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# GFY Giveaway: The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/gfy-giveaway-the-knockoff-by-lucy-sykes-and-jo-piazza-06-2015/
- Published: 2015-06-17T15:00:31.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-24T18:19:18.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: GFY Giveaway, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:44

We are delighted to have a giveaway of one of the summer's most fun (and most popular) beach reads today! And not only because, as a writing duo, Heather and I have a special affinity for other female writing duos. This book is perfect for your poolside-reading (even if your pool is, like mine, imaginary):

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/06/img_8765.jpg "IMG_8765")](https://www.gofugyourself.com/gfy-giveaway-the-knockoff-by-lucy-sykes-and-jo-piazza-06-2015/img%5F8765?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

What's is *The Knockoff* about? [From Goodreads:](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012475-the-knockoff?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

> An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, *The Knockoff* is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of *Glossy* magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.  
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> When Imogen returns to work at *Glossy* after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, *Glossy* is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, *The Knockoff* is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.

**THE TASK**: We have one copy to give away, and this contest is open to EVERYONE. I shall be picking the winner at random, but please comment and tell us about the worst co-worker you've ever had. (I had one that used to change my grammar TO BE INCORRECT and who left randomly to go to a silent retreat in the middle of a huge project she and I were working on. That was actually a blessing.)

**THE RULES**: All entries must be posted **in the comments of this post** **by 9 p.m. Pacific time on Friday.**  FYI, if this is the first time you’ve commented here, the system will automatically kick you into comment moderation, but don’t worry, I will rescue you.