WHAT INSPIRED THE TITLE?

Postmodernvenus began within a dream—like a time machine into a cinematic memory, where visionary director Quentin Tarantino sits beside the author in a retro library bar, locks eyes, and says: Write my next heroine-led film noir, where vengeance is poetic. The title emerged from a fusion of art history, an art model career, and an inside joke.

Drawing inspiration from the masterpiece The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, this detective novel channels the transformation of a woman into an unbound figure, emerging from the sea of chaos into a new realm of self-actualization and divinity. The heroine protagonist Black Rabbit Rose, is pulled into the magnetism of the system, igniting her pursuit of elusive truths. Rose, through a postmodern lens, confronts authority, implicit expectations, disrupting the status quo to do the brave thing. The narrative invites readers to engage with the intricate layers of illusion, as Rose navigates a world immersed in uncertainty and equivocal ambiguity.