Judy Kemp

I guess I’m an erotica writer now. My novel, A Bouquet of Gardenias, had been burning a hole in me for some years before I actually got down to writing it. It’s based on a true experience that my husband and I had a few years ago. I didn’t intend for it to be so explicit, but I didn’t want to water down what had happened between us and the woman I call Fiona in the novel. I didn’t want to water down the things we did, the things we felt and the things we said. It was a crazy time. It was as if some sort of madness had got hold of us all. I’d never experienced anything like it before and haven’t since. If it’s a little overpowering to read, that’s only because the experience we shared was overpowering. Obviously, a few of the details have been changed, but everything that happens really happened, as far as I can remember it (and I’ve had difficulty forgetting it). Sometimes it was very painful to write, other times deeply exhilarating and profoundly arousing. I hope you enjoy reading it.