Exclusive Interview: Romance novelist Sierra Simone on writing queer and polyamorous romance
"The stories sort of organically evolve into the way that I understand sex, the way that I understand love, which is fundamentally queer. "
"The stories sort of organically evolve into the way that I understand sex, the way that I understand love, which is fundamentally queer. "
I think it’s a lie that women aren’t as sexual as men, and I try to show that with my characters.
“This all started with a Twitter account, and being bored. I joke I was a bored monogamous housewife, and I was looking for an outlet and going through a quarter-life crisis…”
"When I embraced my sexuality as my own, and I embraced self-pleasure, it also changed the rest of my life, not just sexually, but I [also] felt stronger as an individual."
"Jealousy's an emotion. And like every other emotion, it doesn't always make sense. It doesn't always come from a specific place. It's not always something you're going to understand the second you get it."
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I know I'm alone and it terrifies me, but I'd better leave that out, too. I worry I'll sound terribly retro as I search for a man in an age when so many women have chosen to be single.
It was one thing to have spontaneous sex with a man she barely knew; it was quite another for him to get an eyeful of her naked body after the lust goggles had been removed.