Katie in Love
by
Chloe Thurlow
@ChloeThurlow1
Good erotica is subtle, restrained,
illusive. A woman lowering the strap of her dress is far more sensual than a
pair of 42D monster breasts bouncing across the page like weapons of mass
destruction.
Good erotica doesn't tell the reader what's
erotic. It shows by scenes evolving through plot, action, descriptions without
cliché. George Orwell says if you write a line (on a level playing field,
stepping up to the plate, read my lips) that has been used before by other
writers and speakers, cross it out, be inventive, push the boundaries. It's
hard work. That's where good writing comes from, digging in the garden of originality.
My favourite author is Anaïs Nin. If you
read her work, it is as fresh as if her books slid off the printing presses
five minutes ago. For erotic writers, she is the beacon on the darkest night.
Follow her guide and you will be safe from the sirens just below the surface.
With this in mind, and a cork board covered
in scraps of quotes and advice from the Dalai Lama (spend some time alone every
day), I fell over on the ice, broke my little finger and started writing in a
moment of distraction a new novel that became Katie in Love.
That was more than a year ago. The news then,
as now, was filled with wars, the financial crisis, global warming, people
trafficking. My little finger was strapped up in blue tape and Katie, my
heroine, meets Tom at a New Years Eve party – there alone having chucked her
boyfriend at the most inauspicious time of the year.
Katie feels after the first time she make
loves with Tom that something is changing inside her like litmus paper dipped
in the oils of love. She imagines she has been wearing a mask half her life
(she likes masks) and now, she looks at herself, her past, her faults and
failings, the world around her falling into a state of chaos, and isn't sure if
love is appropriate, or what she secretly wants.
My earlier novels were published by Xcite
and Random House. This time I decided to go Indie. I had a list of about 700
titles before realising that Katie in Love was the only title. I had four
editors look at the early drafts, worked on the cover (something publishers
insist on doing themselves) and feel an enormous joy and a little pride now the
book is out there like a little red bird released from my
soul.
Katie Boyd has nothing in common with Tom Bridge, the volunteer doctor she meets at a party – except in bed she finds a passion to match her own. Tom is intense, puzzling, a man who cares about others and compels Katie to question her own life drifting through the hip clubs and London party scene.
Katie Boyd has nothing in common with Tom Bridge, the volunteer doctor she meets at a party – except in bed she finds a passion to match her own. Tom is intense, puzzling, a man who cares about others and compels Katie to question her own life drifting through the hip clubs and London party scene.
When Tom returns to his post in a Sri Lanka
orphanage, Katie isn’t sure if their passion was lit by its brevity, or if
love, unexpected and not entirely wanted, has edged its way into her life.
Should she go back to being who she always was? Or follow Tom into the unknown?
Katie in Love is a compelling
erotic-romance that will grip readers as they follow Katie’s journey to an
ending they may have expected – but not in the way they expected it.
Brilliantly written and coolly self-aware,
Chloe Thurlow was described by KM Dylan on Amazon as
“…the Anaïs Nin of our
times.”
With Katie in Love – her sixth
novel
Thurlow reveals a writer at the height of her powers.
Chloe Thurlow's novel Girl Trade became an
Xcite Books best-seller and has been translated into Spanish and Polish. She
moved from West London to East London, where the rents are cheaper and the
saving means broken streets, a fall, a fractured finger and her new novel, Katie
in Love.
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