{"id":39058,"date":"2025-08-01T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39058\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:54:12","slug":"new-lowestoft-fantasy-romance-books-out-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39058\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lowestoft fantasy romance books out on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  And now\u00a0Lowestoft\u00a0is being associated with elves and evil orcs thanks to a set of new books\u00a0set\u00a0in the town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A fast-paced romance fantasy adventure series\u00a0complete with magic\u00a0and danger and town landmarks is proving a hit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are by Alice Taylor &#8211; a former mayor of Lowestoft, businesswoman and\u00a0a trustee of the\u00a0Excelsior Trust.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She is now an author, after penning The Return of the Tribes&#8217; fantasy fiction series.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Alice Taylor &#8211; the owner of the Rum Lot bauble shop in Kirkley, Lowestoft. Image: The Rum Lot\/ Alice Taylor\u00a0(Image: The Rum Lot) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk\/news\/business\/23157254.lowestoft-rum-lot-bauble-shop-opens-kirkley-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ms Taylor, the proprietor of The Rum Lot\u00a0bauble shop on London Road South, Kirkley<\/a> has added another dimension to her various activities by writing a fantasy romance adventure about a woman living in modern Lowestoft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Set in the modern world but\u00a0featuring\u00a0elves and orcs, The Return of the Tribes is a 13-book cycle of fantasy adventure and romance books.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The Return of the Tribes book one. Image: Alice Taylor\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The Return of the Tribes book one. Image: Alice Taylor (Image: Alice Taylor) With four of the books already unveiled,\u00a0readers will recognise familiar landmarks &#8211; including a trip on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk\/news\/25232086.excelsior-lowestoft-future-proofing-new-wood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lowestoft sailing smack Excelsior.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The Return of the Tribes book two. Image: Alice Taylor\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The Return of the Tribes book two. Image: Alice Taylor (Image: Alice Taylor) Ms Taylor, having\u00a0lived all over the world,\u00a0retired to her hometown of Lowestoft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She has trained and worked in Military Intelligence as a Russian language interceptor, in marketing and advertising, and as a lecturer in digital graphics, animation and video game design.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With a Master\u2019s degree in Criminal Justice Administration, Ms Taylor\u00a0is a qualified teacher in both the USA and the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The Rum Lot shop on London Road South, Lowestoft\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The Rum Lot shop on London Road South, Lowestoft.\u00a0(Image: Alice Taylor\/The Rum Lot) She said: &#8220;The idea in the very beginning was to simply write a story as a promotion for the bauble shop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It all got out of hand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;So the promotion turned into a story and the story turned into a book and now I have a whole completed series and a full story cycle of fantasy romance books.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first four books in the series &#8211;\u00a0The Queen and Elves Come Here Anon,\u00a0I Do Wander Everywhere,\u00a0And I Serve The Fairy Queen and\u00a0A Venturous Fairy &#8211; are now available.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They can be purchased online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rumlot.com\/books\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the shop&#8217;s website<\/a> and on Amazon Kindle at Amazon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now\u00a0Lowestoft\u00a0is being associated with elves and evil orcs thanks to a set of new books\u00a0set\u00a0in the town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}