Writing Erotica Helps Single Mom Turn Sex Fantasies Into Financial Reality

AKRON, Ohio (TNA) – The “American dream” has always included believing in yourself, sticking to your guns and working your way to the top. These days, many would add plenty of sex and fame into the mix.

Publisher and bestselling author Tina Engler, who writes under the non de plume “Jaid Black,” employed copious amounts of the former to achieve the latter. Engler, a pioneer in both the erotic-romance literary genre and the digital world of e-books, built her company Ellora's Cave from a kitchen-table project into a multi-million-dollar corporation boasting a lengthy, sex-saturated catalog.

Erotica writer Tina Engler

At the end of the '90s, Engler was a frustrated single mother with two kids and a dissatisfying job as an airline reservations agent. She'd spent the last eight years receiving government assistance while working, raising her children and putting herself through college, and had developed a habit of hiding from her wage-slave reality among the pages of romance novels. Soon, she was writing them as well as reading them.

“It was definitely a love for the genre, the end result of being an avid romance reader,” says Engler. “Romances always have an ‘HEA’ – a `Happily Ever After.’ I like that. There's enough depressing shit in real life. I don't want it in my reading.”

Her stories were rejected by traditional romance publishers, who thought the sex scenes too frequent and too graphic. But Engler wasn't about to change her style to fit the marketplace. As Jaid Black, she was both entertaining and empowered herself. She enjoyed her frank sexual fantasies, and suspected other women would as well.

“Fortunately, my mom neglected to fill me in on the fact that I'm not supposed to get horny at the drop of a hat,” she says. “I guess what I'm trying to say ... is that it never once occurred to me as a little girl that I was supposed to grow up to be anything less than fabulous. I was taught to value my instincts, to believe in myself, and to take life by the ovaries.”

So Engler built her own website, and began selling her books on an on-demand basis. She had customers the very first day, and by 2003, Ellora's Cave was a million-dollar business.

These days, she's got a full-time staff – Mom is CEO – a stable of writers, a slew of fans and a long list of titles offering something for every adventurous reader, so long as their tastes don't run toward bestiality or uninvited violence. And, while the topic of how America treats its poverty-stricken single mothers is still a very, very sore one, she's well on her way to her own “Happily Ever After.”

For more information, check out http://www.ellorascave.com.


Exceprts from Tina Engler lastest book, “Never A Slave.”:

• Julian groaned when the talented mouth working up and down his shaft took him in so far he swore he could feel her tonsils. He gritted his teeth when she picked up the pace. He could imagine in his mind's eye the image of her face bobbing feverishly back and forth whilst she sucked his cock.

• Julian tasted her everywhere - her nipples, her cunt, her navel her ass - everywhere his tongue could find warm flesh. The more he licked, the more bonded to her he felt.

• He entered Klykka's cunt on a loud groan, her exquisitely tight flesh accepting him inside. He buried himself to the hilt in one thrust, every muscle in his body tense with need. He rode her hard, glutting himself on her pussy, penetrating harder and deeper with every thrust. Perspiration-soaked skin slapped perspiration-soaked skin. His teeth gritted with pleasure as he fucked her harder and harder and harder.