Claire DeLaney

I'm intrigued by the sexual adventures of Squire Tom Jones, Henry Fielding's character, played by Albert Finney in the 1963 comedy adventure. The discrepancy between prudish morality and sexual abandon seems ripe for exploration. In the classical novel, the women seem to have a submissive role, but adding creative promiscuity to the classical role elevates women's need and desires to a new level. This approach seems like a good fit with my publication on fantasies The Sexual Fantasies of a Good Girl

The Anne Rice series on Beauty and her challenges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_Trilogy) came well before the current Fifty Shades trend and was more deeply written. Of course the Pauline Réage series started me down the road of fantasy and living them out. Fiction short stories by John Dufresne are an excellent model for condensing complex emotions into memorable writing.