Satan's Sisters by Star Jones

Author:Star Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2011-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Maxine had an idea. It came to her like a thunderbolt—she needed to have a dinner party. Instead of playing these games with Lizette and her slow-ass minions, it was time for her to put the Maxine Robinson name into action. Her plan was to invite a mind-boggling lineup of media, Hollywood, and publishing movers and shakers, the kind of folks who could greenlight a picture, a book, or a new show with a nod of their heads. Of course, the big fish here was Bill Murphy, the president of Patterson and White. Ideally she’d like to get him alone at a private dinner at her place, but naturally he’d see right through that and turn it down. He’d be much more likely to come if he knew he was going to be in a room with people whose stories in print could potentially make him a lot of money. She also knew that, even though Murph was publishing a book that might make Maxine look bad, he’d have no particular allegiance in a pissing match between Missy and Maxine. All he cared about was moving copies. He might even want to follow up Missy’s book with a Maxine Robinson memoir. Keep the pissing match going. She’d have to be sure to dangle that possibility in front of him—even as she tried to lure information out of him about whether the contents of Missy’s book should cause her worry. Maxine was confident in her powers of persuasion; she had been using them for forty years to get her way. She saw no reason why that would end now.

Maxine picked up the phone and made a few quick calls. Within minutes, she was surrounded in her office by her two assistants and by Lizette, her publicist.

“Okay, I need your help,” she said, looking around the room. “I’m going to hold a dinner party at my house. All the bigwigs from media, publishing, and Hollywood, from Kissinger to Koppel, Seinfeld to De Niro. I have to have enough moguls there to make it enticing to my main target, Bill Murphy from Patterson and White. I will personally make the phone calls to our guests, but I need the three of you to do the rest of the planning—food, alcohol, servers, bartenders, decor. But we don’t have much time—I want to hold the party on Saturday.”

“This Saturday?” Lizette said, her voice rising in shock. She didn’t mean for it to come out so loud and so challenging. Actually, maybe she did.

Maxine stared at her without speaking. Lizette didn’t stare back; she averted her eyes.

“Do you have something to say, Lizette?” Maxine asked her.

“Uh, no. I was just surprised when you said Saturday. I thought you were going to say like a month from now, that’s all. Saturday doesn’t give us much time.”

“No, it doesn’t,” Maxine said. “So ticktock . . . don’t you think?”

Lizette and the two assistants, both recently graduated twentysomethings who were still suffering from Maxine awe, exchanged worried looks. They

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