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Stella always wanted to be a writer. Her teenage goal was to publish a novel by age 25. Life intervened. After she earned two graduate degrees, raised four children, and completed a 35-year career in biotechnology, Stella’s first novel, Brilliant Charming Bastard, published when she was 68.
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People paid good money to buy into Southern Glen—an idyllic senior community with cafes, fun classes and beautiful grounds. Dating was a blast. Then came the pandemic: Nobody got in and nobody got out. How would they get it on? Stella Fosse (author of Vampires of a Certain Age) takes us on a wild ride with a life-saving vampire, a time-traveling Madam, and a full cast of pandemic dream lovers. Southern women in a locked down senior community reinvent their love lives in thirteen tales of friendly vampires, sexy demons, and dream lovers. Plus eight bonus stories of vibrant women from New York to California.
As a mortal woman in medieval Yorkshire, Marion Chase falls in love with a young woman and is shunned by the church and the village. Marion takes refuge in a forest cottage and becomes an herbal healer. When men from the village threaten to burn her as a witch, Marion is rescued by a vampire, transformed, and joins a Sisterhood in York dedicated to ethical living for vampires. When Henry VIII’s 1546 ban on prostitution reaches York, the Sisterhood closes its brothel and disbands. The vampires scatter and Marion becomes a battlefield nurse travelling throughout Europe. She travels to America during the Civil War and is then instrumental in the development of blood banking in the 1930s. In the 21st century Marion runs a Chicago blood bank with a hidden sideline of providing ethically sourced blood to Midwestern vampires. All is well until Marion falls in love with the one person who can destroy her. Rachel Sutter is an FDA inspector who is the living likeness of Marion’s medieval love.
First Wives Club meets The Witches of Eastwick in Brilliant Charming Bastard. When three women scientists discover they are dating the same lying dilettante, who is stealing their ideas as well as their hearts, the best revenge is getting rich.
Brilliant Charming Bastard is hip romance for Boomers. Join author Stella Fosse on this sexy escapade through the San Francisco biotech scene.
Through anecdote, playful exercises, interviews and writing samples, Aphrodite’s Pen encourages ripe women to explore erotic writing as a joyful practice.
This celebration of women’s sexuality after midlife is the first book of its kind, created for older women who wish to embark on an intimate journey of personal growth. The activities in this book are designed for women who are new to writing, and also for experienced writers who are new to erotica. Fosse offers step-by-step instructions for character design, plot development, and accessing the erotic imagination. She shares advice on creating a writing circle within one’s community and gives useful tips for getting published and reading work in public.
Aphrodite’s Pen is an invitation to women of all sexual orientations who are ready to play and explore.
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