About Olivia

UncoveringOlivia

Thank you for your interest in learning more about me. I've had three national bestsellers with traditional publishers (under a different name), but recently decided to start publishing my own books so I can write without so many restrictions on the fun stuff I always wanted to do.

I've always read lots of erotica and dark romance, and hope I'm writing stories that appeal to men as well as women. I grew up with three brothers who seemed to spend most of their teenage years looking at porn videos, so I ended up learning what they liked as well as what my girlfriends, husband, and I still like. My mother was a dancer in Brazil when she met my American father, a petroleum engineer who traveled a lot, and she raised all of us with a healthy attitude toward sex and how women can use their bodies as a source of power. She now sells houses, and my father is still an engineer.

Yes, I like a variety of kinky things (with my husband) and love to fantasize and experiment, but have never been to a sex club (not that I think there's anything wrong with it when consenting adults are involved) or any of the other fictional places or situations that appear in my novels. I'm a bodybuilder and something of an exhibitionist, but I mainly like the excitement of my husband taking spicy photos of me in public when I can get away with it.

I have no human children so far, but I do have two dogs: a Chihuahua and a Dachshund/Chihuahua mix, both of whom were rescues, and I love them like they were my children. My husband is a surgeon who works a lot, and that gives me plenty of time to write.

Interests: dancing, yoga, swimming, hiking, nature, former massage therapist (before I got married), reading, travel, bodybuilding, sexy photography (although my husband does most of it, and I used to work with a professional photographer as a model)

Former Jobs: Authors always have that list of weird jobs they've had, so here's mine: massage therapist, model, dancer, technical writer, brain surgeon (just kidding), and a few other jobs I can tell you about later when I've had a few drinks.

Education: BA inTheater from UCLA with a minor in Film, TV, and Digital Media. Later on, I started an MFA in Fiction Writing but didn't like the kinds of things they wanted me to write, so I quit part of the way through the program.

It's a hard life being a novelist, but someone has to do it.