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Rich Bitch, Prison Bitch Trilogy Picked Up By Hillmark Productions As Part of Sassy Prison Rape TV Series Aimed At Young Adult Viewers

 
by: Pat Powers

Special to: Hollywood Inside Scoop

April 1, 2025

“Why not rape?” asked Hillmark Senior Vice President in Charge of Acquisitions Cherry Sassoon as I sat with her and discussed the new Hillmark series based on my semi-incredible “Prison Bitch Trilogy.” “That was the question that always hovered over the table when we had discussions about what new properties to pick up. We knew we were doing a fine job of covering the market for insipid, almost humorless romcoms. And we’ve got the romantic cozy mystery market sewed up, too.

“But we also knew that there was a huge market out there for rape erotica, bondage erotica, incest erotica and bestiality erotica that we were underserving, in the sense of not serving them at all, in any way,” Sassoon continued.

“Isn’t serving those markets mostly illegal?” I asked.

“Not in the purely legal sense,” said Sassoon. “The only porn that’s straight up illegal is the underage stuff. Hillmark will never touch that market, because our own viewers would tear us limb from limb if we tried.”

“That does sound awful,” I observed painfully.

“Oh, it was… I mean, it would be,” said Sassoon. “Anyway, we decided that the most popular way to go was rape. There were all sorts of good reasons for this. About 70 million of them, in fact.”

“Seventy million?” I asked. “Where did you get that number?”

“That’s the number of copies of “Fifty Shades of Gray” sold worldwide in its first YEAR of release,” said Sassoon.

“But Fifty Shades of Gray isn’t about rape, it’s about a consensual BDSM relationship,” I said.

“Oh, that’s just tedious rapey-wapey timey wimey stuff,” said Sassoon. “Rape, BDSM, bondage, romance, they’re all pretty much the same. You say potayto, I say puhtato. The old timey romance writers knew the truth of it.”

“All right, I’ll bite,” I said. “How is romance the same as rape? It would seem to be the complete opposite.”

“No, rape is the ultimate in romance,” said Sassoon. “The old time romance writers had a subgenre called “bodice rippers” which were basically historical rape romance stories. The male MC, typically a pirate or a sheik, kidnaps a proper English or American woman and is so overwhelmed by her beauty and grace and charm or whatever that he rapes her. Then they make up and fall in love and he apologizes to her and rapes her some more and then proposes marriage and they both live rapily ever after.”

“But I wrote the “Prison Bitch” trilogy, god help me, and there are no romantic rapes at all in it,” I said. “All the rapists were psychopaths and sociopaths of various stripes.”

“Oh yeah? What about that Paul guy at the end?” Sassoon asked. “He is supposed to be very romantic.”

“He’s not a rapist, he’s a consensual lover, very big on safewords and so forth,” I said. “Did you even read the books?”

“Of course not, that’s why you hire English majors, women with no lives, to read stuff so I don’t have to. They condensed the trilogy into this one sheet of paper here,” Sassoon said, holding up a battered, stained piece of paper with a few paragraphs typed on it. “This kind of time-saving is why I’m an executive. Plus having the wit to see the romance behind all the rape.”

“So, the rape story is going to become a romance, I see,” I said. “Any other intriguing changes to the story in the books?”

“Oh, yes indeed,” said Sassoon. “We’re thinking we need to pull back on the whole rich bitch storyline. What with all the Luigi stuff that’s happened in real life, it’s kind of obvious that our readership may not be in the market for stories about wealthy people unless it’s a fall from grace type story. So we’re thinking of having Kim be a welder or a beautician or something.”

“But “Rich Bitch, Prison Bitch” IS a fall from grace story,” I said. “It’s right there in the title. Kim starts out a rich bitch and winds up a prison bitch in every sense of the word. She goes from shady banker and party girl to everyone’s favorite rape victim. You can’t have a bigger fall from grace!”

“Sure, there’s a fall from grace of sorts in there, I suppose,” said Sassoon. “But it’s not enough of a fall to make up for her early wealth in these days. So that is not happening. She’s a welder, or a sassy waitress like AOC, something like that. And she get picked up for shoplifting milk for someone else’s baby, and goes to jail and gets raped because, of course, she’s a beautiful welder. Well, ex-welder.”

“And how is the rape going to be handled?” I asked, dreading the answer.

“Two ways,” said Sassoon. “We have two markets here, older readers who want to recapture the gauzy pleasures of old-time bodice ripper romances, and more modern readers who are down to watch fucking. For the older readers we’ll have a version where, as soon as they get past the chaste kissing stage, which basically is as soon as the sex starts, we’ll cut away to a visual metaphor. Like maybe a pillow tightly wrapped in rope being poked repeatedly with an eggplant with sexy moaning and grunting in the background. Something along those lines.”

“Sounds boffo to me,” I said agreeably. “What about younger viewers?”

Oh, we’ll give them a long, steamy erotic buildup lots of near-nudity and some full nudity, but no genitals, you know, and no genitals in action,” said Sassoon. “I mean, they will do some fucking, but only R-rated stuff, you won’t see tab A going into Slot B nor any of the other slots. And what you do see won't last too long.”

“How do you plan to tie her up?” I asked.

“Well, about that…” said Sassoon. “We where thinking maybe a blindfold would do the trick for delivering the kinky.”

