By Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter
Surprise jock extraordinaire Wendy Williams we could free with the 1st in a sequence of novels in line with her adjust ego, the divalicious radio DJ Ritz Harper. Ritz places the s in surprise and the g in gossip, and Drama is her heart identify.
Ritz is a suburban lady at the outdoors, yet inside of she’s a hustler’s hustler who’s masterfully maneuvered her means into the highlight after ruining the occupation of a well-respected newswoman (and former collage friend). Ritz’s “exclusive” rockets her to the pinnacle of the scores, and she’s rewarded together with her personal convey. Like a conversing Venus flytrap, she verbally seduces her on-air site visitors, in basic terms to have them for lunch as she spews gossip approximately their lives.
Ritz turns into the darling of the station’s afternoon slot. yet what occurs while Ritz is going from drive-time diva to drive-by sufferer? Has Ritz bad-mouthed the incorrect individual? Has her signature cat-and-mouse “bomb drop” been dropped on her instead?
As Ritz lies crumpled on a urban sidewalk, all she will be able to imagine as she struggles to take care of recognition is “Who did this to me? Who?”
Readers will salivate as they struggle to determine the place the fictitious Ritz ends and the real-life Wendy starts off. Wendy will contain her thousands of listeners by way of asking them what should still occur to Ritz, with a view to be printed at the start of the following novel, scheduled to be released in fall of 2006 for Christmas.
About the Authors
Wendy Williams is the host of The Wendy Williams event (WBLS 107.5 FM in NYC), which airs weekdays within the coveted 2 p.m.–7 p.m. drive-time slot, and has been named “Radio character of the Year” by way of Billboard. She is the writer of The Wendy Williams adventure and Wendy's bought the warmth, which debuted at #9 at the manhattan instances most sensible vendor checklist. Karen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, radio cohost (WWRL), and previous editorial board member of the hot York day-by-day information. Hunter has coauthored numerous long island occasions bestsellers, together with at the Down Low, via J. L. King, and Wendy Williams’ nonfiction books.
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Gertrude turned her head and stared into the crowd of people. Then she looked at me. ” “That soldier over there. He’s sitting alone. He sits so straight. ” “Is it the soldier? ” I stood up at the table, left a tip and walked toward the door. I heard Gertrude behind me. I walked down the street in the snow. Soon she was walking at my side. “You didn’t even get a taxi. ” I didn’t answer. We walked the four or five blocks to the rooming house. I went up the steps with her beside me. Then I walked down to my room, opened the door, closed it, got out of my clothes and went to bed.
Get up,” I told my father. ” She scratched my face again. I turned to look at her. She got the other side of my face. Blood was running down my neck, was soaking my shirt, pants, shoes, the rug. She lowered her hands and stared at me. ” She didn’t answer. I walked back to the bedroom thinking, I better find myself a job. 20 / CHARLES BUKOWSKI 12 I stayed in my room until after they left the next morning. Then I took the newspaper and turned to the Help Wanted section. My face hurt; I was still sick.
I worked for several weeks. I came in drunk each night. It didn’t matter; I had the job nobody wanted. After an hour at the oven I was sober. My hands were blistered and burned. Each day I sat aching in my room pricking my blisters with pins I first sterilized with matches. One night I was drunker than usual. I refused to punch in. “This is it,” I told them. The Elf was in trauma. ” I got his head in the crook of my arm, squeezed; his ears turned pink. “Little bastard,” I said. Then I let him go.