Today I am pleased to welcome Steven Scaffardi to my blog. Steven is a lad lit author of two books.
It is day 27 of the Lad Lit Blog Tour and I am delighted to
be here at Sarah’s Book Reviews! It is nearly four weeks
since the tour started and I have been lucky enough to write several guest
blogs already on the subject of lad lit.
So today I want to change things up a little bit J
To try and help readers who are not familiar with lad lit
get a better understanding of what it’s all about (and whether it’s something
they would like to read), I have compiled my top five favourites stories from
my first book, The Drought.
Enjoy…!
5. The beginning of
the end
I wanted to start the book in a way that grabbed the reader
and made them to read more, so I opted with an opening chapter called The End, which basically is the end of
the book! Here we find Dan
slumped at a bar, bemoaning the past eight months of sexual wilderness. But
there is a hidden backstory – a betrayal –
which Dan refers to, and sets the story up for the series of comical capers
that ensue. Not before Dan gets himself into an award altercation with a
barmaid of course. You can read the first chapter here.
4. The road trip to
Brighton
In an attempt to try and help Dan get over his drought, his
three best friends (Rob,
Ollie and Jack) organise a road trip to Brighton for the weekend. Across
the two days the boys end up in all sorts of mischief, but the funniest scene
has to be when they accidently gate-crash an OAPs 80th birthday
party. Without giving too much away, it is fair to say the family of grandma
Betty are none too pleased with the uninvited guests and what the boys have to
do to escape their wrath is nothing short of hilarious! You can read Jack’s
rules of the road trip here.
3. The break-up
From the start of the book, the reader knows that Dan is on
a sexual drought, and that dry patch all starts the day he breaks-up with his
long-term girlfriend Stacey.
After waking up to 47 irate voicemails from Stacey on New Year’s Day morning,
Dan sheepishly heads over to her flat and the inevitable break-up does not
exactly go to plan, especially when Stacey’s best friend, Sophie,
takes great offence to how Dan handles the situation and storms into the
bedroom with… well, you’ll just have to read to find out exactly what she does!
2. The reason why men
hate shopping
One chapter that is especially close to my heart is when
Dan’s good friend, Kelly,
asks him to go shopping with her to buy her boyfriend a birthday present. I
actually wrote this chapter while traipsing around Top Shop on Oxford Street
with my wife. I poured out all of my feelings of being made to walk around
looking at high heels and jersey tops (whatever the hell they are) into the
pages of that chapter. In my mind, I was speaking for every man and the pain we
suffer when our wives and girlfriends drag us around those shops. You can read
the whole chapter here.
1. Dan gets horribly
drunk on his first date with Grace
We’ve all been here. You are on a first date with someone
you really fancy and you’ve chosen to meet them in a bar, surrounded by this
liquid called alcohol that has been known to make people do silly things. When Grace
– a girl who is so out of Dan’s league – agrees to go on a date with Dan, he is
super keen to impress. So much so, that he makes sure he gets to the bar early
so not to be late. However, he is a little too early and by the time Grace
arrives, he is already three or four drinks ahead of her. What follows is a car
crash of a first date, including a very drunk Dan hitting the dance floor in what
he describes his moves as looking like “An octopus who only has two tentacles
left and is trying to compensate for the missing six.”
Steven Scaffardi is
the author of the Sex, Love and Dating Disaster series. His first novel, The
Drought, is the laugh-out-loud tale of one man's quest to overcome the throes
of a sexual drought. After the stormy break-up with his girlfriend of three
years, Dan Hilles is faced with the daunting task of throwing himself back into
the life of a single man. With the help of his three best pals, Dan is
desperate and determined to get his leg-over with hilarious consequences!
The Drought and his new novel The Flood – a comedy about one man trying to juggle four women at the same time
– are both available for just 99p on the Kindle at Amazon.
Follow all of the fun
on his blog tour by following him on Twitter @SteveScaffardi or by using the hashtag #LadLitBlogTour. More information about Steven and his books can be found on his blog.
Thank you to Steven for joining me on the blog today.
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