{"id":2843,"date":"2019-06-22T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:14:49","slug":"blog-tour-screen-queens-by-lori-goldstein-review-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-screen-queens-by-lori-goldstein-review-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein (Review + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/tour-schedule-screen-queens-by-lori.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tour-banner-1-2.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein (Review + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the <em>Screen Queens<\/em> blog tour!!! This is such a great book, and I&#8217;m so excited to be a part of the book tour! So read on to find my review (with my favorite quotes!), more info about Lori Goldstein, where to follow the rest of the tour, and a giveaway! (US AND international!!!) <!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/screen-queens-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein (Review + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein (Review + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Screen Queens<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/lori-goldstein\/\">Lori Goldstein<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  June 11, 2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/razorbill-penguin-random-house\/\">Razorbill<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 368 <br><strong>Format:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/formats\/arc\/\">ARC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/formats\/earc\/\">eARC<\/a> <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> NetGalley <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41123165-screen-queens\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><span class=\"star_rating\"><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><\/span> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b><i>The Bold Type<\/i> meets <i>The Social Network<\/i> when three girls vying for prestigious summer internships through a startup incubator program uncover the truth about what it means to succeed in the male-dominated world of tech.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>This summer Silicon Valley is a girls' club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Three thousand applicants. An acceptance rate of two percent. A dream internship for the winning team. ValleyStart is the most prestigious high school tech incubator competition in the country. Lucy Katz, Maddie Li, and Delia Meyer have secured their spots. And they've come to win.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Screen Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Katz was born and raised in Palo Alto, so tech, well, it runs in her blood. A social butterfly and CEO in-the-making, Lucy is ready to win <i>and<\/i> party.<\/p>\n<p>East Coast designer, Maddie Li left her home and small business behind for a summer at ValleyStart. Maddie thinks she's only there to bolster her graphic design portfolio, not to make friends.<\/p>\n<p>Delia Meyer taught herself how to code on a hand-me-down computer in her tiny Midwestern town. Now, it's time for the big leagues--ValleyStart--but super shy Delia isn't sure if she can hack it (pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>When the competition kicks off, Lucy, Maddie, and Delia realize just how challenging the next five weeks will be. As if there wasn't enough pressure already, the girls learn that they would be the only all-female team to win <i>ever.<\/i> Add in one first love, a two-faced mentor, and an ex-boyfriend turned nemesis and things get...<i>complicated<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with humor, heart, and a whole lot of girl power, <i>Screen Queens<\/i> is perfect for fans of Morgan Matson, Jenny Han, and <i>The Bold Type<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-06-22T11:00:44+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the Screen Queens blog tour!!! This is such a great book, and I'm so excited to be a part of the book tour! 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It really helped!<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3190 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-about-characters-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-about-characters-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-about-characters-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-about-characters-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>I LOVED the three main characters. Maddie, Lucy, and Delia were all fully developed and felt like real people to me. I wasn&#8217;t sure at first if I&#8217;d like Lucy (think about the most Type A person you know and dial it up about 10 notches- that&#8217;s Lucy), but she really grew on me as the story went on. Maddie reminded me a lot of one of my friends (tall, artsy, and loyal), so that was really cool! Delia was my favorite from her first chapter. She&#8217;s definitely the character that reminded me most of myself, so I was super excited when I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinteen.com\/quizzes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penguin Teen&#8217;s &#8216;Which <em>Screen Queens<\/em> Character are You?&#8217;<\/a> quiz earlier and got Delia as my answer! (Quick note: take the quiz and tell me your results in the comments!)<\/li>\r\n<li>Multiple POVs aren&#8217;t always my favorite thing, but I think it really worked well in this book. I definitely wouldn&#8217;t have grown to like Lucy if I wasn&#8217;t reading everything from her POV, so I&#8217;m happy about that. I also really enjoyed getting to know Maddie and Delia!<\/li>\r\n<li>Delia is the only character who has a sweet summer romance, and I really enjoyed reading it! I also really enjoyed that Maddie didn&#8217;t really seem to care about romance, like&#8230; at all. And Lucy&#8217;s &#8230; relationships isn&#8217;t the right word, but her&#8230; dealings? with males are complicated. Gavin was an interesting foil to Lucy&#8217;s uptight Type A perfectionism, but I wasn&#8217;t really feeling like I liked who he was as a person at the end of the book.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>OH. MY. GOD. The friendships in this book were PERFECT!!! The girls didn&#8217;t like each other at the beginning, but they bonded and became closer over time and it was just so great!!! to see that!!! in a book!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE.<\/li>\r\n<li>also Delia&#8217;s parents!!! were so cute!!! &lt;3<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3192 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/perfect-gif-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/perfect-gif-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/perfect-gif-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/perfect-gif-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/bold-type-001.