About the Author

Tobsha Learner is a playwright, best selling author and an internationalist with considerable experience living on three continents. Currently based in both London and San Diego, she grew up in England then migrated to Australia, where she originally graduated from the internationally acclaimed Australian Film and TV school (screen writing) and the National Institution of Dramatic Arts NIDA (playwriting). Her genres are historical fiction, thrillers and erotic fiction and she has had internationally best-selling books in all three categories – and is in translation in 15 territories – she has also written comedy for the stage and comedic columns for the London Times. She is a green card holder, a UK and Australian passport holder and a member of the WGA.
Her collection of erotic short stories ‘Quiver’ was selected as one of the books of the year by Publishers Weekly 2013.
She is also known as a thriller writer T.S.Learner and her thriller SPHINX was number two on the commercial UK bestseller list early 2010, Her other thrillers include The Map, and The Stolen. She is currently developing a dramedy Babel - set in Savannah with her producing partner Annette Davey and Goalpost Pictures. Louise Crawford is a drama graduate from Queensland University of Technology with a major in acting. Louise has a successful career on stage, film and television in Australia. She appeared in the film The Hard Word, and on television in Natalie Wood, Farscape, Beastmaster and All Saints. She hosted Scream Test and was a series regular on Breakers and Echo Point. Her theatre appearances include The Vagina Monologues, The Importance of Being Earnest, Uncle Vanya, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Caucasian Chalk Circle. Louise has also been a scriptwriter on Home and Away and Breakers.

Reviews

“A deliciously horny read, inventive and sexy.”
*Linda Jaivin*

“Fairy tales for the modern upmarket urban female.”
*Janine Burke*

“Each tale shudders with full-frontal detail in a style that is both lyrical and forensically accurate.”
*Megan le Masurier*

"Los Angeles-based playwright and screenwriter Learner's debut hardcover is a polite sex aide for married couples, lovers, celibates, and others who deny themselves realistically textured erotic fantasy on their own but enjoy looking at someone else's dream-sex, especially if it's as neatly written and controlled as this. Learner devises twelve interlocked stories, set in Sydney, Australia, with many of the same characters appearing in them, presented from a variety of sexual attack angles. In the first story, middle-aged dominatrix Sandra is married to dentist Brian and discovers surprisingly that she likes being dominated by her husband when he ties her to his dental chair and performs unusual feats with his electric brushes, etc. Soon enough Robert, chief foreman of a construction company, who has been watching all this daily from his hanging steel cage outdoors, decides to enter the fun. The tales cover hetero, bi, gay, exhibitionist, and SM activities, with the recurring characters enjoying new excitements, as well as a few huge sighs of nostalgia for bedrooms past. The story “Ice Cream”, for instance, suggests fresh uses for richly creamy and syrupy ice stuff … raspberry, vanilla, mocha, or chocolate, it hardly matters. Silk-pajama fare, mostly female-oriented."
*Kirkus Reviews*