Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a former Dutch call girl, madam, and author. She came to be best known for her best-selling memoir The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.
Hollander was born Xaviera “Vera” de Vries in Surabaya, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, which later became part of present-day Indonesia, to a Dutch Jewish physician father and a mother of French and German descent.[1] She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese internment camp.[2]
Greg Herren is an American writer and editor, who publishes work in a variety of genres, including mystery novels, young adult literature and erotica.[1] He publishes work both as Greg Herren and under the pseudonym Todd Gregory.[1] His novel Murder in the Rue Chartres won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Mystery category at […]
Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – December 13, 1993), was a French novelist. She was the author of the French BDSM novel Le lien (translated into English as The Ties that Bind) based on her own experience as a BDSM slave. She created quite a stir in France at the time of […]
Cassandra Rios, alias Odete Rios (1932, São Paulo — March 8, 2002) was a Brazilian fiction, mystery and specially lesbian erotica books writer. Her parents were Spanish outcasts from Spanish Civil war. Read: Samuel R. Delany
Ludovic Dauș (October 1 [O.S. September 19] 1873 – November 17, 1954)[1] was a Romanian novelist, playwright, poet and translator, also known for his contributions as a politician and theatrical manager. He was born into a cosmopolitan family, with a Czech father and a boyaress mother, but his formative years were marked by life in the small […]
Kris Cook is an American author of erotic romance. Kris Cook lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is a member of the North Texas Romance Writers of America,[1] a local chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Writing erotic romance for Siren Publishing, his books have received quite a bit of attention.[2] Read: Chuck […]