Author Jamie Brenner Comes Forward About Writing Erotic Novels Under a Pen Name
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Jamie Brenner
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Summary
Author Jamie Brenner reveals that before her successful beach reads, she wrote a trilogy of explicit erotic novels under a pen name in 2011. She explains she hid her identity out of fear that the literary world wouldn't take her seriously for writing openly about women and sex. Now, she's reclaiming those works and questioning whether those fears were ever valid.
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At the time, 2011, it felt like the safest choice: I was just starting out.
I wasn't sure the literary world (or even my friends and colleagues) would take me seriously if I wrote openly about women and sex.
I'm not sure I believe that anymore.
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