Landry in Like
Book 3 of the Landry's True Colors Series
Contemporary Clean Teen Fiction
About the Series:
The Landry's True Colors Series is a
clean reads young adult humor series about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in,
middle school and high school, frenemies, crushes, and self-image.
Blurb:
Things seem to be going well in Landry Albright’s world—she’s getting invited
to be on local talk shows to talk about her modeling career, her best friends
have her back, and her boyfriend Vladi has becoming someone she can truly count
on…and then everything changes. Suddenly it seems like most of the girls in
school are into hanging out at a new teen dance club, while Landry just wants
to spend her weekends playing video games and baking cupcakes at sleepovers.
Then, Yasmin McCarty, the most popular girl in school, starts to come between
Landry’s friendship with Ashanti. Things take a turn when Yasmin tells Vladi
that Landry is interested in another boy. Can Landry get her relationships with
Ashanti and Vladi back or will she be left out and left behind?
Excerpt:
I wanted to call my friends and tell them
about being on the talk show, but Mom said we had to be at the TV station super
early — even before school started. She said I could text them, but I had to
turn off my phone and go to bed.
“I’m waking you up at four a.m.,” she
said. “You have to be there at five-thirty.”
“Can I just call Peyton and Ashanti?
Please?”
“Fine, but you have five minutes and then
that phone is mine and you’re in bed.”
I dialed Peyton, but her mom said she was
in the shower. I told her mom about the show tomorrow and said my mom wouldn’t
let me stay up any later to call Peyton back.
“How exciting! I will make sure Peyton
knows, and I will be watching you tomorrow. Good luck, honey,” Mrs. Urich said.
I called Ashanti next and told her.
“Get out. Get. Out. No way. This is so
exciting!”
“I’m so nervous. My stomach is already
doing cartwheels. I can’t do one, but my stomach can. Seems unfair. What if I
throw up before I go on? I did that right before I went on at the statewide Ingénue modeling competition in Detroit,
and my mom had to give me a cough drop to cover up the smell.”
“I’m sure you’ll be fine, but… just in case,
take a cough drop with you,” Ashanti said. “Good luck. You’ll be great and I’ll
go set the DVR now.”
I
hung up and sent a text to Vladi, India, Devon, Thalia, Tori, and Ericka, so no
one would be mad and feel left out. Then I shut off my phone. Mom poked her
head in the door to make sure I was in bed.
“Night, hon. Try to get some rest,” she
said.
Easier said than done. I stared at my
ceiling while thinking about all the things that could possibly go wrong
tomorrow. Seeing as the show was on in the morning, I never got to watch it, so
I had no idea what the set was like — did it have super high chairs and I’d
struggle to get into them? And what if it had those higher stools that were
kind of tippy and my rear overshot the seat and I fell off? Or what if the prep
questions got lost and the interviewer asked me random things like my feelings
on nuclear war or asked me about some foreign political leader who I had never
heard of before, and I appeared stupid? Why did I say I’d do this? I tried to
get comfortable and it felt like I had just dozed off when I felt my mom
shaking my shoulder.
“Rise and shine, TV star,” she said.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Landry-Like-Landrys-True-Colors-ebook/dp/B01AL6AUA2/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/landry-in-like-krysten-lindsay-hager/1123253456?ean=2940157767242
Author
bio:
Krysten Lindsay Hager is the author of
the Landry’s True Colors Series, a clean reads young adult series and the new
Star Series. Krysten writes about
friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, middle school and high school,
frenemies, modeling, crushes, values, and self-image in True Colors, Best Friends…Forever? And Landry in Like, as well as in, Next
Door to a Star (Star Series). Her sequel to Next Door to a Star will be out March 22 2016.
Krysten is a book addict who has never met
a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and writes YA, MG,
humor essays, and adult fiction. 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 received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Follow Krysten:
Website:
http://www.krystenlindsay.com/
Instagram:
http://instagram.com/krystenlindsay
Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/krystenlindsay/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay
Author
talk show interview: http://wdtn.com/2014/11/06/true-colors/
True
Colors (Landry’s True Colors Series Book 1):
What
people are saying about True Colors (Landry’s True Colors Series Book One):
From Teenage Book Recommendations in the
UK: “This is a fantastically relatable and real book which I feel captures all
of the insecurities and troubles which haunt the modern teenage girl. It is
about a young model who has to go through tough times when she is torn between
a life as a model and managing her friendships. You learn which friends she can
most trust and which will create the drama typical of teenage life. Follow the
life of Landry and try to see if you can find out which are her true friends
before their true colours are revealed. This book is all about relationships,
hopes and truth. I loved this book!”
