My daughter recently started reception at a new school which
has not only meant that is she making new friends, but so am I. So you can
imagine my nervousness after the first few mornings when I finally got asked
the question ‘So what do you do?’. Now don’t get me wrong, I am proud of my
writing and my mum beta reads everything so it’s not like I am in the closet or
anything. But these are the mums that I am going to see pretty much every
morning for the next seven years and I don’t know anything about them. And I
already know that I am probably seen as the crazy mum with the bright pink
hair.
I briefly considered telling them I am in marketing, which
is what my background is in, or that I am a stay-at-home mum, but then I
thought, sod-it, if they can’t handle the truth then I guess they will just
have to suck it up. So cautiously I told them I am a writer which immediately
got them intrigued. ‘What do you write?’ was immediately the next question.
When I told them I wrote saucy novels, thinking that is probably PC enough for
them, I definitely got a few raised eyebrows. But even more so a few of those
secret smiles from people who know exactly what you mean. A couple even went so
far as to ask for my pseudonym and title of my new book, Tied to You.
A few weeks later I know a couple have definitely read a
couple of my books; nothing has been said explicitly but I have had a couple of
smiles and comments here and there so I am guessing underneath the Joules jackets there are
definitely a few kinky chicks out there.
This post was originally published on http://adrianakraft.com/blog on 14 November 2014
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