Hello, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Krysten
Lindsay Hager and her new book, “In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
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In Over Her Head:
Lights,
Camera, Anxiety
by Krysten Lindsay Hager
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GENRE: YA
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BLURB:
Cecily
feels like she has it all: great best friends, the beginnings of a career as a
model/actress, and she’s dating her favorite singer, Andrew Holiday. Then
Cecily’s best friend Lila begins to ditch her every time Lila’s boyfriend
calls. Cecily feels lost, but she and Andrew begin connecting more and she’s
never been in a relationship where she felt so understood. Andrew even begins
to confide in her about his anxiety. Soon Cecily experiences her own anxiety on
a magazine photo shoot, but she manages to impress the magazine staff. Just
when it seems like all her dreams are coming true, everything comes crashing
down when a photo of Andrew with another girl appears online. He swears nothing
happened, but Cecily is crushed. She feels like she’s lost two of the people
closest to her.
Was her perfect relationship real or was she in over her head?
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EXCERPT THREE:
One
day I had the career and the guy of my dreams. Then Danielle King came along.
If people could be trusted, maybe it would have been okay, but they can’t. They
suck. And now my dream relationship was gone and no one would ever know what
had actually been in my grasp.
How
can a person go from having a whole life with someone, and then it ends like
you were never even together? No wonder people talk about how awful divorces
are. That must hurt a million times more. Sure, I don’t have to see Andrew
every day at school like I did Zach, but it seems like Andrew was everywhere. I
went to the grocery store with my mom and they were playing one of his songs
because he’s technically a local.
Andrew’s music was always what I listened to
when I was sad. His heartache music got me through the worst times and now, not
only could I not stand to listen to it, there was now the chance I could end up
hearing music about our breakup. Actually, I didn’t know which was worse: the
possibility he’d use our relationship as inspiration
for a song, or finding out I was barely a blip on his radar and not even
warranting a mention.
What
was I supposed to do with my life now?
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GUEST POST:
My Favorite Scene in This Book…
One
of my favorite scenes in In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety, is
when Cecily is getting ready to go to her first magazine photo shoot. She feels
so confident the night before as she just had a romantic dinner with her pop
star boyfriend and, as she walks back into her hotel, she thinks to herself,
“As I walked into the hotel, I felt a new air of confidence. Instead of just
reading about someone going out with a pop star to some fabulous rooftop hotel
restaurant and being in the big city, I was living it. This was my life and not
some YA book heroine’s. Tomorrow I was off on a modeling shoot. I was living a
dream and proving how I was ready for a big life. This was my destiny. I could
do this.”
And
then on the next page you see her wake up and reality smacks her clear across
the face. ”My alarm went off and at the same time an alarm went off in my brain
saying, no, I could not do this. What was I thinking? Me, model? That’s where
people take photos of you for the sole purpose of other people looking at them,
which encouraged judgement and evil comments. People don’t just keep those
comments to themselves anymore. Oh no, they grab their phone or laptop or
whatever device helps them spew out unhelpful and cruel comments on people’s
appearances online for all the world to see. My stomach felt like spewing all
over the nice hotel sheets I was wrapped in.
Why did I ever think I was up for this? Those strangers online would
destroy me within seconds.”
I
think we’ve all been there where we’re confident one moment and then that
confidence wavers and we let those feelings of doubt creep in and take over.
Who hasn’t gone into a situation they always thought they wanted more than
anything and thought they could handle only to feel overwhelmed once you’re
actually there? Cecily feels totally out of her element and becomes overwhelmed
when she overhears the magazine people gossiping about a bigger name model,
Scarlett. Cecily feels that if Scarlett, can’t win them over, then how could
she? Then she overhears them questioning if she’s really qualified to be
there, which something she has already worried about. Hello, imposter syndrome
anyone?
I
like this scene because even though all of this self-doubt and fear causes her
to have anxiety, the other models talk her through it and she goes on to do the
best job she can. Not only does she show up, but in doing her best she finds
that even though she feels she can’t hold her own against the bigger name
models, the magazine staff sees what she does bring to the table with her
acting ability. Yes, the other girls are stunning and can pose, but Cecily
brings her own unique style to the shoot and she winds up finding that will set
her apart.
She
walked in with fear and self-doubt, but came out even better because she stayed
the course and used the talents she had. There’s so much realization and growth
in this scene. You feel for Cecily and are inspired by her and I hope other
readers will be inspired by her journey as well.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Krysten Lindsay Hager writes
about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first
loves, and values. She is the author of True Colors, Best Friends...Forever?,
Next Door to a Star, Landry in
Like, Competing with the Star, Dating the It Guy, and Can
Dreams Come True. True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for
best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for childen/teens. Competing
with the Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist. Landry in Like
is a Literary Classics Gold Medal recipient.
Krysten's
work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the
Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times,
Springfield News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News
and on Living Dayton.
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Thank you so much for hosting me today!
ReplyDeleteKrysten ~ Ahhhh you bet me here lol!!! Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
DeleteThanks! I really appreciate your support. Makes me feel like I've been invited to sit at the cool kids table ;)
DeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteAre any of the characters based off of someone that you know?
ReplyDeleteMy family loves reading so hearing about another great book I appreciate. Thanks for sharing and also for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteWow... I got anxious reading this.. Lmfao 🤦 Awesome..
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