Welcome Today's Featured Author
Krysten Lindsay Hager !!
Dating the It Guy by Krysten Lindsay
Hager
(YA contemporary romance)
Blurb:
Emme is a sophomore in
high school who starts dating, Brendon Agretti, the popular senior
who happens to be a senator's son and well-known for his good looks.
Emme feels out of her comfort zone in Brendon's world and it doesn't
help that his picture perfect ex, Lauren seems determined to get back
into his life along with every other girl who wants to be the future
Mrs. Agretti. Emme is already conflicted due to the fact her last
boyfriend cheated on her and her whole world is off kilter with her
family issues. Life suddenly seems easier keeping Brendon away and
relying on her crystals and horoscopes to guide her. Emme soon starts
to realize she needs to focus less on the stars and more on her
senses. Can Emme get over her insecurities and make her relationship
work? Life sure is complicated when you're dating the it guy.
Book trailer:
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About Krysten Lindsay Hager :
Besides mining her teen
years and humiliating moments for her novels, Krysten is a also a
book addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s
worked as a journalist and writes young adult, middle grade, new
adult, and adult fiction as well as humor essays. She is originally
from Michigan and has lived in Portugal, South Dakota, and currently
resides in southwestern Ohio where you can find her reading and
writing when she’s not catching up on her favorite shows (she's
addicted to American Dad to the point where she quotes episodes on a
daily basis and also loves Girl Meets World).
Krysten 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, and
Competing with the Star (The Star Series: Book 2). Her debut
novel, True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best
preteen book. Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The
Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the
Bellbrook Times and on Living Dayton.
Follow Krysten
Website: http://www.krystenlindsay.com/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/krystenlindsay/
Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/krystenlindsay/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay
Interview With Krysten Lindsay Hager:
1. Can you tell us a little about your
book?
Dating the It Guy is about a
high school sophomore named Emme who ends in up doing a group project
with the senator’s son, Brendon Agretti. Brendon is the guy every
girl wants to date and every guy wants to be—the it guy. Emme and
Brendon start dating and she finds herself feeling overwhelmed in his
world. It’s a romance, but we also see Emme’s relationships with
her grandparents and how she deals with her insecurities. It’ll
make you laugh and cry.
2. How do you come up with your
characters names?
I’ve always liked the name Brendon
after watching a cartoon years ago called “Home Movies” where the
main character was a kid named Brendon. I came up with the name
Landry for my Landry’s True Colors Series because my mom suggested
it. She had a student named Landry before I was born. And Hadley,
from my Star Series, came from a small town in Michigan we used to
drive through on our way to the beach.
3. When did you know you wanted to
write a book?
I always knew I wanted to be a writer,
but I knew I wanted to write Dating the It Guy after watching
a biography on TV about JFK Jr. and started wondering what it would
have been like to date someone like him back in high school. The
story went from there.
4. Do you have a favorite food or drink
you must have nearby when writing?
I’m a Pepsi addict—it gets me
through long nights of editing. I love frozen chocolate dipped
bananas.
5. Do you have a favorite spot to
write?
I write in either my office or my
living room. I just moved into a new office this summer and I’m
still getting used to it. I just got bookcases and decided to
decorate them with washi tape.
6. What is a usual writing day like
for you? How is it structured?
I don’t write every day, but I work
on something writing related every day. I write at night or very
early in the morning.
7. For a reader who hasn't read your
books yet, which book do you suggest they start with?
If you like romance then Competing
with the Star or Dating the It Guy. If you like character
driven books then my Landry’s True Colors Series or Next Door to
a Star. All the books have humor and my characters all wear their
hearts on their sleeves.
8. If you could spend 24 hours as a
fictional character, who would you chose?
I’d like to be my 14 yr old character
Landry Albright with her sweet and thoughtful basketball player
boyfriend and the beginnings of a teen modeling career. I think it’d
be fun to go back to that time so I could get more material for my
books!
9. What are writing projects are you
currently working on?
I’m working on a YA book about a girl
who meets her favorite pop star when she’s cast in his video. I am
also working on a new adult book.
Thanks for having me on!
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