Carly Milne knew she wanted to be a writer from the moment she could pick up a pen. As a child who — like most — would routinely destroy her toys (ask her how many Slinkys her mother had to replace), she always kept her books in pristine condition. She became so passionate about writing that she began reading at an earlier age than most. In first grade she was reading at a sixth grade level and often took over for her teacher in reading to the class.

Though she had been writing constantly for school projects and the entertainment of friends and family, it was during her teen years that Milne began writing professionally. She began her career at 14 and later became a columnist for her hometown newspaper, The Calgary Herald, as one of the regular contributors for a section entitled "20 Below", geared to discussing teen issues. It was there that Milne wrote about a number of subjects from teen employment to dealing with divorce, but it wasn't until the publishing of her column on teen sexuality that she realized the thrill of writing on controversial subjects. Milne wrote an impassioned plea for parents to educate their kids on safe sex issues while acknowledging that their kids were going to experiment either way. This drew the ire of many of Milne's classmate's parents, who requested she be removed from their children's classes, while peers and the Alberta Health Board praised her for her frank approach to the subject.

From there Milne threw herself into journalistic pieces ranging from articles about street kids to profiles and interviews of celebrities, with pieces appearing in Teen Magazine, Look West Magazine, Avenue Magazine and more. Milne soon gained a name for herself for fully investigating a story by attempting to experience the subject herself. For an article for Canadian teen magazine What! A Magazine, Milne went undercover with a spy agency that specialized in using teens to help parents discover if their kids were involved in illegal activities. When Milne put her bellybutton on the line for an article about the then-hot subject of body piercing, YTV — the Canadian version of Nickelodeon — was on hand to record the experience. But when writing the tale of her experience in taking on the adult task of living on her own at 15 for now defunct teen magazine Tell Magazine, Milne fell in love with the first-person narrative.

Milne got involved in new media at 19 by becoming the entertainment editor for Canada's first teen e-zine Spank! Youth Culture Online. After staying on staff for a year she moved to Toronto to continue her career. It was there that she created and edited the e-zine Can.Say for Molson Breweries, a lifestyle site that took writers' first-person stories and categorized them based on one of the seven deadly sins. Boasting a who's who of not only the Canadian literary world but also various musicians and actors telling their stories, Can.Say won a Canadian Internet Award for Best Internet Publication. From there Milne worked as a communications analyst for @Home, then became editor of Yahoo! Canada, where she learned of the void in Canadian women's content online.

In February of 1999 Milne met up with women in the web industry and pulled a team together to create Moxie.ca, Canada's first female oriented content portal with an audience of hundreds of thousands a month from around from the world. Moxie won accolades from Yahoo!, CTV's Webmania, MediaTelevision, Marketing Magazine, The Globe and Mail and ABC. Her sites also won praise from Entertainment Weekly for superior content. She spoke at San Francisco-based conference Webzine '99 on building online community and helped organize the conference in 2000, moderating a panel on creating compelling content. Milne was nominated for the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year award two years in a row at the Canadian New Media Awards. She was also featured in the Harper Collins book, Technology With Curves, alongside women such as Ellie Rubin (Bulldog), Geraldine Laybourne (CEO of Oxygen Media) and Zoe Baird (Markle Foundation). It was also during this time that Milne found the courage to come forward and speak about her experience with rape for an article published in Glamour Magazine that garnered an astounding amount of positive mail.

Milne laid Moxie.ca to rest in the spring of 2002 to concentrate on a new challenge — working in the adult industry. With an interest in deconstructing the sometimes troubled waters of human sexuality and focusing on subjects most women weren't writing about, Milne accepted a position as Associate Editor of AVN Magazine, the adult industry's premiere trade publication, in the interest of learning about the world of smut from the inside out. While working at AVN Milne visited countless sets, reviewed countless movies (nearly 30 every month), and had the opportunity to write on a number of interesting subjects including the Free Speech Coalition's victory in the Supreme Court that saw the demise of the Child Pornography Protection Act and about Snoop Dogg's appearance to accept an award and crash a hotel room after party during the 2003 AVN Awards for Rolling Stone. Milne eventually moved on to become a publicist and launched her popular website Pornblography.com as an outlet to vent her amusement, analysis and frustration about working in the adult industry. From its launch in the winter of 2003 Pornblography.com won rave reviews and attention from various media outlets including a stint on PBS, ABC's Nightline, Sirius Radio, Sex TV, XM Radio, Naked New York, Playboy Radio and more. Milne was also interviewed for the popular E! Channel show True Hollywood Story about porn superstar Jenna Jameson. And if you keep your eyes peeled, you might just see Milne in a couple season three episodes of Seymore Butts' hit Showtime reality series Family Business.

Milne also continued to build on her freelance writing career, crafting pieces for outlets such as Playboy and Penthouse. Additionally, one of her stories — about the first time she saw an adult movie — was published in the book Virgin Territory by Cathy Alter in the spring of 2004 by Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House. In the fall of 2004 Milne signed on with Carroll & Graf to edit her first book, Naked Ambition, which invited 30 of the leading women involved in adult entertainment and the proliferation of it to share their insights. Milne also saw another essay — this time on the toll adult industry publicity can take on one's personal life — published in the book Best American Sex Essays by Violet Blue (Cleis Press, 2005.)

Having gained the insight she was looking for, Milne left the world of adult entertainment in early 2005 to focus on freelance writing full-time. Milne signed a deal in the fall of 2005 with Phoenix Books. Her first appearance with the publisher was in Hooking Up: You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again Again, the sequel to the book released in the early 90s that discussed the world of high-class call girls working in tinsel town. Milne contributed an essay discussing the intersection of the adult industry and Hollywood, sharing some tales she was never able to tell while working in the industry. Hooking Up released in October 2006.

The follow-up, a deeply personal memoirs entitled Sexography, hit bookstores in November 2007. Simply put, Sexography is a memoirs about everything Milne has seen, felt, experienced, thought about and learned in relation to sex from birth to 31... but more than that, it's a tale of survival, redemption, forgiveness and the journey to finding one's self. Her story takes readers on an unorthodox journey that deconstructs the inner workings of a rape, abuse and sexual assault survivor's mind as she learns how her urges conflict with her deep seated issues, how she breaks through the internalized shame she felt over her experiences, and discusses the various characters she meets along her journey that help her understand how to finally become comfortable with herself and let go of her past. Whether you've been through similar experiences or just know someone who has, Sexography will change your mind about why and how survivors survive.

Milne continues to work as a freelance writer for numerous mainstream publications on varying interests from health to pop culture to fashion to travel. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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