Victoria Janssen's most recent novel is The Duke and the Pirate Queen, fantasy erotica from Harlequin Spice. It has pirates and the Island of the Lotus Eaters (or maybe that episode of Star Trek where Spock puffs flowers with Jill Ireland). It's set in the same fantasy universe as her first novel, The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover. The Duchess… subverted a number of romance novel tropes and might be the only Harlequin book ever featuring a sex scene with eunuchs. It's been translated into French and German, coincidentally two languages Janssen studied. Now she wishes she'd studied harder!

Her second novel, The Moonlight Mistress, an erotic historical set during World War One, was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award, and has been translated into Italian. It has lots of accurate period detail, werewolves, and a Zouave on a motorcycle. It might also be the first Harlequin book to feature explicit gay sex. A tie-in story will be published as a Spice Brief, probably sometime in 2012.

Under her pseudonym, Elspeth Potter, Janssen has sold over thirty short stories, many of them genre. For a full list, please visit her website at www.victoriajanssen.com.