Lisabet Sarai

Lisabet Sarai is our Fiction Reviewer, Contributing Editor, and writes Erotic Lure, our monthly newsletter. We're honored she's willing to share her talented pen, and luscious charms, with ERWA

About Lisabet Sarai:

When I was in fourth grade, I drew pictures of sexy, full-bosomed, wasp-waisted, wide-hipped girls in bikinis, and sold them to the boys in my class for a quarter each.

The first poem that I find among my papers was written at age seven; it may not be the first poetry that I wrote.

It seems that I have always been fascinated by sex, its mysteries and revelations, its thrilling complexities and variations. And it seems that I have always loved words, the way they can create entire new worlds of the imagination, emotion and spirit. In writing erotica, I unify these two passions.

I was one of those children who stayed inside "with my nose in a book" until mother forced me outside to play. I began writing almost as soon as I learned how to form the letters. I have written plays, poems, technical specs, advertisements, grant proposals, research reports, love letters, marketing brochures, song lyrics, and a five hundred page dissertation, plus four erotic novels (so far) and dozens of stories.

For years, I wrote erotic stories and kinky fantasies for myself and for lovers' entertainment. I never considered trying to publish my work until I picked up a copy of a Black Lace novel while sojourning in Instanbul. Something clicked when I read Portia da Costa's "Gemini Heat". I found it simultaneously intelligent and exciting. It was the way I wanted to write. I submitted a proposal to Black Lace, and was astonished when they accepted it. "Raw Silk" was published in April 1999, and all at once, I was an official erotic author.

Currently, I live in Southeast Asia with my talented, tolerant husband and a pair of fine felines. Both my profession and my inclinations lead me to travel, though, so next month I might be in New York City or Prague, Rio or Kathmandu.

In honesty, I must confess that this picture is not current. But it is a picture of me, living out a particular fantasy. It is, perhaps, my vision of what a writer of erotica should look like. For a more recent and enigmatic photo, please visit my website,  Lisabet Sarai's Fantasy Factory.

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