an unpublished novel
REQUIEM FOR A LOSER, MESDAMES ET MESSIEURS, UN VAMPIRE EXTRAORDINAIRE, MADAME TRACY
A modern day vampire novel within a novel written by an observant New Yorker.
The Story
Greg Watt is an unemployed screenwriter (laid off by a failed dotcom) who struggles to pay his bills while losing a battle with depression and alcohol. Given the nature of many introspective writers, Greg takes the reader through a series of observational rants on life in NYC that is searing and funny. Shunning the screenplay format, Greg decides to write a novel thinking it easier to be published than produced. His preoccupation with mortality and resourcefulness materializes in Tracy, a 199-year-old transvestite vampire with fake breasts living in a penthouse in the meatpacking district.
Tracy is a raconteur and an amusing seductress who has befriended everyone from Picasso to Calvin Klein but can only share her experiences with victims hours before she consumes them. She purposely stretches her sexual encounters out over the course of hours to gain an emotional bond with victims that transcends pleasure and simulates moments of intimacy. A wealthy predator, Tracy is the embodiment of a romantic with the cunning of a serial killer who has discovered a reason to live---unconditional love. She wants to be a mother. At one point Greg, thinks writing the novel will not only serve as a distraction but save him. Then life happens.
Author: Brett L. Renwick
His first novel, Wired For Chaos, was published by Creation Books in 2005 and made it to the semifinals of the Writer's Network Fiction competition that year. He is the author of numerous spec screenplays and sit-com scripts and a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. This book prospered from the insightful comments of the Dark Body Writer's Collective workshop that includes published authors and filmmakers.