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Book Keeping: From ReganBooks to Big-Time Deal

This former ReganBooks staffer, whose first novel stars a tyrannical female publishing boss, describes how she channeled a job she didn't like into a book through rounds of revisions

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – February 21, 2007
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 ...

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