By Emma Innes and James Nye PUBLISHED: 11:05 EST, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 13 August 2013 Britain's E.L. James, author of the best-selling 'mommy porn' Fifty Shades of Grey erotic novels, has made it onto the Forbes list of the world's top-earning authors - landing in first place. James, a former television executive, surpassed regulars on the list, including James Patterson, Danielle Steel and Stephen King, with estimated earnings of $95 million in the year to June 2013, thanks to the titillating trilogy. 'The e-book format was a key factor, giving readers an easy way to purchase sex-filled sequels - and a discreet way to read them in public,' according to Forbes.com.
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E.L. James, the writer of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series of erotic novels, has made it to No.1 on the Forbes list of the world's top-earning authors
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Former No. 1 Patterson came in second with earnings of $91 million, while Suzanne Collins, the author of 'The Hunger Games' and the five-book series 'The Underland Chronicles,' was a distant third at $55 million.
Writer Stephen King made $20 million last year while (right) @placeholder cashed in $26 million