{"id":46697,"date":"2020-12-15T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=46697"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T13:10:35","slug":"sleepless-cardiff-author-now-has-insomnia-due-to-excitement-of-debut-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/12\/15\/sleepless-cardiff-author-now-has-insomnia-due-to-excitement-of-debut-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless Cardiff author has insomnia due to excitement of debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Louise Mumford&#8217;s first book<em> Sleepless<\/em> was released last week &#8211; and it&#8217;s already been optioned for television <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>AN AUTHOR and ex-teacher from Whitchurch has realised her dream of publishing a novel with her debut thriller, <em>Sleepless<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caerphilly-born <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louisemumfordauthor.com\/news\">Louise Mumford<\/a> wrote <em>Sleepless<\/em> in three months at the end of 2018, and spent last year preparing it for publication and attending literary festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1-293x469.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-cover-1-293x469.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption><em>Sleepless<\/em> follows the story of 27-year-old Thea Mackenzie. Credit: HQ Stories<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally, <em>Sleepless<\/em> was supposed to be launched as an eBook but, after becoming a top 50 Amazon Kindle bestseller on pre-orders alone, the publication of the paperback and audiobook was brought forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Mrs Mumford, being able to hold a physical copy of her book is part of the magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on the publication of her novel by HQ Stories, an imprint of HarperCollins UK, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s just been amazing. To have an actual copy of your book is just the dream for a writer, because you get to actually see it and practice putting it on a bookshelf and taking it off again!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book\u2019s publication came after she was discovered as a new writer last summer at the Primadonna Festival &#8211; a literary festival \u201ccreated by a group of very powerful and influential women in entertainment and the literary world,\u201d including <em>QI<\/em> presenter Sandi Toksvig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sleepless<\/em> has now been optioned for television by Insurrection Media in California. While this does not guarantee that there will be a television series based on the book, it does mean that Insurrection has secured the rights to it for one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Mumford said: \u201cThat was a huge boost. They had such faith in the story and the ideas behind it that they wanted to make sure they got the rights before it was published. It\u2019s hugely exciting &#8211; there are \u2018pinch me\u2019 moments all the time!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SleeplessOverSleepless?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SleeplessOverSleepless<\/a> for quite a while. Now it\u2019s your turn! Up all night reading Sleepless?<br>SHOW ME! Bonus points for: eye mask, novelty slippers, night cap, fancy pyjamas, PETS!<br>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SleeplessOverSleepless?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SleeplessOverSleepless<\/a> &amp; tag me. Click here for your copy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AGDg7CPIJH\">https:\/\/t.co\/AGDg7CPIJH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S20tuom6wo\">pic.twitter.com\/S20tuom6wo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Louise Mumford (@louise_mumford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/louise_mumford\/status\/1336976842922844161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel\u2019s protagonist is 27-year-old Thea Mackenzie, an insomniac who responds to an advert for a sleep trial to try and find a normal life. She finds herself taking part in a sleep technology trial on a remote island, which has Thea sleeping for longer than she has in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it becomes clear that the trial does not want to help Thea &#8211; it wants to control her sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book&#8217;s setting is inspired by Caldey Island, which is just off the coast near Tenby in Pembrokeshire. Mrs Mumford visited the island in 2018 and says that <em>Sleepless<\/em> &#8220;would be very different if I hadn&#8217;t.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Thea, Mrs Mumford has insomnia. In 2018, she decided to take a break from her 15-year teaching career because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cThe main character, who struggles with sleep, is very much based on my experiences of that. I was really struggling to fit into that nine-to-five working model because I was having so little sleep, it was actually affecting my health. So I took a bit of a career break, knowing that I wanted to write a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first chapter, Thea is involved in a car accident, which Mrs Mumford says is similar to an accident she had in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember driving home from school at about 4:30 &#8211; 5pm and thinking to myself \u2018I don\u2019t need that sleep lark, I just sailed through the day, it was brilliant.\u2019 And then I crashed my car, quite spectacularly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/12\/Sleepless.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqstories.co.uk\/products\/sleepless\/\">HQ Stories<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sleeplessness is something that Mrs Mumford believes has become more common this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cI think all the anxiety and worry about Covid-19 has got people to understand the day-to-day grinding exhaustion of not being able to sleep well. It\u2019s something that people are identifying with more this year because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou think insomnia gives you all of this time but the time it gives you is so degraded, and you\u2019re so exhausted in it, that you\u2019re just kind of surviving from hour to hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another impact of Covid-19 is that authors have been unable to attend literary festivals or meet their readers in <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/11\/10\/birchgroves-first-bookshop-to-open-in-the-new-year-dyslexia\/\">bookshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, Mrs Mumford appreciates that <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/11\/24\/meet-the-14-year-old-who-published-a-book-over-lockdown\/\">authors<\/a> have avoided the worst effects of the pandemic, saying: \u201cMy heart goes out to the theatre and cinema and all of those arts venues that are really struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublishing hasn\u2019t suffered in that way because people have turned to books to entertain them. People have really started to appreciate the creators of that content as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cObviously, I\u2019ve missed all of the lovely festivals that you go to and visiting bookshops and meeting readers which is a huge shame, but I think I\u2019ve been very lucky to be within an industry where people can still buy and read the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be nice next year to hopefully be able to meet readers and get into bookshops. I think I\u2019ll appreciate it even more then because, after this year, we\u2019ll know what we\u2019ve missed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With her first novel complete, Mrs Mumford is hopeful that she will have continued success in the industry, saying: \u201cAs much as I love teaching, it would be lovely if I could make a full-time career of being a writer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>You can find Sleepless on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B08JB2XVVM\/ref=nosim?tag=hqdig_tw-21\">Amazon<\/a>. To keep up-to-date with Louise\u2019s work, you can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LouiseMumfordAuthor\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/louise_mumford\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/louisemumfordauthor\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Mumford&#8217;s debut novel Sleepless was released last week &#8211; and it&#8217;s already been optioned for television <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":46859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,89],"tags":[438,3130,2769,6851,6852,240],"coauthors":[6734],"class_list":["post-46697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-whitchurch","tag-arts","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-louise-mumford","tag-sleepless","tag-whitchurch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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