This February, we publish five erotic ebooks from Emma Allan. Here she tells us about the inspirations behind her erotic fiction.
I’m often asked what my inspiration was for writing an erotic novel. I suppose the truth is that I had always enjoyed sex and I wanted to explore my own sexual fantasies. From my very first experience I was always interested in alternative scenarios. I know that a lot of women have no desire to explore or experiment beyond trying new positions – and some not even that – but my mind has always seemed to run riot.
My first impulse was to write books about women who took charge of their own sexual desires, who wanted to set their own sexual agenda. Often this would involve experimenting with the idea of being either totally submissive or totally dominant. But these are only two themes in a world of sexual adventure my characters explore. Inevitably the stories involve same sex and bi-sexual relationships as well as bondage, discipline and all the other accoutrements of outré sex. I love to create scenes that show just how exciting and enticing corsets, whips and complex restraint can be. In the end I like to think that these books set people free to explore their own fantasies by showing them that sexual taboos (within the legal limits) are there to be broken.
Oddly enough writing an erotic novel has the same underlying motivation as writing a crime thriller. For most people committing a crime is crossing a line created by morality and the social taboos that they are brought up with. Exactly the same is true in the erotic novel. Ideas of morality and sexual taboos create a line of behaviour that is hard for some people to cross. In both types of novel what is interesting is what finally makes a person cross that line and what happens to them having crossed it. Taking that first step, throwing aside the shackles of convention, can be difficult but once the threshold is crossed often there is no looking back . . .
I hope you enjoy the new tranche of my novels which will be issued by Piatkus Entice. I certainly enjoyed writing them.
Amateur Nights, Amateur Days, Naked Ambition, Naked Intent and Secrets by Emma Allan are all available in ebook from Entice in February 2013.