It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

Never trust a man who can dance.