Blood Is The New Black By Valerie Stivers
22 September 2007
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Q: What happens when you cross The Devil Wears Prada with Buffy the Vampire Slayer?A: Blood-sucking bitches, editors obsessed with hot, young blood and a growing list of ultimate fashion victims…Chick-lit is so last season. Chick-noir pales in comparison. Instead sink your perfectly-polished teeth into Valerie Stivers’ mouth-watering portion of vamp-lit. Delicious.When Kate’s glamorous Aunt Victoria fixes her up with a place at Tasty fashion magazine, Kate finds herself surrounded by impossibly beautiful, black-clad women, who clearly think she’s a pain in the neck. Unlike Kate, these women don’t seem to eat or sleep or ever have a hair out of place. Aging isn’t countenanced, and ability seems to have little reflection on status. But that’s fashion for you… Starting your first job may be difficult, but working at Tasty is draining. Literally. Luckily there’s sexy James from the art department to make Kate’s pulse soar because the other Tasty employees seem to be out for her blood. After a series of sensational fashion murders grab the headlines, Kate begins to get suspicious. What’s really going on beneath the perfectly Botoxed surface of Tasty magazine? How much will Kate stake on finding out the truth about the disappearance of her fashion-designer mother? And can eternal youth and perfect taste really make up for the loss of your immortal soul? Valerie Stivers started her career as the intern to the assistant to the editor in chief of a fashion magazine, Mirabella. She has since edited sections at Time Out New York, worked as a sex columnist for alternative Moscow paper The Exile and writes regularly for Elle magazine. Blood is the New Black was written while Valerie lived abroad in Moscow. Valerie and her husband now split their time between Moscow and Brooklyn, NY.
Blood Is The New Black is Valerie’s first novel. Valerie Stivers
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