Jackie Collins

The Best-Selling Author Talks About Her New Book, 'Poor Little Bitch Girl'.

Jackie Collins’s 27th novel, Poor Little Bitch Girl, just hit The New York Times Best Seller list after only ten days of its American release. Collins has sold over 400 million copies of her novels and, to put that into perspective, Madonna has sold over 200 million albums to date.

I met Jackie Collins while I was traveling through the Southwest to work on my video piece, Studs, inspired by Jackie Collins’s novel, The Stud (1969). I was filming synchronized swimming hunk Bill May in Las Vegas and Cherokee Hollywood legend Wes Studi in Santa Fe. On the road through Arizona, I stopped at a Casino on the Maricopa Indian Reservation to intercept Jackie Collins’s book tour and talk to her about the very novel which I am basing my video.



Sarah Baker: I’ve started a Jackie Collins book club in London. I know some people who love your books, plus I have recruited friends. At the first meeting, I read from the novel and screened the film The Stud. Club members came along dressed in ’70s glamour, and martinis were served while we ate cupcakes and deliberated. The pictures are now featured in a magazine called Undercurrent. I am planning to do the next book club meeting at the Dorchester Hotel.