E. L. James company Stampin’ Up! UK and the cards were auctioned on eBay during May 2014. E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Fifty Shades Darker", and "Fifty Shades Freed", along with the companion novels "" and ""; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction "Master of the Universe" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian negative and many critics have criticized it for being too similar to "Fifty Shades of Grey". The "Daily Mail's" reviewer commented that "Ms James has simply shadowed the whole plot of Book One, reproducing the clunky polystyrene dialogue word for word, and inserting italicised thoughts by Christian himself." "The Independent" criticized the book and the choice to include Grey's internal monologues, stating that he had a "vacuous mental life" and that "The effect is increasingly comical – Mills & Boon meets "Peep Show" – while the rest of his internal monologue is spent stating the bleeding obvious." "The Telegraph" wrote