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Jilly Cooper’s verdict on Fifty Shades of Grey

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Thursday 23rd August 2012

My children still haven’t got over the embarrassment of walking into my office last week and seeing my desk covered with erotic novels. From Jane Eyre Laid Bare to Eighty Days Yellow, they were piled up all over the place. I was reading them for a newspaper review (really) but even so, my son and daughter shut the door hurriedly and scuttled off to laugh about it with their friends. ...keep reading

Fifty Shades trilogy sells more than a million on Kindle in the UK

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Tuesday 26th June 2012

My first romantic novella, Olympic Flames, has just been published as an ebook and like every writer I know, I check every other hour to see how many copies it has sold. But my jaw dropped this morning when a press release from Amazon dropped into my in-box. EL James, the London-based mother-of-two who created the hit Fifty Shades trilogy, has just become the first author to sell more than ...keep reading