Q: All sex books?
A: Most, not all. I've written romance, mysteries, fantasy, science-fiction, thrillers and military fiction. I do admit, however, my greatest publishing success has been with erotica and pornography.

Q: Why is that, do you think?
A: I'm just particularly perverted, I suppose.

Q: What's the difference between erotica and porn?
A: To my mind it really lies in the depths of character and story development, the way you make your characters into actual people and put them into actual situations as opposed to just cardboard cutouts having at each other. As well, there's the care one takes in descriptions, the attention to detail, and to some extent the manner in which the sex is described.

Q: So which do you write?
A: Well, both. I used to write mainly porn, but now I write mainly erotica.

Q: How did that happen?
A: I grew up. I think the major change, though, came when I began writing for British publishing houses as opposed to Americans. The Brits had a good deal more care in the quality of the writing, and so I wasn't able to get away with the laziness I'd displayed in my earlier, albeit successful writing. I find it hard now to even use, descriptively, the kind of crudities I used to embrace.

Q: Surely crudeness isn't out of place in erotica?
A: Not always, but I believe that in descriptive texts it's usually out of place. In their authors' guidelines Virgin Nexus points out what should be fairly obvious, that obscenities are not inherently exciting or arousing. I agree with them. Sometimes they're simply crude.

Q: Some of your books have such text, don't they?
A: Well, it's not always out of place. Then too, some people do prefer crudities. Also, the earliest books on bdsmbooks here were not really re-edited much, if at all, from when I first wrote them for the US market more than a decade ago. Frankly, I didn't think it was worth my time given I didn't believe there'd be much in the way of sales of ebooks. I was more than a little shocked at how well those first argus books sold in the first couple of months. Almost all of the new releases are now heavily re-edited and re-written, or else newly written.

Q: And controversial. A lot of people are offended by non-consensual elements. Not to mention incest.
A: Fuck em. This is fantasy, fantasy meant to excite by shocking, meant to have people's eyes widen and their mouths form an "o" of delight, either at how wicked, how daring, or how evil the characters are being. Rape is an ancient fantasy. Most people accept that women have them, but few are willing to accept that men have them too. And why not? So it's not politically correct, so what? Having a rape fantasy doesn't mean a man actually wants to rape someone any more than a woman's rape fantasy means they want to be raped.

Q: What does it mean then?
A: My own theory is it's a response to the complexities of relationships and dating today. Men want sex; hard, nasty sex without complications. But they can't get it unless they pay for - one way or another. In most cases you've got to flatter, cajole, seduce, fork over money, pay for tickets, dinner, act nice, and make your moves carefully and precisely so as to not offend. It's a complicated dance. Who wouldn't fantasize about just ripping her clothes off and riding her like a bitch in heat? Occasionally, anyway.

Q: And torture?
A: Serves the bitches right for making us beg for it, eh? No, honestly, there probably is some of that there, probably some resentment that we sex mad men can't just have it whenever we want, but I think it's more a reaction to the politeness, the good manners, the respectful attitude we must all take now. We have to be politically correct at work and school, can't be seen looking too hard now, can't be seen as being crude or leering. Torture, you have to admit, is pretty rude, not to mention being politically incorrect. And, I think it strikes something deep within us. The urge to conquer, to be in complete control.

Q: And from women's' perspectives?
A: The complete opposite. They're supposed to be in control. They're supposed to be the good girls. They're supposed to dole out the sex only after we've gone through the proper motions else she's a slut. If she's forced, of course, no guilt can attach itself to the act. She can just experience the most graphic, most outrageous sex. And if she's punished, well, so much the better. Because in a lot of cases there lurks at the back of their minds the belief they deserve punishment for that kind of thing. This is all gross generalization, of course.

