Desperate to Touch (Hard to Love Book 2)

Seabury Grandin Quinn (also known as Jerome Burke; December 1889 – 24 December 1969) was a government lawyer, journalist, and an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.[1] He was born and lived in Washington, D.C. In 1910. He graduated from the […]

Pierre Klossowski (/kləˈsɒfski/; French: [klɔˈsɔfski]; August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, […]

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s […]

Paul Henry de Kock, better known as Henry de Kock, (25 April 1819 – 14 April 1892) was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, and chansonnier, famous for his salacious novels. The son of Paul de Kock, he wrote feuilletons which gained a significant success such as La Voleuse d’amour (1863), L’Auberge des treize pendus (1866), […]

Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963),[1][2] known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed,[3][4] along with the companion novels Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian and Darker: Fifty […]