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It turns out that Feast of Sparks is another "rub-my-face-in-the-carpet" book.  Right now it feels like Auden and Saint have hurt each other too much to even think about forgiving each other, Proserpina is a prophetic mess, Delphine is too vulnerable and Rebecca isn't vulnerable enough and Becket NEEDS TO GET LAID STILL THAT POOR PRIEST.  The chronology is giving me hives, and so is the looming specter of Book 4 off in the distance.  And then I came into my office to find this note from my little Hufflepuff laid out on my keyboard (the art behind it is from her older Slytherin brother). And then I sniffled over the little Hufflepuff note because it's adorable, and also because everything is going to be fine. 😭 The lowkey bad news is that I'm pushing the Feast of Sparks release date back from June until August. Functionally, this is only about six weeks later than I'd originally planned, but also I left you all in a pretty 💀😱💀 spot and you deserve some happy, kinky sex after all that.  So to that end, I'm working as fast as I can, but I'm also determined to do right by our Sacred Six, and also I want to make sure I give you all a story worth your time and faith.  I'm sorry I'm so slooowwww but! I’m determined to make it up to you with more wackadoodle sexytimes (and lots more librarian arcana, I know that’s what the kids are clamoring for these days.) #thornchapel #feastofsparks #sierrasimone
American Squire starts TODAY!  I'm so excited for you all to experience this little slice of Thornchapel-Camelot deliciousness. American Squire is a short novella about Ryan Belvedere from the New Camelot trilogy (you might remember him best as Ash's body man, or personal aide) and a cold, kinky art expert with an English accent and a sexy pair of leather gloves. So some quick details! 🎧 @readmeromance is a podcast delivering FREE (free!!!) audiobooks 🎧 You can listen on the Apple podcast app, Spotify, or Google Play music 🎧 American Squire is serialized--that means that they take the whole story and break into five parts (which also means when you start listening, make sure you start with the first one!) 🎧 It will air starting today until Friday, May 24th 🎧 American Squire takes place after the events of American King (but before the American King epilogue), which is only important because there WILL BE AMERICAN KING SPOILERS! It's been two years, so I figured it's fine, but still. YE HATH BEEN WARNED. 🎧 This takes place a few weeks before A Lesson in Thorns starts, so there are ZERO Thornchapel spoilers, but you will get to see Auden and his floppy hair. 🎧 American Squire is exclusively available via the podcast until late August, then I'll also publish an ebook version 🎧 If you listen closely, you might get a clue as to what series I'm doing after Thornchapel... #readmeromance #readmeromancepodcast #americansquire #newcamelot #thornchapel #alessoninthorns #sierrasimone #sidneyblountsleathergloves
Look, man, the Simone Scale is not everyone's scale.  Professors are not taboo to me.  Bring on the sex workers with autonomy and giant blue aliens.  I can read (or write) double vaginal penetration next to a nun holding a kitten with a tiny Bible clutched between its little kitten paws without blushing, and I can think of a thousand story circumstances when it's just time to have sex with your doctor or stepbrother or shifter while they're still half-shiftery.  I'm very pervy, but not everyone is as wackadoodle as me, which means your own scales might look wildly different.  And that's good and productive and okay, because I only made this thing to clarify for myself what moral delineations I make as writer (they're nearly all about consent and power) and to interrogate the idea of taboo in general. There's a reason the upper right corner is so crammed full of shit, and that's because there's a lot of fun to be had in that upper right corner.  But you have to do it right.  I spent an hour talking to people's faces at NECRWA, showing them slides and definitions and charts, and then Damon Suede summed it all up in one short sentence on a different panel later: You have to pay the fare. That's it.  You want to write (fill in the blank trope)? You have to pay the fare.  You want to push the limits?  Write on the edge?  Pay the fare.  That means complicate your premise, complicate your characters; it means acknowledge the power structures inside your story, it means examine yourself and your own motivations for writing something even as you relentlessly examine your characters and the meta-narratives you're engaging with.  It means you include the emotional, moral, legal, spiritual, and societal consequences of your character's choices in the story.  It means you research, you listen to a wide range of betas, you hire sensitivity readers if need be.  No work, no fun.  No ticket, no ride.  Pay the fare.
She took me to the library every week to check out massive stacks of books, she gave me her books to read, all the juicy fucked-up ones like Flowers in the Attic and Clan of the Cave Bear and whatever Stephen King paperback she had handy. Even before we knew I had narcolepsy, she never made me feel bad for staying up late and sleeping all day. She always let me come into her room when I had bad nightmares or hypnagogic hallucinations (even when I was too old to be such a wuss.) She loved me with all her heart, and I wish I could go back in time and thank her more for it. ❤️
Came home from an incredible writing retreat, got a dozen roses from a cop with a cute butt. I must have made the right fairies happy at my birth. 🌹💐🌹
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