Featured Interview With Marc Saville
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Marc Saville is a mysterious, reclusive author who lives somewhere in the southern hemisphere. He alludes only to a rambling two storey house fronted by bushland and to frequent walks along a beach about two kilometres away.
He is believed to have won several short story and essay awards and to have written extensively for radio, television, newspapers and magazines.
But that was under another name in another life.
He was chosen to write ‘Outcast’ a sci fii novella which is based on David King’s ultra-low budget underground sci fi film ‘Purge’.
As David King explains in an interview on Search My Trash, he read Marc Saville’s second novel back in the 1980’s. Although that novel wasn’t published, King felt the style was very similar to his own which led him to ask Saville to write the book.
“Basically, I just gave him the original screenplay and let him go for it,” King says.
The Search My Trash interview can be seen at http://www.searchmytrash.com/articles/davidking(11-14).shtml
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Marc Saville says he was reading sci fi books before he was 10 and started writing stories soon after. He won his first literary award at the age of 15.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Marc Saville zealously protects his true identity and feels that providing this type of information would be giving too many clues as to who he really is. You’ll have to guess his influences by reading ‘Outcast’.
But his next book, ‘Nightkill’ – already in the DJK Media pipeline – will be completely different, so good luck at guessing.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
‘Outcast’ is a novelisation of the underground sci fi film ‘Purge’ which can be found at www.amazon.com/Purge-Sarah-Breen/dp/B00AWE4DNE.
It contains scenes which were too expensive to film on the minuscule budget, and goes much more deeply into the world inhabited by BDSM mistress-slave, Layla Thomas.
It’s set in a parallel universe where people are created by genetic engineering companies and programmed for roles in life. To fail to assume your pre-ordained role is to become a Stray and be treated worse than a criminal…which is what happens to Layla Thomas when she becomes violently ill and is forced to flee from her sister’s upmarket salon on her first day of work as a BDSM mistress-slave.
Layla soon discovers she’s been given aversion therapy and addicted to the potentially lethal drug Klava. Behind her predicament is Peta, the chameleon-like hermaphrodite with whom Layla has been having a clandestine affaire.
Denied treatment for her Klava addiction and thrown out of society, Layla has no choice but to join Peta’s band of underground Strays who are fighting to overturn the society which oppresses them.
But all Layla really wants is to return to her rightful role and place.
A battle of wills begins with Peta using every means to crack Layla’s programming. But is Peta really who and what s/he seems? What is the terrible secret behind this cold-hearted society’s utopian façade?
Because Layla and her sister Tanya are BDSM mistresses in a world where such things are perfectly respectable, the book contains strong descriptions of various BDSM activities. Readers are advised not to buy or read if such descriptions would cause offence for religious, moral or personal reasons.