# The Mermaid's Boudoir A pick and mix of words and images, not at all consistent but always delicious by the author of 'SUGAR, BABY'. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thank God for the Autumn](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/thank-god-for-the-autumn) _2025-11-23 · Celine Saintclare_ ready to come alive again so I quit my job (in this economy, I KNOW) ## [On the Importance of Being Pure](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/on-the-importance-of-being-pure) _2025-06-30 · Celine Saintclare_ I will always maintain that there is a significant difference between being an artist and being a business person. ## [The Feminine Art of Revenge Book Trailer is here](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-feminine-art-of-revenge-book) _2025-06-09 · Celine Saintclare_ Hope you love it as much as I do ## [The Cannes Diaries: glamorous great pretenders descend on the Cote d’Azur to sprinkle empty promises like fairy dust](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-cannes-diaries-glamorous-great) _2025-05-28 · Celine Saintclare_ This May I attended my first Cannes Film Festival with the vague objectives of finding investment for the short film I’ve written and stirring up potential collaborators for my other projects. ## [An extract reading from The Feminine Art of Revenge](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/an-extract-reading-from-the-feminine) _2025-05-23 · Celine Saintclare_ Available to request now on NetGalley ## [Cannes 2025: The Glamour of Becoming](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/cannes-2025-the-glamour-of-becoming) _2025-05-20 · Celine Saintclare_ A visual poem about the undiscovered starlets who flock to Cannes to bask in the unrepeatable glamour of becoming. ## [Announcing my second novel: The Feminine Art of Revenge + how to win a special edition Advanced Reader Copy](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/announcing-my-second-novel-the-feminine) _2025-04-25 · Celine Saintclare_ Female rage is unbound in this dark & glamorous tale about a self-created femme fatale ## [The Moon & Me](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-moon-and-me) _2025-03-27 · Celine Saintclare_ Godmother, muse, constant friend. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been infatuated with the moon. She’s been a silent witness to my life, we’ve had conversations together. I like the way she listens quietly, glowing with ancient wisdom. I find her presence comforting. And the moon is definitely a ‘her’. I knew she was a she before I ever got into astrology. Although my ## [Short Fiction: Indian Creek Drive](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/short-fiction-indian-creek-drive) _2025-02-11 · Celine Saintclare_ He put his fingers on my heart, the middle finger and the index finger. Right on my heart. I’d never been touched by a guy before, least of all there. ## [The Edge of Seventeen](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-edge-of-seventeen) _2025-02-08 · Celine Saintclare_ The night I turned into a star ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/A4oeSblGENuj) _2025-02-08 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## ['I was within and without'](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/i-was-within-and-without) _2025-02-03 · Celine Saintclare_ The writer's need for immersion, isolation and an anthropologist's mentality ## [Bittersweet Sixteen](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/bittersweet-sixteen) _2025-01-29 · Celine Saintclare_ Reminiscing on the bliss and terror of being a sixteen-year-old girl. Being sixteen was a state of mind. To me - at that time and even now in retrospect - a state of perfection. We were sixteen and it felt like we were stars burning at our brightest. Every year after sixteen we were doomed to dwindle towards extinction. ## [I'm really a mermaid](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/im-really-a-mermaid) _2025-01-27 · Celine Saintclare_ 'Venus sparkled at us from a peach-coloured sky like a lone diamond' ## ['We both know that it's not fashionable to love me'](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/we-both-know-that-its-not-fashionable) _2025-01-26 · Celine Saintclare_ On being a divisive author ## [Short Fiction: Goodbye, Marigold](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/short-fiction-goodbye-marigold) _2025-01-26 · Celine Saintclare_ Marigold is strange, beautiful and on the run.