Flirting with Fame, Samantha Joyce
Flirting with Fame, Samantha Joyce
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Flirting with Fame

Author: Samantha Joyce

Narrator: Katie Schorr

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/29/2016

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age


Synopsis

Elise Jameson is the secret author behind the bestselling, cult hit Viking Moon series. But when a stranger poses as Elise, the painfully shy, deaf nineteen-year-old starts to see how much she’s missing. Can she really hide in the shadows forever? This clever, coming-of-age debut is for anyone who has ever felt unsure in her own skin.After a freak childhood accident leaves her deaf and physically scarred, nineteen-year-old Elise Jameson retreats into a world of vibrant characters she creates on her laptop. She is shocked when her coping mechanism turns into a career as a phenomenal bestselling novelist. Fans are obsessed with Elise’s Viking Moon series and its author—a striking girl with zero resemblance to Elise who appears on the back covers. Elise sent the randomly Googled photo to her editor following a minor panic attack. Now, horrified to learn she is expected on set of the television pilot based on her novels, Elise tracks down her anonymous stand-in. To Elise’s surprise, Veronica Wilde has been taking credit for Viking Moon for years. She eagerly agrees to keep up the charade if Elise will pose as her assistant.It’s hard for Elise to watch a stranger take credit for her work and get all the perks she desires, including admiration from the show’s heartthrob star. Edged onto the sidelines of her own life, Elise reconsiders her choice to stay anonymous. Is she ready to come to terms with her true identity—and with the long-buried secrets that could cost her her career, her fans, and the few precious friendships she’s made?

About Samantha Joyce

Samantha Joyce has wanted to be an author since she picked up her first book and realized authors get to create new worlds with just a pen and paper (or laptop, if you will). She loves to write about romance because, as someone who married her high school sweetheart, she absolutely believes in true love. She also loves making people laugh and feels love and laughter go hand in hand. If she can make someone both swoon and giggle with her words, she considers that a success. When not writing or at her day job, Samantha can be found either singing and dancing on stage in local musicals, or at home watching geeky television shows with her husband and their pet rabbit.

About Katie Schorr

Katie Schorr is an actor and writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenage characters.”


Reviews

ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review Confession Time: I hardly read Coming of Age novels but once in awhile, I do find myself reading a few that catches my attention. And so when I first read the blurb to Flirting With Fame by Samantha Joyce, I was intrigued and knew I could......more

Goodreads review by Adriana

The things I love about this book are A LOT. The surprising and achingly vulnerable characters. Love that jumps off the page. And the delightful humor. This story is an absolute joy. Elise wins your heart immediately and it's all too easy to follow her through her hilarious, romantic, and awkward blu......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

Oh, my goodness. SO MANY FEELS. This book is just wonderful on so many levels. There's a fresh, romantic love story, and so many secondary characters that are beautifully developed. I had about a thousand things going on this week, but despite all that, here I am, still in my pajamas on a Friday aft......more

Goodreads review by Luzie

This review may contain SPOILERS! After finishing "Cinder & Ella" by Kelly Oram, and liking it as much as I did, I thought it was a good idea to start this book, because it sounded kind of similar. Well, it wasn't a bad book, but not a particularly good one either. The plot had some parts that just s......more