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Why I Typically Don’t Include Myself in My Erotica Stories

Zarla Dawn
3 min readNov 13, 2023

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I’ve noticed some authors write erotica using their own identities in their stories or to promote themselves. Some stories are fiction and some might be true. There are reasons I choose not to do this.

There are a number of reasons — for one, I’m spoken for relationship-wise (I’m in a long-term poly relationship). I’m also on the asexuality spectrum (believe it or…

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Zarla Dawn

I’m a bookish erotica and romance writer from Australia. 18+ only please. I'm now in the SFWA. I write erotica as Zarla Dawn and F/F romance as Cailee Francis.