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The Venus Complex (Version 1.0)
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10th March, 2008 10:39
BarbieWilde
1 pitch
The Venus Complex. Sub-Sub Genre: Crime.
My name is Barbie Wilde. My book is called 'The Venus Complex'. (70,000 words.) I used to be an actress and TV presenter. I'm probably best known as the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker's cult British horror movie, 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'.
While working as an actress and later as a casting director, I started writing crime fiction. One day a friend of mine -- who is a dominatrix and sex therapist -- mentioned that her greatest sexual fantasy was to sleep with a serial killer. I was appalled, but I have to admit that I was also intrigued. My friend's confession set into motion a train of thought that ended up as 'The Venus Complex'.
My novel is written from the killer's point of view, and I suppose that puts it into the same genre as the brilliant and deliciously sick 'American Psycho'. However, my book is twisted in a different way. My lead character, Syracuse University Art History Professor Michael Friday, doesn't give a hoot about business cards or Whitney Houston's latest album, he just wants his love object and he wants her right now. Michael is prepared to do anything to fulfill his desire, even murder.
Michael orchestrates a sex murder spree with an art signature, just so he can get a date with the girl of his dreams -- forensic psychologist, Dr. Elene Sheppard. Dating by murder might seem an extreme thing to do, but then Michael is an extreme kind of guy. Despite his rage at the world and other dysfunctions, his love for art makes his crimes elegant and, dare I say it, even beautiful.
'The Venus Complex' explores my favorite themes: passion, anger, sex, death and -- so it isn't unrelentingly grim -- humor. I've researched aberrant behavior extensively and interviewed forensic psychologists, lawmakers and a homicide detective from the Manhattan North Police Department to give my book an intoxicating whiff of paranoia, paraphilia and authenticity.
'The Venus Complex' is a novel about a man who rises out of an abyss of frustration and fury and creates works of art out of destruction, goddesses out of dental hygienists and beauty out of death. It's also about the sickness and obsession that is LOVE.
Enter into Michael's world through the pages of his personal journal, where every diseased thought, disturbing dream, politically incorrect rant and sexually explicit murder highlights his journey from zero to psycho.
May 17th, 2009 01:13
thedarkage
2 reviews
Awesome idea, and could easily see this turning into a film :)
August 7th, 2008 11:14
Zigmaster
2 reviews
Pity you had not made the leading man a Geordie, sounds like my cup of tea...LOL Best of luck with this hun and it just has to be put to screen, it would easy stand it's own against some of the films that are released these days easy.
So, keep me in mind for a part...LOL
Love, Ziggy
May 14th, 2008 16:51
DeRibert
1 reviews
We seem to have had a slue of fictional serial killers in recent years -- each one trying to outdo the other with more gore and blood spattering MOs. 'The Venus Complex' appears to follow a different path -- a more original path. This sounds like a compelling read. Hope to see it in print soon!
April 19th, 2008 23:53
AnonGrimm
1 reviews
- Linda S. Cowden
aka "Auntie Maim"
April 12th, 2008 22:40
Theatrician
1 reviews
April 8th, 2008 12:15
annsmith
1 reviews
Thanks so much for your deliciously twisted imagination.
Beverly
March 20th, 2008 19:47
shadowofthewind
2 reviews
March 19th, 2008 17:53
Brouzils
1 reviews
March 19th, 2008 17:08
aliwhite
1 reviews
March 18th, 2008 10:23
thanooja
1 reviews
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