Amanda wakes up - Alisyn Camerota

The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary colours in this wickedly funny debut novelabout a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable newsstation and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down. When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the job of herdreams at FAIR News--the coveted morning anchor slot--she's finally made it: asix-figure salary, wardrobe allowance, plenty of on-air face time, and a chance torealize her dreams, not to mention buy herself lunch. Amanda Wakes Up takes offas Amanda feels for the first time that she can make her mom and her best friendproud and think about an actual future with her boyfriend, Charlie. But she findsher journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues in a ratings-crazed madhouse--battling for hair and makeup time, coping with hersexist (but scathingly handsome) coanchor, Rob, mixing up the headlines withpajama modeling on the street, and showing Benji Diggs, her media maestro boss,that she's got what it takes.
As the news heats up in a hotly contested election season and a wild-cardcandidate, former Hollywood actor Victor Fluke, appears on the scene, Amanda's pressure-cooker job gets hotter as her personal life unravels. Walking a knife'sedge between ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of hercareer, Amanda must decide what she's willing to give up to get ahead--and whatshe needs to hold on to to save herself.