We were introduced to Virginia Wade a little while back when word of her monster porn successes took the internet by storm. The dreams of writers everywhere were crushed and replaced by morally bankrupt hope, all while Bigfoot smiled with glee on some mountainside. Monsters are just so hot right now.
Anyway, she’s back with an interview over at Salon and we’ve compiled the best bits to mull over. Read it while you sip your morning tea and devour the newest tome featuring Bigfoot ravishing a young lady in his sex cave. See, this stuff almost writes itself.
On how she began writing Bigfoot porn:
I was dabbling in a bunch of short stories around 2011 and all these “daddy stories” were on [the erotica bestseller list]. I never had success with these silly daddy stories, so one day this crazy idea came into my head. I was kind of rebelling; most of my colleagues were writing these pseudo-incest daddy stories — with no real incest at all, I mean, none of the characters were blood related — so I said, “I’m going to write something totally freaky and crazy.” Bigfoot sprang into my mind.
Why writing monster erotica is so damn popular:
The longer I’m in this business and reading other people’s work, I’m beginning to realize that it’s this capture fantasy, where you kind of have this thrill about being kidnapped and ravished, but of course you would never want that to happen to you in real life. The danger of it, the dark quality to it and the taboo nature of it, I think that all appeals — and actually to mostly female readers. When I started writing erotica I thought I was writing for men.
Also, it’s campy and funny and I didn’t take it too seriously. Actually, I don’t know why any readers would read my book [laughs]. I think it’s just that it’s so out there, so out of the realm of possibility. That’s why these dinosaur erotica books are so popular and these tentacle books are so popular. The chances of you getting tempted by a tentacle are, you know, pretty slim. Why do we read books? So that we can go somewhere else for a while and experience something that will never happen to us.
The romantic styles of one Norman G. Bigfoot:
He’s surprisingly gentle. The women really, really enjoy everything he does to them. It starts out — I can’t call it rape because then I’ll get in trouble — it’s one of those forced seductions. It’s not really any worse than a bodice-ripper romance — although my stuff’s pretty detailed. I’d forgotten how raunchy it was until someone quoted back something I’d written and it was something to the effect of “semen dripping from eyelashes” [laughs].
What the future holds for her following Amazon’s crackdown on erotica:
I had started to phase Virginia out [to begin writing under a different pen name], but I was in an anthology a couple months ago that was really successful and we all got New York Times bestseller statuses and it’s a shame to waste that. So I need to think about what direction I need to take her in — maybe working on longer erotic novels, maybe maturing her a little from her sleazy, campy Bigfoot days. I’m kind of motivated by sales numbers. I tend to want to write things that I hope have a chance of selling well. It gets harder and harder with more people coming into self-publishing, because there’s a glut of books on the market. Now you have to have some sort of marketing plan.
I might finish up the Bigfoot saga, and there might be room for “Bigfoot: The Next Generation.” The little sasquatches are growing up — and they’re horny!
I’m also a fan of this quote from her about me blurb on Smashwords:
A mother of two, and a wife, she realized a lifelong dream of writing and publishing after her oldest child graduated from high school. Earlier forays into self-publishing yielded few sales, but the experience and knowledge gained were immeasurable. Once she dipped her toes in erotica, with the publication of Seducing Jennifer, which has now been titled, Jennifer’s Anal Seduction, the possibility of success presented itself, as the story found a home in the Erotica Top 100.
You live the kind of life I want to live when your dreams of writing are fulfilled by a story titled Jennifer’s Anal Seduction. Also can’t wait to hear the term “forced seduction” on Nancy Grace one day. Hopefully Bigfoot will be involved then too.
(Lead image via Amazon/Business Insider, Interview via Salon)