There are authors who write stories, and then there are those who live them—Vivienne Bellamy is unapologetically the latter.
With a voice as lush as red wine and prose like the slow slide of satin sheets, Vivienne arrives on the literary scene not with a whisper, but a wicked, honeyed laugh. Her debut novel, Letters from the Velvet Prison, is forthcoming from the spellbinding boutique publisher Wanderlight Press—an imprint known for championing the bold, the provocative, and the devastatingly beautiful.
Born in New Orleans to a Cuban bombshell and a jazz pianist father, Vivienne’s stories pulse with rhythm, heat, and a touch of danger. She famously left NYU mid-thesis to chase poetry and passion in Tuscany, modeled lingerie in Milan, and hosted a late-night love advice show—all fodder for her rich, emotionally soaked storytelling. Her heroines are sharp, her heroes worshipful, and her prose? As addictive as a midnight confession.
Letters from the Velvet Prison is a sultry epistolary suspense that blurs the line between obsession and love, guilt and desire. When translator Emilia Gray begins receiving increasingly intimate letters from a prisoner who seems to know her secrets, the story becomes a psychological striptease where the final reveal is as devastating as it is delicious.
Vivienne writes like she lives—brazenly, unapologetically, and with ink-stained passion. Her work has already been called “Anaïs Nin meets Daphne du Maurier with a silk blindfold,” and we suspect readers will agree.
Coming soon from Wanderlight Press—Vivienne Bellamy is here, and she doesn’t knock. She lets herself in.
