There's a new review for In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety today on the tour from Hurn Publications. "Refreshing read with relatable characters.

This is one of those books that's refreshing to read.

Sure, the main character is fighting through her anxiety and facing the realism of life and its quirks, hard times and revelations, but aren't we all? It was nice to have a character that's not only relatable but entirely real. I feel like we all have a little bit of Cecily as part of us. Its a great read for those younger generations, who have yet to fully come to terms with their lives and it becomes a way for them to see the positive transformation and some guidelines.

For those of us who have already walked that line, it's a good reminder of where we've come from. This is well written, the characters have depth and the story is beautiful."

You can read the whole post here and enter the Amazon/Barnes and Noble gift card giveaway on their site here:
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New review for In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety from InD'tale Magazine.

 "Cecily Taylor is in over her head. Navigating high school is tough enough, but when you are secretly dating a pop star the word “complicated” doesn't even cover it. Cecily is certain that she likes Andrew, but what can a guy like him see in her? It doesn't help that her best friend is blowing hot and cold on her just when she needs her. With Andrew's schedule, it's hard to find time to be together and when they're apart, doubts plague her. Social media is filled with stories about his former girlfriends, about every aspect of his life, and all it does is prove to Cecily that they're traveling in different worlds. Then Cecily gets a chance to do a model shoot in New York and learns more about Andrew's world. Romance is never smooth, so when Andrew's world once more intrudes in their relationship, can Cecily trust that what they have is meant to last?
"In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety" is a sweet teen romance with a Cinderella storyline! It is every girl's young fantasy to wonder what it would be like to date her heartthrob. There is a lot of angst, texting and roller-coaster emotions at play. Krysten Lindsay Hager deftly captures the high school world, its language and the ups and downs of young love. The story progresses in a predictable manner and relies on misunderstandings for the conflict. Even so, teen romance fans will enjoy Cecily's journey and will be waiting to see what her next step is in the world of lights, camera and anxiety!"

Tricia Hill 
​www.indtale.com/reviews/young-adult/over-her-head-lights-camera-anxiety-cecily-taylor-series-book-2

Buy at Amazon:
 www.amazon.com/Over-Her-Head-Lights-Anxiety-ebook/dp/B07VRYS65N 

Link to Book One review:
www.indtale.com/reviews/young-adult/can-dreams-come-true-cecily-taylor-series

Book one audio review:
www.indtale.com/reviews/audiobooks/can-dreams-come-true-cecily-taylor-series-book-1

In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety was just released in paperback! You can find it here:

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Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRYS65N/
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I got a lot of messages today about one of the songs that inspired my book, In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety, so I thought I’d do a post on it. Yesterday a blogger posted my book's playlist and a lot of people were loving this music! The song is called, “Flesh and Bone” by MaRina who is a Polish singer. She is one of my favorite singers and she posted in her Instagram story about my post and I got a lot of people asking what she wrote about it since it was in Polish. I am Polish-American, but I don’t speak the language, but Google translate helped me out here! (The original post is at the bottom.)

She writes, “She wrote her book while listening to Flesh and Bone, On My Way (the album) it is amazing that my music went without any effort and went abroad inspired someone to write a book. Wow.”

The first time I heard the song it stopped me in my tracks because it so fits how Cecily feels at her first magazine photo shoot and also how the bigger name models, Scarlett and Neneh, still feel after all their success as models. Cecily feels overwhelmed and out of her league modeling and learns even the models she thinks look so perfect feel that way sometimes, too. It was after listening to the song that the title for the book, In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety, came to me.

Here’s a few lines of the song so you can see why I liked the song so much and why it inspired me:

Flesh and Bone lyrics -- MaRina

I'm not perfect
If you can only see
Beneath the surface
I'm only human, flesh and bones
I gotta face me on my own (on my own)
If you could only know

I feel alone when I'm in the crowd
Nobody knows what I'm feeling now
 
Make sure to check out this song for yourself! It’s so beautiful and you can find it on Amazon, Spotify, and itunes.

You can get her album, On My Way here: 
​www.amazon.com/My-Way-MARINA/dp/B07S5BY8N8

You can listen to it here. Let me know what you think of the song and how it fits the book!

Fight for You: The Playlist
Guest Post by Ayden K. Morgen
 
Like the vast majority of my books, Fight for You has its own playlist. Unlike most of my books, however, the playlist for Fight for You is unique in that it's honestly kind of sad at times!
 
Michael and January's story was difficult to write because they go through some really awful things when they're young that drastically impact who they are as people and the way they view themselves and the world around them. The playlist helped keep me focused during those sadder parts, and I think it reflects the harder parts of their story rather nicely.
 
You can check it out below!

