….was the most common question I received when I told people what I now do for a living. Interracial Multicultural Erotic Fiction, besides being a mouthful, is a genre that was getting little attention from the mainstream publishers but was begging to be tapped.

As I mentioned before, I’m in an interracial relationship, as are a large number of my friends, so when I would go to chain booksellers looking for interracial romance novels I found that the pickin’ were slim at best. So with pen in hand I started writing my own stories in private journals. One day I confided to a close friend, who happened to be the editor of an erotic newsletter, what I’d been doing and she asked me to write her a story as a gift to her husband.

Over coffee a few days later she asked for another. Before I knew it I was writing for my friends, co-workers, friends of friends and eventually the newsletter itself and decided to leave corporate America altogether.

Breaking the news to my family was a bit difficult. First a little background information on my upbringing. My Mom is a German born and raised African-American, tree hugging psychiatrist. My Dad is an African-American Southerner from a progressive conservative family who owns one of the large architectural firms in the South.

I know what you’re thinking…how’d they meet? Long story painfully short….grad school.

My Mom took the news like a champ, Dad not so much. I think there was sobbing and the rendering of clothes. My husband’s family, well let’s just that they fell back on their White Anglo Saxon Protestant reserve and ignored the big elephant in the room until the dopamine kicked in. Overall everyone has been immensely supportive from both sides...they even offered to read over my manuscripts. Who could ask for more?