Patricia Veneman is a Los Angeles writer whose brand is Desperate Divas, Dark Underworlds.  Her first dive into an underworld was Selling Spring, she researched in Thailand and Japan, was a semi-finalist at Nicholls.  

Growing up in a patriarchal religious cult, she cut her teeth on the miracles and madness of Bible stories, while searching for an exit ramp off the freeway of madness.  Fascinated by the way cinema could mint modern day fairy tales, she taught Film Theory at SF City College to emerging filmmakers.

Her MA thesis, A Cinema of Desire, an expose of the 1934 Hollywood Production Code and the voluptuous bad girls who drove the vice police to despair, ignited a love of blazing 38’s, silk stockings and bathtub gin and a passion to create a TV series set in the 1920’s underworld of Prohibition about an ambitious young starlet with an entourage of gangsters, upended by the Code.

After an illuminating dream that burned its way into her being, Patricia traveled to the pyramid cities in Mexico, Guatemala, and Machu Pichu Peru to learn shamanism, walk sacred ground and write a sci fi television series, Serpent, based on her dream.

She’s worked in Trauma Emergency and found herself in the swirl of real life and death situations.  She did pre-med sciences from mad-scientist Nobel laureate profs at UC Berkeley and learned to love the intricate worlds of science and she’s able to write stories grounded in science, just outside the realm of possibility.

She wrote, directed and produced a comedy drama short on Trump running from the law, meeting up with Kim Jong Un to confer about a secret weapon to rule the world, called Kiss Me, riffing off the 50’s Noir, Kiss Me Deadly.  She does interviews under Close-Up LA and completed an MA in TV Writing at UCLA Extension.  In. her spare time she likes to swim in the ocean or read novels in art museum cafes.