Sex sells! What a surprise!
Even during the Renaissance, writers knew that sex and violence were the way to make money. So much so that when I get around to writing it, I’m going to put together a multi-series piece about sex in Renaissance literature and how things written back then would make a lot of people blush today.
But I’m diverging from my topic. I came across an interesting article on cnn.com about a woman, who out of boredom, started writing erotica in her spare time. Given the subject matter, and given the public’s insatiable appetite for sex, she soon developed a healthy following on the internet. That initial success lead to a book deal and the rest is, as they say, history.
According to the article she has some 2.7 million books in print, and she is also a publisher, running Strebor Books (an imprint of Simon and Schuster). All this from a woman who calls herself Zane (her pen name) and one who never planned on being an author.
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Anthony, Mar 15, 2010 re: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, ebooks, and the definition of irony