Lisa Burstein | Fan-girl For Life

I am an unapologetic fan-girl. Maybe you know someone like me. I LOVE the things I like and am not ashamed of it.

Boy Bands for example. Even way beyond the age of their fan-base I’m a fan. I still swoon over One Direction. I like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter. I haven’t been lucky enough to attend one of their concerts, but if I did I would buy a T-shirt and sing along and wonder what they were like when they were hanging out back stage.

My fan-girl days started with New Kids on the Block. I can remember rushing to my best friend’s house after school as a young teen to watch their concert video over and over and over again. I can remember screaming in her living room until my lungs ached. It’s those memories and my current fan-girl ways that made me want to create my very own fictional boy band.

Seconds to Juliet is the hottest new boy band on the scene, and what would a hot boy band be without HOT boy band members? Have you ever wondered what your favorite rock star or movie star is thinking behind those poetic eyes? I have, and I used to fuel writing about Ryder Brooks, the resident Bad Boy of Seconds to Juliet.

I found tht there was a lot more to the image of your favorite star than meets the eye. He might seem apathetic, angry, wild, but that behavior may be hiding some real pain. That behavior might just need to be soothed by the right girl.

I know that when I used to stare at my poster of Donnie Wahlberg before I fell asleep at night I would try to figure out what made him tick. Why was he so magnetic? How I could be the girl he sang to? What would it feel like to kiss him?

In MIA AND THE BAD BOY, I got to build my perfect, swoony, sexy, young adult bad boy in Ryder Brooks. He has a dash of a mysterious past, a hint of family problems, a pinch of not needing or wanting anything from anyone, and of course a whole lot of smoldering good looks.

I got to live out my fan-girl tendencies up close and personal with Ryder and his love affair with virginal, good girl Mia Reyes, who comes on tour to tutor him. I got to see what was behind the posters and concerts and screaming fans. I got to swoon in a new way as he opened up his heart to someone. I got to become the ultimate fan-girl.

About Lisa Burstein

Lisa Burstein is a tea seller by day and a writer by night. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. She is the author of PRETTY AMY, THE NEXT FOREVER, DEAR CASSIE, SNEAKING CANDY, and THE POSSIBILITY OF US. As well as a contributor to the essay collection, Break These Rules: 35 YA Authors On Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Being Yourself. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her very patient husband, a neurotic dog and two cats.

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About MIA AND THE BAD BOY

This Entangled Teen Crush book contains adult language, underage drinking, sexual situations, and lots of swoons. It may convince even the good-est of good girls to go bad.

This good girl's about to meet her match...

Ryder Brooks is living the dream-he's famous, loved by millions of girls, and miserable. All he really wants is to write his own music, not Seconds to Juliet's sugary sweet pop. In order to do that, though, the "bad boy" of the band will have to play by the rules. And that includes behaving with his new-and super cute-über-good-girl tutor.

Mia Reyes is in fangirl heaven. Tutoring her favorite member of her favorite band? It's a dream come true...until it turns into a complete nightmare. Ryder is nothing like she thought. He's crude, arrogant, and pretty much a total jerk. And the worst part? She's roped into pretending to be his girlfriend so that no one finds out he's being tutored. Fake kisses, plenty of PDA, and even sharing his hotel room...

But sometimes even the baddest of bad boys needs a little redemption.