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Publisher's Marketplace reports on the debut of novelist Valerie Stivers (no relation to former Time Out New York EIC and current Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia EVP Cyndi Stivers). Young Stivers has sold her first novel to Three Rivers Press; called Blood Is the New Black, it sounds like a gem:

...about a young woman at a glossy fashion magazine who discovers that the reigning tastemakers have a thirst for blood, pitched as The Devil Wears Prada & Mean Girls meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Congrats, Val, because that's one of the most convoluted combination of titles we've ever heard. Nevertheless, if that sort of pitch best illustrates a novel clearly so rich in metaphor, we can't complain. Though certain notoriously carnivorous Vogue editors might.