DESIRE MAKES ME BRAVE Book Launch and retrospective March 24th 5pm at Manny’s 3092 16th Street San Francisco
Free event also tickets that include the book and drinks available.
COMING SOON (March ‘24): DESIRE MAKES ME BRAVE
A memoir. A Bisexual Journey from California to the World.
SYNOPSIS
Desire Makes Me Brave is an adventurous and vulnerable memoir about self-discovery and erotic-awakening of a bonafide bisexual. Part sex memoir, part romcom, part travelog, Desire Makes Me Brave traces the wild and winding escapades of April Hirschman – from her all-but-traditional upbringing in a northern California hippy commune into world-expanding explorations through Asia, Mexico, Europe and the erotic enclaves of San Francisco. Throw out the blueprint of what life and love “should be” – in this true story, April tap dances along the kinsey scale of sexuality, finding love, sex and romance with a butch lesbian, an artsy andro girl, cis men, and strangers or friends at sex parties.
Throughout the memoir, April wrestles with competing desires… for grounding love and stability, and untethered excitement and novelty.She longs for a love that lasts, while also desiring all that is subversive, sexy and new. Lusty, independent, courageous, and sensitive, April becomes a pagan priestess who takes the “slut pledge,” and chases rainbow oracles hoping they will tell her answers to the big love questions of her life. Follow April’s quest to findsecurity, passion, and sexual fulfillment.
Book Style
Accessible Prose
Adventurous and Vulnerable
A book of self-discovery and erotic-awakening
Part sex memoir, part rom com, part travelog
OUT NOW! : Best Breakup Ever
Bouncing Back from Your Breakup with Humor & Dignity
THE SELF HELP BOOK ABOUT BREAKUPS IS HERE! I wrote this because when I was recovering from a breakup I didn’t find the book I needed. I wanted to open up the pages to a sensitive, funny friend who knew what I was going through. I wanted to be inspired to laugh and cry. I didn’t want a detached therapist voice speaking from a cloud as if they knew all the answers. I wanted someone down digging in the mud with me.
So, I decided to write a book that would do just that. I am your sensitive, funny friend who knows what you’re going through. Let’s dig in the mud together.
Stay tuned for monthly excerpts from the book. I can’t wait to share more with you! Talk to me by leaving a comment below. Thank you for being here.
SYNOPSIS
We’ve all been there. We had a stunning future all laid out with our partner or spouse and then it all fell apart. In this humorous look at breakups we view this pivotal time from a sincere place but also bring in a sense of humor and perspective. Hirschman draw’s from her past growing up on a hippie commune in SF to suggest many unusual and often hilarious approaches. She draws on her over 20 years as a tarot reader and a decade as a life coach to give some great concrete tools, practices, and suggestions for getting over a break up. It makes the recovery as fun as possible by including chapters like Movie Therapy, Bridal Dress Shopping (while being single) and Floating in a Deprivation Tank. She also talks about “the geographic cure” and how to perform a breakup ritual. The reader will feel a friend is helping them pick themselves off the floor by offering a warm, knowledgeable and trustworthy hand. It’s the perfect combination of levity and expertise.