Friday St. James knew she would write since she was a pigtailed third grader in Seattle, though she never imagined the genre. As a writer of erotic romance, St. James has been honing her craft over half her life, exchanging letters and stories with various lovers over the years. Although St. James has a Master’s degree in business from a top-ranked university, she jokes that the only use for her degree now is to ensure that she can understand the front page of the Wall Street Journal. A romantic at heart, her debut novel, Play Book: An erotic love story, poured out of her over the course of seven days. Her characters call to her, even as she sleeps, urging her out of sound slumber to her laptop to dutifully capture their tales. Today, though she still writes stories for her readers, her letters go only to her husband. St. James has lived and traveled to most parts of the U.S. and to over a dozen countries worldwide. She still dreams of the day she can retire along the Amalfi Coast of I