Occupation: Novelist
This writer started out wanting to create serious literary fiction, but her editor had other ideas. Convinced that erotic novels were where the real market was, she took the plunge into a genre she'd never written before. To get authentic material for the work, she spent time in online chat rooms engaging in sexual conversations—basically using her research as a form of method writing. It's the kind of career pivot that probably seemed ridiculous at the time but definitely gave her firsthand knowledge of the subject matter.
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