Sleb - Nick Thomson

Celebrity deaths come in threes, but what if number three has other ideas? Roxie Black - actress/singer/addict/romanticist - is a paranoid, tabloid-baiting car-crash in-the-making; a starlet with a siege mentality. Two famous faces have ended up in the morgue so far this month, and with her career and reputation crumbling around her, Roxie Black must fight for her very survival in this meat grinder business. Mocked relentlessly by clown prince of the blogosphere Rebel Fetchko, a gaudy profiteer in scandal, and his many nameless and faceless minions, Roxie finds herself with few kind souls in her corner. In this distorted existence coat-tail rider Kassandra Black, a mother ageing disgracefully, and naive boy toy Kurt McKane, a preening movie star wannabe, are perhaps Roxie's only warped forms of solace. However, when the hounds at her heels realise there's more money in post-mortem idols, will Roxie be able to protect a precious secret and reclaim the life that she left behind for fame and fortune? "Sleb: Tigress of Celebrityville" is a thrilling and exuberant mauling of celebrity excess. From the monocular pervert horde of paparazzi, to the good will and clean conscience of a place far from infamy, Roxie's search for redemption is a descent into break-neck madness - but is the light at the end of the tunnel a sign of hope, or a photoflash over the third celebrity death in-a-row? Fame/Fortune/Obsession/Corruption/Sex/Drugs/Death/Celebrity/Celeb/SLEB - Who needs art when you have scandal? Who needs a soul when the body is a business? A new tale in the on-going "Celebrityville Series.""