How to Be a Movie Star (How to Be #2)

by TJ Klune

Overview

Josiah Erickson wants to be a movie star. The problem with that is so does half of Los Angeles. But he's on his way, what with memorable roles as a TV show background cadaver and a guy in a commercial for herpes medication. All he needs is his big break. And that break may come in the form of a novelist who goes by the enigmatic name of Q-Bert.  

Q-Bert, who is ready to make his directorial debut in a film Josy would be perfect for. Q-Bert, who Josy may or may not have a friend-crush on, and potentially something more. Being demisexual can be confusing.  

From the City of Angels to the small mountain town of Abby, Oregon, Josy will give his all to make sure his dreams come true - even the ones he never thought possible.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163741953
Publisher:	Tj Klune
Publication date:	11/04/2019
Series:	TJ Klune's How to Be Series , #2
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	416 KB

About the Author

TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important--now more than ever--to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

Michael Lesley is a performer who interrogates every line, dregs its subtext, and seduces it off the page. Invested just as much as in where the character is coming from as what the line simply says, his primary motivation is to make each character speak with an oh-so-human vulnerability. That is to say, he aims to live every character's voice. Still in the burgeoning years of his audiobook career, he has won several Audiobook of the Year awards from Goodreads, Love Bytes, and Sinfully MM Book Reviews. While his niche has been made in romance, he believes his talent lies in comedy and young adult stories. He can handle a slew of accents and has a great diversity of tone to read substances from the brutal to the somber to lighthearted to calamitously funny (which is to say, knee-slapping). A multitude, this man.

Editorial Reviews

11/26/2018
Klune’s clunky second How to Be contemporary (after How to Be a Normal Person) focuses on Josiah Erickson, best friend to the previous novel’s main characters and an actor hoping to make it big in L.A. Despite those dreams, Josiah has only gotten a few roles in commercials and works part-time at an Applebee’s. He’s also high all the time, including when he wanders randomly into the library for an erotic fiction reading by Q-Bert, a screenwriter under his birth name of Quincy Moore. After Quincy offers Josiah the lead role in his next film, production moves up to Abby, Ore., and Josiah and Quincy’s relationship starts the slowest of slow burns. The novel has plenty of charming moments, and the main pairing is quaint, queer, and sugar-sweet—but Josiah is a frequently frustrating stoner, and the plot plods along at a snail’s pace. Readers will struggle to stay interested. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly