Big news!

Hi Everyone: I have some great news. For those of you who know me, you know I've been hard at work on my first novel, Gilding Lily, for a while now. Finally I have something to show for all those countless hours spent typing over my toddler's shoulders on the computer. Yes my friends, I got a book deal. Hallelujah!

Here's the announcement:

Journalist Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover's first novel, GILDING LILY, a hilarious roman à clef set amid Manhattan’s high society play dates, loaner gowns and jewels, and socialite PR specialists, calling on the author’s own experience as a regular reporter on the socialite scene for the New York Times, as well as her own social standing as descendant of Italian royalty and wife to Max Hoover, heir to the vacuum fortune, to Lucia Macro at Morrow in a pre-empt by Diane Bartoli at Artists Literary Group. (NA)

Stay tuned for more news and journal entries....