Women loved to be scared – Women want chick lit with a dark side

With the imminent release of Caffeine Nights Publishing’s first novel ‘Tripping’ (ISBN:0955407001) by Darren E Laws, the author has spoken of the motivation behind writing novels that have acquired a large female readership.

“I had to ask the question whether women actually like reading visceral, edge of the seat thrillers, and the answer is yes.” Darren E Laws explained what inspired him to write ‘Tripping’. “I wanted to move chick lit to a darker place. From the feedback I received with Turtle Island when it was originally published back in 2003, I realised that women enjoy dark and thrilling fiction and that there is a large female audience out there who are growing tired of lightweight books on ‘shopping and babies’. If you read a saga novel you understand the female appetite for things a little darker.”

Whether this fascination with darker edgier fiction is a result of modern society or something that has always been simmering in the female psyche is only answerable by women themselves, but the desire to read biographical heartbreak such as the David Peltzer books or gangland fiction by Martina Cole shows a definite appetite exists.

Darren concluded. “It’s strange, I wrote Turtle Island believing it would be read mostly by men. Maybe it’s just that women are more open minded and read a good cross section of books. But, I honestly think they love going to a dark place for a while; they love being scared or challenged with their fiction. So I wrote ‘Tripping’ which is essentially a chick lit book but with a dark side, to broaden the genre and feed the hunger.”


Caffeine Nights Publishing publishes ‘Tripping’ on April 10
Advance review copies are available by contacting CNP through any of the channels below.

Tripping – Chick lit has a dark side…
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Caffeine Nights Publishing
Based in Kent and publishing contemporary and crime fiction. Tripping is the first publication from Caffeine Nights Publishing. We aim to make you laugh, thrill you, scare you, have you on the edge of your seat with your fingers gripping the pages tightly, but most of all, we want to entertain you with fiction aimed at the heart and the head…

Tripping

Tripping is a surreal black comedy drama that looks at the lives of four friends and how the ripple effect of an event at university comes back to haunt them over a decade later. Samantha arrives in London for a reunion with three university friends, but she is hiding a secret with a ten-year history that has touched and irrevocably changed the lives of her friends, even if they don’t quite know it yet. The story charts the lives of the four girls who at university have the world at their feet. Ten years later they have become women searching for the most elusive of dreams…happiness.
A modern fable that explores the complexities of life’s most intricate paradox, balancing the mundane world of shattered dreams with secrets, lies and deception. Tripping is a step into a modern day wonderland. The events of a hot summer week in May during their reunion will change their lives forever.
Tripping is available in paperback
RRP: £7.99

Author Biography*

Born in East London, Darren now lives in Kent with his wife, Natalie, numerous goldfish and a hamster. Currently sampling every form of Whisk(e)y available, Darren divides his time as a public relations executive and a night-time novelist.
Tripping is the second novel from Darren E Laws. His first novel, a crime thriller published in 2003, called Turtle Island will be republished by Caffeine Nights Publishing in the summer of 2007 in a reedited special limited edition hardback version and standard paperback version. Turtle Island is the first novel in the Georgina O’Neil series.
*A fuller author biography is available upon request

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