 Wanted: Marketing intern for radio station staffed by the undead
Late-night radio you can sink your teeth into....
Pocket
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 141655176X
EAN: 9781416551768
Trade Size
$14.00
Fantasy Urban
Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the
straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real
job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose
late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, 60s
psychedelia, 80s Goth, and more, all with an uncannily
authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers how the DJs maintain
their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in
which they were turned. Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But
communications giant Skywave wants to buy WMMP and turn it
into just another hit-playing clone. Without the
station--and the link it provides to their original Life
Times--the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than
mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate
takeover becomes a matter of life and un-death. To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new
friends, Ciara re-brands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood
of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs'
vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth
as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing
around--next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp
Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of
ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be
brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher--and the
perils graver--than any con game Ciara's ever played....
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