Sibella & Sibella: A Novel [Paperback]

Enlisted by megalomaniac publisher Myron Beam, Sibellajunior editor extraordinairerecounts the trials and tribulations of the San Francisco-based literary darling Hard Rain Publishing all the way from its improbable rise through its seemingly inevitable freefall. The whip smart, wise-cracking, and surprisingly well-read Sibella navigates the mounting eccentricities of the houses award-winning authors, slices up her oh-so-pretentious colleagues with her razor-sharp wit, and even manages to fish her publisher out of the pub long enough to keep the whole ship afloat, all the while battling her ex-boyfriends meteoric success and the feintless infinity of the blank page.

But when her boss acquires the artless and arduous 900-page debutThe Adventures of Calypso OKelly, their star author Figgy Fontanapossibly, maybe, kinda sortadies, and a team of con artists take aim at Myron Beam, its up to Sibella, her endlessly outmatched editor in chief, and a former female pornstarno, reallyto return Hard Rain and its hard-boozing, hapless publisher to their former glory.

Part tell all, part mystery, and part coming-of-age novel,Sibella & Sibellais a biting look at the world of publishing from a reluctant witness who pulls no punches with anyone. Least of all herself.

Joseph Di Prisco was born in Brooklyn and lives today in Northern California, with his wife, photographer Patti James. He's the author of the novelsAll for Now,The Alzhammer,The Confessions of Brother Eli, andSun City, prize-winning books of poems, and books about childhood and adolescence. His memoirsThe Pope of BrooklynandSubway to Californiacame out from Rare Birdl³*