Discover the secrets behind the Red Room of Pain.
The intricacies of making love in the backseat of an expensive sports car.
The rough and tumble process of editing Fifty Shades of Grey.
Find out where the name E.L. James really comes from.

And finally the step by step process by which this middle-aged British mother of two came up with the international best-selling erotic romance series that has sold more copies than Harry Potter.

Marc Shapiro is the New York Times best-selling author of J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter, Justin Bieber: The Fever! and many other best-selling celebrity biographies. He has been a free-lance entertainment journalist for more than twenty-five years, covering film, television, and music for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines.