Four Stories about Monica Hooker

By A.M. Wellman

What's that? You say you've never heard of Monica Hooker?Well, that could be because she was known professionally as "Nela Perkins" (for obvious reasons). She spent the bulk of her television career co-anchoring the local news for Fox 22 in Washington D.C. for several years before quitting the local television news business entirely back in 2009.As you have probably guessed by now, this volume tells four different stories about Monica Hooker's television stint in the nation's capital, ultimately revealing more than you'd ever want to know about the woman Washingtonian Weekly readers named as the "WORST LOCAL NEWS PERSONALITY" four years in a row.In "Monica Hooker", Monica--er, Nela, narrates her own account of one of the darkest periods of her career--her stint in rehab following a disastrous print interview."Tears of Gold" backtracks several months, taking a much more objective look at Nela's questionable behavior while taping a feature story on location in Canada--a piece which would ultimately earn Nela--er, Monica--a regional Emmy award.Taking place several months after her stint in rehab, "Bobby Jr." finds Nela tentatively re-entering the dating world, as seen through the eyes of her lover of choice.Finally, several years after quitting television entirely, an investigative journalist catches up with Monica, living a private, peaceful life in Florida, in the final story, "Nela".Four stories, none of them true, focusing on the same person at four different points in her life, each story told from a different perspective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973287994
• ISBN13: 9781973287995
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"