'I didn't expect to fall in love with them, with both of them,' she said. The one thing James will miss about her Fifty Shades journey is the intense passion her characters had for each other. Whether you're a new or seasoned writer, publishing your first or 100th book, it's always terrifying because 'you're really putting a bit of your heart and soul out there,' she added. It's just something that we have to deal with.' 'Things that women write for women is, you know, treated with scorn anyways, and it's just rampant misogyny that's in our society. 'And I just wish they'd stick to something that is actually more interesting and more current. 'A lot of the time, a lot of people set out to shame you for doing something that you really enjoy and something that lots of other women enjoy,' she said.

(Vintage Books/Associated Press)īut the work about women's fulfilment and desires is marginalized and not taken seriously by the critics, explained James. James's story of passion, peppered with 'very mild kinky sex,' had the fans glomming onto every page as she brought BDSM fantasies into the mainstream with her Fifty Shades Trilogy.įifty Shades Trilogy by bestselling author E L James. Critical acclaim denied to books about women's desires, says James

It was also 'really great fun' as a post-menopausal woman writing the character of an angry young man, she quipped.

'The wonderful thing about writing Christian is I don't have to describe anything because he's a bloke,' said James, suggesting it was much more complex interpreting a woman's perspective. She had to observe a world of her own creation as an outsider, from a very different angle, and figure out how to fit new thriller elements into an existing narrative. James revealed it was 'quite an intellectual challenge' and 'a massive jigsaw puzzle' having to approach the story from a different character's perspective. 'It sort of saved me because I don't know what I would have done had I not had to keep me company during this weird time,' she said. Writing Freed offered James an escape from reality over the past 18 months, transporting her to Seattle and all the places where the stories in the book take place. Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian ()

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