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3193 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take a good look at this cover until I was writing this segment, but whoa! Now that I&#8217;m actually looking, I can see the pixels at the bottom that solidify into red at the top and I&#8217;m just blown away! I like that you can easily tell which characters are which on the cover after reading like the first two chapters. I love love love the artwork style on this cover! I&#8217;m going to give it a 9.8\/10 stars, only because that&#8217;s not a super pretty shade of red. I just wish it were a different color. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3194 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/for-fans-of-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/for-fans-of-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/for-fans-of-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/for-fans-of-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>The Bold Type\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Sarah Dessen books<\/li>\r\n<li>Taylor Swift&#8217;s Reputation album<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favorite-quotes-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favorite-quotes-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favorite-quotes-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favorite-quotes-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" 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https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-003-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-003.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-003-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-003-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-005-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-005.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-005-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-005-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-006-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-006.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-006-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-006-768x150.png 768w\" 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https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-007-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-008-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-008.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-008-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-008-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-009-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-009.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-009-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sq-quotes-009-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider.png 575w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/divider-300x18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lets-talk-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Do you keep a list of your favorite contemporaries? I&#8217;m definitely adding <em>Screen Queens<\/em> to mine!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3197 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/excerpt-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/excerpt-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/excerpt-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/excerpt-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Four. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Still.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Only four.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy shifted in the hard wooden chair across from her mom\u2019s desk and clutched her phone tighter. She swiped up and down with such force that her Caribbean Blue Baby fingernails would have scratched the glass had she not been diligent about using a screen protector.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Facebook\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Swipe, swipe, swipe<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">. The likes, favorites, followers, friends\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. she had enough. Enough for her ranking on the Pulse app to be higher than four.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Four?<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe.<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">The pink plastic bracelet the bouncer had secured around Lucy\u2019s wrist danced up and down the same way she had last night, after name-dropping her way into the hottest new club in San Francisco\u2019s Tenderloin District. The fact that she didn\u2019t actually <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>know<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Ryan Thompson, founder of Pulse, was a technicality that would soon be remedied.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Her \u2665 our fingers are on the pulse<\/span><i> <\/i><span class=\"s1\">\u2665 tee only given to Pulse employees opened doors closed even to most of Silicon Valley\u2019s elite. She\u2019d snagged it from a hipster-preneur six months ago at a party in Fremont. He was so busy claiming he left Pulse of his own accord (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>uh-huh<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">) because his eco-friendly (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>read: nonprofitable<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">) idea was going to change the world (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>i.e.,<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"s2\"><i>drain his bank account<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">) that he scarcely knew what he\u2019d lost. All it took was a deftly spilled cocktail, an exorbitant dry cleaning bill, and Lucy\u2019s favorite tank (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>note: pomegranate margaritas don\u2019t come out of silk<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">), but it was worth it.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Soon she\u2019d have one of her own.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">And she\u2019d no longer be a 4.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Really?<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">The likes on her Instagram story from last night alone should have bumped her up to a 5. Thumping. But here she sat. Still at 4. Still Thudding.