About

Hi, I'm Lydia.

I'm from Yorkshire but now live in Scotland via London and Manchester.

Growing up with a librarian as a mother, I became a insatiable reader, existing on a diet of any book I could get my hands on and classic sitcoms borrowed on my library card. I always had to have something to read, even if it was just the back of the cereal box while eating breakfast before school.

As a teenager, I blossomed into a Fanfiction reader and writer where I finally found the WLW representation I didn't realise I needed, and eventually into a lesbian who secretly penned sapphic fiction.

Professionally, I'm a Marketer by trade. I also own a luxury BDSM brand called Kilter.

I started writing "Some Tulip" in 2017 while still living in London, scribbling down chapters into the notes app on my phone while standing on the tube. It began as a fun little side hobby to occupy my evenings. I never really planned on it seeing the light of day. Over the past seven years, I rewrote it six times. About two years ago, I realised that maybe it had potential.

Then life happened. This year I turned 30 and decided it was time to either bring "Some Tulip" to life or axe it. I enlisted a well-known editor to work on the manuscript and help me make that decision.

Now, I'm a solo Mum to a baby boy, and with a business to run, I don't have a lot of free time dedicated to querying agents. I'd much rather take my precious free time and write instead, so I took a leap into self-publishing and here we are.

I sell my books on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books among many others. Marketplaces such as these take significant royalties, so if you like the work I do - buying direct from lydiacoulter.com means I don't have to give the likes of Amazon 70% of revenue, and you get to support me directly.

Thank you.