victoriawrites

About Victoria Brooks:

(They/She) I write about trauma, time-travel, ethics (love), and trans-dimensional sexuality. I’ve published two nonfiction books including Mistress Ethics (Bloomsbury), and various essays and short stories (see below). SILICONE GOD, my queer sci-fi novel (MOIST books) is out now. Order from any bookshop or directly from MOIST. US EDITION COMING IN FEBRUARY 2025 (HOUSE OF VLAD).

News:

Silicone God launched in Edinburgh (Lighthouse, with Elle Nash, Deliver Me); Glasgow (Burning House); London (The Common Press) and Brighton (The Queery). Launched in Madrid (Desperate Literature) on 25/10. US EVENTS NEWS COMING SOON.

Conversations and interviews:

Gender Benders and Genre Blenders: with Jack Skelley on Silicone God and his new book Myth Lab.

Homewreckers, silicone and dyke nights: interview by Elle Nash (an expanded version of our launch chat @Lighthouse Books).

What people are saying about SILICONE GOD:

Silicone God takes a Cronenbergian tenderness to the boundaries of queerness, forcing us to confront the social mores of monogamy, infidelity, and what it means to plumb the depths of taboo when you're still discovering who you are and what you want from the world. -Elle Nash

As unmoored from convention as it is sizzlingly hot. -Alison Rumfitt

Victoria Brooks has served up a literary mille-feuille, with deliciously wicked cream spread between sickly sweet layers. Dark, disturbing, and deeply sensual all at once, you'll devour every page. -Samantha Allen

It's a riot. I mean, how could it not be with lines like, "This isn't literature. It's leftovers." It mocks the things it loves and loves the things it mocks—the effect is fantastic fun. -Derek McCormack

…A post-porn masterpiece! -Annie Sprinkle

…Compelling, enrapturing, and gorgeous. -Jessica Stoya

…Singularity of Silicone God births horny bish whorror. #Bookgasm -Jack Skelley

…at once sensual, ridiculous, epiphanous and transformative… As any great fuck should be. A truly exciting debut! -Brad Beau Cohen

A slick, hot, pleasure-filled journey about the possibilities of transformation and the healing the future could hold. -Saskia Vogel

Raunchy, rebellious, startlingly imaginative, playful but deadly serious, Brooks has created a must-read 'book-gasm' of queer pleasure and illicit redemption. -Sarah Law

All the makings of a queer cult classic. Joyfully perverse and perverted. -Laura Kaye

Reading like a collaboration between Angela Carter and Kathy Acker, this is the kind of pornosophical book we need more of in the world. -Jonathan Kemp

Strap On! Slide In! Bliss Out! Victoria Brooks' Silicone God fills that yearning hole left by your earliest and most affecting weird-lit-porno crushes... sultry company for heavily-thumbed works by Charlie Jane Anders, Dennis Cooper, and Alex Trocchi. -Jamie Sutcliffe

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Other writing:

non-fiction books: Fucking Law (Zero Books, 2019) and Mistress Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2022).

I also write (long and short pieces) about: mistresses/infidelity, sex+sexuality, ethics (as love), gender multitudes, oceans+tentacles, aliens+shape-shifting, time-travel, trauma, and sometimes erotica (with an AI or sci-fi angle).

Essays:

The Octopod Inside/Birthing a Story in Twin Halves W0rms (favourite line: ‘The answer is a question: what gender is a heart?’)

Queer Sci-fi, EMDR and PTSD: When writing and therapy collide Archer Magazine

Gender Benders and Genre Blenders: Victoria Brooks and Jack Skelley in Conversation X-RAY

So much more than a toy: the healing power of wearing the strap t’ART

How does Infidelity Harm the Other Woman? The Philosophers’ Magazine

Double Trouble and Becoming Them Lit Angels Journal (Body/Horror)

Stop resisting the forbidden fruit Institute of Art and Ideas

How philosophers got the female orgasm wrong Institute of Art and Ideas

Why reading and writing erotica could be revolutionary Overland Literary Journal

Why we need a new philosophy of sex The Conversation

On bisexuality and biphobia Paragon Press