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Have you ever noticed how the women in erotic novels are all young? Author Louise Conrad is out to change that with a series of sizzling books in which lusty ladies over 40 are getting all the wild sex.

“There’s a gap in this genre with lack of stories involving women over 40. Not all meaningful sexual experiences occur before then. Nor is romance dead after a certain age,” Conrad tells ENTITY.

She is right about that and a 2016 University of Pittsburgh report was one of many studies to show that sex improves with age for women as they better understand how their bodies work when it comes to sex.

A retired nurse in Ontario, Canada, the author now spends her days and nights churning out steamy novels under the name L.L. Conrad — often taking only five weeks to complete a manuscript.

“I gravitated to what appealed to me. As a reader, I grew bored with the same old plots and predictable endings,” says Louise, 60. “My thinking as a writer, was that if I could entertain myself by bringing something new and inspiring in the marketplace then others might feel the same.”

One who doesn’t quite feel the same but is supportive of her literary ambitions anyway is Louise’s husband. “He is uncomfortable discussing sex and would rather talk about almost anything else. But he has read my books and admits to feeling both aroused and embarrassed by them.”

Louise (pictured below) has written eight books so far, the first being “My Time,” in May 2016. All of them are self-published and have quickly grown a devoted following.

“The feedback from readers has been entertaining. I get a lot of, ‘My God! How your mind works!’ and ‘I don’t know whether to be impressed or scared.’ My favorite is, ‘Do women like this exist?’ But the message has been fairly consistent — that I have managed to capture how they think.”

ENTITY interviews erotic fiction author, Louise Conrad.

She thinks her books provide a public service by allowing readers to understand and explore their sexual boundaries in a safe way, especially when it comes to some of her more kinky chapters.

“Let’s face it, bringing-up a non-mainstream sexual proclivity outside of a professional therapist’s office is definitely a conversation killer even with a friend. If nothing else, I also hope to make people understand sex better. The ways that it is used. How it changes over time. How it can become richer. What better medium to address this than in novels where characters are free to explore their sexual nature, to learn to be non-conformists, to address their own past and present, and reinvent themselves under a new norm?”

Louise adds that the key to writing the perfect sex scene comes down to what you don’t write. “Leaving something to the imagination works well when titillating an audience. You have to arouse the senses while lingering and drawing it out a little. The set-up needs to be well planned out, the specific actions must be recognizable and resonate with the reader. Less graphic and more sensual is my aim. The appeal needs to be in the build and execution. In other words, if the job is done well even the author is turned-on.”

ENTITY interviews erotic fiction author, Louise Conrad.

Talking of which, putting herself into the stories has helped to make the words flow. “Imagining yourself in the midst of the activity makes the documentation of the encounter easier. There are parts of me in the female characters. There is no denying that. One of my struggles is to battle against injecting too much of my own experiences, therefore I often pull away when it gets too personal. The development of scenarios are pure imagination.  Very little of my true self is depicted. Although, people who know me are not convinced of that!”

Learn more about the writer at www.llconrad.com.

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