About

Emily Dubberley graduated with a 2:1 in psychology and English from Loughborough university, where she created the Free Festival which still exists – and grows – to this day. The initial event was arranged in four weeks on a budget of £450, attracted 3,000 people and raised £20K in 14 hours. This gave her the events bug, which has subsequently seen her create events ranging from an intimate naked cocktail party for New Woman magazine to the Burlesque Against Breast Cancer Ball (a £50,000 charity ball for Macmillan which grew to include devising and co-editing the books, Ultimate Burlesque and Ultimate Decadence to run alongside the events as additional fundraisers). Burlesque Against Breast Cancer has so far raised around £15,000 for Macmillan and inspired international events.

Emily spent seven years in the marketing industry, helping found the Student Broadcast Network, becoming marketing manager for the Barfly group, and working with brands including Mars and NatWest, before moving into publishing and became a full time writer and editor.

After being short-listed for the Cosmopolitan Journalism Scholarship, and the Company Fiction WriterAward, Emily created www.cliterati.co.uk: a women’s online magazine featuring erotica, a problem page, news and more. Since then, it’s attracted over half a million page impressions per month and international press coverage.

Emily founded the Lovers’ Guide magazine, Scarlet magazine and EK magazine as well as being production editor on The Fly magazine. She has written for numerous publications including Grazia, FHM, More, Elle, Men’s Health, The Guardian, The Star and Glamour, and has had articles syndicated worldwide. She wrote the five most recent Lovers’ Guide videos, edited the Lovers’ Guide magazine and helped create www.loversguide.com. She also wrote for the Joan Rivers Position on Channel 5.

Emily has written numerous books that have been sold in the UK and internationally to countries including France, Germany, Spain, America, Serbia, Australia and Holland. TheLovers’ Guide Lovemaking Deck (Connections) was released in February 2004. Brief Encounters: The Women’s Guide to Casual Sex (Fusion Press – nominated for an Erotic Award), Things a Woman Should Know About Seduction (Carlton), Sex Play (Connections – also available for mobile phones) Sex for Busy People (Fireside) and You Must be My Best Friend Because I Hate You (Fusion) – about friendship conflict and how to deal with it – were released in 2005. Whip Your Life into Shape: The Dominatrix Principle (Andrews McMeel), I’d Rather Be Single Than Settle (Fusion) and More Sex Play (Connections) were released in 2006, The Ex Factor (Fusion), The Good Fantasy Guide and True Passion: A Tale of Desire As Told To Madame B followed in 2007. 2009 saw the release of Women: Intimate Explorations (Hollan), The Good Going Down Guide (Elwin Street) and Friendly Fetish (Piatkus) while 2010 brought The Fantasy Box (Eddison Sadd) and Bound to Please (Eddison Sadd). This year, she has so far written The Arousal Box (Eddison Sadd) and The Field Guide to Fucking (Quayside) with various other books in development. She has also had short stories featured in several erotica anthologies, including G is for Games and Ultimate Submission, and has a bank of erotic stories that are available for e-book (and indeed, offline) anthologies and magazine syndication.

Emily has done copywriting for brands including Philips Satinelle, Schloer and Trojan Condoms, has been consultant on campaigns for brands including Ann Summers, Gumtree, sextoys.co.uk and Virgin Megastores and has written SMS sex tips for various clients including Channel Four.

Emily’s contact book has over 3,500 entries; from fashion designers to film directors, as well as authors, entrepreneurs, models and almost anyone else you can imagine. She has regularly featured on radio stations including LBC, London Live and Kerrang! Throughout 2006 she wrote and presented a monthly podcast show Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley for Audible.co.uk. She followed this with a series of erotic anthologies for audible.co.uk released in 2008. She is frequently quoted as an expert in magazines including Cosmopolitan, Elle and Company, has been involved with TV shows for all the terrestrial channels and various satellite channels and writes for numerous websites including iVillage.co.uk, TheSite.org and MSN.