Cocktails was my first published erotica novel. It grew out of my experiences running a nightclub in Silicon Valley - One Step Beyond. While running a nightclub was a challenge and full of fun moments with many really cool bands, it did become a bit of a grind - so I passed some of the dull moments by writing. I didn't start out to write an erotic novel about Silicon Valley. I enjoyed erotica - always have enjoyed wanking off to the Good Bits - and like any aspiring author and pervert - I always thought I could do better. So I wrote a novel called Naughty Message Part Two. Why it's called that - and what happened to Part One - is a long story - which you'll find out in my Naughty Message Wall.

Most of the erotica I read was from England - the Nexus imprint - so I sent off Naughty Message Part Two to them. They responded back that it was a bit too complicated, with too much plot and not enough sex, but I could obviously write, and what I did write about sex was good, so if I wanted to write a simpler, more straightforward erotica novel, they'd be very interested. Well, what can you do but start typing, and the closest thing to me was all the fun and games I'd witnessed running a nightclub and hanging around Silicon Valley's bars - so Cocktails was born.

The inspiration for the Pumping Station featured in Cocktails is the Peppermill restaurant where the waitresses wore really slinky red, lowcut dresses slit up the thigh to the hip. I went out with several of them, and much of what you read in Cocktails comes from their stories - and my very ample imagination.