Peter Lord is married with children and likes nothing more than writing things others may not dare to. He enjoys pushing the envelope, shocking his reader but at the same time entertaining them. He said, “We all have a dark side, and I cater to that shadowy nugget inside us, where we indulge in reading something that isn’t quite “right”—the road-accident thing, where you know you shouldn’t look but you do anyway. You can’t help yourself.”
His work has shocked many in the past, to the point of full-blown arguments exploding, but he weathered the storm on that particular forum and continued writing the darkness. He in no way condones the actions of his characters, merely writes the tale they wish to tell, because, like he said, “There are people out there just like those I write about. We just refuse to admit it because they aren’t what we consider normal. What one person sees as wrong, another feels is right. That’s just the way of the world, and if you don’t like what you may consider ‘nasty’, then don’t read my books.”
Peter was once asked, “Are you sick in the head?” His response was, “Not to my knowledge. I’m perfectly sane. What comes out on the page isn’t me as a person, but me getting inside another’s head and writing their story to the best of my ability. People tend to forget there is such a thing as imagination and they confuse the book with the author. Just because my books are dark, it doesn’t make me a bad person—a bad husband and father. Does someone who writes erotica spend most of their time having sex? Are they obsessed with sex? I don’t think so. Is someone who writes about vampires a vampire? For God’s sake, no, they’re writing for the market. Writers use their imagination and let it lead them wherever it wants to go. That’s the thing of it, that’s the way it is. Whatever genre we choose isn’t a reflection of who we are.”
If you pick up a Peter Lord book, know that somewhere inside there will be scenes you find difficult to read, but they happen for real somewhere in the world, and the author likes to tell their stories.
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