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Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2015, she published Grey, which retells the steamy saga of billionaire Christian Grey and his "submissive", the demure Anastasia Steele. We all want to fall in love againįans still wanted more. Women want to read this kind of stuff, you know? It's no secret. “I set about trademarking everything because I didn’t want things on lunchboxes,” she jokes. James trademarked and licensed Fifty Shades-branded wine, lingerie, floggers, vibrators and handcuffs, designing many of the products herself. It helped popularise niche sexual fetishes involving bondage, blindfolds and nipple clamps, bringing them into the commercial and cultural mainstream. ![]() Since Fifty Shades of Grey was published, in 2011, her Fifty Shades trilogy has sold 165 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a feature film series that James coproduced. It is hard to reconcile the notion of James as a quiet, reserved homebody with the billion-dollar fetish franchise she created. "I'm incredibly shy under all of it," she says. For a novelist who became famous writing hardcore erotica, EL James is surprisingly introverted. ![]()
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