The Girl with a One-track Mind

I was browsing a number of literary blogs when I noticed a blog named Girl with a one track mind. Before you click through please do keep in mind that this links to adult material. No nudity, but the subject deals with human sexuality.

This Girl with a One-track Mind, who called herself Abby Lee, had for several years written a very popular blog, journaling her sexual adventures as a single girl looking for Mr Right, living in London. A publishing contract soon followed (sex sell, after all) and Abby was offered a healthy advance on her book, rumoured to be in six figures. I read some of her blog entries and all of a sudden it clicked, or so I thought at the time.

In 2004 a young woman from London, who called herself Abby, had published four books of erotica with us. They were semi-autobiographical. The style these books are written in is very close to Abby Lee's book. The 'adventures' described are almost identical. Could this be the same women? And if so, why hadn't she told us? I shot off a mail to one of my colleagues who deals with our submissions to amazon and other book traders. Here's her response:

I hate to burst your bubble but this isn't our Abby, different woman with the same name writing the same material but not our lady.
Amazon mixed up the two authors last year and I had to sort it out. So unfortunately, no, they aren't the same author.

I still think that the similarities in writing are very, very close. So you might want to take a look, especially if you enjoyed Abby Lee's book. Here's a link:

And here's a link to one of the books 'our' Abby published:



PS: Here is what The Times has to say, the paper that managed to unmask Abby Lee.