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She stared at the string of hearts on her Pulse profile knowing that, somehow, this was all because she was wait-listed at Stanford.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">And <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>that<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, Lucy knew the exact \u201chow\u201d of: Gavin Cox.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Freaking Gavin Cox.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She shouldn\u2019t have done it, but her blue fingernail moved on its own, navigating to his profile.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Level 6. Throbbing. Gavin Cox was Throbbing and she was Thudding. If only she possessed a male member and a wingspan like Michael Phelps, she\u2019d be Throbbing too. But now that high school was over, winning state would no longer be a crutch for Gavin, and his Pulse would plummet. He\u2019d be lucky to be Beating\u2014a measly 3.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy was tempted to knock her mom\u2019s expansive cherry wood desk. But Lucy Katz didn\u2019t believe in luck. Lucy Katz didn\u2019t hope. Lucy Katz didn\u2019t dream. Lucy Katz did.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She knew what she wanted.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">And it wasn\u2019t this.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Thudding and wait-listed and this drab third-floor office in this mud-brown building in this sad little Sunnyvale office park.<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">So it wouldn\u2019t be.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Tired of the edge of the chair digging into the soft underside of her knees, she scooted forward until her wedge sandals reached the floor.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Her mom was twenty minutes late.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">As usual.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy knew enough to show up for their scheduled lunch a half hour after its start time, but she was on time.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">As always.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy planned like other people breathed.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Which was why she wasn\u2019t nervous about Stanford. It was a blip. A minor inconvenience. Nothing that an internship at Pulse wouldn\u2019t wipe away like a hard reset on her MacBook Pro.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She stared at the gently tanned skin of her exposed ankles and wiggled her toes, enticing circulation to resume after being dangled two inches off the floor despite her heels. She pulled her pink-and-white-striped notebook onto her lap and leafed through the pages, refreshing herself on all the notes she\u2019d taken thus far on ValleyStart, the summer tech incubator program she was about to begin. The five-week competition ended with one team winning an internship at Pulse. If she succeeded (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>please<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">), she\u2019d spend the rest of the summer at Pulse with Ryan Thompson. And Pulse, well, not even Stanford could ignore a pedigree that included Pulse.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Satisfied it was all already committed to memory, she closed her notebook and stared at the shiny gold <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>L<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> floating on the center of the cover\u2014the only Hanukkah gift she\u2019d received last year, sent in a FedEx envelope from her mom\u2019s assistant.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She tucked it under her arm and stood, passing by windows that looked out on row after row of blue, red, black, white, and green hybrid cars lined up like Crayolas in the parking lot, the closest the office came to having a pop of color. A four-by-six double frame propped beside her mom\u2019s three monitors was the only personalization in the room.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">One side held Lucy as a baby, swaddled in her mom\u2019s arms with her dad looking off to the side, toward the London office he\u2019d soon head. The second photo once again displayed the three of them, this time on graduation day, just a few weeks ago. Her dad had scheduled a week of meetings before and after in order to attend.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Two milestones in Lucy\u2019s life, as if nothing had happened in between, with the frame leaving no room for anything to come.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">The graduation photo hung crooked in the frame. She could just see her mom hurriedly shoving it inside with one hand, typing an email with the other, while on a conference call with Singapore, Melbourne, and Dubai.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy set her phone on the desk. She pulled off the cardboard backing to straighten the photo and out fell the slip of paper behind it: a smiling baby\u2014not Lucy, simply the picture that had come in the frame. How long had her mom kept that other child beside Lucy? Long enough to forget to print one to take its place, long enough to no longer notice that she should.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">On the desk, her phone vibrated and lit up with a text.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">ValleyStart: Team assignments are in! Meet Your Mates!<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy\u2019s arm shot out like a rattlesnake and her notebook fell, knocking into one of her mom\u2019s monitors.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLucy!\u201d Abigail Katz entered the room and rushed forward in her expensive flats.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGot it!\u201d Lucy\u2019s tennis-trained reflexes saved the monitor before it took down the others like dominos.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Considering Lucy had read and re-read the acceptance packet about a thousand times and been waiting for the past two months to see who she\u2019d be spending the next five weeks with, her restraint in not jumping on the ValleyStart portal instantly was extraordinary.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>It\u2019s actually happening.<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Her pulse quickened, and she was almost dizzy as she circled one way around the desk, back to the hard chair. Her mom rounded the corner from the opposite direction, adjusted the tilt of the monitor, and sat down in front of it.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">With the seven-inch height difference between them, Lucy could only see her eyes. And the tiredness in them.