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I am alone. I am afraid.
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Prayers to the patron saint of bendy hair curlers.
About two years ago, I became fell in love with a show called The Fall.  Not only was it creepy and perfectly acted and brilliant, but there's an unnamed third lead character in the show that I think deserves every award under the sun, and that character is Gillian Anderson's Collection of Silk Blouses. * I want to write a collection of poems about those blouses; I want to house them in a museum of Very Important Things; I want to get up every morning and meditate on the perfect drape and seaming of them. Is it any wonder the working title of this book was Misadventures of a Silk Blouse? * I couldn't have had more fun writing this book.  It's about a jaded woman detective (with yes, a fab collection of silk blouses) and a thirteen-years-younger rookie, who also happens to be exactly the kind of man she stays away from--the work hard, play hard kind of guy.  There's lots and lots of filthy sex, creative use of silk blouses as bondage equipment, and aaaaall the Age Gap Angst.  I'm so excited for this delightful cover, and I hope you'll join me for the fun on September 24th when Misadventures in Blue releases! #sierrasimone #misadventures #misadventuresinblue #misadventuresseries #silkblousesforpresident
If you’re going to be at #necrwa19 in Boston April 26th-27th, come see me talk about writing taboo romance! I’ll talk about the whys, the hows, and also the responsibility that comes with writing romance on the edge. Also I made a very nice PowerPoint, (and it includes a Mighty Graph of Taboos showing where they all rank on the Sierra Simone Scale, including lactation, vivisection, and prison planet sex 📈🍆📈🍆.)
The Free to Thrive retreats are so much about giving space to yourself in a world where we’re asked to take up less. It’s about giving yourself a chance to interrogate shame and fear and expectations, and it’s about opening up to what could be next. (Like in my case, becoming Teresa of Avila + kissing and waffles.) But it’s also so much about gratitude, and right now I’m so grateful for this man. He’s the Microsoft-excel-formula-knowing man of my dreams, and he’s the reason I can write, travel, rest, and whine about not achieving True and Perfect Humanity Yet. And he’s the biggest reason I’ll be ready for whatever comes next, even if it’s not complete and undiluted enlightenment. #freetothrivekc #wegatherwomen #thriveretreat
I’ve been at a spiritual retreat this weekend, mostly to figure out why I’m not Teresa of Avila yet (probably all the sex and frozen waffles), and I walked this barren, Missouri labyrinth hoping I’d get to the center and find some wisdom nugget I could bring back with me. I like wisdom nuggets almost as much as I distrust them, but there was no real nugget at the center, only the realization that I had to walk back out again. Which felt like a nugget in and of itself, I guess. #imverydeep #freetothrivekc