Occupation Writer Period Contemporary Subject Spiritual philosophy | Nationality Australian Genre Romance fiction Name C. Saint-Clair | |
C.C. Saint-Clair is an Australian author who was born of French parents in Casablanca, Morocco. Saint-Clair has written seven paperback novels, ebooks, two erotic adult tales, and two screenplay adaptations of her novels since 2001. Her novel Far From Maddy came in second at the Rhode Island International Film Festival LGBT screenplay competition in 2005 and in the quarter-finals (out of 3369 entries) at the international Scriptapalooza competition in August 2006.
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Biography
Saint-Clair was born to French parents in Casablanca, Morocco and majored in English literature at the University of Texas at Austin in the seventies.
Career
Saint-Clair has been described as "the Thinking-Woman's Lesbian Romance Writer".
Though she has stated she does not see a direct link between that description and her writing, she stated in an interview with Curve magazine that the term Social Realism was much better suited as a genre descriptor of her writing. She went on to publish another 6 novels, including Far From Maddy. Her other best known novel is Morgan in the Mirror.
Written in 2004, at a time when Female – to – Male "FTM" transgenderism was viewed as a rather obscure condition, it was for many lesbians the first novel they read that dealt with the topic. Morgan in the Mirror was quickly accepted by the established activists of the FTM movement. Morgan in the Mirror was also discussed on Gender Talk in an interview with Saint-Clair hosted by Nancy Nangeroni & Gordene O. MacKenzie.
C.C. Saint-Clair went on to adapt both Far From Maddy and Morgan in the Mirror to screenplays. Both have won awards as scripts, however none have so far lead to being optioned. More recently, Saint-Clair published a series of short stories, such as "The Whip-Hand" which has an erotic plot with a strong BDSM slant – and "The Fish-Whispered" and "The Crab-Catcher", a metaphoric tale of the theme of sexual awakening. They are showcased on Amazon.com's Shorts.
From 2009 to the present, CC Saint-Clair's writing took a major turn. She has devoted her writing time to articles on deep, no hype, Spiritual Philosophy. C.C. has 14 lenses on Squidoo, each confirming a different aspect of our spiritual self. This body of writing, an uncompromising unveiling of Ego, karma and Soul, constitute a fresh approach to what she say are all matters of the heart and soul. Aligning herself with her ascetic mentor, C.C. is a staunch defender of the notion that all that is of the domain of spirituality should be allowed to flow freely, from the heart, from teacher to student, energetically unimpeded by a base financial exchange. Though C.C., herself, is not at all interested in packaging and marketing any aspect of her brand of spiritual philosophy, she is passionate about sharing what she knows with whomever is interested in rethinking thinking and in reducing the rush of thoughts to What-Is in the moment. Holistic living, she believes, starts with a non-mechanical re-action to life, in favor of a new understanding that leads to a heart-over-mind/over matter response to What-Is."