Laney Cairo

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Laney Cairo is an ex-pat Londoner, who's settled in very comfortably to the cheaper and warmer Australian lifestyle.

She tried monogamy a couple of times and found it problematic, and has been in a polyamorous relationship with another professional writer for seventeen years. During that time she spent twelve years with a wife as well, possibly the ideal arrangement for a queer woman who is fond of company. Her ex-wife, notably, is not a writer.

Conventional employment proved as tedious as monogamy, and Laney experimented with several career options, including working as Petals the Fairy. She has also been an artist's nude model, and many years later people still approach her and say, "You look really familiar." She and her partner wrote and ran murder mystery dinner parties for a hotel chain in the Nineties, the most lucrative gig possible for a couple of writers. She was once accosted by a Wilderness Society Koala who recognized her from a safe sex workshop she had run. She has managed two bookshops, an employment option otherwise known as "subsidised reading."

Laney is passionate about food, despises bread-making machines as ungodly, makes her own curry paste and is not a vegetarian. She's politically so far to the left she's fallen off the edge of the screen. She's never been arrested, despite years of political activism, and is inordinately proud to be a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence (black veil). She has a spotless driving record, sings atrociously and has a Bachelor of Science.

The trials and tribulations of routine employment have palled with time and Laney now writes full-time, belonging to the Dirty Bathrobe School of Writing. She is owned by one small cat.

Source: http://laneycairo.com/bio

Further Readings:

Bad Case of Loving You by Laney Cairo
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934166685
ISBN-13: 978-1934166680
Amazon: Bad Case of Loving You
Amazon Kindle: Bad Case of Loving You

Matthew is a medical student, trying to ignore his various roommates' wild parties and get through his classes. Andrew is his instructor, a doctor at a prestigious British hospital. They're not supposed to be attracted to each other, but they can't deny their undeniable chemistry. They come together with a heat that surprises them both, and through doctor's strikes, dealing with Andrew's teenaged son, and hospital red tape, Andrew and Matthew learn to live, and love together. Is their relationship just what the doctor ordered?

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Comments

[elena-62.livejournal.com]

I loved ''Bad Case of Loving You'', and I've read also a couple of other good ebooks by Laney Cairo, in particular ''Circle of Change'' was also beautiful, although the Wiccan aspect of it was a bit too stressed for my taste.

Thank you for putting her in the spotlight!

Ciao

Antonella

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I liked The Tockleys too. And Circle of Change was probably among the first transgender stories I have read.

[chrissymunder.livejournal.com]

Laney Cairo has been at the top of my must read list for many, many years with her short stories being as enjoyable as her novels. I'm glad to see her on the spotlight.