LITTLE BLACK DRESSES, LITTLE WHITE LIES

A fun teen adventure about love and dating—online and IRL (in real life) in the Big City, in the style of The Devil Wears Prada meets Sex and the City.

Harper Anderson always believed she belonged somewhere more glamorous than her sleepy Northern California suburb. After all, how many water polo matches and lame parties in Bobby McKittrick’s backyard can one girl take? That’s why Harper is beyond ecstatic when she lands her dream internship as a dating blogger at the elite teen magazine Shift. Getting to spend the summer in New York City to live her dream of becoming a writer? Harper’s totally in. There’s just one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal problem: Apart from some dance floor make-outs, Harper doesn’t have a lot of—or, really, any—dating expertise. In fact, she might have sort of stolen her best friend’s experiences as her own on her Shift application. But she can learn on the job... right? From awkward run-ins with the cute neighborhood dog-walker to terrifying encounters with her crazed editor, Harper finds out what it takes to make it in Manhattan—and as the writer of her own destiny. Laura Stampler is a Californian turned New Yorker. After graduating from Stanford University, she became a journalist and has reported on a wide range of topics, from dating to social media stars to social justice issues at Time magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. When she isn’t writing, she’s probably looking at pug gifs on the Internet.