I went to the kind of school that judged
you on your academic prowess. I was okay. Not particularly brilliant, but not
bad. I got by. So the school didn’t get excited about me. I wasn’t headed for a
brilliant academic career, at least they classed me like that.
I could get by without doing too much work.
So I started to play around, sag off, as we called it. I got my essays in on
time, parsed whatever Latin they wanted and slipped away. I became adept at
being in two places at the same time, playing people off against each other.
Very naughty. But I’ve never been good at
obeying the rules.
At night I went to discos, and lots of
concerts. I saw bands, and sometimes I was lucky enough to get backstage. In
those days it was a bit more chaotic. I made Alice Cooper a cup of tea, or
rather, Vince Furnier, who is a completely different person. Honest he is. I
met other people, rock stars and then I dated a roadie. He wasn’t the type of
roadie with no teeth and baggy, filthy jeans. Even then they were a dying
breed. He had several vehicles, equipped with specialist storage equipment for
the ultra-expensive instruments. I met some really famous people, who turned
out to be, shock, horror, real people.
Who would have thought that my profligate
youth would have worked out so well? But my first contemporary romances were
about a rock band, who happened to be shape-shifters. The Pure Wildfire series has been a constant seller ever since and now
it’s been joined by the Nightstar series.
Each book is about a different member of the band, but the background is as
authentic as I can make it. The reviews and responses seem to say that it’s
worked. Sail to the Moon is getting a
fantastic response, and Born To Be Wild, about
the band’s Japanese-American keyboard and guitar genius is out next week at
Ellora’s Cave.
So now I have to dream up another band. Any
ideas? Should I go paranormal again, or straight contemporary? Either way it’s
going to be a hell of a ride!
So who says a misspent youth can’t work
out?
You can buy Born to be Wild here from Friday http://www.ellorascave.com/born-to-be-wild.html
My website is http://lynneconnolly.com
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