Ask the Author: Laura Lyndhurst
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Laura Lyndhurst
I don't live a very mysterious life, I'm afraid; maybe that's why I write, to add a bit of mystery! Having said that, my husband is investigating our ancestry and has found more than one ancestor linked to mysterious happenings; murder, mayhem and mixed-race heritage, there's a lot back up the family tree that could be the plot for a book, if only all the facts could be found.
Laura Lyndhurst
Hi Linda, glad to meet you on Goodreads. I only joined in May this year, and like you I'm now in touch with people from around the world; and I'm loving it.
My book, 'Fairytales Don't Come True', was written as a comment on the amount of students now financing degree studies through sex work. An innocent student, Magdalena, thinks she's found it all when she meets, falls in love with and enters into a sexual contract with Teddy, a multi-millionaire businessman. However, the reality turns out to be very different. Enough said.
If you decide you fancy trying it, it's free on Kindle Unlimited, if you have that, or as e-book or paperback on Amazon. I'll probably be having a free giveaway day soon, so if you fancy an e-copy for free I'll be advertising it.
It's good to be in touch with you and I hope you make many friends and find many good books on Goodreads.
Very best wishes,
Laura
My book, 'Fairytales Don't Come True', was written as a comment on the amount of students now financing degree studies through sex work. An innocent student, Magdalena, thinks she's found it all when she meets, falls in love with and enters into a sexual contract with Teddy, a multi-millionaire businessman. However, the reality turns out to be very different. Enough said.
If you decide you fancy trying it, it's free on Kindle Unlimited, if you have that, or as e-book or paperback on Amazon. I'll probably be having a free giveaway day soon, so if you fancy an e-copy for free I'll be advertising it.
It's good to be in touch with you and I hope you make many friends and find many good books on Goodreads.
Very best wishes,
Laura
Laura Lyndhurst
Write because that's what you want to do, and write what you want to write. Don't write something you don't believe in, just because that's what the market appears to want and which will potentially sell. Don't think about making money because that's difficult to do. Write to get a readership and, if what you get is only small, they will be people who want to hear what you've got to say; gold dust.
Laura Lyndhurst
I don't stress too much if I don't have any ideas for a while, as writing is only a part of those things which occupy me daily. But there are times when the ideas come thick and fast, so I tend to have a pad and pen with me at all times, just in case. I've been up in the middle of the night, typing on my laptop on the bathroom floor, so as not to disturb my sleeping husband, just so that I won't have forgotten the idea I've just had by morning. I've also spent time writing frantically, and messily, in the passenger seat of the car whilst my husband drives us somewhere for a weekend away.
Laura Lyndhurst
'The Mistress's Revenge' by Tamar Cohen; it sounds just the kind of thing I like!
Laura Lyndhurst
The third volume of a trilogy, of which 'Fairytales Don't Come True' is the first volume. I've already written the second, 'Degenerate, Regenerate', which just requires some editing; it was supposed to be a sequel, but during the rewrite of 'Fairytales' I introduced a character who makes a third volume possible. I've only got about ten thousand words so far, but at least I've got plenty of time as 'Fairytales' is only just published and I'll need to get some readers for that before I publish 'Degenerate'.
Laura Lyndhurst
I was concerned to see that there are university students who are becoming sex workers, through 'sugar-daddies' or at other levels, to fund their degrees. So I created Mags, an innocent who thought this was a good idea and got into a bad situation. She recounts her tale, a kind of 21st-century 'harlot's progress'.
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