Welcome to The Cover Contessa's stop on the Holly Hearts Hollywood blog tour!
By Kenley
Conrad
Release Date: 09/23/14
Swoon Romance
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Holly Hart wants to be
a star. She moves to Los Angeles from the small town of Cedar Junction, only to
hear she’s too fat and ugly to be a famous singer.
But when Shell Shocked Records looks past Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however, the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it because after all, she wanted to sing.
Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is more than happy to sit backstage while Lacey shimmies in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern, and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.
When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey, Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.
Through a series of embarrassing and weird events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey's voice, what is a girl to do when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the most?
But when Shell Shocked Records looks past Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however, the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it because after all, she wanted to sing.
Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is more than happy to sit backstage while Lacey shimmies in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern, and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.
When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey, Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.
Through a series of embarrassing and weird events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey's voice, what is a girl to do when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the most?
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Holly Hearts Hollywood conception
I love telling the people the story of when I first thought of Holly Hearts Hollywood (which I’m just going to call HHH to spare y’all the trouble of having to read that title over and over again) because I think that it just proves that this story and I were book soul mates. I was living in the central Phoenix area, which is super-near downtown. It was summer. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in Phoenix during summer but it is hotter than anything you can imagine. You could put cookie dough on your dashboard and come back later to perfectly baked cookies. I’m not kidding.
I was walking on Indian School Road, which passes by a park and the fact that I can tell you exactly where I was should show you how much this moment stood out to me. I was thinking of concepts around the idea of modern-day fairytales. I thought to myself, “How could you do a modern Little Mermaid? That would be challenging,” and suddenly, as if a big yellow school bus hit me, I had the concept for HHH. And when I say I had it, I mean the entire story plopped into my head.
I immediately went home and outlined the whole book in a few hours without stopping to take a break. I also mentally planned out two more books and just like that, I had a complete series planned with character names and a title. The title has never changed from that first moment in July 2011.
I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight (hate to break it to you, hopeless romantics) but I do believe in falling in love with books at first outline.
I'm the author of the upcoming YA series Holly
Hearts Hollywood, coming September 2014 by Swoon Romance. I'm a
twenty-something cat lady who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. When I'm not working
my office day job or writing books, you can find me either singing and dancing
or binge-watching TV shows on Netflix.
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This one sounds really good, Brooke! And it does sound like something that could happen because the music industry is so hung-up on looks. Adding this to my TBR right now - I'm already rooting for Holly!!
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Sounds like a cute story with some pitfalls along the way. I'm adding to my tbr list and will be looking to read in the near future. Story kind of reminds me a little of Dancing in the Rain.
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