Title: In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety
Series: Cecily Taylor
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, YA
Release Date: 3rd September 2019
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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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“They were
talking about how they’re using unknown models right now and I mentioned how
awesome you were in the video and they agreed. We started talking and they
wondered if you’d want to come to New York and do a shoot for the magazine.
What do you think?” he asked.
I almost fell
off my bed. Me? Model? I wasn’t pretty enough for that and everyone would write
in to let them know that just like they all felt the need to voice that opinion
in the online video comments.
“Wow, it’s…wow.”
“I know, right?
And I’m here for a few weeks recording so we could see each other. My manager
said he’d talk to your parents and work out the details. You’d be working just
to get exposure, so the contract would be about rights and not money—is that
cool? It’s a great way to get your name out there and stuff for your book.”
“My book?”
“Your portfolio.
You know, the photos people look at to decide whether or not they want to hire
you for modeling jobs.”
Was I going to
be modeling enough that I needed a book? Did this magazine actually want me? It
sounded too good to be true—going to New York to model and be in a magazine
while visiting my pop star boyfriend. Was this my life?
“I don’t know if
my parents will go for it,” I said.
“Let my manager
talk to them and see what magic he can work. He wants to help this magazine
out, too. You want to do it though, right?”
Part of me
did—the part of me that wanted a big life and to be famous and adored. The
reality side of me was an anxious mess just thinking about flying out there
though.
“Yeah, for sure,” I said hoping I
sounded convincing.
“Great, give me
your parents’ number and I’ll have my manager give them a call.”
I felt like I was having an out of
body experience as I recited my mom’s cell phone number to him.
My entire life
could change in a phone call.
AUTHOR BIO
Who knew all those embarrassing, cringe-y moments in
middle school and high school could turn into a career? And who would have
thought that daydreaming in math class would pay off down the road? 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 children/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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