Elle Lexi Holmes interview

AUTHOR INTERVIEW


A little introduction:

Elle Lexi Holmes is a writer, actor and artist based in London. She grew up running wild in the mealie fields of Cape Town, made a career as an advertising copywriter and has just published her first novel, Tanda Lula, that tells the story of a traumatised white child in apartheid South Africa who seeks sanctuary in books – and a forbidden black township.


When did your love of books begin?

I had a challenging childhood, so I built a metaphorical padded cell out of paperbacks. This ultimately saved my sanity.


When did you start to have the wish to become an author?

Reading was surviving. Readers can write. I suppose writing has always been as essential as breathing, to me. Novel writing just flowed on from copywriting.


How have you found the process for becoming an author?

Hard. I am not afraid of the blank page, and I can discipline myself to write 1,000 words a day to get a first draft down. What is hard is the editing and the publishing. Granite hard.


What would you say to those wanting to become an author?

Put your soul on paper. And hang the rest.


Tell us about your book/books:

Tanda Lulu

Indifference made her a survivor. Love made her an outlaw.

Monstrously self-absorbed parents abandon a white child in Africa. Navigating abuse, 1970s misogyny, AIDs, and apartheid, Tanda Lula finds purpose, love and belonging in a most unlikely (and forbidden) place.

Tanda Lula is available on Amazon, free for Kindle Unlimited.


What do you love about the writing/reading community?

The kindness and support without prejudice.


If you could say anything to your readers what would it be?

Thank you – writing can be desolate … each reader makes it a little less so.


Where can people connect with you?

TWITTER - @FatFckd50To5K


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