The voice behind Too Bright
Meet Anne
Anne Laurette writes intimate, atmospheric fiction about women, longing, and the inner worlds they rarely share.
Known for her lyrical restraint and emotional precision, she names what’s felt long before its spoken.
She lives in New England, where she’s at work on the remaining novels in the Still as a Woman series.
A new genre of emotional realism
Velvet Fiction
A new genre centered on interior lives over plot mechanics, favoring emotional realism, intimacy, and psychological truth.
These stories move slowly and deliberately. Longing, restraint, and aftermath carry as much weight as action.
The work invites rereading, reflection, and a deeper inhabiting of self.
Velvet Fiction™ is a genre coined and developed by The Velvet Chair.
Occasional notes from the house
The Journal
A place for fragments. Process notes. Things overheard, underlined, or left unsaid.
The journal will hold reflections from the house—on writing, womanhood, and the quiet architecture of stories.
No schedule. Only what arrives.
The first entry is here ...
