Howard Tayler - Career

Career

Tayler co-founded an independent record label called Sanctus Records, which was aimed primarily at an LDS market. Tayler also worked for Novell as a project manager, where he co-authored a guide to administering GroupWise.

In 2000, he began publishing his webcomic, Schlock Mercenary. Four years later, Tayler left his job as product line manager at Novell in order to work full-time on the webcomic. By 2009, he was able to make enough from the sales of the compilation books and other merchandise to make ends meet and reduce his weekly workload from 80–100 hours down to 40-50.

He has been a guest of honor at many genre conventions, including Balticon, CONduit, LepreCon, and Life, the Universe, & Everything. His wife, Sandra, is also a published author.

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