When did you first start writing?
When I was a child, I had trouble sleeping at bedtime, so to entertain myself, I created stories in my head. In high school, I took a Folklore and Mythology class and my teacher had us write ballads, myths, fables, and animal stories. That was the beginning of my experience as a writer. I went on to take creative writing classes in college along with several literature classes where I did a lot of reading, wrote a lot of essays, and did a lot of comparing and contrasting and ended up getting a master's degree in English.
When did you start writing erotica?
I started writing erotica later in my life. I am primarily a mystery writer and have published 14 mysteries under a different pen name. I have Smashwords to thank for helping me become an erotica writer since I read the erotic stories by other members of Smashwords Facebook groups and learned the words that erotic writers use to describe female and male genitalia in a sexy and arousing way. Before that, I could come up with situations and characters for my erotic stories but didn't know how to write about sex in a way that my readers wouldn't snicker at my descriptions.
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