To cheers and flashes, the author - a British woman no one had heard of a year ago - is escorted to a chair in front of 2,000 copies of her books. “She’s in the building!” the store manager announces. The escalators have been reversed to help control the crowd. This gathering in the tony town of Bethesda knows what it means.Ĭlerks and managers are whispering - not romantically - into walkie-talkies. On TV and op-ed pages, cultural pundits and feminists argue about what it means. Newsweek ran a cover story last month about the series. Spawned last year in the dark waters of online fan fiction, “Grey” has grown into a mega-selling trilogy, topping e-book and paperback charts. She signed at Barnes & Noble in Bethesda on Friday.
E L James, author of the sudden publishing phenomenon “Fifty Shades of Grey,” greets fans of her erotic novels - she patient and unfazed by her newfound success, they lined up and giddy.
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