DOGS AND SEX
Thursday, November 1, 2012 @ 10:26 AM
DOGS AND SEX
Book buyers, online and conventional, are queuing at bookshops to get their hands on the latest novels. The contents are anything but Mills and Boon.
Kathleen Pugh, a District Nurse (53) has hit the headlines with her explicit fantasy Angel with Black Wings. It is the true to life story of a nurse seducing and then afterwards killing a patient. She is even selling it to her clinic’s clients.
She now faces a Nursing and Midwifery Council misconduct hearing. The free publicity her book is receiving means that for the first time author the outcome is probably irrelevant.
Another book grabbing top sales positions and headlines is a ‘biography’ written, supposedly by a 10-year old Jack Russell terrier called Uggie. The canny canine starred in a movie called The Artist. The book is titled: Uggie: The Artist – My Story. At a book signing buyers receive their books with a printed imprint of the dog’s paw.
Ghost-writer Michael Walsh is amused. “I was once asked to write a story from a dog’s perspective. Called Polo, My Story, it was a pup’s account of being abandoned by owners returning to Britain. Found whimpering at the roadside it was left at an animal rescue centre from where it found new owners. It was a true story and why not.”
Online book sales are soaring to meet demand. He adds, “it can be a tough market but the trick is to make the novel – novel.”