I’m still amazed,” she said.Īnd when asked about the book’s dominating sexual relationship between the characters, James said she thinks many women might feel the way Anastasia does. The author – who reportedly scored $5 million for the movie rights to her story – also spoke to the “Today” show’s Michelle Kosinski on Tuesday about her success – something she is still reeling about. “I’d be mortified, and they’d be mortified, you know,” she said. The mother of two teenage sons said her children have not read the books and she hopes they never do. “It’s all my fantasies in, in one thing,” she said. James explained that she began the books during a “midlife crisis.” “It’s a contemporary, romantic fiction, with quite a lot of sex in it,” she said of the story about young student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey, who has a fetish for BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism) and dominating women.
She just flipped this switch,” James said in an interview with “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas, which aired on Tuesday’s “Good Morning America.”īut the “Fifty Shades” trilogy – James also penned two sequels, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades of Freedom” – is much racier than anything Bella, Edward and Jacob ever did.
James, the British author of the headline-making book trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey,” says she was compelled to write her wildly popular erotic novel after the success of “The Twilight Saga.”
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