Tiger Lily of Bangkok – When the Seeds of Revenge Blossom opens when Lily was a happy little girl, which lasted until an ‘uncle’ started to abuse her from the age of eleven. She became shy and introverted, leading a lonely life until she moved to Bangkok to study at university.
However, her thoughts and her past would not leave her alone, so, after classes, she began to seek out men she suspected of paedophilia and exact her own peculiar type of revenge on them.
She became the vengeful Tiger Lily of Bangkok and terrified society, but how long could she keep evading the police, and did she secretly want to get caught anyway so she could make her story public?
You will wonder whether you want her get caught for her crimes, and that will make you question your morality.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok will make you question your values!
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The audiobook is narrated by Annya Strydom, who uses a wonderful, slightly spooky voice, which for me is reminiscent of Lily’s broken mother. Listen to the sample at the top of this post or follow the link to the free audiobook.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok is the first in the series of two,
Tiger Lily of Bangkok in London is the second.
Both volumes are available in several other languages, see the section FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS above!
The Tiger Lily Audiobook, or the audiobook of Tiger Lily of Bangkok to be more precise, one of my novels, has been in the pipeline to be be published on Audible, Amazon and iTunes for weeks, but nothing seemed to be happening with it…
They said that it was ‘under review’ for audio quality.
That is, until last night. I got up in the middle of the night because it was so hot and decided to do a little work to get me back to sleep as it was only four a.m. I noticed that the Tiger Lily Audiobook had been approved and put on sale. After checking my email, I went back to bed and slept for a few more hours.
At nine, I returned to my post after breakfast and was amazed to discover that my Tiger Lily Audiobook had sold six copies!
The truly amazing thing about this is that there had been no advertising whatsoever. In fact, Audible and the others don’t give authors notice of when their books will be going live, which makes prior promotion difficult and they don’t support pre-orders either.
So, where did those six customers for my Tiger Lily Audiobook come from?
How did they find out about it?
I doubt that I will ever know, but I do know that Tiger Lily of Bangkok is a good story that is narrated so skilfully by Annya Strydon, so I hope that they enjoy it. I also hope that they read this article and discover that I appreciated their buying it so quickly off the mark.
If you would like to see what the story is about that created this buzz, and perhaps get a free copy yourself, just click this link:
‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ is my entry into the NaNoWriMo 2013 challenge. The challenge is to write a book of 50,000 words during the month of November. This is the diary of my MaNoWriMo 2013 experience.
1/11/2013: I have never entered before, but I am ready to write a new book. I decided to go out of my genre and write a book involving murder. I called it ‘Bangkok Lil’ and wrote furiously. In fact, I wrote more words on that day than I have ever done before.
I wrote all night, slept for two hours and wrote all da and night again. My total was 12,136 and that was 3,000+ more than my highest ever.
For the next six days, I hammered out loads more words, but I was expecting a stop. I know abot myself, that if I write at more than 4,000 for a long time, I just dry up.
Sure enough, that happened on the 7th and 8th, but last night, I was able to write again, writing 3,000+ quite easily.
By now I was on 34,077 and due to finish the book on or about the 12th of November, 18 days early. It is not a race and it is not a competition, it is a challenge, but one that I can handle very easily, having written ‘Maya Illusion’ in July and that was 112,000 words.
9/11/13: I wrote my second ever murder scene tonight, the other one was also in this book. I can’t say that it was not nice to do. No, sorry, I can say that it was awkward … No, disturbing to do. Or at least, it was very odd.
It was decidedly odd to put myself in the place or mind or a deranged psychopathic serial killer, plot and carry out the murder (on paper) of a man,. It made it easier knowing that Lily was sure that he deserved it.
I am not happy with the name of the book. ‘Bangkok Lil’ sounds too common. It reminds me of ‘Fag-Ash Lil’ and Lily is not like that. I tried ‘White Lily of Bangkok’, but that was screaming out for a ‘the’ before it, which I did not want to put for SEO reasons.
I settled for ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ tonight, I think, but don’t try to hold me to it.
I made it to 38,297 words and the end of the chapter, so we will have to see what tomorrow brings. It is midnight now.
10/11/13: off we go again! Day ten of ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’, as she will definitely be called now. I got up at 6 AM, which is not that unusual, although I normally start a little later. That should allow me to get most of the 4,000 words I like to write a day done before noon.
I have the next three 4,000-word chapters fixed in my brain now and that will take me over the 50,000 mark to complete the challenge, but I will probably need at least one more and that is swirling about in my head – I can’t see it clearly yet.
So, here we go with chapter 11, which reminds me that I should upload a new chapter to Smashwords in order to release more words to the public to read (they get 20% starting from the first word in the book).
The keyboard on my Asus is lousy today! It seems that most of the keys either don’t work or repeat, meaning lots of needless editing, costing me time. Anyway, back to writing Tiger Lily of Bangkok…
Can’t get started… I’m thinking of promoting this page, but it is just displacement, not writers’ block. I just need to get started and it will flow from there. A concession… I’ll promote this to Facebook and Twitter first and then start – honest.
That’s the first 421 words of the day written, so the ice has been broken!
I did quite well at the end of the day topping my 4,220 daily average by 700 words. That means I have only 6,791 to go to finish the challenge, but not the book.
I wrote with the Bangkok chapter of NaNoWriMo last night for the first time in a few days, but I will go back tomorrow night at 10 p.m.
I am now wondering whether Lily should get away with her murders (five so far).
11/11/13: I have sorted that dilemma out, but I can’t tell you my decision or I’ll spoil the story of ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’.
I have started late today, but I have done all my email, so that is something. It’s 10 a.m. and I’m raring to go with a slight change in plot on the near horizon.
I had a very good day, writing 6,800+ words and completing the challenge by 10:30 p.m.
So, that’s the first 50k done!
However, joking aside, I will add another chapter or two to round it off as Lily has gone and changed the ending again!
12/11/13: starting at 8:30 a.m. today, but been here thinking for an hour.
I have the ending to ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ but I’m not sure how she gets there from here. Usually, for me, it is bst to just write and see what happens. Just thinking can put me in a tailspin of, ‘yes, but what if’s’. The ending has definitely changed though, but at least I can see that, it’s just how to get there now.
I found a path to the ending!
‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ is now complete at 53,000+ words and I have started editing.
I bought the URL for the book too – an exact match which shocked me as I could not get anywhere near it on Facebook.
