In Althea Yate's very unladylike dreams, she is ravished by two men of unearthly beauty, but when she catches sight of a silver-eyed stranger arriving at the inn, she realizes it was no dream, but a delicious premonition.
I'm a mother of two young children and wife of a terrifically supportive husband. I studied product design at university, worked for many years in engineering, but have always loved to write. Now, I'm happy to say I get to write most days, while still working part time in R&D management.
In my high school years, I read Fear of Flying and Blue Skies, No Candy, and decided that some day I too would become an author and write literary erotic stories (despite a certain lack of experience at that point). In pursuit of my dream, I penned some 'hot' books, pounding them out on a clunky manual typewriter with a faded ribbon.
Since I love creating sexy, wicked men who love pleasuring women, I gravitated to writing Regency set historical romances. Deciding to heat up my stories from sensual to erotic, I wrote A Gentleman Seduced, which sold to Ellora's Cave Publishing and was my first published novel.
Signing with Kensington's Aphrodisia line was a whirlwind'my editor emailed two days after receiving my proposal.
My 'call' ended up being on my answering message, but Sin sold on a chapter and a synopsis. Within one month, I sold 5 single titles and 1 novella to Kensington. So along with my beloved regency-set historical romances, I'm writing historical and contemporary vampire stories, all erotic. In some way, I can't quite believe that my dream of becoming an author has come true. And I am delighted to be writing romance, especially erotic romance, where I can share the power of love and intimacy with readers.
