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USA TODAYBecause She Can press from USA Today:

The publisher wears Prada
Bridie Clark, a onetime editor under publisher Judith Regan, was on her honeymoon in Hawaii when she heard that her former boss planned to publish O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It and interview him for a TV special. “I was as shocked as anyone,” Clark says. “I thought it was an embarrassing low … an insult to the victims.” Even Vivian Grant, the foul-mouthed, abusive publisher in Clark’s debut novel, Because She Can, never sinks that low. But Clark, 29, who spent 11 months in 2004 at ReganBooks, says her book “is fiction. It’s not about Judith Regan. It’s based on my experiences in publishing. And working for Judith was an experience, but I heard a lot of horror stories about other bosses from hell.” The novel will be published in February by Warner Books, which isn’t shy about touting the Regan connection. Warner forwarded a June New York Daily News gossip item that called Clark’s novel a “wickedly savage fictional rendition of Judith Regan.” Despite last week’s corporate decision to cancel Simpson’s book and TV special, Clark expects Regan will survive as a publisher: “She’s brilliant, even if I don’t always agree with how she conducts herself.”