Q: You think that's why women like rape fantasies?
A: I think they like the idea of not having to be in control, not having to watch every move, not having to worry about whether they'll be respected in the morning, or what people will think of them in the morning. And if it's outrageous, well, that can be exciting all on its own. I think there's a deal of "I'd love to experience that, but I could never imagine myself actually agreeing to it" vicarious enjoyment in reading these kinds of stories.

Q: And the incest?
A: It's just being outrageous. I find it odd how some people will find nothing wrong with a story of a woman being gang raped and tortured but gasp in horror at an adult woman consenting to have sex with a family member and enjoying it. Get a grip. If it makes people happy so what? Oddly, incest stories seem particularly attractive to women. I haven't got any idea why, though.

Q: Which do you prefer writing, the consensual or non-consensual stories?
A: It's hard to say. I like the seduction of the women in the consensual stories, the way one act leads to another and then to another, as if they're going down a dark and dirty road, often reluctantly, lured on by their own excitement until suddenly they're doing such shocking and wicked things they can hardly believe it. But there's that outrage factor in non-consensual stories, the sheer bloody outrageousness of someone grabbing some sweet young college girl off a street corner and subjecting her to horrible sexual abuse. Add in incest and you get outrage on outrage.

Q: So which of the books here are your favourite?
A: That's damn hard to say, and some of my favourite scenes and characters aren't in my favourite books. The Vampire books certainly. I had a great time with them. You can do such amazing things when you can control the mind. Let's see, among consensual books I liked Niggers Girl, The Art of Pain, and The Butler, Among the non-consensuals, probably Possessed by Evil, Scream, and Haunted House. As to why, well, I had more time with Niggers girl and The Butler, and used it well. Art of Pain is a shorty, but it just turned out quite well. And of course, I have an interest in the occult, in vampires, in beasties and ghoulies and ghosties and  tentacled thingees as the abusers of women - perhaps because it's something a little different than the norm. Scream didn't have that, but it was just - nasty - and you can probably guess who the actress characters represent.

Q: Are you a perv?
A: Oh hell yes. But I think most of us are. Especially men. We've been taught to have less inhibitions about sex than women. I think a lot of women would be absolutely horrified if they had any idea what that nice fellow who sits across from them on the bus was thinking, or what their best friend's husband fantasizes about them, or even what mental images their brothers or husbands have masturbated to. Here's a clue for women. If you're at all attractive, many, many men have day dreamed about having wild, kinky nasty sex with you, schoolmates, your girlfriends' husbands or boyfriends, guys you barely know from work or school, guys you stand at the bus stop with. In their minds you've been naked at their knees, bent over, chained up, fucking their wives or girlfriends - or goat. We guys have these kinky little porn movies running in our heads a lot, and anyone can be our co-star!

Q: Not something you discuss much with women, I gather.
A Depends on the woman. But I'm reminded of an episode of a TV show during which the husband had been fascinated and aroused with a movie star and her long black boots. At the end of the show, in bed, his wife asks him if he's ever imagined her in those boots. Not you, he said, but your sister. She wasn't overjoyed, to say the least, but we guys are like that. If a woman has an attractive sister or girlfriend she can be pretty sure her husband or boyfriend has directed a little porn feature in his mind featuring her, and probably all three of them together.

Q: That reminds us of the non bdsm stories you've started introducing.
A: Well, I'm as interested in bondage as the next person, but I think you have to be a little obsessed to want nothing but BDSM. There are some really hot stories and situations which can't be developed in a BDSM story, and I like to explore them all.

Q: Do you put anyone you know into your stories?
A: Oddly, no. My characters tend to be a mix of a lot of real and imagined characters. Many were inspired by faces, bodies, and personalities I've encountered, though, in life, or in movies or TV.

Q: So what's next?
A: Damned if I know. The next two or three are already done and ready. After that, it depends on whether I have the time and get inspired to write something new, or rewrite one of the older books still on disk. I do know I have no plans to quit any time soon, not as long as so many people seem to enjoy the stories and don't mind compensating me for the time I spend creating them.