Solace Ames

Ames is a self-taught writer.[2] Her short story "Tomorrow's Much Too Long" placed third in Hyphen's first Erotic Writing Contest in 2013.[3]

Ames first published The Dom Project with Carina Press with another author, Heloise Belleau in 2013. The main character was a tall, "tattooed Asian bad-boy Dom."[1]

Ames's first solo book, The Submission Gift, released in 2014, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which called it a "nuanced look at polyamory and BDSM."[4] In the story, a husband hires a rent boy as a "gift" to his wife.[5] He does this because he has just recovered from a bad car accident and can't provide a full sex life for his wife any longer.[6]

Her second solo publication, The Companion Contract, released in 2015, was also favorably reviewed by Publishers Weekly.[7] This book is about a woman who works as a pornography actress, but wants to move onto another career and another place in her life.[8]

Ames always makes a point to include safe sex practices in her writing whether this includes using condoms or partners being regularly screened for sexually transmitted infections (STI).[9] When Ames first started writing romance novels, she wanted to create multicultural stories.[10] She says that "Characters aren't as real to me if I don't understand where they come from."[10] Ames also stresses how treating multiculturalism in erotica must be rooted in a sense of personhood, rather than "fetishizing" or objectifying the person for their differences.[11]

Ames's father was a Japanese citizen, and her mother was raised in the United States: each had different expectations on how to raise their daughter.[11] Ames has characterized them as "anarcho-hippies".[11] Growing up, Ames felt that she was often fetishized by men who viewed Asian women as sex objects.[11] During her early twenties, she worked in a strip club in order to make money, though she doesn't "talk about it much after because of the stigma".[11]

Ames is married and has children.[2]

• Ames, Solace (2015). The Companion Contract. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426899522.
• Ames, Solace (2014). The Submission Gift. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426898280.
• Belleau, Heloise; Ames, Solace (2013). The Dom Project. Don Mills, Ontario: Carina Press. ISBN 9781426897672.

• Official site