It's a busy summer for fiction journalists, with:
It's a busy summer for fiction journalists, with:
"The Cinderella Pact" (Dutton) by Sarah Strohmeyer, in which a magazine's overweight editor who moonlights as an advice columnist heeds her own words about dieting, with unexpected results.
"A Piece of Normal" (Shaye Areheart) by Sandi Kahn Shelton, about a single mother and newspaper advice columnist whose uneventful life changes when her estranged sister visits.
"Swapping Lives" (Viking) by Jane Green, about a "single and longing" editor at a London magazine whose story research requires her to change places for one month with a homemaker and mother in affluent Connecticut.
"4 Percent Famous" (Shaye Areheart) by Deborah Schoeneman looks at the gossip industry through the lives and work of three young and ambitious gossip-gatherers in New York.
Meanwhile, a real-life newspaper columnist for the New York Post describes her adventures as a transplanted Londoner looking for a peach of a guy in the Big Apple in "Tabloid Love" (Da Capo-Lifelong) by Bridget Harrison.
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