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ABOUT VIOLET GREGORY
ABOUT VIOLET GREGORY
For most of her adult life, Violet Gregory has been a writer of one sort or another. She started writing poetry as a teenager when she had a school holiday job in the local Space Invaders arcade, and was the founding editor of her school newspaper.
On leaving school, VG caused consternation among her teachers and family by announcing she was not going to be a writer at all, but was planning to study fashion design. However, she quickly abandoned that idea when she realised she’d have to wear make-up and high heels on a regular basis in order to succeed in the fashion industry and went off to University instead.
She discovered University was a much more suitable place for her, as she could wear her Dad’s old pyjama top and monster slippers to class if she wanted to (and sometimes did). She failed almost all her papers in her first year, but was a member of a number of influential groups around campus, including the women writers’ group Venus Envy and KAOS (Killing as An Organised Sport). Eventually she obtained a BA majoring in French and English, one of the highlights of which was being accepted into and completing a year long Creative Writing paper with well known New Zealand author Albert Wendt. Some of her work from this time can be found in the limited edition anthology A Box of Snakes, which was published in 1991.
Since then, VG has worked mostly as a business writer and journalist, and has from time to time contributed chapters and editorial input to a variety of non-fiction books.
VG began writing her first erotic novel in the late 1990s. She sent off four chapters to a number of publishers and received an offer to publish the completed book almost immediately. However, she was disheartened by the publisher’s request for the plot to be changed to meet their ‘formula’, and subsequently distracted from writing by the presence of babies and toddlers in her life, and the novel remained unfinished.
She finally commenced a new manuscript in 2012 and the first novella in her Butterfly series was released in August 2013. But this 21st Century saga is no traditional formulaic romance. The themes are erotic, edgy and challenging, and her characters make their own rules around combining love, sex and fidelity with the practicalities of friendships, family and work in ways that are modern, unexpected and ultimately empowering.
VG lives on a small farmlet in Northland, New Zealand with her husband, two sons, three chickens, two cats and a large number of mice (less since the arrival of the cats).
My Works
My Works
“The delicate silver filigree butterfly around my neck had been a gift from Hugh … I told myself it was a talisman that would prevent any harm coming to me. But I couldn’t have been more wrong.”
What happens when everything you believe about love, sex and fidelity is turned on its head?
When American artist Georgia Daniels marries handsome, sexy lawyer Hugh Fraser and moves to the other side of the world with him, the fairy tale she thought she was buying into soon transforms into a complex web of secrets and uncertainty.
Ghosts from Hugh’s past surface, making her realise he’s not the shy, innocent guy she thought he was. Her best friend Willa turns out to have secrets of her own that leave Georgia out on a limb when she needs someone she can trust. And every time she thinks she has it all figured out, she gets a call from her estranged mother, whose well-meaning attempts to deal with the past and restore their relationship just leave Georgia even more confused.
The Butterfly series is no traditional formulaic romance. The themes are erotic, edgy and challenging, and the characters make their own rules around combining love, sex and fidelity with the practicalities of friendships, family and work in ways that are modern, unorthodox and ultimately empowering.
The Butterfly story unfolds over the course of four novels. This is Book 1 of the series.
Note: Contains sizzling sex scenes which may arouse or offend some readers.
“It was hard to believe less than a week had passed since my husband Hugh had watched Xavier Bishop seduce me in the back of Willa’s gallery … since I’d read Willa’s secret blog and discovered she was in love with Hugh … since he’d told me he still loved Xavier’s wife, Diana.
“What was even harder to believe was the passion with which Hugh and I had made love, just a few hours ago. Or the feeling of deep calm that enveloped me just before I opened my eyes ...
“It was the calm before the storm.”
What happens when everything you believe about love, sex and fidelity is turned on its head?
When American artist Georgia Daniels marries handsome, sexy lawyer Hugh Fraser and moves to the other side of the world with him, the fairy tale she thought she was buying into soon transforms into a complex web of secrets and uncertainty.
After discovering Hugh is not the shy, innocent guy she thought he was, she convinces him to take her to the exclusive club he used to frequent with the charismatic Xavier Bishop and his mysterious wife Diana. She tells herself it’s because she wants to erase the ghost of Diana from their relationship and prove her fidelity to Hugh, but if that’s the case, why does Xavier’s lupine smile, velvet voice and heady scent invade her senses every time she closes her eyes?
The Butterfly series is no traditional formulaic romance. The themes are erotic, edgy and challenging, and the characters make their own rules around combining love, sex and fidelity in ways that are modern, unorthodox and ultimately empowering.
The Butterfly story unfolds over the course of four novels. This is book 2 in the series.
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