Beautiful Garbage (Celebrity Skin Book 1)

: Couch Audition & Humiliating Lesson in Being Used.

Emily came to Hollywood with stars in her eyes. The first lesson she learned was the cost of ambition.
Fresh off the bus from Iowa, Emily Barnes soon learns that LA is a meat grinder, just like the family farm she fled.
And Sunset Strip is a boulevard of broken dreams paved with beautiful young bodies just like hers.
She's told she isn't hungry enough, not willing to "do what it takes".
Until finally, broke and desperate, she's forced to take a "modeling" job in some freak's Bel Air home.
It's all downhill from there.
Dressed in a tiny and translucent toga, Emily is bought-and-paid-for eye candy at a glitzy and decadent industry party where a legendary director invites her to a private cabana to "audition" for him.
He directs Emily to strip herself bare—both emotionally and physically.
Because if she wants a role, she must show him that she's willing to "do what it takes".

The first episode in the brand-new series Celebrity Skin, Beautiful Garbage (8,000 words) is a story of psychological and physical submission, a dark and unflinching look at one young woman's descent into corruption. If you crave stories of innocence lost, brutal power dynamics, and the bleak reality of Hollywood's casting couch, this is a story you won't soon forget.

Expect a journey that starts with hope and ends with disgrace. Expect the birth of a beautiful new piece of Hollywood garbage.

A Celebrity Skin Story
Fame has a price. And girls like Emily pay it on their knees. With no guarantees. It's always been that way.
A raw, four-part chronicle of what it truly takes to become a star, this series is a soul-crushing journey through the darkest corners of the entertainment industry.
Fleeing an unlivable life in Iowa, Emily arrives in LA with nothing but determination and hope. To survive, she learns she must pay a toll at every gate.
Watch as she is systematically stripped of innocence and her sense of self, as she is objectified, appraised, and packaged and sold, first by agents and directors, and then finally by Emily herself.
With every degrading act of submission, a piece of Emily dies, until the girl from Iowa is erased and replaced by Melissa—a perfect, polished starlet, born in the ashes of humiliation.

Celebrity Skin explores the brutal, transactional nature of ambition in a world where everything, especially a woman's body, comes with a price tag. Emily's journey is a dark accounting of everything it costs to "make it." Themes include:
The Great American Casting Couch
Innocence Lost and Corruption
The Commodification of the Self
Erasure of Identity
Power Exchange and Submission
Fantasy vs. Reality