Fellow Flame Tree author Adrian Laing has been in the world of authors and publishers for years as the in-house lawyer at HarperCollins UK, and has also penned a number of popular nonfiction titles. Please welcome Adrian Laing to Word Craft!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tell us a little about yourself.
Author and barrister Adrian Laing
I am a lawyer by training; a qualified barrister and solicitor. I have been writing professionally since 1983 when my first legal article was published and have written many legal articles and co-authored three leading textbooks currently published by Bloomsbury Professional. I am married with five children.
I first ventured out of legal works after my father died in 1989 and wrote a biography of him which I can see retrospectively was my way of validating my self-perception not only as a lawyer but a writer. The research for that work was extensive and the process of interviewing many people over a considerable period of time, was very much a âwriting experienceâ.
I’m an English teacher and I live in Sofia Bulgaria with my family in the Balkan Tower of Matriarchy. Ruled by my wife’s grandmother on the 1st floor, the Tower of Matriarchy stretches four stories into the air and five generations into filial insanity. We go through a ton of yogurt, and you could eat the drama with a spoon, but there’s always someone when you need them.
