Amanda Gallo, the idealistic heroine of the new novel “Amanda Wakes Up,” is a morning anchor at FAIR News, a cable news network that brands itself as “True and Equal,” goes easy on right-wing provocateurs and mandates miniskirts and leg bronzer for its blond female hosts.

Amanda’s creator is Alisyn Camerota, a former anchor on the morning show “Fox & Friends” who spent 16 years at Fox News, the network whose slogan was “Fair and Balanced.” Ms. Camerota and her representatives insist that the novel is not a tell-all.

So let’s call it a tell-some.

“There’s a lot of Alisyn in Amanda,” said Ms. Camerota, who left Fox News for CNN in 2014. “What’s different is, she kind of has her arc, her learning curve, and her wake-up, over the course of a year and a half. Mine was 25 years.”

The image-obsessed and — thanks to our TV-besotted president — suddenly high-stakes world of cable news has long been ripe for its own version of “The Devil Wears Prada,” the 2003 best seller by Lauren Weisberger, who drew on her experience as an assistant at Vogue to write a roman à clef. Ms. Weisberger contributed a blurb for Ms. Camerota’s novel (“Who knew there was so much good drama behind the perfectly coiffed talking heads?”), and, like that earlier book, “Amanda Wakes Up” makes use of a breezy story to provide an insider’s guide to a closed world.