Author Interview with Eleanor Powell
Interview with Eleanor Powell
What was your childhood ambition?
I wanted to be a writer. This ambition was fuelled by my teacher who wrote on my school report – that ‘Eva has an individual way of expressing herself.’
I had no idea about genres at that time – I just wanted to be a writer.
On my eleventh birthday I had a poem published in our Saturday night newspaper. They paid me 5/- for it – about 25p, that was not bad considering it was sixty years ago.
What ambitions do you still have?
Now at age seventy, I would like to go back to Public Speaking. I qualified as a CTM (Competent Toast Master) in 1983. My ambition is to be a sought after Public Speaker and Writer and travel the world offering seminars and workshops on such subjects as Self Help – the Law of Attraction and Tapping.
How did you end up being an erotic writer?
I wanted to be spanked right from a very early age. Where this came from – I don’t know. I wasn’t spanked at home or school.
However, my husband and I had been married for six years before I plucked up the courage to ask him to spank me. He just wanted to know why I’d taken so long to ask him.
Then in the mid 1960’s we started going to wife swapping parties.
It wasn’t too big a step to go from swinging to writing erotica. I started writing about Merrilee. Many of my friends tell me that there is a lot of Merrilee in me and a lot of me in Merrilee.
If you could have any celebrity pictured carrying one of your books who would you choose and why?
As John Wayne dished out several spankings in his films and I would have loved him to spank me – that’s the celebrity I’d choose. But seeing as he’s no longer with us – I don’t have a ghost of a chance do I?
What does your working day typically consist of?
My working day mostly consists of writing, writing and more writing. If I’m not writing stories, articles or adding content to my website or blog, I’m responding to emails or attending online seminars and workshops.
How do people who don’t know you react when you tell them you’re an erotic writer?
A workman came into my home recently and I told him I was a writer – so he asked me what I write and I said, ‘you won’t believe me if I tell you.’
‘Tell me,’ he said.
So I told him.
‘Oh yes, I believe you,’ said this total stranger. Have I got ‘Erotic Writer’ blazoned across my forehead?
And another guy still has me laughing whenever I think about it – he invited me to read something I’ve written at their Open Mic Nite. (I write other things besides erotica).
‘Errrr! Do you know what I write?
‘Of course I do, you saucy old bird.’
What makes you laugh?
I’ve got a good sense of humour and I’ve often been told that my responses are so sharp I should take care not to cut myself.
However, I also have the ability to laugh at myself. The last three days – every time I look in the mirror I burst out laughing. My hair had grown rather long and was getting in my eyes, so I got out my scissors and chopped off the offending piece – you’ve heard of people having wavy hair, well my fringe is now wave shaped. Maybe if I put a paper bag over my head, no one will notice.
What’s the best present you’ve ever been given?
My husband gave me a leather paddle for our 40th Wedding Anniversary. Eleven months and one week later, we were divorced. But eleven years later the paddle is still in regular use.
IPhone or Blackberry? Or neither?
Nine years ago I bought myself a mobile phone. It’s still in use. I use it to send and receive text messages and I make the occasional phone call on it, mostly when I’m out and about and need to call a taxi.
My son-in-law calls it a brick, but I don’t care – it does what I want it to do and that’s the main thing isn’t it?
What three words would your friends use to describe you?
Cheeky little madam.
Eleanor’s stories have appeared in:
Naughty Spanking Stories Two: 2
Naughty Spanking: v. 3: 20 Erotic Stories: v. 3
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