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy would never deny that Abigail Katz worked hard.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">But that was all she did.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Lucy.\u201d Abigail smoothed the ends of her chin-length bob. The barest hint of gray dusted the roots\u2014a constant battle, waged every three weeks as she colored it back to brown. \u201cThey needed some guidance in a branding meeting that wasn\u2019t on my schedule.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cRight,\u201d Lucy said.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Abigail reached into the top drawer of her desk and pulled out two protein bars. \u201cJust a quick lunch, then, okay?\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Peanut butter. Lucy hated peanut butter. \u201cSure.\u201d She peeled back the wrapping. Not even peanut butter could ruin her ValleyStart high.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAll set for tomorrow?\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPacked the car this morning.\u201d She bounced (<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>just a little<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">) in her seat.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Abigail stopped chewing. \u201cNot an Uber or Lyft?\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s ten miles.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cRight. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Ten<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s4\">Half the number of fender benders Lucy had been in. <\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i>Who has time to spend learning to be a perfect driver?<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFine. Whatever.\u201d Lucy pretended there was no judgment in her mom\u2019s question and forced a bite of the peanut butter. \u201cI\u2019ll leave the car.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBetter plan. You won\u2019t need it anyway.\u201d Abigail set her own half-eaten bar down. \u201cYou have to focus. Palo Alto High School may have been competitive, but ValleyStart\u2019s in another league. The top startup incubator for high school graduates in the country with only sixty accepted out of\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThree thousand applicants, I know.\u201d An acceptance rate of only two percent. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Two.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Stanford\u2019s was four. The sole explanation\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Freaking Gavin Cox.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">The only other applicant from her high school to make it into ValleyStart.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy pushed her heels into the floor and all thoughts of Gavin where they belonged\u2014in the past.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been focused, Mom. I\u2019m certainly not going to stop now.\u201d Top ten in her class, 4.8 GPA, tennis all-star, two marathons under her belt, and still a lecture on being \u201cfocused.\u201d Lucy regretted the bite as her stomach churned.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNothing wrong with reminders,\u201d Abigail said, just as one dinged on her computer and phone in unison, the sound as familiar to Lucy as the squeak of her bedroom door.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy stood.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWait. It\u2019s just\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d Abigail\u2019s eyes slowly drifted from her three monitors to Lucy\u2019s expertly draped off-the-shoulder tee and perfectly cuffed dark-wash jeans. \u201cI\u2019ve always given you freedom because you\u2019ve shown that you can handle it. Up until now.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Now<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> meaning not getting into Stanford.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut with this, with this new world you\u2019re entering, well, I just want you to be aware of the pressures and the importance of how you present yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPresent myself? I\u2019m not a poodle in some dog show.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThat\u2019s not what I meant.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThen what do you mean, Mom?\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLetting off steam in high school is one thing, but now you\u2019re an adult.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSo I\u2019ve heard.\u201d Her mom had repeated the same phrase ad nauseam since Lucy\u2019s eighteenth birthday three months ago.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBelieve me, Lucy, it\u2019s no secret how little you\u2019ve wanted to heed my advice lately. If and when that changes, you know where to find me.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Right here in this same baby-poop-brown office you\u2019ve lived in since I took my first steps\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. which, naturally, you missed.<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Heat rose in Lucy\u2019s chest, and all she wanted to do was give her mom a reminder: that the phrase was \u201cwork hard\u201d <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>and<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cplay hard.\u201d And the playing bit could yield the same\u2014if not better\u2014results as the working. Connections made things happen. Just ask her Pulse tee.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSure, Mom.\u201d Lucy brushed her hand through her long dark hair, forgetting she was still holding the brick of peanut butter. She picked a crumb off a strand by her chin and watched as her mom slipped on her computer glasses and turned the world right in front of her eyes crystal clear, blurring everything else beyond\u2014including Lucy.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy headed for the door. \u201cJust one small thing\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. in order to give me freedom or anything else, you\u2019d actually have to be around.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She didn\u2019t wait for her mom to look up; she simply wrapped her hand around the metal knob and closed the door behind her with barely a sound, making sure she \u201cpresented herself\u201d properly.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>How am I even related to her?<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy only made it halfway down the hall before she slowed, leaned her head against the crap-colored walls, and tried to stop her heart from racing.