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Solace Ames is an American writer specializing in erotic fiction. She has also written under the pen name, Violetta Vane.[1]
About
editAmes's father was a Japanese citizen, and her mother was raised in the United States and both had different expectations on how to raise their daughter.[2] Ames has characterized them as "anarcho-hippies."[2] Growing up, Ames felt that she was often fetishized by men who viewed Asian women as sex objects.[2] During her early twenties, she worked in a strip club in order to make make money, though she doesn't "talk about it much after because of the stigma."[2]
Ames is a self-taught writer.[3] Ames placed third with her short story, "Tomorrow's Much Too Long," for Hyphen's first Erotic Writing Contest in 2013.[4]
Ames first published The Dom Project with Carina Press with another author, Heloise Belleau in 2013. The main character was a tall, "tattooed Asian bad-boy Dom."[1]
Ames's first solo book, the Submission Gift, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which called it a "nuanced look at polyamory and BDSM."[5] In the story, a husband hires a rent boy as a "gift" to his wife.[6] He does this because he has just recovered from a bad car accident and can't provide a full sex life for his wife any longer.[7]
Her second solo publication, The Companion Contract was also favorably reviewed by Publishers Weekly.[8] This book is about a woman who works as a pornography actress, but wants to move onto another career and another place in her life.[9]
Ames always makes a point to include safe sex practices in her writing whether this includes using condoms or partners being regularly screened for sexually transmitted infections (STI).[10] When Ames first started writing romance novels, she wanted to create multicultural stories.[11] She says that "Characters aren't as real to me if I don't understand where they come from."[11] Ames also stresses how treating multiculturalism in erotica must be rooted in a sense personhood, rather than "fetishizing" or objectifying the person for their differences.[2]
Ames is married and has children.[3]
Bibliography
edit- Ames, Solace (2015). The Companion Contract. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426899522.
- Ames, Solace (2014). The Submission Gift. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426898280.
- Belleau, Heloise; Ames, Solace (2013). The Dom Project. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426897672.
References
edit- ^ a b "Guest Post and Giveaway: Solace Ames on Asian Sex Symbols and BDSM". Romance Around the Corner. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "A Conversation About Asian-American Erotica Writers". The Toast. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Reader, I Married Him: Author Spouses Tell All: Solace Ames & Dakota Cassidy". RT Book Reviews. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Goulding, Cathlin (7 October 2013). "Asian American Lit Has Its Sexy Back: The Winners of Hyphens Erotic Writing Contest". Hyphen Magazine. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ "The Submission Gift". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ^ Lamb, Joyce (28 March 2014). "Romance Is In the Air With These Hot New Book Releases". USA Today.
- ^ "Review - The Submission Gift by Solace Ames". BookPushers. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ "The Companion Contract". Publishers Weekly. February 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Verna, Elisa. "The Companion Contract". RT Book Reviews. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Bussel, Rachel Kramer (31 January 2015). "Do condoms kill the mood of a book? Erotica authors don't agree on safe sex demands". Salon. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Multicultural Romance Roundtable". Love in the Margins. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
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