Page One: A Novel of Love, Lust and Lost Souls in an L.A. Newsroom

Page One is a seriocomic tale about journalists engaged in a newspaper war long before the current 24/7 news cycle but not before a willingness to forego personal integrity was creeping into "the media," and the line between genuine importance and celebrityhood was starting to blur. The Los Angeles Morning News, known to everyone in its newsroom as The Morning Snooze, is locked in a losing battle with the city's leading newspaper. The employees have a motto: "If it's news in L. A., it's news to us."Then new blood enters the newsroom. It isn't long before the newcomers discover The Morning News' dirty little secret: it is not the distinguished paper of record. So it can attack news the way it wants to with splashy celebrity coverage, sticking up for the little guy and perhaps uncovering a serial killer hiding in plain sight.