A Lady's Guide to Selling Out by Sally Franson

Casey, formally an English major, has now joined the big leagues working for an ad agency. She has given up dreams of perfectly formed sentences to go after authors and match them up with corporate accounts that they will sponsor. She is blown away by the perks - travel, a huge expense account and the joy of meeting (and recruiting) some of her author crushes. It all seems too good to be true because it is. She seems very naive about the way the advertising business is so cut throat and expects everyone to play fair. Some of the advice that she is given from friends, co-workers or authors seems to set up the next disaster to befall her. She doesn't know what she expects or wants from this life but it begins to alienate her from her boyfriend & best friend. Casey begins to understand that she might not be able to handle this kind of success, this kind of life.