"[1] Ames's first solo book, The Submission Gift, released in 2014, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which called it a "nuanced look at polyamory and BDSM.
[8] Ames always makes a point of including safe sex practices in her writing, such as the use of condoms or the regular screening of partners for sexually transmitted infections (STI).
"[10] Ames also stresses how treating multiculturalism in erotica must be rooted in a sense of personhood, rather than "fetishizing" or objectifying a person for their differences.
[11] Growing up, Ames felt that she was often fetishized by men who viewed Asian women as sex objects.
[11] During her early twenties, she worked in a strip club in order to make money, though she doesn't "talk about it much after because of the stigma".