Shoshanna Evers
Shana Sturtz Brodsky, known by her pen names Shoshanna Evers and Shoshanna Gabriel, was an American author of contemporary and erotic romance novels and novellas, and the editor and publisher of non-fiction books on writing and publishing. She was the co-founder of SelfPubBookCovers.com, the first website where authors could customize original pre-made book covers and instantly download them. Shoshanna Evers was also listed as one of the “Most Popular Authors in Erotica” on Amazon.com in 2013, and one of the "Most Popular Authors in Contemporary Romance," and "Most Popular Authors in Romance" on Amazon.com in 2014.
In March 2014, Evers became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with her contribution of "The Man Who Holds the Whip" to the anthology MAKE ME: Twelve Tales of Dark Desire.
Biography and career
Evers was first published in 2010 by Ellora's Cave Publishing. She wrote for Simon & Schuster in addition to self-publishing. Before becoming a full-time author, Evers worked as a registered nurse under her married name.Her work has been critically acclaimed with reviewers calling her the “Queen of the erotic novellas”, who writes books that are “emotional and gripping”.
Shoshanna Evers wrote dozens of erotic romance stories including Overheated and Enslaved, Book One in the Enslaved Trilogy, both of which hit the Amazon Erotica Bestseller list.
The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, became a #1 Authorship Bestseller, #1 Erotica Writing Reference Bestseller, #1 Romance Writing Bestseller, and a Writing Skills Bestseller. Her work has been featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas with Ellora's Cave Publishing including Chastity Belt and Punishing the Art Thief.
Her BDSM erotic romance series The Enslaved Trilogy released April 2013 from Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Star imprint, and will be followed in November 2013 by The Pulse Trilogy, a dystopian post-apocalyptic erotic romance series. Evers was a New York native who lived with her husband, their three children and two dogs on a remote farm in Northern Idaho at the time of her death.