Tina Engler

Tina Marie Engler (born January 22, 1972 in Salem, Ohio), better known under the pen name Jaid Black, is a USA Today bestselling author of numerous erotic romance novels.[1] Engler, the founder and majority stock holder of Ellora’s Cave Publishing, is behind the creation of what Ellora’s Cave has trademarked Romantica, a fusion of the erotica and romance genres in popular English literature.[2] She was honored by Romantic Times Magazine with their first ever Trailblazer Award,[3] both for her Romantica contribution to the romance genre, as well as for her pivotal role in popularizing the e-book.[4]

As a public figure, Engler is most well known for her books penned under the pseudonym Jaid Black, as well as for her rise from the rank of welfare recipient to millionaire entrepreneur.[5][6] However, it is her legacy as being the creative genius behind the birth of erotic romance for which she will most be remembered. Engler once told a reporter, “I provided something that wasn’t out there at the time. It’s kind of heady when I think about it.”[7] Concerning her legacy, and the reason behind the creation of Romantica, Engler was quoted in the Los Angeles Times as stating, “[Erotic romance] legitimizes the female sexual experience. Women read these books and it makes them feel normal about their own fantasies.”[8]

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth’s fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its “sensual, ingenious style” and for its provocative […]

Robin Schone

Robin Schone (born about 1954) is a best-selling American author of erotic romance novels. Schone read her first romance novel, These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, at age twelve, and began reading erotic novels when she was fifteen. Although she has always written stories for herself, Schone was determined to be a painter, and studied […]

Benjamin Péret

Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement[1][2] with his avid use of Surrealist automatism. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé, France on 4 July 1899.[3] He, as a child, acquired little education due to his dislike […]

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto moˈraːvja]; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), the basis for […]

R. C. Hörsch

R. C. Hörsch (also R. C. Horsch or Raymond Charles Hoersch) (born 1943) is an American photographer, filmmaker, writer, sculptor and musician known for controversial work that blurs the distinction between art and pornography. He is also known for his sociopathic tendencies and sado-masochistic lifestyle. His fifty-year body of work is diverse and ranges from […]

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