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Lindsey Palmer's debut novel Pretty in Ink opens as the staff of Hers magazine is in for a shock: After months of flagging sales and the increasing ire of the corporate VIPs, the magazine's beloved Editor in Chief gets the pink slip, and a notoriously tough editor swoops in to fill the publication's top spot… and then the massacre begins. The new boss has big plans to overhaul the magazine — to stuff its pages with more celebs, scandal, and smut —and it's no secret that she plans to overhaul Hers' staff, too. As the staffers battle it out to hang onto their jobs, all their fears and anxieties, their hopes and vulnerabilities play out on the stage of the Hers workplace.

The fictional drama of Pretty in Ink portrays a reality that continues to sweep through the publishing industry, as magazines struggle desperately to figure out how to survive in the new media landscape. Informed by her years of experience working at women's lifestyle publications, Palmer offers a funny and fresh insider's look at the budget cuts, staff turnovers, redesigns and editor resignations are real-life mainstays of any magazine in this day and age.

LINDSEY J. PALMER worked as a professional writer and editor in the magazine industry for seven years, most recently as Features Editor at Self and previously at Redbook and Glamour. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (C'05), she earned a Master of Arts in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and currently teaches 12th grade English, A.P. Literature, and Creative Writing at NEST+m in Manhattan. Her first novel, Pretty In Ink, will be published by Kensington in March 2014. Lindsey lives in Brooklyn. Visit her at www.lindseyjpalmer.com.