I was advised to get my shit in one place. I listened, because, under the right circumstances, I’m a switchy power-bottom who loves to take direction.

My debut novel TO JONES will be published March 19, 2027 by Limit Zero Publications. Here’s a micro version of my bio:

Shannon Brazil is an award-winning Gen X feminist author and performer whose work explores sex and sexuality, domestic anarchy, grief, motherhood, and other entanglements. She carries on in Portland, Oregon with two partners, four grown kids, two little dogs, and ninety-seven houseplants. She’s bad at small talk, good at whiskey, and has a most imposing houseplant collection.

Chaos is her baseline.

WARNING: Extrovert

“Move over Miranda July, Shannon Brazil has occupied the territory called being a wife and mother and staged a breakout. To Jones is the story of an unstoppable wandering heart that breaks the walls that keep us quiet and small so that a woman can resuscitate a self. A burst of life force. An invitation to sing. This story will occupy your body and ask you how you want to change your life.” — Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Reading The Waves

ADVANCED PRAISE FOR TO JONES

“How do you keep the animal in you alive? How do you stay hungry and horny even as the walls close in? In this raunchy, wild, hilarious novel of sex and becoming, Shannon Brazil unleashes a middle-aged mother of three on an erotic pilgrimage to Burning man. Will her fantasies come true? Yes, they will. But even as her world opens, she discovers that the gravity of her duties and compromises back home never fades. With boundless invention and constant, earthy wit, Brazil has fabricated a quest that goes beyond sex, though never around it, into something like wonder and hard wisdom." — Jon Raymond, author of God and Sex

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“Jones captures completely the way marriage works and love works and the bonds we have with our children. All of it, all of it.” — Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women and Kick-Ass Women

“This is a dirty, dusty, erotic, vulnerable, visceral novel about desire, about needs, about openness and pleasure, about fear and taboo and sex, that takes one woman from her family’s home to the open road to that most storied den of vice, Black Rock City. Shannon Brazil's To Jones challenges you to flip the bird at the expectations placed upon mothers and woman of a certain age and says, yes. Lay back and enjoy the ride!”

—Mo Daviau, author of Every Anxious Wave and Epic and Lovely