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From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a story of a craft of beauty manifestation contestants that crashes on a dried island.

Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No entrance to emall. And a suggestion of fierce, untamed foe that lives subterraneous in girls, a monster force that can usually be suggested by a tour into a heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, a horror, a horror! Only funnier. With dusk gowns. And a physique count.

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Amazon Sales Rank: #10056 in eBooks
Published on: 2011-05-24
Released on: 2011-05-24
Format: Kindle eBook
Number of items: 1

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From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray comes a story of a craft of beauty manifestation contestants that crashes on a dried island.

Teen beauty queens. A Lost-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No entrance to emall. And a suggestion of fierce, untamed foe that lives subterraneous in girls, a monster force that can usually be suggested by a tour into a heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, a horror, a horror! Only funnier. With dusk gowns. And a physique count.

A Q&A between Author Libba Bray and… Libba Bray

Q: Hi Libba. we know that currently we have a event to talk you. Er, me. Us?
A: Will this be on a test?
Q: God, we wish not. How about I’ll be “Q” and you’ll be “A.”
A: Sure. Figures you’d get to be a exotic, Scrabble-tastic letter. Mom always favourite we best.

Q: So your new book, Beauty Queens, is about a planeload of teen beauty queens who pile-up on a “deserted” island, that turns out to be a plcae of a brute operation using a super-secret arms deal. Hijinks ensue.
A: Wow, that’s accurately what I would’ve said.
Q: Admit it: This was your possibility to blemish your James Bond itch.
A: Well, we competence usually live twice, yet I’ve seen all a Bond cinema about a dozen times. we like it when things blow up. If they can blow adult with sequins, so many a better.

Q: The book satirizes consumer culture, existence TV, politics, rom-coms, a beauty industry, and sacrament while exploring issues of gender, race, sexuality, beauty, and identity.
A: And things go ‘splodey. Don’t forget.
Q: And things go ‘splodey. In some-more ways than one. What was a impulse for this book?
A: I sealed a contract, for starters. The reduction boring answer is that years ago over lunch, my editor David Levithan said, “A co-worker and we came adult with an suspicion and we have to write it: A craft carrying teen beauty manifestation survivors crashes on an island. And…scene!” we suspicion it sounded like great, campy fun—a possibility for a feminist take on Lord of a Flies. The inserted years have seen some flattering surpassing and joyless setbacks for women, not usually legislatively yet in entertainment, too. We went from “Norma Rae” and “Mary Tyler Moore” to “Keeping Up with a Kardashians” and “Bride Wars.” we was during a store, and even a product names suggested we were damaged in some way—“repair” “correct” “age defying.” we consider there was one product targeted for group and it had some unequivocally candid name like “Moisturizing Lotion. For Men.” No visualisation just, “Oh, hey, we have dry skin? Here’s a product to assistance with that, dude.” The end.

Anyway, we kept entrance behind to Lord of a Flies. Golding paints a flattering grave design of humanity. Without a accoutrements of civilization, a boys devolve into savagery. But for a girls in Beauty Queens, it’s roughly a opposite: Without a expectations & pressures of civilization, they have a leisure to be themselves—or during slightest to start reckoning out who they competence be. Mint?

Q: Thank you.
A: You’re welcome. This is so Meta, isn’t it? Seems like James Franco should be here.
Q: I’m starting to know what people meant when they contend you’re peculiar and a small annoying.
A: Harsh. we don’t provide we this way. Remember, I’m a ethereal flower. You know, like a Venus Flytrap. Or Audrey II.

Q: Moving on. we know we like to emanate a playlist for all we write. What was on this one?
A: Oh. You know. (knowing wink)
Q: Er, yes. we do. But maybe other people would like to know.
A: Oh. Sure. No problem. There were thirty-six songs, including: Beauty Queen/Roxy Music, Mystery Girl/The Yeah YeahYeahs, Guyana Punch/The Judys, Paper Planes/M.I.A., Diamonds Are Forever/Shirley Bassey, Porpoise Song (Theme from “Head”)/The Monkees, Teenage Dream/T-Rex. And of course, Ladybird by Nancy Sinatra in respect of Ladybird Hope, one of a many characters readers will accommodate in Beauty Queens.

Q: Speaking of Ladybird Hope, presidential carefree and a many famous Miss Teen Dream who ever lived, author of Get Scared, America!—any law to a gossip that she bears a flitting similarity to a certain former administrator from Alaska?
A: Sorry, we can’t answer that. we usually put food in my mouth.
Q: But… you’re typing these answers.
A: mlwmwhahhadkeow.

Q: Hoo-kay…there are commercials for TV shows in a book, like “Pirates Bodacious IV: Badder and More Bodaciouser”, and products like Lady ‘Stache Off and Maxi-Pad Pets, the insubordinate conform maxi-pad that creates we feel like you’ve got a special crony in your pants. Were we sketch on your former life as an promotion copywriter?
A: No. we usually unequivocally like essay about maxi-pads.

Q: You also available a audio book for this one. Was that a fun experience?
A: Very many so. I’m gladdened to a extraordinary group of executive Bob Deyan, writer Paul Gagne, and operative Mark Ahronson, who unequivocally led a way. In a booth, we detected that my New Zealand accent stinks, my English accent isn’t any better, and by hour 8 or nine, even my American accent wasn’t too keen. Also, in a future, we will usually be essay three-word sentences. I’m sorry.

Q: Miss Texas plays a distinguished purpose in a book. And you’re creatively from Texas. What is it about Texas and beauty queens?
A: I’m from a hometown of dual former Miss Americas. Gotta say, I’ve got a soothing mark for women who can whirl fiery batons to “Cotton-Eyed Joe” while wearing non-flame-retardant sequined leotards. It’s a chronicle of Fight Club. We also have a top series of state executions. I’m certain those dual contribution aren’t related, though.

Q: Okay, I’m slicing we off. One final question: What’s a singular best thing you’ve ever review about your writing?
A: After The Sweet Far Thing (the third book in a Gemma Doyle Trilogy) came out, a really unhappy reader wrote to voice her antithesis to a choice we done nearby a finish of a novel. “I know because we did it. You are an eco-friendly fembot who survives on a tears of teen girls. With a tears we have shed, we will live forever.” we swear we wanted to cross-stitch that on a pillow. It’s awesome.

Q: Thanks for articulate with me today, Libba. (Me? Us? Oh, I’m so confused…) Anything else we wish people to know about Beauty Queens before we go?
A: Yes. It will alleviate your skin while we sleep!
Q: That’s a lie.
A: Fiction is done of lies. And flattering fonts.
Q: Say goodbye, Libba.
A: I usually did. Whoa. This is doing my conduct in.

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Praise for Libba Bray

"Libba Bray not usually breaks a mold... she smashes it and grinds a little pieces into a sidewalk. For a record, I'd go anywhere she wanted to take me." —The New York Times Book Review

About a Author

Libba Bray is a author of a 2010 Printz Award winning Going Bovine, and a acclaimed Gemma Doyle trilogy. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.