{"id":2956,"date":"2021-03-11T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:20:38","slug":"alumni-profile-paula-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2021\/03\/11\/alumni-profile-paula-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile &#8211; Paula Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a Rutherford student, graduating in 2001 with a BA in English and Comparative Literature, followed by an MA in English and Literature before training as a teacher at Christ Church in Canterbury and working at UKC until 2016 as a part-time teacher, an exams invigilator and senior invigilator and then providing support for students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 we moved to the peace and quiet of rural Lincolnshire, and my sporadic writing activies became more permanent. I began writing under the pen-name of Laura Lyndhurst and have to date self-published <em>&#8216;Fairytales Don&#8217;t Come True&#8217;<\/em> and <em>Degenerate, Regenerate, <\/em>the first two volumes of a trilogy entitled <em>Criminal Conversation. <\/em>The third volume is a work in progress. I have also written and published two books of poetry, <em>&#8216;October Poems<\/em>&#8216; and <em>&#8216;Thanksgiving Poems &amp; Prose Pieces <\/em>and have a psychological suspense story, <em>&#8216;You Know What You Did&#8217;<\/em> ready for publication,<\/p>\n<p>Find me on Amazon at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s?k=Laura+Lyndhurst&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;fbclid=IwAR0BpdDnTd2cAMqAkFJsyMpTekF1hqfVAEbEXdpDcPqBh_jhO5oH2zJAmpc&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s?k=Laura+Lyndhurst&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;fbclid=IwAR0BpdDnTd2cAMqAkFJsyMpTekF1hqfVAEbEXdpDcPqBh_jhO5oH2zJAmpc&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or follow on my Goodreads &#8211; <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fauthor%2Fshow%2F20336562.Laura_Lyndhurst%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3uP3ExBmdrXV4EtBawcA6lh4v0eQYWsHs1eg37zSG1V81hSZmC84U_ST0&amp;h=AT3BL2CDoJSNArz6Iw5b0iDnELqlSv6QBOfdyqtrF5T2xiqLrYy0HHs_hmcn99pj70DhOZiqKkVbdpsavIoKFesvz6EIOyHXKUEyetPv2Dz_HFRUy3306AY_bymt6PpAP7-4gi2vvJb-wgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/20336562.Laura_Lyndhurst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or on Facebook &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Laura-Lyndhurst-355512115558230\/?view_public_for=355512115558230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Laura-Lyndhurst-355512115558230\/?view_public_for=355512115558230<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a Rutherford student, graduating in 2001 with a BA in English and Comparative Literature, followed by an MA in English and Literature before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2021\/03\/11\/alumni-profile-paula-adams\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[807,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}