Unbreakable by Lani Misalucha – This song is incredible. January struggles throughout Fight for You to believe in her own strength. This song captures that battle perfectly.
 
Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi – This song is Michael Kincaid to a T. He's struggled for ten years without his girl and he isn't sure how much longer he can hang on…but he just can't let her go. It's her for him or no one.
 
Running Up that Hill by Placebo – I have such a soft spot for this song. There are so many covers out there, but I think this one is the best. It fits so well with this story.
 
Lovely by Billie Eilish & Khalid – This is another perfect fit. It's haunting and a little sad, but so is Michael and January's story.
Hello by Evanescence – This song reminds me of January. After the very bad thing happened, she kind of shut down and just goes through the motions while, inside, she's struggling to make it through each and every day.
 
When It's Cold I'd Like to Die by Moby & Mimi Goose – This is another really powerful song that fits the themes in this story really well.
 
Dominos by Elle Vee – This song doesn't fit in the traditional sense, but some of the lyrics are so relevant!
 
The Bones by Marin Morris – Not everything on the playlist is sad! This one is about overcoming with your relationship intact. Despite everything Michael and January go through (and put each other through), their feelings for one another never change.
 
You can view the rest of the playlist and listen to it at: https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/da21cfabbe42436c9dc33e0659279de0sune?ref=dm_sh_08a7-f605-dmcp-d4b1-0609a&musicTerritory=US&marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER
 
 
About the Author:
 
Ayden K. Morgen is the Amazon Bestselling author of the Ragnarök Prophesies series. She lives in the heart of Arkansas with her childhood sweetheart/husband of fifteen years, and their furry minions. When not writing, she spends her time hiking, reading, volunteering, causing mischief, and building a Spork army.
 
She graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychology in 2009 before going on to complete her graduate degree in CJ and Law.
 
She puts her education to use as a 911 Dispatch Supervisor, where she's responsible for leading a team of dispatchers as they watch over police, EMS, and firefighters for her county. Her books feature law enforcement officers, the women who love them, and the difficult cases that drive them.
 
She also writes New Adult Fantasy as A.K. Morgen.
 
Author Links
Amazon Author Ayden: http://amazon.com/author/aydenmorgen
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ayden-k-morgen
Facebook: http://facebook.com/akmorgen1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/akmorgen
Instagram: http://instagram.com/aydenmorgen
 
 
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Check out my music playlist for my latest novel, In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety, a Young Adult novel, book two of the Cecily Taylor series. You can find it here and enter to win a giveaway, too:

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Fight for You
A Warrior for Her #1
by Ayden K. Morgen
Genre: Contemporary Romance



Some men deserve redemption. Some men are worthy of salvation. I'm not one of them. My name is Michael Kincaid, and I've got so much blood on my hands, I'll never wash clean. 

For ten years, I've tried to outrun my gangbanger past by burying myself in my work with the DEA. I've tried like hell to forget the day I damned my soul and lost everything…my family, my home, and the only girl I've ever loved.

I still can't outrun it.

No matter how far I go, January James haunts me. Being without her is killing me, but what other choice do I have? We were still kids the first time I vowed to protect her. Instead, I destroyed her. 

Now one of my enemies—a local gang member—has it out for her. He isn't going to stop until she gives him the territory I left her all those years ago. I swore I'd never set foot in Los Angeles again, but January needs my protection, and I'm not nearly strong enough to say no.

She deserves better than me, but she's mine anyway. It's time to stop running and fight for her.

She's an angel. I'm the devil on her shoulder. And this is my swan song.

When it's over, I'll either be the monster at the end of this book…or I'll be the man she deserves.

Fight for You is an angsty friends-to-lovers, second chance romance, and is not suitable for all readers. It is the first book in a series of interconnected full-length novels featuring law enforcement officers willing to do whatever it takes to protect the women who need them most. Each book can be read as a standalone, has no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA.

(This book deals with gun and gang violence, and touches briefly on sexual assault, sex trafficking, and suicidal ideation.)


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Ayden K. Morgen is the Amazon Bestselling author of the Ragnarök Prophesies series. She lives in the heart of Arkansas with her childhood sweetheart/husband of fifteen years, and their furry minions. When not writing, she spends her time hiking, reading, volunteering, causing mischief, and building a Spork army.
She graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychology in 2009 before going on to complete her graduate degree in CJ and Law.

She puts her education to use as a 911 Dispatch Supervisor, where she's responsible for leading a team of dispatchers as they watch over police, EMS, and firefighters for her county. Her books feature law enforcement officers, the women who love them, and the difficult cases that drive them.

She also writes New Adult Fantasy as A.K. Morgen.


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Today author Lily Luchesi joins us to share about the band that's made the greatest impact on her life. Check this one out! 

In 2004, I was about to turn eleven when I found the band that saved my life.

