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BCE Book Club: The Year of Sin and Smoke (with Stephanie Kemler)
Big Crystal Energy Book Club is in session 🕯️📚
In this episode, Ashleigh sits down with dark obsessive romance author Stephanie Kemler to talk about The Year of Sin and Smoke — a lush, unsettling dark academia story rooted in grief, desire, power, and the dangerous ways we’re shaped by repression.
We talk about:
The premise of The Year of Sin and Smoke (spoiler-light)
Writing “for the damned” + why dark stories can feel strangely safe
Stephanie’s creative origin story (from education → full-time author)
Co-writing with Jillian Dowell: journal entries vs. narrative + the “cosmic”…
The skinny
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