Oh how lovely! An excuse to talk about myself boastfully and not get reprimanded for vanity!So who am I, what do I write, and why do I write it.My name is Manuela Cardiga and I am a writer. I also design, illustrate, sew, cook, mother a pre-teen, and juggle a day job. I don't do windows.So what do I write? Now there you've got me....All sorts, really.I've written plays, musicals, short stories, essays, novellas, one full length novel, a movie-script and am half way through another novel.Let me also shamefacedly admit to oodles of really bad poetry. Romantic, erotic and FUNNY poetry. Bad. BAD poetry.Now I can just see you ask yourself the latest fashionable question with that hideous word in it: GENRE.What genre does this female write?Let's put it this way: if you like "saucy"? Step into the kitchen with me...It's sort of cheeky/chicky/chocky lit?Sort of!That's all I can tell you, except that I laugh myself silly as I write.It's FUNNY stuff. Sexy AND funny.Very sexy. And not low-fat. One of my short stories (The Sultan's Tale) spent two weeks in the Top Hundred for Erotica/BDSM? I did NOT see that one coming...(no pun intended!!!)I was lucky enough to be "picked" up and published by The Writer's Coffee Shop, the gals who discovered 50 Shades? Boy! was I flattered!Although, lemme tell you straight off the bat, the only thing that gets whipped in my book - Guilty Pleasures - is the cream...It's been a frantic two years; editing, writing, getting therapy... (Yes, I have a day job; yes I have a pre-teen; yes, I have a maniacal giggle)So WHY do I do this, you ask?Why do I write?Easy.Because I have to, because I love it.Because I need to.I write for you.