Monday, February 9, 2015

Selfies Of Success for Authors Welcomes V.M Gautier with her book "BLOOD DIVA."




Selfies of Success for Authors, welcomes V M Gautier.

VM Gautier is a pen name. Hence, the photo. However, the author is rumored to be Marion Stein, New York based writer, blogger, indie “pioneer” and author of Loisaida, Schrodinger's Telephone, and The Death Trip.


 BLOOD DIVA
The 19th century’s most infamous party-girl is undead and on the loose in the Big Apple.

When 23 year-old Parisian courtesan, Marie Duplessis succumbed to consumption in 1847, Charles Dickens showed up for the funeral and reported the city mourned as though Joan of Arc had fallen. Marie was not only a celebrity in in her own right, but her list of lovers included Franz Liszt – the first international music superstar, and Alexandre Dumas fils, son of the creator of The Three Musketeers. Dumas fils wrote the novelThe Lady of the Camellias based on their time together. The book became a play, and the play became the opera La Traviata. Later came the film versions, and the legend never died.

But what if when offered the chance for eternal life and youth, Marie grabbed it, even when the price was the regular death of mortals at her lovely hand?

Now Marie wonders if perhaps nearly two centuries of murder, mayhem, and debauchery is enough, especially when she falls hard for a rising star she believes may be the reincarnation of the only man she ever truly loved. But is it too late for her to change? Can a soul be redeemed like a diamond necklace in hock? And even if it can, have men evolved since the 1800′s? Or does a girl’s past still mark her?

Blood Diva is a sometimes humorous, often dark and erotic look at sex, celebrity, love, death, destiny, and the arts of both self-invention and seduction. It’s a story that asks a simple question – Can a one hundred ninety year-old demimondaine find happiness in 21st century Brooklyn without regular infusions of fresh blood? 


BOOK REVIEW:

Amazon 5.0 out of 5 stars Pressing issues for future vampires, January 5, 2015
By 
carlosredivivus - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Diva (Kindle Edition)
I don't read much fantasy, and in spite of their popularity, vampires are (most likely) phantasmal--so I wouldn't have read `Blood Diva' if it hadn't been written by the author of the excellent `Loisaida', under the pen name `VM Gautier'. I bought it to find out why she published under a pen name, assuming it was something she'd prefer to keep at a distance.
Nope. It's great, a novel to be proud of on several levels.
It is, first of all, a fabulously sexy retelling of the Marie Duplessis story, the basis for the movie `Camille', and the opera `La Traviata'--but leaving aside the tuberculosis (a metaphorical guilt trip laid on the 19th century heroine.) If you're a vampire, you can live for pleasure all night long, century after century, no restraints, inhibitions or penalties--and Gautier's heroine takes full advantage.
And Blood Diva is very well written, not only as a `genre' novel but as a serious (also funny) novel that plays with a generic form, as Borges' played with cowboy and detective novels, satisfying the reader's expectations for the genre, and yet going as far beyond it as the reader cares to follow, raising questions about human nature (particularly the feminine side of it) and social and sexual mores.
How might a woman behave if her life was not at risk every time she got into bed, no pregnancy, no disease, no risk of violence--or even criticism. How about if gender roles were reversed and the man was at greater risk? If she could demand satisfaction whether or not he agreed? If she could kill, and yet not be killed? And how can she justify her survival at the expense of other human beings, no matter how degraded they might be? Questions reminiscent of those raised by Glaucon's story of the Ring of Gyges, that made the wearer invisible.
A remarkable job of writing, and fun to read.

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  Links to more information.
http://www.blooddiva.com






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