Smutty mummy as former cop turns porn author

SHE’S a onetime police officer but now this suburban mother-of-two is carving out a far more raunchy career - and she’s not afraid to let people know about it.

SUBURBAN life is a little bit raunchy for Hervey Bay mum Trish Ingham.

The mother-of-two has carved a career as an author of “mummy porn” romance novels which have soared in popularity after the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.

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While her daughter watches Disney cartoons, Ingham dreams up hardcore sex scenes for her books, written under the pen name T.J. Hamilton.

The 34-year-old has published five novels since her first in April last year, and her latest Death’s Shadow debuted at No.2 on the Amazon Australian charts.

Ingham said e-books had sparked a massive female appetite for sexier romance novels, and authors were churning out books to meet the demand.

She said modern women wanted more than the soppy Mills and Boon stories of the past.

“With e-readers, women feel more emancipated to read things they normally wouldn’t have read,” she said.

“Romance of the past would have brushed over encounters and not gone into much detail. But sex is a part of romance. Why do we have to hide it?”

Ingham is certainly not hiding the truth of her career choice.

“I’m not afraid to tell people I am a writer of smut,” she laughed.

“Instead of shying away we should celebrate it because it’s just a bit of fun. I’ve never come across anyone who’s said ‘How dare you write something so smutty’.”

In fact, some of her 11-year-old son Declan’s teachers have read her books, and her biggest fans are her mother and grandmother.

A former Sydney police officer who worked in intelligence and the Middle Eastern crime squad, Ingham moved to Hervey Bay for a quieter life.

Drawing on her experiences and storytelling skills from writing police reports, she delved into romance novels with an edge.

“My research can be interesting,” she laughed.

“Let’s just say that I wouldn’t want people to search my internet browser, that’s for sure.”

Originally published as Smutty mummy as former cop turns porn author