I’ve been reading and writing for as long as I can remember. When I was 3 ½, even though I wasn’t quite clear yet on my alphabet, I decided there were never enough adults around to read to me and demanded to be taught to read myself. My Auntie Mo took the time to teach me. At age eight, I volunteered for summer school so I could take a creative writing class. My friends thought I was crazy; all they wanted to do was climb trees, go roller skating, swim. But I knew even then that what I was doing was even better.

I wrote my first novel at age twelve with a good friend who is also still writing, as far as I know. At a sleepover at her house, instead of sleeping, we stayed up all night crafting a rather horrible romance novel. Hopefully I’ve improved since then, and I now have enough sense to sleep at night and write during the day. Usually.

I didn’t get serious about my writing until five years ago. I went into it writing romance novels, since that was what I thought I could sell, but eventually I returned to what I truly love: writing erotica. It’s been a difficult and wondrous journey, learning about the craft and business of writing, but well worth it. And now, here I am, doing what I love.

Fortunately, someone other than myself loves my work, too. My contemporary erotic novellas are available now for download. You’ll find HEATWAVE and BREAKING SKYE now at www.Phaze.com.

My first erotic novel, THE DARK GARDEN, my three-novella erotic anthology, THE DARKER SIDE OF PLEASURE, and my latest erotic novel, EXOTICA: SEVEN DAYS OF KAMA SUTRA, NINE DAYS OF ARABIAN NIGHTS, and my new multi-author erotic anthology, HOT NIGHTS, DARK DESIRES with authors Stephanie Tyler and Sydney Croft, are all available now from Bantam. Also available now is my erotic novella, SANCTUARY, which appears in the Berkley Heat anthology, EXCLUSIVE, along with authors Jaci Burton and Lisa Renee Jones. My short erotic ghost story, SILENCE, appears in the Beyond Desire anthology, edited by Maria Isabel Pita, from Magic Carpet Books. You can also find my short erotic story for Spice Briefs, SOUL STRANGERS on eHarlequin now!

My erotic novel, FORBIDDEN FRUIT, a sensual tale exploring food fetish, will be out in October 2008, followed by A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN in April 2009.

Meanwhile, I write. Sometimes it's a struggle, but mostly it is wonderful, fulfilling, exhilarating. I also enjoy cooking, eating, gardening, art, shopping -- especially for shoes -- and reading everything I can get my hands on.

I live in Southern California, on a hill overlooking a canyon, with two dogs and the love of my life.