


Characters are the most interesting when they've had all of the baggage, all of their many masks, stripped away from them and they're left with nothing but the purest core of who and what they are. She believes that is the main reason why she tends to write stories with a darker edge to them. She feels there is something enormously satisfying about putting a character through intense physical and emotional hardship, and then carrying him or her through out the other side. She realized at a young age that she was attracted to the darker side of life in the fictional stories she felt compelled to write. Over the years she has written erotic short stories and novels in genres ranging from science fiction/fantasy to gothic horror to modern detective mysteries. She got her start in the profession writing slash fanfiction, where she has published numerous stories under the pen-name Rushlight. Jaken has been writing homoerotic fiction for more than ten years. She's endlessly fascinated by just about everything she sees around her and is constantly looking for new ways to learn and improve her knowledge of the world.J.A. She speaks a little bit of French, a little bit of American Sign Language, a little bit of Japanese, but she's not really fluent in any of them (although she's trying!). Outside of writing, her interests include studying foreign languages, riding horses, practicing martial arts, and collecting medieval weaponry.

