My Bridie Clark Book Keeping interview at Mediabistro

I interviewed Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can, for Mediabistro's Book Keeping section. (AvantGuild subscribers only)

Because She Can (Warner Books, February 2007), 29-year-old Bridie Clark's first novel, had been causing plenty of interest from within the publishing community, long before her former boss Judith Regan's very public ousting from HarperCollins. Last year, an early draft of the novel was sent around via email, by agents and editors with the glee of schadenfreude, about the former ReganBooks staffer's vicious portrayal of a demanding boss riding roughshod over her terrified staff. In Clark's story, protagonist Claire Truman suffers through phone calls and visits from her workaholic boss Vivian Grant morning, noon, night -- and wedding day. What was once a dream job turns into a nightmare filled with backstabbing coworkers, nutty book-hoarding authors, and X-rated bestsellers, while Truman's own literary aspirations are deemed hopelessly boring. Clark makes Grant so tyrannical it's hard to say which act is her most appalling -- trying to take credit for Truman's star author's bestseller status or pimping her out to a notoriously randy client.

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