Venture Capitalist Turns Romance Novelist

Tom Perkins, one of the legendary venture capitalists of Silicon Valley, has a new book out. But it’s not what you think.
The new book, Sex and the Single Zillionaire, is actually a romance novel and it sounds like the kind of thing Danielle Steel would write. Of course, that’s hardly a coincidence considering that Ms. Steel is not only his editor, but his ex-wife.
Yah Zhao at the Harvard Crimson outlines the plot:

The protagonist, Steven Hudson, is a powerful N.Y. investment banker. Like Perkins, Steven receives a letter asking him to be the star in a reality television show called “Trophy Bride” where young, female 20-somethings compete to marry a “zillionaire.” After repeated assertions about the absurdity of the offer, Steven ends up agreeing to do the show—partially because he is lonely after his wife’s passing and partially because he falls in love with the producer of the show, Jessie Jones.
After 280 pages of trials and tribulations—including Steven being conned by a girl pretending to be on the U.S. Olympic ski team, being pursued by a nymphomaniac, and pacifying his extremely conservative colleagues who were outraged by his “sex frolic”—the obligatory happy ending is duly set down.

Posted by on February 13th, 2006 at 1:33 pm


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