No joke. During a time when I was feeling fairly hopeless, these guys swooped in like mascara-wearing, black clad knights in shining armor, there to remind me that I wasn’t alone, there were “other people out there just as messed up” as I was (direct quote from the band).

I’m talking about My Chemical Romance, of course. Their music video popped up on TRL on MTV, and from one look, one note, I was hooked. This was a band that had an aesthetic, the sort of which I had been drawn to since I was a toddler.

In 2005, for my twelfth birthday, my mom scrounged up any extra cash we had to buy me tickets to their show at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago (notable location because there vocalist Gerard Way and guitarist Ray Toro wrote the first incantation of their song “Mama,” recorded with the legendary Liza Minelli).

And with some conversations with the right people, she got me backstage to meet the band. Needless to say, twelve-year-old me was ecstatic. So excited and nervous was I, that when Gerard asked me my name, I had absolutely no idea what it was. I was entranced that I was in that man’s presence, so much so my mind was a blank slate.
I burst into overexcited and grateful tears the moment I had met all the members, and their local A&R guy in Chicago forever remembered me as “the girl who cried after meeting the boys”. Not a great legacy, but oh well…

Time went on, and the band released their magnum opus, The Black Parade. Still yet, I went to every local show, attended record signings, and bought every piece of merch I could afford. I attended a special show in downtown Chicago after standing outside in the late autumn sleet and hail for thirteen hours straight. And it was worth it. MCR wasn’t a band, they were my life.

After their final album, Danger Days, was released, I was in a house fire. My mom had bought me tickets to a small, intimate show with them at the House of Blues, but I was so ill from PTSD I was afraid I couldn’t go. Somehow, my mom made sure she got me there, and once more, got me backstage through her connections at the radio station.

I was able to talk to the guys, and Gerard and his brother Mikey grabbed me in tight hugs, making sure I was okay, telling me it was all going to be all right. They were the kindest, most wonderful people from the moment I first met them, and even then, six years later.
After MCR broke up (I cried, I admit it), I kept supporting Gerard in his comic book endeavors. I, myself, am a little superhero obsessed, so this venture was something I could get behind 110%. Despite crippling anxiety and depression I still battled, I attended every Southern California comic book signing I could get to, even riding a bus for four hours to Anaheim from Los Angeles, and four hours back.

Gerard has always meant that much to me. He showed me that being creepy and weird and nerdy all at once wasn’t a bad thing, and despite what people said, I always had a home within his art, be it music or comics. It was more than his lyrics and the message they sent: it was the message HE sent to me and countless other MCRmy members. IT was the feeling if being understood, of always having a place to go to and belong. His art became my home in a strange way that I cannot explain.

I started loving Gerard Way in 2004. I’m now almost twenty-six years old, and I will love him forever, because his words did something wonderful within me when I was just a kid whose mom bought her black lipstick at Walgreens.
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Many bands have come after My Chemical Romance, and may frontmen and lyricists, but there will always be a certain sort of dark magic about MCR and Gerard. The kind that settles deep into your soul and makes a home there for eternity.
 
“Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
 
“Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.”
 
“So many
Bright lights that cast a shadow
But can I speak?
Well, is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete?
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak
A love that's so demanding
I can't speak
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone”

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I am really excited to have author Joey Paul be a part of my music crush guest post series to celebrate my In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety book release. I always enjoy having Joey on! Check out her post here:

MY CELEBRITY MUSICIAN CRUSH
MATT WILLIS - BUSTED by Joey Paul


I was never someone who had a lot of crushes as a kid. I was also someone who wasn't really into music. I listened to what my parents did and I never really developed a taste of my own, until 2003 when I was listening to a newish song, while working on one of my books. The band was Busted, the song was Year 3000 (yes the Jonas Brothers covered it, but Busted were the original band), and suddenly I was super into music, becuase it was something that appealed to me. I have friends who are kinda snobbish about music tastes, but thankfully B, my best friend, was also into Busted, which meant that when I got tickets to my first ever concert, she came with me.

And that's when I saw Matt Willis in person. I'd harboured a crush having seen photos, but watching him perform just made it that much clearer. He was energetic, hot and happy as all hell to be up on stage, and I loved it! I became a huge follower of Busted, and even met Matt on a number of occasions, and all seemed to be fine until that day in January 2005 when the band split.

I was there outside the press conference, something that didn't earn me any friends in the Busted fan community. B and I had gone up with a friend having known that some big news was coming. I was upset sure, the first band that I'd really loved had split and I didn't really know what to do about that, or what to do with it. I kept listening to music, and I followed Matt when he went onto a solo career, I even nearly made it to a concert of his, but had to pull out at the last minute because I wasn't well.

