An Origin Story

During the years that my marriage was slowly falling apart, I felt an urge to express my sexual desire without complicating my life.  I set up an intensely racy profile on an internet dating site with the caveat that, due to complications in my own life, I would never meet in person.

What followed were a handful of online love affairs with strangers on the internet, where I could be as uninhibited as I wanted, and I could invite others to share their fantasies with me.  It was a beautiful period in my life, writing what I referred to as "collaborative erotica" with these very special people.  My online partners urged me to consider publishing some of my writing, and I decided to give it a try.  

I thought about Jane Austen's work, and the story of Pride and Prejudice.  I wondered what would have happened if Mr. Wickham had become a vicar and had taken the living in Kympton instead of the pay off from Mr. Darcy.  That was the inspiration of Shame in Somerset, my first regency erotica novel.

So that's me...

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