BOOK INFORMATION
TITLE – Alert
the Media
SERIES – Hollywood Hotties
AUTHOR – Mia Fox
GENRE – chick lit/social satire
PUBLICATION DATE – already published
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) - 225
PUBLISHER – Evatopia Press
COVER ARTIST – Eden Crane
BOOK SYNOPSIS
When you’re
an entertainment publicist, there’s no better cure for a broken heart than to
Alert the Media...
April and
Ryan Monahan are the perfect Hollywood couple. He’s a handsome actor on the
rise; she’s a high-powered entertainment publicist. Her job becomes more
demanding, however, when Ryan announces he is gay and wants a
divorce.
Believing
that her persuasive power over the press will give Ryan the publicity he
craves, April launches a swift media campaign to make him realize that he can’t
live without her. But Ryan has decided that he likes the dating scene and
April’s boss insists that she keep him happy as his account is important to the
firm.
To her
dismay, April is forced to protect her firm’s bottom line by maintaining Ryan’s
status as a Hollywood heartthrob while enduring her own heartbreak. As she
picks up the pieces of her destroyed marriage, April is determined to compete
with Ryan for power, publicity, and true love -- even when her imagination
takes her from the board room to the bedroom.
To save her
sanity, her corner office, and her two dogs from becoming caught up in an ugly
custody battle, April constructs a plan to use her media savvy skills to her
advantage.
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EXCERPT
I didn’t flinch when I read my husband’s Facebook profile and learned Orlando
Bloom is his all time fav actor. After all, Ryan is an actor and Orlando Bloom
has a good body of work. I even remained calm when Ryan wrote about that body,
citing Orlando’s hotness in pirate wear. Okay, maybe this was a warning sign,
but one could argue that Ryan appreciates how costume design impacts a
film.
Sure, there were other signs...all ignored. In fact, it wasn’t until I found
his porn stash, with not so much as one breast in the mix, that I realized my
rationalizations ceased to be rational. If only I had discovered Ryan in bed
with a leggy blonde, even two, I could have managed. His revelation, on the
other hand, gave me reason to doubt the existence of a higher being.
“April, we need to talk,” he said gravely.
Talk. When people mention four-letter words that one rarely comes to mind, but
in my experience it’s just as toxic as the others. Case in point was this
particular morning when Ryan sat me down in front of a steamy cappuccino and an
obscenely large sticky bun. I regarded the bun with suspicion. I was a week shy
of PMS and therefore not in need of carbs, and yet, here I was faced with a
definite sign that some serious buttering up, apologizing, or pleading would
occur. He obviously assumed (correctly) that artificial support would be
needed.
“April, my life, actually...our lives, are about to change,” he continued once
I had taken a healthy bite.
“You’re auditioning for a movie? Oh my gosh, I knew this day would come,” I
said hopefully, if not a bit naively. What can you expect from a girl voted
“Most Gullible” of her high school graduating class?
Ryan treaded lightly, “Honey, it’s something different. Call it a change of
heart, but I’ve decided that I’m gay.”
“Gay? As in happy?”
“No, not exactly, at least not yet. Here, have some more,” he said pinching off
a piece of the bun and popping it into my mouth that now hung open.
I swallowed hard. “How is this possible? We just had sex last night?”
“Yeah, I wanted to be sure. You gotta admit, we sure gave it the ol’ college
try.”
“I’d say. We did it twice!”
“Just wanted to be 100%. April, sweetie, don’t blame yourself. Listen, we’ll
talk later. I’m going to be late.”
After delivering this verbal right hook, Ryan apologized for the “bad news” and
left to start his day.
AUTHOR BIO
Mia Fox is a
Los Angeles-based novelist who writes across varied genres including Young
Adult/New Adult Paranormal Romance, Steampunk, and Chick Lit. She received her
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from U.S.C.
Before
writing full time, she worked as an entertainment publicist, a career she
chronicles in her novel, “Alert the Media.” However, she is happy to leave that
world behind her, preferring that any drama in her life is only that which she
creates for her characters.
She lives in
Los Angeles with her husband, three children, Casey, the Wonder Westie, and
Bean, his brother.
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