{"id":3664,"date":"2020-05-21T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:20:07","slug":"alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/21\/alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Laura Lexx scores a book deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralexx.co.uk\/\">Laura Lexx<\/a>, who studied Drama in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, has just won a book deal to publish her imaginary diary about being\u00a0married to Liverpool FC manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp.<\/p>\n<p>The book, entitled <em>Klopp Actually,<\/em> was picked up from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauralexx\/status\/1238601779773952005\">Laura\u2019s viral Twitter thread<\/a> about the football heartthrob. The book will imagine what the manager would say as the heroine navigates the stresses and anxieties of day-to-day life, from job interviews to furniture shopping in IKEA to making a birthday cake for their daughter, Klipp.<\/p>\n<p>The book will be published by the John Murray imprint Two Roads later this year.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see <em>The Bookseller<\/em>\u2019s report here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/two-roads-buys-lexxs-j-rgen-klopp-diary-1203007\">www.thebookseller.com\/news\/two-roads-buys-lexxs-j-rgen-klopp-diary-1203007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Laura Lexx, who studied Drama in the School of Arts, has just won a book deal to publish her imaginary diary about being\u00a0married to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/21\/alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,1335,50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}