Jasmine Stone

Returning from Russia with a new husband and mother-in-law, I soon learned there is no Russian word for 'privacy' the way we Americans understand it. When I asked for my own room in our new house, you would've thought I had asked for permission to commit murder. After many heated arguments, I won. Russian husband and mother-in-law, however, were sore losers. They began standing outside the closed door and loudly whispering things such as, "WHAT could she be doing?", "Quiet!!!!!!", and, accompanied by snickers, "She...(snicker) needs her own...private life...alone!"

On the other side of the door, I fumed. I wasn't committing murder...not yet, anyway. I wasn't even having an affair or masturbating. I was trying to write. It occurred to me that the worst thing I could be doing was writing porn. At first in anger, then later with glee, I finished STRIPPED TO THE BONE. Virgin Books published it, I left husband, went on tour with a pop star and wrote SYMPHONY X for Virgin. My books have been translated into German, Japanese and Norwegian. I hope someday they will be translated into Russian. I owe my ex that much. NOT YOUR ORDINARY PORNOGRAPHIC THRILLER is my third book.