Louisa Toff - The Truth
Today’s blog entry has been written by Louisa Toff herself. She believes it is time to tell the truth so here it is:
People are always asking me how all the trouble at Toff Towers started and why I decided to go public about it in a book. The truth is “Trouble At Toff Towers” didn’t actually start out as a book at all. In the beginning I was writing a column, “Rigid Bones’s Diary”, for a comedy website. The website came to an end long before my traumas, trials and tribulations did (sometimes I think they never actually will) so I simply kept on writing. When it came to deciding on a title for the book I almost stuck with “Rigid Bones’s Diary” but it sounded somehow familiar so I went with “Trouble At Toff Towers” in the end.
In any case it seemed to me that the time was right for a new kind of heroine. A heroine with “experience” and “maturity”, both of which I possess in spades of course. I am at that age when some of us find we have become “The Invisible Woman”. Well, now “The Invisible Woman” has a face – mine! Oh yes. Women of a certain age will certainly identify with me. You see, we’ve reached that time of life where we are finally secure in our insecurities. I was talking to my Analyst, Di Laffin, about it just the other day…
…I was feeling a tad peeved about the recent success of another rather “colourful” book and wondering why so called “erotica” sells so well. “Never mind”, said Di. “You have a genre all of your own: Neurotica”! Ha!
Actually, I believe younger readers can identify with me too. After all they are experiencing exactly the same celebrity culture that I am doing my best to survive. And young people are absolutely mad on social networking, aren’t they? Well, you only have to look at my large, loyal and lovely Twitter following to see that I’m pretty popular with all ages.
Yes, that’s right; I am popular. I make no bones about it. But I don’t believe for one moment it’s because of my beauty, wealth or undeniable celebrity status. Oh no. Readers of “Trouble At Toff Towers” love me because underneath all that I have bravely dug deep and shared some of my painful past with them. It was on the advice of Di Laffin of course. I couldn’t survive without her or my PR Agent, Sue Perdooper.
So, I am continuing to document my daily doings and dishing all the dirt in the Toff Towers trilogy. I plan to publish “Trouble At Toff Towers II – Another Heap” in the autumn and a third book will follow. Of course I know how it all ends because it actually happened to me. No wonder I’m a tad neurotic. Well, wouldn’t you be?
People are always asking me how all the trouble at Toff Towers started and why I decided to go public about it in a book. The truth is “Trouble At Toff Towers” didn’t actually start out as a book at all. In the beginning I was writing a column, “Rigid Bones’s Diary”, for a comedy website. The website came to an end long before my traumas, trials and tribulations did (sometimes I think they never actually will) so I simply kept on writing. When it came to deciding on a title for the book I almost stuck with “Rigid Bones’s Diary” but it sounded somehow familiar so I went with “Trouble At Toff Towers” in the end.
In any case it seemed to me that the time was right for a new kind of heroine. A heroine with “experience” and “maturity”, both of which I possess in spades of course. I am at that age when some of us find we have become “The Invisible Woman”. Well, now “The Invisible Woman” has a face – mine! Oh yes. Women of a certain age will certainly identify with me. You see, we’ve reached that time of life where we are finally secure in our insecurities. I was talking to my Analyst, Di Laffin, about it just the other day…
…I was feeling a tad peeved about the recent success of another rather “colourful” book and wondering why so called “erotica” sells so well. “Never mind”, said Di. “You have a genre all of your own: Neurotica”! Ha!
Actually, I believe younger readers can identify with me too. After all they are experiencing exactly the same celebrity culture that I am doing my best to survive. And young people are absolutely mad on social networking, aren’t they? Well, you only have to look at my large, loyal and lovely Twitter following to see that I’m pretty popular with all ages.
Yes, that’s right; I am popular. I make no bones about it. But I don’t believe for one moment it’s because of my beauty, wealth or undeniable celebrity status. Oh no. Readers of “Trouble At Toff Towers” love me because underneath all that I have bravely dug deep and shared some of my painful past with them. It was on the advice of Di Laffin of course. I couldn’t survive without her or my PR Agent, Sue Perdooper.
So, I am continuing to document my daily doings and dishing all the dirt in the Toff Towers trilogy. I plan to publish “Trouble At Toff Towers II – Another Heap” in the autumn and a third book will follow. Of course I know how it all ends because it actually happened to me. No wonder I’m a tad neurotic. Well, wouldn’t you be?
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