Erotic author, Natalie Dae writes mainly BDSM erotica. She loves a Dom/sub relationship and is fascinated by how it all works. The trust issue is the best thing about it for her, so creating characters who have to adopt trust is one of her priorities. “Watching my characters bloom under tuition is such a treat,” she says. “I find it such a privilege to be able to write about something that makes me learn something new with every book.”
She lives with her husband and children in an English village and spends her spare time reading—always reading!—and her phone, complete with Kindle app, is never far away. “I can’t imagine not reading or writing,” she says. “It’s a part of who I am. Without it I’d be more than a bit lost.”
We managed to tear Natalie away from her books for a couple of minutes and she was kind enough to answer a few questions and share a hot excerpt from her new book, Master M.
1. How long does it take you to write a book? I’m lucky in that I can write a novel in about five or six days. Most of my shorts were written in around six hours. The story grips me and doesn’t let go until I’ve finished!
2: What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Work at my day job, sleep, and read. I don’t really do much else, to be honest. I’m a bit of a hermit, and Hubby has to remind me that I need to go out, usually when I’ve stayed indoors for about a fortnight. LOL.
3. Do you have any strange writing habits (like standing on your head or writing in the shower)?
I wear the kind of ear buds used on flights. They drown out all sound, and as soon as I put them in it’s like a trigger to my brain that says I have to write, no exceptions. I also play a game where I give myself a goal—I can go and make a cup of tea once I’ve finished a chapter or I can get up and walk around for a while. I find it keeps me focused, and if I want that cup of tea badly enough, I write faster.
4: Is this your first book? How many books have you written prior (if any?)
I’ve stopped counting how many books I’ve written. I have a few pen names, and at the last count I’d written 83 books spread out over all the names. Some aren’t published now, but I plan to revise them and resub. It’s finding the time to do that, though!
5: Do you ever experience writer’s block? If so how do you get past it?
Not these days. I started looking at writing differently to how I have in the past. Even if I don’t feel like writing, or I think the words won’t come, I sit down and start writing. It doesn’t matter what I’m writing, so long as words make their way onto the page—usually babble about my life or random stuff about the weather. It sets the creative side of my brain off, then I find I can go to one of my WIPs and just get on with it.
6: If you only had one word to describe yourself, what would it be and why?
Insane—because every time I tell myself to take a break, I still listen to the voices and then it sets me off writing another book.
Natalie was good enough to share an