Secret rules to being a rockstar

"Eighteen-year-old Kyla Bell dreams of becoming a professional musician, so when Ruby Sky, the lead singer of her favorite band hears her perform one night and asks her to join Glitter Tears on a national tour as their new keyboardist, Kyla says "Yes," even though it means moving immediately to Los Angeles and transforming from small-town, insecure teen to rockstar queen ... in just three months. In Jessamyn Violet's extraordinary debut LGBTQ+ young adult novel, ambition and the drive to succeed leads Kyla to drop out of her small-town high school in the Berkshires, fly to Los Angeles and move in with a salty, rough-around-the-edges music producer, Robert Jeffs who has agreed to oversee the major image and attitude adjustment Kyla's told she needs in order to fit in the band. Corruption and exploration ensues, and the people Kyla trusted to guide her are far less stable than she'd thought. Ruby's hot one minute, cold the next. Robert spouts as much toxicity as he does wisdom, disappearing when things don't go his way. Kyla battles her own demons while dealing with everyone else's around her, and loses sight of her true self in the process. When she learns that her family is falling apart back home, Kyla must decide just how much of her roots she's willing to let her future cost her. A brilliant youthful look at phenomenon of being "discovered" and how quickly fame can turn into not-so-fun house"--