A warm Love bytes welcome to author Teodora Kostova joining us today to talk about her new release “Ten Mile Bottom’.
Teodora talks to us about how the story can to excist and brought a giveaway for our readers!
Welcome Teodora 🙂

It was a beautiful autumn day, and I was driving my BMW down a country road, thinking how much I was enjoying the driving experience on the small, windy road. Until I stopped for lunch in a quaint little pub just outside of a small town in Cambridgeshire called Six Mile Bottom. The car jerked to a halt, an angry red icon in the shape of a wheel flashing on the dashboard.

I wasn’t even mad. I’d had this car for six years now, and it’d left me stranded more than once, costing me a fortune in repairs. And yet, I loved it to death and wouldn’t give it up until it completely died on me.

Why am I telling you all this, you’d ask. Because that was the moment Ten Mile Bottom was born.

I’d had this character, Finn, in my head for a while, but he was too much like me and for a long time I refused to give him a voice. I’m convinced the whole car breakdown was his fault, in retaliation for ignoring him. Long story short, I started writing the notes for the book straight away as I was being driven in the tow truck towards the nearest garage. It turned out, there was nothing wrong with the car, just like in Finn’s case, and after the mechanic explained to me that a pebble probably tripped one of the sensors for a moment, but now it all looked fine, I drove myself home with no issue.

And then, for the first time in more than a year, I wrote. I sat down, opened a Word document and let the words flow. Finn’s story was so similar to my own life that it was terrifying to write, especially his relationship with his mother. It was even more terrifying to publish this story, and let people read it.

But nobody ever achieved anything by hiding inside their comfort zone, so after some encouragement from my early readers, I decided to go for it and publish it. What better way to come back after a year away from the publishing world than with a raw and honest story, right?

Ten Mile Bottom is out now exclusively on Amazon, and available in KU.

 

Hitting rock bottom is just the beginning…

 

I’m a son, a brother, a friend.

A writer.

An addict.

Dead.

Cardiac arrest isn’t enough to keep me dead, though. The doctors brought me back, but for what?

 

At twenty four I’ve already achieved what most people do in a life time. I’m a successful author, own a flat in the heart of London and drive my dream sports car.

Or at least that’s what people see.

Once the spotlight fades, I’m left alone with my overactive mind, alcohol and drugs the only way to quiet down the noise.

Until an overdose nearly kills me and drags everyone I love down with me.

With the help of my best friend, I leave London and its toxic influence behind, moving to a small town in the outskirts of Cambridge to try and put my life back together again.

 

If only it were that easy.

Hi, my name is Teodora and I live in London with my husband and my son. I’ve been writing ever since I can remember, but it became my full time job a few years ago when I decided that everything else I’ve tried bores me to death and I have to do what I’ve always wanted to do, but never had the guts to fully embrace. I’ve been a journalist, an editor, a personal assistant and an interior designer among other things, but as soon as the novelty of the new, exciting job wears off, I always go back to writing. Being twitchy, impatient, loud and hasty are not qualities that help a writer, because I have to sit alone, preferably still, and write for most of the day, but I absolutely love it. It’s the only time that I’m truly at peace and the only thing I can do for more than ten minutes at a time – my son has a bigger attention span than me. When I’m procrastinating, I like to go to the gym, cook Italian meals (and eat them), read, listen to rock music, watch indie movies and True Blood re-runs. Or, in the worst case scenario, get beaten at every Nintendo Wii game by a very inventive kid.

 

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