Author auctions erotic tale to promote book

The old authorly adage, “Write what you know,” could have a corollary: “Sell what you know.” Author M.J. Rose is doing just that. To drum up interest in her new erotic novel, Lying in Bed, she’s holding an eBay auction and offering to write a piece of “customized erotic fiction” for the highest bidder. And she is sweetening the deal by promising to donate the proceeds to charity. “Imagine what the erotic imagination of M.J.