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Jade West

The Queen of Filth

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I’ve been living in fairytale land since I was tiny… it was only as I got older that fairytale land started involving extremely filthy fantasies. A lot of which came true to life.

I’m as dirty as you’d expect from my novels. That’s no secret. I’m more than happy to talk about dirty sex wherever I go. In fact, I used to do it nightly as a chatline operator. I loved that job.

But not as much as I love my current one.

My first novel, Dirty Bad Wrong, flew into the Amazon US top 100 on release – which was beyond anything I’d have ever expected. I’d say that was at least partly down to the fact that I practice what I preach. I sure know what a cane feels like, and I know what it’s like to be in a ‘wet room’.

Sorry if you’re reading this, Nan.

I get obsessed with my characters to the point of no return. I’ve got many tales to tell on that score, but they aren’t for an ‘about me’ section on a website. Ask me in person, if you ever meet me.

So, outside of living in filthy fairytale land and putting my fingers to the keyboard, I like eating cake, watching gameshows, and wearing black velvet. I was always a weird child, who grew into a goth teenager and never left that behind.

I am a cackle-laugher, and love getting the giggles until my cheeks hurt. It happens easily.

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On a more serious note, I love pondering the meaning of life, studying Jungian psychology, tarot, astrology, visualisation and the law of attraction.

I love full moons, waves in the darkness and the sand between my toes.

I'm a Reiki practitioner with a massive crystal collection, and I throw my I Ching coins quite regularly. Plus, I always salute a magpie when I see one.

Outside of being a filthy minded fantasist, who loves pondering the mysteries, I’m epileptic, diagnosed in 2019 after the death of my long-term partner, Jon.

Neither of these two things have been easy to adjust to, or to live with. I know they say that time is a healer, but I’d say more of a coper and a hoper.

I’m very lucky to have a great support network around me. I wouldn’t have come anywhere near this far without them.

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I’m very lucky to have such an incredible community of authors, readers and smut lovers around me, too.

The romance world is one hell of a heaven – filled with devils, demons, morally grey heroes, villains, stepbrothers, boys next door, and everything you could ever imagine.

One other major thing about me is that I love being a reader as well as a writer. That will never change.

I’ll be a just one more chapter kind of girl for the rest of my days. 

Love,

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