“Mrs. Sassoon, the people who read my book read it BECAUSE of all the bondage and rape, not despite it,” I said. “They wanted those extreme sexual bondage scenes, they enjoy them. If you back off from the sexual bondage they are not going to stick around for the story, riveting though it is. You’re not going to get those seventy million viewers you wanted.”

“Well maybe not seventy million,” Sassoon agreed. “But we’ll get quite a few. While I’m sure your readers enjoyed your books, my summary of Fifty Shades of Gray indicates it was pretty damn tame.”

“Oh, it was, I read it,” I said. “Eight chapters until they got around to kissing, very tame indeed. But when they did get down to it, they got down to it big time. She was cuffed, blindfolded, tied up and being fucked in the movie. And the movie had very, very good box office.”

“Ah,” said Sassoon. I could see the dollar signs flashing in her otherwise empty eyes. “That’s a very good point. Can’t let censors destroy artistic qualities, now can we?”

“You’d be surprised how much the sort of people who read my books care about artistic qualities,” I observed.

“The summary does say your books are full of artistic qualities,” said Sassoon, nodding sagely.

“My readers wouldn’t have it any other way,” I said.

Note: the day after the interview with Cherry I received a call from Hillmark’s HIP (Hot Intellectual Properties) department head. She explained to me that Hillmark had chosen the script based on my story to be converted into the first story in a brand new series about a coven of detective witches who try to change the bad reputation of witches by solving crimes and doing good deeds using their special powers. Also, a giant spider will be a regular character in the show. They’ll start by rescuing the inmates of Brookhaven Prison from Club Rape. This will necessitate further changes in the script, but I am assured that the spirit of the story will be fully served, whatever that means.

I’m so glad I got my check in advance!

"Yard Sale Slut" Soon To Be a Major Netflix Film!

You can get the original novel here!

 

I've had to keep this under wraps for a while, but my agent, Pauline Perell, has called and I'm free to Tell All: my novel "Yard Sale Slut" will be made into a major motion picture to be aired on Netflix this fall. It's set in the near future, and is the story of Moira, once a promising student, who loses everything and is drugged, sold into slavery, stripped, bound, gagged, raped, lesbian gang raped, whipped, whored out and then suffered the most horrible humiliation of all: sold on the cheap at a yard sale to a sex slave tavern owner.

I don't think I'll be surprising anyone when I tell you that there was a huge bidding war on the story between Lifetime Channel and Netflix. The amount of pathos and bathos here is unbelievable. I didn't even believe it myself when I wrote it! So the seven figure check they're cutting me makes sense, Hollywood sense anyway.

Of course Neflix is asking for a few minor changes in the story to make it more acceptable to a mainstream audiences. Minor stuff, really. The rape and sex slavery themes, they feel, are a little much. Or as Netflix director Wilson Pluckett told me, "Look I get that 'Yard Sale Slut' is a dark, edgy, erotic, kinky satirical critique of capitalism gone zonkers, but we were thinking of taking it more in the direction of a lighthearted rom-com. And you can't have actual rape and sex slavery in lighthearted rom-com, it's just too heavy. So we were thinking of throwing out the slavers altogether. Instead we're thinking of having the female MC bought as a "slave" at one of those charity yard sales they have, by the male MC. Be a good vehicle for Freddie Prinze and Jessica Alba, you know."

"If you wanted a lighthearted rom-com, you could have optioned How My Slavegirl Found Me it's an actual lighthearted rom-com," I pointed out. 

"And we may just do that down the road," said Pluckett. "But for now everyone is sold on "Yard Sale Slut" except for the title. The working title is now "Yard Sale Bargain Romance" to give you some idea. But otherwise it's exactly the same story. The male MC is still a politico, only now he's a candidate for US Senator from New York. And there'll be all sorts of raised eyebrows and media interest in the Senatorial candidate buying a slavegirl, you know, even if it's only a pretendy slavegirl. Mucho boffo humor here."

"Oh, I could see that working very well with a sexual relationship where she's his sexy slavegirl and he's her dominating master, all very consensual of course," I said. "Plenty of chances for double entendre."

"Well, about that," said Pluckett. "We find our rom-coms work much better in foreign markets without any sex. Or nudity. Maybe a chaste kiss at the end, maybe a bared shoulder or two. But no sex at all, especially no kinky sex."

"I'm surprised you left in the romance and the comedy," I observed, catching the way the wind was blowing.

"Well there won't be much of either, to be honest," said Plunkett. "Actual romance and humor are difficult and dangerous. We're looking for a script that is only in the vicinity of funny, and which keeps the romance down to knowing looks and raised eyebrows. We just want to leave audiences with a general impression that nice people had fun after encountering some mild difficulties, which is really what your story is all about, when you think about it."

"Of course it is," I lied. "And of course there's all those checks I'll be getting based on net profits to help soothe my conscience."

"Exactly!" lied Pluckett. "I knew we could come to a meeting of the minds on this!"

NOTE: Post meeting, I've been informed that the story will now be set in Ukraine and will involve a giant time-traveling spider. Plot twist: the spider is the nicest character in the film!

P.S. "Yard Sale Slut" is one of the three stories included in my Three Tavern Sluts collection found here. And extra buck goes a long way on Smashwords.