The market said no — we built it anyway
FOR THE READER. NOT THE ALGORITHM.
About the velvet chair
Fiction, Velvetized
The Velvet Chair is a literary house for tender, slow-burning stories—books built from craft and beauty, written for the reader who returns again and again.
These aren't plot-first worlds. They're interior landscapes, especially of womanhood and sovereignty, where bruised hearts aren't fixed, but honored.
BOOK ONE: STILL AS A WOMAN SERIES
Too Bright
The story begins with Lo—a woman learning, at last, that the cost of shrinking is always greater than the cost of shining.
Too Bright is a novel of ache and aftermath, of desire that refuses to stay quiet, of a self rebuilt one room at a time.
Book One in the Still as a Woman quartet.
Already in a thousand quiet hands.
Not market-built. Reader-built. Velvet Fiction™ begins here.
Readers are calling Too Bright the book that changed how they think about womanhood, desire, and the quiet ache of being "too much."
If you don't get it, that's okay—it just wasn't meant for you.