Eat Pray Love meets Fifty Shades of Grey
Exciting new Women's Fiction to read!
My exciting new women's fiction to read is published by the Wild Rose Press under the pseudonym S.J. Perrault. It explores life and dating after divorce and how far one woman will go for love.
Award-winning women's fiction
Luna Rising is now an audiobook!
Luna Rising is hilarious and heartbreaking women's fiction: a modern and relatable chicklit story. Winner of the Book Excellence Award. Visit Audible on Amazon books to hear this fun and poignant audiobook.
Coming Tuesdays
A Real Life Sunny & Luna Podcast
My real life cousin and bestie Pascale Laforest and I moonlight as fiction characters Luna and Sunny, and now we're ready to speak our minds!
In our new podcast, we poke fun at life and society instead of moving into the Bellevue Psych Ward because we’re pretty sure they don’t serve decent wine.
Acclaim
Best Chicklit!
Luna Rising won the Book Excellence Award for chicklit! You can check out this page turning women's fiction on Amazon books.
Great Writer’s Steal
LUNA RISING
was the subject of a Great Writers Steal essay!
“Ms. Castrovilla imbues the book with a great deal of pathos and deals with it in much more comprehensive terms than you might find in straight-up romance novels. (The “heat meter” is also lower.) These choices make Luna Rising a novel that has a bigger emotional impact.”
-Great Writers Steal
Learn how you can steal writing techniques from Selene Castrovilla's literary chicklit--and see what she stole!
Reviews
Readers love this evocative women's fiction! It's chicklit with a purpose: to help women know they are not alone in this crazy dating age.
From Amazon books:
“I loved it, and I loved getting to know Luna.
Well written, engaging, and absolutely true to self!”
“Loved this provacative, thought-provoking and humor-filled book!”
“An every woman's story
From the first line to the last, I felt that Luna's story was like my own. I challenge you to read it and not find yourself reflected in Luna's struggles to find happiness.”
“Great read - laughed aloud!
For anyone whose been out in the dating scene recently, if you need a dose of laughter with some great characters, this is a must read!”
“An awesome book that just stuck with me because of its honesty, rawness and just how much I wanted to keep turning the page. Really recommend this one!”
“I thought I had the book all figured out!! Boy was I wrong!! Great surprise”
“Clever Dialogue, Fascinating Characters and Quirky Humor Score a Home Run for Luna Rising”
“In Luna Rising, Selene Castrovilla expertly creates a character in Luna that I think many women can relate to deeply…even though most probably would not admit it.”
“May Luna rise to the top of your “To Read” pile.”
Podcast Guest
Careless Whistle: A Short Story
Selene was a guest on Story Works Reading Series, where she read her women's fiction short story "Careless Whistle" and discussed her writing process.
Check out my funny podcast!
Socially conscious, warm conversations, intriguing topics, much laughter, wine optional but recommended.
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