As the title suggests, this is a brief pause from the food world. I am a writer, as most people who will read this probably know, albeit an amateur one... right now I'm on the third book of my trilogy, page 11 or something, so I still have a way to go. The title of the trilogy is Luxurious Perpendicular's School for the Naturally Erratic, and the books are:
The Perpendicular Pendant
The Golden Heist
The Elegant Murders
(See a theme going on there?) Anyway, I do pride myself on unusual names, taking a leaf out of the book of Derek Landy, that most sacred of authors. However, Luxurious hasn't yet come into it. As well as the names I love to make the characters, and what I would love above all else was for someone to exclaim 'yes! I'm like that too!' because that would say I've done my job in portraying them, or at least show that they have some sort of characteristics.
Note, I say 'someone', but the only person that has read the books yet is my sis and me of course, though that doesn't really count... I would really like to expand my readership empire :) So once I've written a few hundred more pages and finished the last one, I'll let you know! They're quite short (238 and 261 respectively, I think) but did take a lot of thought, smashing keyboards as I realised something didn't work, love and attention to write. Sometimes I read books and think, 'how could you write a character like that? They're so annoying!! (I'm talking to you, Valkerie Cain, amongst others) but I've found you fall for your own characters, annoying or not, as you made them that way. So when my sister goes, 'why can't they become evil and die? They're my worst character' I can chuckle evilly and tap my nose in an infuriating manner, drawling 'you'll have to wait and see what happens'.
So what are they about? I realised I've gone on for a few paragraphs now and have beat around the bush, so to speak. The books are set around a school in a place I imagine a bit like the Lake District, but in a parallel existence. In fact, not much happens at the School itself as that wouldn't be that interesting and would probably read too much like Harry Potter, minus the wands.
At the school there are exactly 100 pupils, and we follow the story of six: Riot, Chazmere, Cal, Sam (girl) Wally and Berligo. The main characters are probably Riot and Chazmere as the first book begins with how they ended up at the school. Chazmere is an orphan and comes from Smith-Smithson's College, with it's evil secretary Mr Sin Kriner. Riot is the only son of a rich Irish family who believe he is hyperactive and send him to various hippie/alternative lifestyle schools to 'balance his inner karma'. Other characters include...
Soprano, head governor at the school.
Forte Nemesis, daughter of the owner of the island on which the school stands
Zacharias, evil worm
Pettifer and Dystopia Storm, Outcasts
Sienna and Alekzanda Elegant, mother and her psychotic son
Xavierino Escapade, petty criminal
Petra Phy, Snow Trekker
Knowbody Knowes, Snow Trekker
And LOADS more, I would tell you more but it would go on for a very long time... more updates on my books later, including frustrations and anything else! Please tell me what you think!!!!
I can't believe XXXXX is evil! Oh, and <3 Aki ;)
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