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Level 7. Seven hearts was Racing.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Like everyone her age, like everyone in the world, Lucy knew the Pulse levels as well as her home address. \u201cWhat\u2019s your Pulse?\u201d were the first words off of anyone\u2019s lips upon meeting, the first background check determining worthiness for everything from friend to blind date to party invites, probably even job offers.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">The brainchild of Ryan Thompson when he was only a year older than Lucy, the app amalgamated an individual\u2019s likes, favorites, views, thumbs-ups, and more from every major social media platform, translating it to a simple Pulse level, ranking you from zero, Dead, all the way to ten, Crushing It. Over time, as the app evolved, Level 10s became top influencers, the people everyone wanted to be or be seen with. Advertisers and the entertainment business soon realized that Level 10s\u2019 smiling faces could increase sales and media coverage. Now, 10s got complimentary everything, from the newest iPhones to dips in Iceland\u2019s Blue Lagoon. To be a 10 was to live with all the perks.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Once Lucy and her team won the ValleyStart incubator, Pulse would be her second home for the rest of the summer. The prize of an internship at the most successful tech company in the past ten years was worth more than any amount of money.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">She\u2019d use it to her advantage. Starting now.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy opened the Stanford portal and did what she\u2019d wanted to do for weeks, since she was accepted into ValleyStart. She requested a second alumni interview. She knew it was irregular, but she explained that she had new information she was delighted to share\u2014namely the incubator.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Lucy then lifted her chin higher and straightened her top. As she passed by the largest office\u2014a suite\u2014she ran her finger along the three little letters on the nameplate: <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>CEO<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Pulse would secure that future.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">At the elevators, Lucy logged into the ValleyStart portal to find not just the names of her teammates but her assigned mentor: Ryan Thompson.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">For the first time since arriving at her mom\u2019s office, Lucy smiled.<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/about-the-author-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/about-the-author-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/about-the-author-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/about-the-author-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3179 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/author-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lori Goldstein is the author of <em>Screen Queens<\/em>, published by Razorbill on June 11, 2019,(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Screen-Queens-Lori-Goldstein\/dp\/0451481593\"><span class=\"s2\">Amazon<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/screen-queens-lori-goldstein\/1129791613\"><span class=\"s2\">Barnes and Noble<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780451481597\"><span class=\"s2\">IndieBound<\/span><\/a>) about three teen girls who attend a startup incubator in Silicon Valley and learn what it means to compete in the male-dominated world of tech.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy series <em>Becoming Jinn<\/em> and <em>Circle of Jinn<\/em> is a modern spin on the traditional tale of wish-granting genies (Feiwel and Friends\/Macmillan).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obsessed with books, beach, and Game of Thrones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like her author page on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/LoriGoldsteinAuthor\"><span class=\"s2\">Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for fun book-related photos, tidbits, and happenings as well as news on upcoming releases.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-author-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-author.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-author-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-author-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7124792.Lori_Goldstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LoriGoldsteinAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loriagoldstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/lorigoldsteinbooks.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tumblr<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lorigoldsteinbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-tour-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-tour.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-tour-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/follow-the-tour-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/tour-schedule-screen-queens-by-lori.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2580 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here.png 810w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here-768x427.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/enter-the-giveaway-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/enter-the-giveaway.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/enter-the-giveaway-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/enter-the-giveaway-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>US Only:<\/strong> Enter here to win an a print copy of <em>Screen Queens<\/em> and two swag bags!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>International:<\/strong> Enter here to win one of 20 paper doll character cards of Maddie, Lucy, and Delia!<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>*International includes US and Canada<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><p>Reading this book contributed to these challenges:<\/p><ul class=\"ubb-contributed-challenges\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pagmwu-qf\">2019 Reviews<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the Screen Queens blog tour!!! This is such a great book, and I&#8217;m so excited to be a part of the book tour! So read on to find my review (with my favorite quotes!), more info about Lori Goldstein, where to follow the rest of the tour, and a giveaway! (US AND international!!!) 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