True
Colors by Krysten Lindsay Hager
A little competition can really bring out people’s true colors.
Landry Albright enters a modeling
competition with her two best friends, but runs into jealousy when she advances
to the next level without them. Enter the gorgeous Devon, who also makes the
first cut of the modeling contest. Devon seems like the perfect new best
friend, but can their friendship survive the competition? Throw in a new boy,
jealousy and loyalty issues, and insults from hair stylists. How’s a girl to
deal?
Back
Cover Blurb: Every
day I walked down the sidewalk to school and wished I were one of the
interesting popular girls who ran up with exciting news. Just once I’d like to
be one of those girls instead of the being the one who didn’t get invited to
things because people “forgot” about me.
Landry gets pushed into trying out for the
American Ingénue reality show modeling competition with her two best
friends. She doesn’t think she stands a
chance, but she advances to the next level in the competition and her friends
ignore her when they get cut.
Enter the gorgeous Devon, who also makes
the first cut and includes Landry in her clique. Devon becomes the perfect best
friend, but can their friendship survive the competition?
Landry hopes her big break could come at
any moment, but soon sees there’s much more to modeling. She begins missing out
on being with friends and has the chance to have a boyfriend when she meets a
boy named Vladi from another school.
Part of Landry wants to be famous (and have
her hair look good for once), but part of her just wants to be accepted. She
learns about friendships, being true to yourself, and that a good hair
conditioner doesn’t hurt.
Excerpt:
The competition was for girls between the
ages of thirteen and seventeen, but it felt like Ericka, Tori, and I were the
youngest ones there. I only saw a couple of girls from school, and the lineup
looked more like something you’d see on a music video set. All the girls were
gorgeous, and they had these curvy womanly bodies. I looked like a skinny
little kid next to them. The first girl walked out, and I heard the judges say
she “owned the runway,” and, “walked like a gazelle.” I was starting to feel
ill. I wasn’t sure which way it was going to come, but I knew I had to find a
bathroom — fast. I started to get out of line when Ericka grabbed my wrist.
“It’s almost time,” she said. A tiny bit of
spit flew out of her mouth and hit my cheek.
I wasn’t sure why she was so intent on me
going through with it, but she had a death grip on my arm, so I didn’t have
much of a choice. Her number was called and she walked out to the stage. One of
the other girls said she walked like a kid with sand bucket stilts on her feet,
but she came back with a smirk on her face like she knew she’d get chosen.
“They said they had never seen such long
legs,” she said.
Tori was next.
“She walks like a gorilla at feeding time,”
said the girl behind me. I went next, and I tried to focus on not tripping over
my feet. My mom’s pumps had a rubber sole on the bottom, which probably wasn’t
the brightest idea seeing as my shoes were making squeaking noises as I walked.
I was so nervous I couldn’t stop smiling as I walked. I looked like the plastic
clown who blows up balloons with its mouth at the Pizza Palace. When I got to
the end of the runway, I tried to cross my feet to turn like the other girls
had, but I over rotated and ended up doing a full spin which made my kilt fan
out and gave the mall walkers a view of my blue underpants. I tried to act like
it was intentional and did an extra turn. One of the judges put her hand up to
stop me, and I held my breath as she started to speak.
Author
bio: Krysten Lindsay Hager is an author and book
addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a
journalist and also writes middle grade, YA, humor essays, and adult fiction.
Her debut novel, TRUE COLORS, will be out June 17th from Astraea Press. She is
originally from Michigan and has lived in South Dakota, Portugal, and currently
resides in Southern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing when she’s
not catching up on her favorite shows.
Links:
Website: www.krystenlindsay.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay
Instagram: http://instagram.com/krystenlindsay
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