Top Erotic Authors

Who better to give you tips on how to write erotic fiction than the masters (and mistresses) themselves? We contacted a few of our filthiest, favourite erotic fiction authors and asked them to share their thoughts with you. This is what they said.

Lisette Ashton
Lisette is one of the most popular Nexus authors, with readers thrilling to the adventures of private investigator Jo Valentine in early titles The Black Room, The Black Masque and The Black Widow, and enjoying more exotic locations in novels like Fairground Attractions, Amazon Slave, Forbidden Reading and Hot Pursuit. Lisette got her first break writing for Forum magazine, and is one of the few British erotic authors to make a living from her highly charged erotic fiction, dirty enough to satisfy the most jaded mind, exciting enough to ensure that once you've read the first page you have to know how the book ends, and convincing enough to let you both care about the characters and believe in every step of their filthy adventures.

Lisette's interview is full of tips for aspiring authors and reasons for you to read her books. If you'd like to know more, buy one of Lisette's books or check out the Lisette Ashton Web site.

Read our interview with erotic author Lisette Ashton

Penny Birch
Penny is one of the few living erotic authors to have built up a genuine cult following, partly from the feel of real experience that comes through reading her stories but also because of her specialist areas, including watersports and pony-carting. As Penny puts it on her web site, "All Penny Birch books focus on female submission and contain a wide variety of kinky behaviour. There's always plenty of spanking, humiliation and anal sex. Some also focus on more specialist areas... The short story collections cover the widest range of all."

LoveHoney stocks Naughty Naughty, Slippery when Wet, In Disgrace, In for a Penny and What Happens to Bad Girls, but this is just a taster for Penny's 30-book strong backlist.

Penny's books are convincing, utterly depraved and very English, with much of the action taking place in fields and woods populated by jolly, rotund uncles and brattish but voluptuous girls who need a good spanking to see the error of their ways. Read one to see what all the fuss is about, or whet your appetite with the following interview.

Read our interview with erotic author Penny Birch

Aishling Morgan
Aishling is one of the few erotic authors worth reading for reasons beyond the obvious - Lindsay Gordon is another. We currently stock Beastly Behaviour, The Old Perversity Shop and Strip Girl, which is again a mere sprinkling of titles from an author who now has 25 titles to his credit.

Aishling specialises in exquisitely detailed fantasies which can be broadly divided into three groups:

books set on another world entirely, such as the half-human, half-animal world of Tiger Tiger, a title that's a far better fantasy novel than most mainstream genre titles, or the horny goblin world of Maiden and its sequels

books set recognisably on Earth but featuring fantastic elements, such as the octopus gods and pimped-up shellfish of Deep Blue - the perfect beach read for that dirty summer break

historical novels set in meticulously observed time periods, generally Edwardian or Victorian, with glossaries and notes (but a rip-roaring readability that belies such an academic approach) and a leaning towards the bizarre but not quite fantastic, such as the woman-milking machine in Devon Cream and its sequels.

Aishling's a real master at what he does, and we're honoured to have his thoughts about writing erotica here.

Read our interview with erotic author Aishling Morgan