In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety
Krysten Lindsay Hager
(The Cecily Taylor Series, #2)
Publication date: September 3rd 2019
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
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?
Interview
with Krysten Lindsay Hager
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in In Over Her
Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety.
Cecily Taylor Damone is a high school student who is an overthinker who
loves music and really connects to the music her favorite singer/songwriter,
Andrew Holiday, writes and performs. She goes to an audition with a friend and
gets selected to be in his music video. Cecily and Andrew connect on the set
and begin dating.
Andrew is a pop star who has started dating Cecily and is just getting to
the point he feels he can share things with her about his career worries and
anxieties. He is a sensitive type who is at the point where he’s not feeling
fulfilled by his fame anymore.
Lila is one of Cecily’s best friends and she’s started to talking to her
ex again, which is causing friction between herself and Cecily who wants better
for her.
Isla King is a pop star who writes about her relationships and breakups
and is dating Andrew’s brother. She winds up getting in the middle of Andrew of
Cecily’s first argument.
Can you tell us a little bit about your next books or what you have
planned for the future?
The next Cecily Taylor book will have her in New York doing some acting.
I’m also working on other YA and adult rom-com projects.
How
long would you say it takes you to write a book?
Each
book is different. Some have taken years and some about a year.
What
is your favorite childhood book?
Just
As Long as We’re Together by
Judy Blume was a favorite. I read it the first day of sixth grade and I
remember picking it out at Kmart and going home and reading until my mom made
me put it down.
If
you could spend the day with one of the characters from In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety who would it be? Please
tell us why you chose this particular character, where you would go and what
you would do.
I
would have loved to be on that sightseeing trip Cecily and her grandma went on
while in New York. Cecily got to know her grandmother in a new way as she saw
her as not just the lady who used to sneak her cookies and play with her, but
as someone who still had dreams and aspirations and she shared memories of her
own grandmother with Cecily.
Those
scenes were fun to write as we learned something about both characters and the
store they shop in was actually based on Henri Bendel, which has now closed. I
picked that store because it was some place I went for my first two independent
trips—one my first year of college when I went to Chicago for a trip and the
other was my first solo trip to New York City. The store represented my first
time stepping out by myself in a big city and I wanted to bring that into the
story for Cecily to give it that same feeling.
What
was the hardest scene from In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety to
write
The
scene where Cecily starts to get anxious in the hotel room the morning before
the magazine photo shoot was hard to write because I have been there and I was
working from real life experience.
The
other was her seeing her boyfriend pictured with another girl in the media
while she was out in public. You feel so much more vulnerable when you’re in
public and you get horrible news.
What
made you want to become a writer?
I
always wanted to write stories people could escape with. I remember sitting on
my bed reading and thinking how wonderful it would be to write something that
could take a person away from their troubles for just a little while.
Just
for fun
(a
Favorite song: You Say by Lauren
Daigle
(b
Favorite book: Good-bye, Glamour
Girl by Erika Tamar
(c Favorite
movie: Just Friends
(d
Favorite tv show: American Dad
(e
Favorite Food: Ham
(f
Favorite drink: Evian water is
really all I drink. Maybe tea
(g
Favorite website: The Washington
Post
Thanks
so much for visiting with us today!
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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3 comments:
I am so excited to ready this book!
Can't wait to read this one!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your support :)
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