T.A. Sturgeon - Author
 | Champagne Hurricane:When an English Designer, Tee A Jackson, is asked to work with a rock band on their album cover, little does she know that within the month her life will change, indefinitely. Becoming caught in a love triangle with the front man of ‘Ea$y’, Max Manley, and his childhood sweetheart, Anna-Lee, she experiences love, hate and loss on a journey she didn’t think possible.From Buckinghamshire to Canada, her world becomes a collection of events, dreams and nightmares, with a man that takes her to the edge of ecstasy and self destruction. Everyone loves the story about sex, drugs and rock n roll, but what’s really happening backstage? When the lights go down, can two hearts survive their gruelling challenges?A love story with lots of attitude, maybe every Rock Star’s other half should read this?
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Writing History of T.A.Sturgeon
1970’s
I find myself reciting poetry at middle school in Christmas Assemblies’. Pam Ayres a particular favourite (and remembered to this day).
1980’s
I start writing poetry in Secondary School, after finding a poem in a Sunday Supplement. An emotionally charged home life gave me reason to lose myself when my mother was being all weird and shouty. Poetry took me away from that. I found it came easy and was prolific. I write some lyrics, silly ditties for birthdays and weddings.
2003-2004
I start my first novel, ‘Champagne Hurricane’, a rock and roll love story, while I’m having an emotional breakdown. The first of a chain of life changing events starts with my father dying and the first husband leaving me, all within 18 months of each other. I’m awarded ‘Runner-up’ in a ‘Writer’s Forum’ magazine competition. I start Aylesbury Art College, as was, and use my poems as part of my finals. It earns me a ‘Distinction’. I find I have enough material to write my first and second book of ‘Pocket Poetry’, ‘Walking My Path’ and ‘Jupiter Child’.
2004-2009
The next 3 books of poetry are written, ‘Two 2 One’, ‘Finding My Roots’, and ‘Moving On’. Relocate to Somerset. The novel is put on the back burner due to a demanding second husband, which ends very badly for me.
2010
Relocate back to Bucks, finding myself with little to show for my time away. I return to my writing, and the novel, ‘Champagne Hurricane’, is finished before the New Year.
2011
Another life changing event in the March leaves me on the verge of another emotional meltdown. I start to write my second novel, ‘Never Forever’, and take a very level headed look at my life. Suddenly, everything has changed, again. Housebound pushes me back into writing, once more, and 2 more volumes of poetry are poured out before the end of the year, ‘Life at the end of the Tunnel’ and ‘Lyrics without a Tune’. A new novel is started, ‘Hold My Soul’, and runs parallel with the second, six others are also dabbled with, but soon fall by the wayside.
I finish ‘Dare To Live’ and two more for the poetry collection are completed, ‘The Last Crusader’, and, ‘Last One Standing’. A tenth is started, ‘The Missing X’, and finished within the month. ‘Hold My Soul’, still in its infancy, is set aside as the rhythm of the ode becomes my favourite again.
At the start of September, Champagne Hurricane is loaded to Smashwords.com and the reception it receives is amazing. The reviews, most worthy of the words I thought no one would ever want to read, had me speechless, and that doesn't happen often. Before the end of the year another two volumes of poetry are finished and the 13th, Unlucky For Some, started.
Testimonials
Wow! This book was fantastic! I could not stop until the end, and what
an end it was ... loved, loved, loved it!
5 Star Review