Of course I kept an eye on the press, Matt's struggle with alcoholism, and then him getting clean and getting his head on straight. He married, had kids, but my crush stayed. I grew up too, we're around the same age, I think he might be a year younger than I am, but I'm never that sure. I got published and life moved on until 2015 when ten years after splitting, Busted announced they were getting back together.

I still remember the day I saw the news, James and Matt had paired with McFly briefly to form McBusted and I'd been to a concert to see them peform for the first time in ten years, but since Charlie had been the one to want to split, it didn't seem possible that the split would be mended, so hearing them back together was huge and that crush was revitalised.

I ended up going to their first tour, and their second, and I am a huge fan of theirs. Thankfully, I still have B as my best friend and she's as big a fan as I am, so we're both happy to have them back together. It's the only music I can listen to over and over and not get sick of it, along with some of Matt's solo tracks. Overall, still a big fan, and still have a huge crush on Matt!

BIO:

Joey Paul is an award-winning indie author, exploring the young adult genre. She has released fifteen books in total so far, with the sixteenth due out in 2019. Her current works include the "Dying Thoughts" series, which is eight books and the "Lights Out" trilogy, as well as several standalone novels. She writes across genres, with crime, mystery, paranormal, sci-fi and dystopian being the ones most frequently on her list. She is writing her next two books at the moment, having recently finished her last two.
 
Joey is disabled and a graduate from The Open University with a BA (Hons) in Health & Social Care. When not reading medical textbooks, she enjoys reading crime novels, medical dramas and young adult novels. When she's out and about, she likes looking for Tupperware in the woods with GPS satellites, otherwise known as geocaching. And when she's not doing THAT, she's sleeping! She's 37 and has been writing since she was retired from her job on medical grounds at the age of 19. She plans to write for as long as she has ideas or until someone tells her to stop!

Check out my previous interview with Joey here:
 www.krystenlindsay.com/blog/interview-with-author-joey-paul
 
AUTHOR LINKS:
BLOG: www.joeypaulonline.com/
TUMBLR: authorjoeypaul.tumblr.com
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/JoeyPaulOnline
TWITTER: twitter.com/MsJoeyBug
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/authorjoeypaul
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This week we welcome author Angela Schroeder to the blog to share her musical crushes with us as well as the musical influences that got her through some difficult times. I love this essay on how music can help us through those tough times. Read on to learn how music helped her.

In celebration of Krysten’s newest release In Over Her Head; Lights, Camera, Anxiety I’m here to discuss my childhood musical crush. I had several musical crushes. Ranging from Mark Miller (the lead singer of Sawyer Brown) who I saw in concert with my best friend to Joey Lawrence to George Michael; those were all short-lived crushes. My biggest musical crush, I still have today. There is something about his sort of gravelly voice that always makes me smile, that voice is Bryan Adams. *Sigh*
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In my younger years, I was severely depressed. I went through a period in my life when I lost several family members, I felt unwanted, unloved, and alone. I didn’t know how to cope with my grief. I harmed myself, I truly believed that nobody would notice if I wasn’t around. Though I was loved, I didn’t feel like I was.

In that time when I felt like nobody could see me, when I felt nobody loved me. I had Bryan Adams. His music spoke to my soul. I would put his CDs on repeat while I sat in my room and wrote. His words soothed my troubled soul. When songs like “Everything I Do”, “Run To You”, “Heaven”, “Please Forgive Me”, and “Do I Have To Say the Words” came on I felt loved. In those moments it felt like there might be someone who cared. Wouldn’t it have been wonderful to be serenaded by Bryan Adams? To have this incredibly gorgeous man whisk me away.  Declaring “ I don’t wanna let you go so I’m standin in your way. I never needed anyone like I’m needin’ you today.” His songs helped me through such a difficult time in my life. Making me feel loved.

I still listen to his music. Now I listen to it while I’m writing. When one of my characters are feeling lost and alone, I can find a way to help them when I have one of Bryan’s songs playing in the background. It still helps me to find a way out of a dark spot, only these days those dark places belong to my characters and not to me.

Who was your musical crush in your younger years? Do you still listen to their music?
 
About the author

Angela Schroeder is a single mother of three who constantly keep her in stitches, three cats (one who thinks he’s a dog), and several outdoor creatures. She creates young adult fantasy novels, clean contemporary romance, and fun children’s books.

 Being from an Iowa river town known for its pearl buttons she spent a lot of her childhood outdoors in the summer running barefoot whenever she could. While the winter months kept her mostly indoors she spent even more time writing and reading. With four siblings and an active imagination she never lacked for something to do or stories to tell.  As she grew older, she found herself pulled into books and writing more and more. Her parents are her heroes, her siblings her confidants and tormentors, her children a wonderful blessing, and church a sanctuary.

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