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Author Name: Alec Muffett
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geek – dropsafe
2021-11
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HOT on the stilettos of British author EL James, whose erotic romance Fifty Shades Of Grey topped the New York Times bestseller list, countless other seemingly ordinary women are seeing sales of their own racy reads soar.
Thanks to the popularity of eReaders such as Amazon’s Kindle, which mean there’s no tell-tale book cover, women can now download and read erotic fiction wherever they are without any fear of embarrassment.
Small wonder that the big publishers are now keen to cash in on the erotic genre. HarperCollins has launched Mischief, focusing on erotic ebooks, while romantic heavyweight Mills & Boon is publishing more risqué novels digitally than in print after a huge surge in online sales.
Here three erotic authors reveal all to SADIE NICHOLAS.
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Janine Ashbless, 45, lives in York with her husband Philip, 45, an IT consultant. They don’t have any children. Her latest novel Red Grow The Roses (Mischief) is available to download on Amazon
Sex and writing are what make me happiest but being an erotic author is far more risqué than my previous jobs. I was a library assistant, a computer programmer and subsequently a museum worker. All the time I was working I wrote in my spare time, initially ghost stories. I had a few published under another pen name.
The turning point was being given a Black Lace novel – one of the first publishers of erotic fiction – by a friend in 1998. Until then I had no idea that the racy stories in my head were the sort of thing anyone was allowed to print.
I sent a book of erotic short stories to Black Lace soon after and it was published in 2000. My ninth book is due out soon. My stories are dramatic and very rude. I assume my readers are smart and won’t accept half-hearted descriptions or dumb heroines.
My husband and I met at university when we were 20 and despite always being very sexual, researching sex for my novels has led to us being even more adventurous in the bedroom.
Philip is very proud of my work but my parents, who are staunch Christians, wish that I would write something tasteful that they could show off to their friends.
I don’t pen my novels in a perfumed boudoir as may be easy to imagine. You’re more likely to find me wearing wellies and walking the dogs than donning make-up and a sexy dress.
I tend not to drop my job into conversation with strangers as I’m aware that some people find what I do shocking. In Britain we tend either to make a joke about sex or simply demonise it. My view is that sex is great and we should take pleasure in it. Erotica is for intelligent women.
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