I mentioned in my first post that my stories are largely inspired by my own life. This post digs a little deeper into that. I am mainly inspired by my special interests to write. Not always, but a large chunk of my writing stems from my special interests. Here's a little delve into the world of my books...
Rainbow Balloons
Hoo where to start with this one??? Like the story itself, my relationship with balloons and balloon fetishism is a long and complicated one. Basically, my special interest was balloons. I say 'was' because it's a minuscule part of my life at the moment. When I was sixteen, I did a Google search for balloons for the first time. What came up was literally dozens of balloon fetish sites. This caused a lot of upset in my family and, long story short, I ended up moving away.
Fast forward to 2014 and I was wondering what to do with my life. As mentioned before, I had tried many things but nothing seemed to work for me. So I turned to writing. They say 'write what you know' and that's exactly what I did for Rainbow Balloons. It follows Anna, an at the time eighteen year old autistic woman with a passion for balloons. Anna's autism makes her very naive, and she unknowingly goes to work for a balloon fetish website. The story was very loosely based on my own experiences (and I say 'very' loosely as I've never met a 'looner' (balloon fetishist) in real life before.) Poor Anna goes through a lot during the series, and some of the contents within the books may be triggering, but if you want to read it I'll leave a link here.
The Fan
The Fan series was a lot of fun to write, mainly because it is inspired by one of my biggest special interests. I've been obsessed with the children's character Basil Brush since I was ten years old, and honestly the obsession has never gone away. (It's more than okay to like things meant for younger people!) Anyway, as I got older and I found him on Twitter, we've built up quite a friendship. I'm very lucky to have him.
So The Fan follows Amber as she travels halfway across the world to find her idol, Jonas James. Jonas isn't very popular at the start of the series, and Amber helps him find his way back into the spotlight. Jonas and Amber eventually begin a relationship (every fan's dream right?) I love this series and it's become something so much bigger than what it first was. The link for the first book in the series is here
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