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Roger Erskine Longrigg (born Edinburgh, May 1, 1929) was the son of Brigadier Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. He married Jane Catherine Chichester, daughter of Marcus Beresford Chichester and Myra Brownrigg Jay, on 20 July 1957. Three daughters: Laura Jane Longrigg b. 21 Jun 1958, Frances Angelica Longrigg b. 26 Mar 1961, Clare Selina Longrigg b. 23 Aug 1963. He died on 26 February 2000. ROGER LONGRIGG was the author of 55 books. There is nothing unique about this statistic. Many writers have achieved a similar output. What was unique was that the authorship of each was concealed behind one of eight different noms de plume. Even more remarkable was that the books in each different category were financially profitable.
Readers of the busty Scottish historical novels supposedly written by Laura Black would have been surprised to know that Rosalind Erskine, creator of the saucy The Passion-Flower Hotel (1962), came from the same stable. Or that Ivor Drummond, the Ian Fleming lookalike, was the author of The History of Horse Racing (1972).
The Passion-Flower Hotel (1962) is a proto-Jackie Collins’ story of how some 15-year-old nymphets establish a brothel in their gym to cater for boys from a nearby school and rapidly became a bestseller; though it soon emerged that Rosalind wasn’t all she pretended to be. In reality she was Oxford-educated Roger Erskine Longrigg, the son of a brigadier.
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First Book - A High-Pitched Buzz (1956) as Roger Longrigg
Last Book - The History of Horse Racing (1972) as Roger Longrigg
Source: The Independent (London), Mar 1, 2000 by Graham Watson
Writing as Abra Taylor, Barbara Brouse was one of the world’s bestselling romance writers—an author renowned for evoking an emotional depth and drama not seen at that time in contemporary romance. As an author in the early eighties, she was also part of a romantic revolution, one of a group of writers who injected new realism into bigger and bolder love stories. Little wonder then that Barbara was asked to write Harlequin’s very first Superromance novel, 
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Band Fags! (and actually being a Band Fag doesn’t mean you are gay, it means you are one of those kids who tags along with all the other kids in the high school band, and usually they are not exactly the most popular kids in the school…) is probably the first “real” coming of age novel I have read; it’s centred around Brad and Jack, band fags and best friends all though-out high school, and even if the external reader can easily see that both of them are gay, they don’t know, or at least Jack doesn’t know or better doesn’t want to know. 
What I want to highlight is that, even if Jack is gay, he is also “in-the-making”: he is still trying to understand himself, to put together all the pieces of his existence, and no adult, or best friend, can rush this process; they can encourage him, support him, like Brad and also Jack’s mother do, but he has to arrive to the final solution of the puzzle of his youth alone, and conscious of his evolution. Maybe Jack is a little slower than other teenagers, than Brad, maybe the reader will think “but how you cannot understand yourself, when we have understood everything already?”, but this is Jack’s life, not ours, not Brad; even if Brad is an important part of that life. 
Band Fags! (and actually being a Band Fag doesn’t mean you are gay, it means you are one of those kids who tags along with all the other kids in the high school band, and usually they are not exactly the most popular kids in the school…) is probably the first “real” coming of age novel I have read; it’s centred around Brad and Jack, band fags and best friends all though-out high school, and even if the external reader can easily see that both of them are gay, they don’t know, or at least Jack doesn’t know or better doesn’t want to know. 
What I want to highlight is that, even if Jack is gay, he is also “in-the-making”: he is still trying to understand himself, to put together all the pieces of his existence, and no adult, or best friend, can rush this process; they can encourage him, support him, like Brad and also Jack’s mother do, but he has to arrive to the final solution of the puzzle of his youth alone, and conscious of his evolution. Maybe Jack is a little slower than other teenagers, than Brad, maybe the reader will think “but how you cannot understand yourself, when we have understood everything already?”, but this is Jack’s life, not ours, not Brad; even if Brad is an important part of that life. 
