MITZI SZERETO

Meet my friend Mitzi Szereto, a popular modern short story writer and anthology editor, whose latest book "The New Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies" is receiving great reviews in the Times and other publications. Mitzi, who runs her own erotic writing workshops as well as lectures in creative writing at university level, has more than a dozen titles to her name, all of which are selling well.

She insists that although intended to be entertaining, her latest book serves as a socio-cultural study of female sexuality". It may also help aspiring authors to write about sex, even those who "feel a bit funny about it" because they fear that readers will draw conclusions about the authors' own lives. Mitzi dismisses this idea, saying that people who write in detail about a murder never worry about being seen as closet psychopaths. Mitzi is often featured as a guest on radio and television and is due soon on the Sadie Nine Show for BBC Radio Essex. She can be reached via Facebook and MySpace, or else at: worddabbler@yahoo.com