{"id":2707,"date":"2020-06-08T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:06:48","slug":"alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Laura Lexx scores a book deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/Laura-Lexx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2713\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/Laura-Lexx.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Lexx\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alumna\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralexx.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Lexx<\/a>, who studied Drama in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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\u00a0<em>Klopp Actually,<\/em>\u00a0was picked up from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauralexx\/status\/1238601779773952005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura\u2019s viral Twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0about 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\u00a0<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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.thebookseller.com\/news\/two-roads-buys-lexxs-j-rgen-klopp-diary-1203007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna\u00a0Laura Lexx, who studied Drama in the\u00a0School of Arts, has just won a book deal to publish her imaginary diary about being\u00a0married to Liverpool FC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumna-laura-lexx-scores-a-book-deal\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[807,229019,229020,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}