I
am so excited that SOURCES SAY by
Lori Goldstein is available now and that I get to share the news!
If
you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Lori Goldstein, be
sure to check out all the details below.
This
blitz also includes a giveaway for an awesome prize pack courtesy of Lori &
Rockstar Book Tours. So if
you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.
About
The Book:
Title: SOURCES
SAY
Author: Lori Goldstein
Pub.
Date: September
8, 2020
Publisher: Razorbill
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 300
Two exes. One election. All the
drama.
For fans of Becky Albertalli and Morgan
Matson comes a funny, hearfelt novel about fueding exes running for class
president and the scandal that makes the previously boring school election the
newest trending hashtag.
At Acedia High School outside of Boston, student
council has always been nothing more than a popularity contest. Nobody pays attention.
Nobody cares.
But all that changes when the Frankengirls show up.
During the very first week of school, someone plasters the halls with
Photoshopped images of three "perfect tens"--images of scantily clad
girls made from real photos of girls at school. The student body is livid. And
the two presidential candidates, Angeline Quinn and Leo Torres, jump on the
opportunity to propose their solutions and secure votes. After their messy
break up, Leo and Angie are fighting tooth and nail to win this thing and their
constituents are mesmerized as they duke it out.
As if things couldn't be more dramatic, the school's
two newspapers get involved. The Red & Blue is run by Angie's sister Cat
and she prides herself on only reporting the facts. But her morals are tested
when The Shrieking Violet--written by an anonymous source and based less on
facts and more on fiction--blatantly endorses Leo. Rumors fly, secrets are
leaked, and the previously mundane student election becomes anything but
boring.
Excerpt:
Chapter 4
When
Angeline’s Every Day Becomes Epic
29 DAYS TO THE ELECTION
Angeline stared at the little blue dot at the top of
her inbox. A new message. She hadn’t changed the settings on her computer, but
she swore the sender’s name was bigger than usual.
She sat up straighter in the nubby tweed chair—the
last thing she’d let her sister pick out—behind the desk they shared in their
bedroom.
All those hours in front of her laptop studying
every YouTube channel from GamerGirlz to Car Builderz DIY to Bette’s Books to
Bet On. Every grasshopper-topped sushi roll she ate, every chocolate laxative
cleanse, every questionable and disgusting concoction she’d lathered on her
body, all came down to this.
Her hand hovered over the mouse, but she couldn’t
bring her- self to click. Instead, she kicked off the pointy-toed loafers she’d
worn to school that day, wincing as the air hit the raw pink welt on the back
of her ankle. She’d said they were comfortable.
They weren’t.
But the endorsement had paid for her new laptop so .
. . trade-offs.
She pressed her toes into the white carpet she’d freshly
steamed before the school year began and fixed her eyes on her computer screen.
“Ask an Angel” leapt from the subject line, the
YouTube chan- nel Angeline had grown into a brand over the past two years. In-
fluencer? Please. She was so much more. Part advice giver, part
counselor, part confessor, she served her viewers by listening to and answering
their daily dilemmas—even if that meant boots- on-the-ground research.
Okay, so truth?
She’d never admit it to Cat, but that elephant dung had
nearly made her pass out.
Her sister thought it was easy. But had she ever
tried to squeeze herself into the trifecta of compression underwear?
High-waisted capri britches . . .
Tummy cincher . . .
Hip slimmer . . .
After eating two pints of caramel gelato.
Angeline had come this close to dialing 911.
But her lack of circulation had surely prevented others from asphyxiation. Turn
blue, and the followers would come. She hadn’t read that in any influencer
guide. But it had worked.
As had a modest display of cleavage and pink
lipstick. Pink, not red. She’d lost ninety followers before she’d realized that
mistake.
Now she had more questions than she could answer,
and her ad revenue crushed whatever she’d make working round the clock as a
barista. But she was determined to take it to the next level.
Evelyn’s Epic Everyday: Make Every Day an Epic Day.
The pinnacle of lifestyle YouTubers, promoting
positivity, following one’s dreams, and making each day an extraordinary one.
An extraordinarily profitable one. Evelyn had raked in half a million dollars
from her YouTube channel alone last year—a pit- tance compared to what she’d
snagged from endorsements and book deals. Her second book, Girl, Talk like
Everyone’s Listening, hit the bestseller list, joining her first, Girl,
Match Your Bra and Underwear and Other Life Secrets, which had never
dropped off.
And here she was: Evelyn’s Epic Everyday in
Angeline’s inbox. Angeline took a deep breath and clicked.
Her heart stopped.
And jump-started.
“Bring! It!” she screamed, and Tartan, Gramps’s
orange-and- white cat, sprang from her lap.
She’d gotten the invite. The, all caps,
underlined, circled, high- lighted, invite. When Evelyn’s Epic Everyday
had given her video on “5 Ways to Know He’s Interested” a thumbs-up over the
summer, Angeline had known what it meant.
Evelyn was watching her. Her.
Ask an Angel.
Which meant she had a shot. At this.
And she got it.
-------------------------
Hey girl!
Evelyn’s Epic Everyday has her epic eye on you!
As you may have heard (wink, wink), she’s putting
together her very first YouTube up-and-comers boot camp. only!***
Those she thinks are ready to break out big will
make her annual “Top 10 to Get Behind or Be Left Behind” list. And you know
what that means! But still, I’m gonna tell youuu! Because it’s that freaking
fantastic: every single previous lister has gone on to be a Star of the Super
sort.
Think: a million subscribers, two, three . . . five?
Not yet, but you could be Evelyn’s first!
So welcome, Ask an Angel, to your every day being an
epic one. But remember: keep it hush-hush! We’ll be doing a big reveal in the
lead-up.
See you in December!
Don’t forget to send in that deposit!
(Nonrefundable!)
Kiss kiss!
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Angeline vaulted out of her chair and pumped her
fists in the air.
“Evelyn’s!”
“Epic!”
“Everyday!”
She spun around and snatched her phone off the bed.
She had her messages open to her last text with Leo before she remembered.
They were broken up.
He had broken up with her.
Because of all this.
The one person she wanted to share this with was the
one person she couldn’t.
Is this what they call irony?
About
Lori:
Lori Goldstein earned her BA in journalism but
eventually found her true writing passion in the world of fictional people.
She’s never met a beach she didn’t love, a book she wouldn’t read, or a strange
food she wouldn’t try. She is the author of SOURCES SAY, which Kirkus calls
"Entertaining, thought-provoking, and heartwarming"; SCREEN QUEENS,
which Kirkus calls “a fun and uplifting story that celebrates female friendship
and empowerment”; and the VOYA-starred young adult contemporary fantasy series
BECOMING JINN.
Find her on Twitter @loriagoldstein and Instagram
@lorigoldsteinbooks.
Also follow on Facebook, Goodreads, and BookBub.
Giveaway Details:
1 lucky winner will win a signed book
pack of Becoming Jinn, Circle of Jinn, Screen Queens, US. Only.
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