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The Price of A Soul in Manhattan Just Went Up

New York, NY 4/4/05 -- What would it take to sell your soul? That intriguing question is the premise for New York author Kathleen O'Reilly's debut novel from Pocket Books. In this case, the devil is alive and well and writing gossip for the New York Post. With one well-placed line, Lucy can make a career...or break one. And the devil can bestow other favors as well: thin thighs in 30 seconds, instant reservations at Per Se, or a marriage proposal from Brad Pitt. All in all, it's exactly the success that Vivian is looking for. And success she gets...in spades. The cost? A bargain. All she has to do is sell her soul.

"Gossip really seems to drive the city and there's a certain uber-ness to New York," says O'Reilly. "Everyone has more. Money, looks, bodies to kill for. It's enough to make an insecure woman either scream in agony... or write a book about the whole thing. I think there are women everywhere that need to believe that a size zero involves a deal with the devil. I'm one of them."

New York Times best-selling author and gossip columnist, Michael Gross blessed the book with a cover quote, saying "the Diva's Guide is, as the Shangri-la's once sang, good-bad, not evil." And chicklitbooks.com raves, "Very original, bitingly funny….make sure not to miss this one!"

O'Reilly is the author of eight romances for Harlequin, and two non-fiction books from John Wiley. Her books have won the New Jersey Romance Writer's Golden Leaf Award and she is currently a nominee for the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award. She and her family recently moved from Texas to New York where they reside in Rockland County. Kathleen graduated from Texas A&M with a BBA and spent nine years in the technology industry in Dallas and Austin, but switched to writing fiction when she got tired of her friends telling her she needed to write a book.

O'Reilly will be signing at the Waldenbooks in Rockefeller Center, concourse level, on Friday, April 22nd , noon to 2pm. She will also doing a book tour starting in May, with signings scheduled in Boston, Baltimore, Southbury, CT, and Bridgewater, NJ. A complete schedule of appearances and excerpts from the book are available at www.kathleenoreilly.com.