregon. This three-year project covered prime birding locations and maps to all seven southern counties of Oregon. This labor of love has been featured in Medford and Grants Pass newspapers and has been widely distributed as far east as New Jersey. The book is currently being sold through commercial bookstores as well as Audubon Society bookstores from Portland to Ashland Oregon. Birding Hotspots in Southern Oregon was widely accepted by experts as the only current, detailed birding locater for all seven southern counties in Oregon.

John worked for the state of Oregon, and the Bureau of Land Management to create their annual reports, circa 2000. In 2001, John published Poetry and Passion, a compilation of poems over a forty-year span.

The Cuisine of Historic Wolf Creek Inn debuted in 2004, which John and Joy co-authored with Dean Kasner, Inn Keeper and Executive Chef of Wolf Creek Inn. This unique cookbook, was sponsored by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. In addition, the authors are working on Reflections, an autobiography, and JT Cooks 2, an update of the original 1992 online cookbook.