Paper Throne
Description
Margaret Perkins is the most feared woman in publishing-and she has worked very hard to earn that title.
Behind her corner office, her mountain of review copies, and her devastating column in The Meridian Review, lies a system she has built piece by piece over twenty years: the strategic destruction of her predecessor, the calculated removal of a senior editor who stood between her and a bigger chair, the quiet extraction of adoration and favors from young authors desperate for her approval, and a scheme to sell advance review copies for unreported cash that has made her considerably wealthier than her salary suggests.
Her assistant, Amy Morrow, has spent four years learning the job-and watching. When Amy finally photographs Margaret loading the suitcase bound for Cornerstone Books, she has a choice to make. And the choice she makes will not deliver what she expected.
Paper Throne is a literary novel about ambition without conscience, power without accountability, and what it costs a person-any person-to want something badly enough to use people to get it. Told with precision, dark humor, and unflinching honesty, it is a story about the price of ambition and the unexpected weight of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
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P. A. Farrell is a psychologist and published author with McGraw-Hill, Springer Publishing, Cafe Lit, Ravens Perch, Humans of the World, Active Muse, Free Spirit Publishing, Scarlet Leaf Review, 100 Word Project, Woodcrest Magazine, Confetti, and LitBreak. She's a top health writer for Medium.com, has published self-help books, and is a board member of Clinics4Life. She lives on the East Coast of the US.
