Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession is a confessional memoir charting Helen’s journey as she set out to explore her penchant for older men.
Published by Mainstream on 3rd March 2011.
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Helen is currently ghost writing a celebrity memoir with Hollywood cult B movie actress Peggy Trentini. More details of this project can be found here.
Helen is represented by The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
Sugar Daddy Diaries: What it says on the cover:
Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She only expects it to be a few fun dates in some fancy bars, but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men.
But underneath the glamour, Helen discovers a secret world of men who are prepared to pay for girlfriends – men so busy they consider cash and gifts a surer way of maintaining a relationship than emotional investment.
When some of her dates allude to monthly allowances in exchange for her company, she’s shocked. But for how long can she keep up her moral resistance to being paid for something she is doing thrillingly for free?
Helen’s soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York, Malaysia, highbrow sex parties, ski trips in Colorado and most of London’s finest hotels.
My Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships, examines the attraction of power and asks if money can ever be the currency of love.
SERIALISATION
The Sunday Times Style Magazine – 20th Feb – (PDF) or (Link to article – Times subscribers only)
AUTHOR FIRST-PERSON PIECES
Reveal mag (out 1st March issue),
Foreplay magazine (April issue),
The Erotic Review (March issue)
INTERVIEWS
REVIEWS
News of the World: “Searingly honest” “A fast-paced trip into a world most of us will never get to access.” (read review here)
Closer: “Her juicy adventures will keep you hooked.” (read review here)
Manchester Evening Standard: “Enlightening, exceptionally well-written confessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships.”
Cosmo voted Sugar Daddy Diaris Book of the Week (3rd March) Read review here
Lost in the City Blog: “Refreshingly open, truthful and deals with the trials and tribulations of social stigma, online dating, and what, as a woman, ‘we should want’.” Read review here
The Erotic Review: “A riveting read and catapults you from Primark to Prada in a few short pages…. The author slips in intriguing insights into the female psyche: power as an aphrodisiac; the traditional relationship and how it fits with a modern girl’s life and, of course, what part parting with money continues to play in the eternal battle of the sexes.” Read review here
RADIO
Various regional radio interviews and phone-in debates discussing the morals of ‘compensated relationships’
TV
The Vanessa Show: Would you date a man 20 years older than you? Watch the debate
Video: Author interview on Seeking Arrangment: Why love isn’t the only foundation for a relationship (watch here)
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