2012 National Book Award (UK), "Popular Fiction Book of the Year", Fifty Shades of Grey.2012 Publishers Weekly "Publishing Person of the Year".2012 Time 100 by Time magazine, "The 100 Most Influential People in the World".The campaign was launched by crafting company Stampin' Up! UK and the cards were auctioned on eBay during May 2014. James was one of the British celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Riley, to design and sign her own card for the UK children's charity Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. She also stated the book does not yet have a release date, but has since been announced to release on 1 June 2021. In a June 2020 blog post, James mentioned working on Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian. Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian was released 28 November 2017. On 1 June 2015 James announced the upcoming release of Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, which was released into stores on 18 June 2015. who knows?" In August 2013, James topped the Forbes ' list of the highest-earning authors due to her book sales with earnings of $95m which included $5m for the film rights to Fifty Shades of Grey. Since then I have written my two fics and plan on doing at least one more. All my fantasies in there, and that's it." She did not start to write until January 2009, as she revealed while still active on FanFiction.Net: "I started writing in January 2009 after I finished the Twilight saga, and I haven't stopped since. James has described the Fifty Shades trilogy as "my midlife crisis, writ large. "The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise" she said. James has spoken of her shock at the success of the books. Beginning in August 2009, she then began to write the Fifty Shades books. She says she then discovered the phenomenon of fan fiction, and this inspired her to publish her novels as Kindle books under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon".
Between January and August 2009, she wrote two such books in quick succession. She read the novels several times over in a period of a few days, and then, for the first time in her life, sat down to write a book: basically a sequel to the Twilight novels. In late 2008, James saw the movie Twilight, and then became intensely absorbed with the novels that the movie was based on.
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James says the idea for the Fifty Shades trilogy began as a response to the vampire novel series Twilight. In 2012, Time magazine named her one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People." The novels were subsequently adapted into the films Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. The Fifty Shades novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies in the United States and set the record in the United Kingdom as the fastest selling paperback of all time. In 2019, her first book to not be a part of the Fifty Shades trilogy, The Mister, was published, to negative critical reception.
Prior to this, she wrote the Twilight fan fiction "Master of the Universe" that served as the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy under the web name Snowqueens Icedragon. She wrote the best-selling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed, along with the companion novels Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian, and Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian. Erika Mitchell (born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E.