I'm an award-nominated British author of erotica, with more than 100 stories and novels published and over five million pages read.

My books range from BDSM, sexual predicaments and pony play to darker tales of ghosts and the supernatural. Whatever the subject, I believe erotica is better when there's a story to go with the sex.

Step inside, and you’ll find a description of each of my books and the thought process that went into creating each one.

If you read something of mine, do get in touch. I love speaking to my readers.

I live and work in Scotland.

There are some questions that all authors get asked. The first is usually: where do you get your ideas from?

The basic answer is that I love reading. I always have. The way a good book can transport you anywhere in the universe, or to any point in time, is magical. A lot of my ideas come from the way books fire my imagination.

I’m also involved in the BDSM scene. You get to meet people and witness events, and a lot of ideas come from those interactions, as well as from my own personal life.

The second question is almost always: how did you get into writing?

This one’s even easier to answer. I was staying away from home, travelling with work, and when you’re in hotels for weeks on end you’ve got few choices. Drink yourself to death — BTW, drinking in hotel bars as a single woman isn’t fun; men hit on you all the time. If you’re ever in this situation, do her a favour and leave her alone — and ultimately there’s only so much Netflix I can take.

So I downloaded Fifty Shades, read it and thought to myself, surely I can do this?

I told my partner, who set me a challenge: write a book! I had nothing else to do in the evenings, so I was like, why not? I picked up the keyboard and started to type.

Three months later, the result was my first book, Blackmailed, and to my utter surprise and amazement it sold reasonably well. As I like to say, not well enough to quit work, but definitely well enough to make writing as a sideline worthwhile.

That spurred me on to write another, and another, and I was hooked.

The final question is always: why pony girls?

I’ll be honest, it’s not a kink I get, but I was once looking for inspiration on the web while writing Five Days in San Francisco and stumbled across an image of what I now know to be a pony girl. My partner explained it to me, then set me a challenge: write a pony girl book. A novel.

I love a challenge, so I incorporated some pony action into Five Days, but he wasn’t convinced that I'd actually met his challenge.

I thought about it for a while, then picked up the keyboard. Six weeks later, Fire and Flame was complete. Another week or two of editing and it hit the virtual shelves.

I expected it to sink without a trace. To my continued amazement, it led to many sequels . . . and also to a personal experience of being a pony girl!

I was born in Edinburgh but grew up near Manchester, before university and work eventually took me rather further afield. I've lived on both sides of the Atlantic, spent far too much of my working life in hotels, and eventually found my way back to Scotland.

When I'm not writing, I have a day job, a long-suffering partner and an interest in the kink scene that occasionally provides rather more research material than I bargained for . . .

I'm fortunate enough to have a career I enjoy, although balancing that with writing isn't always easy. Most of my books have been written in evenings, at weekends, in hotel rooms or whenever I've managed to steal a few hours for myself. A laptop has followed me around the world, and, quite a few stories have started life somewhere thousands of miles from home.

Away from work and writing, I'm fairly ordinary. I read far too much, enjoy good food and wine, travel whenever I get the chance and spend time with friends and my partner. Although, given some of those friends and some of the places we go, perhaps ordinary isn't quite the right word.

Inevitably, bits of real life find their way into my fiction. Sometimes it's a place I've visited, sometimes a conversation or someone I've met, and occasionally it's something rather more personal. Which bits are true?

I'm keeping that to myself.