Diane Demetre is a fresh, passionate voice in storytelling. She is an award-winning author of genre-busting romance novels with a twist. Her dramatic flair, sense of place and evocative style create an entertaining escape for her readers. Diane’s works feature empowered heroines who live life to the fullest on their terms, much like the author herself.

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Sarah Williams:                  Welcome to Write with Love. I’m Sarah Williams, bestselling author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. Each week, I chat to passionate and inspiring authors about their journey in creative writing. Some are traditionally published. Some do it themselves. Everyone’s journey is different, and everyone has something interesting to say. We all love love, and love what we do. Today’s show is brought to you by our amazing fans and supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help support the show and get some awesome bonus episodes, go to patreon.com/sarahwilliamsauthor to learn more. Now, here’s today’s show.

Sarah Williams:                  G’day. I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and independent publisher at Serenade Publishing. Today I’m chatting to Diane Demetre. Thanks for joining me, Diane.

Diane Demetre:                It’s great to be here, Sarah. Thank you.

Sarah Williams:                  No worries. It’s lovely to have you on the show today. Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and your journey to publication?

Diane Demetre:                Okay, well, I started off many, many years ago in the entertainment industry. I was a dancer, an entertainer, a choreographer, and director. That was my form of storytelling, I guess, because as I was growing up, I was an avid reader. I used to write stories, but I used to like performing best of all. Then about, I don’t know, a number of years ago back in 2012 or something like that when Fifty Shades of Grey was really, really big, a friend of mine said, “Oh, you must read that.” I said, “No, no, no, I don’t want to read that.” She said, “No, no, no, read it, read it, read it.” I went, “Oh, okay.”

Diane Demetre:                Under sufferance, I read it. That was the impetus to my writing career, because I went, “Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.” For a start, I was a child of the ’70s, which means we went out there, and we marched for women’s rights. We did those things. We went, “No, my body is mine. It’s not yours.” When I read Fifty Shades of Grey, I went, “Oh, no, that’s so wrong.” We all burned our bras back in the ’70s to stop that sort of crap from happening, so I went, “No.” I had no intention of writing erotic romance. I’d already written children’s books years before, and they’d all been sitting in drawers, but the whole thing came in. No, you’re writing erotic romance, and so that’s how Dancing Queen was born.

Diane Demetre:                Dancing Queen was about a 42-year-old woman who goes out and has sex on her terms rather than the other way around. Dancing Queen flew out of my fingers. I’m going, “Why am I writing erotic romance? I don’t even read it.” I’ve never even read it. Straight after that in my head, Tiny Dancer was already lined up, which is about a 24-year-old dancer who gets the job of a lifetime at the Moulin Rouge. Then the last one, Dance to a Gypsy Beat,