Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau

The film industry has a real strong need to put you in a category so they can understand you and know how they’re going to make money off of you. But everyone identifies her as a “scream queen.” Is that something you’ve experienced? Yes, but my career has been pretty eclectic-the label hasn’t limited me.

Ovsanna Moore, the central character in your book, is an actress, a studio executive-and a vampire. Barbeau spoke to us about her literary endeavors. With the help of co-author Michael Scott, the 63-year-old has distilled her experiences as a cult-film actress into her first work of fiction, Vampyres of Hollywood (St. But Adrienne Barbeau will forever be known as a fan-boy sex symbol thanks to her bold, buxom roles in horror and sci-fi classics like The Fog, Escape From New York, and Swamp Thing. Fans will appreciate their witty war as Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott take an insider bite out of Hollywood, unscrupulous big business CEOs and dedicated literary cops in a satirical tale that asks who is the real dead one, the breathing cop with no life or the undead movie mogul with a fulfilling life.HER 45- YEAR CAREER has taken her from Broadway to primetime television, where she starred as a divorced mom on Norman Lear’s acclaimed 1970s sitcom Maude. Peter is an unknowledgeable modern day Van Helsing while Ovsanna is a twenty-first century CEO Dracula tycoon (vampires adapt). This is an amusing, entertaining but somewhat inane paranormal police procedural in which Peter and Ovsanna rotate perspectives in their cat and mouse contest. In July 2008, her first novel, Vampyres of Hollywood, was published by St. If she fails, Ovsanna will give up the good life to be reborn as someone else. Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and author of three. The beloved horror actress (The Fog, Swamp Thing) skewers Hollywood and vamp lit alike, in this follow-up to the acclaimed Vampyres of Hollywood. Ovsanna feels she must end the real life horror show that she knows targets her before King realizes the dead were undead and she too is a vampire. What the cop fails to know is Ovsanna is a five century old vampire, who oversees a network of vampires, many of whom are movie stars. The prime link between the trio besides ghastly deaths at the hands of the Cinema Slayer serial killer is they are employees of powerful horror queen, Ovsanna Moore, head of a studio.īeverly Hills Police Detective Peter King leads the official investigation into the macabre homicides. Hollywood is stunned when three top gun actors are murdered in two weeks.

Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau