They may also get felt up, controlled by abusive managers for their money, or typecast. To start with, the actors may face unfair harassment and constant Internet hate. This Is Reality: One point that each book makes is that fandom is not all positive feels and roses.Fractured Fairytale: Each book is a take on a classic fairy tale or story to get its point across.

Tropes for this series in general include: He ends up in a small town, where a local girl accidentally damages a rare book and has to work with him to Work Off the Debt. Jessica Stone wants to prove she's not leaking the script to social media, and Imogen wants to save Jessica's character Amara from being Stuffed in the Fridge.īookish and the Beast focuses on Vance, a minor character in Fangirl. The Princess and the Fangirl is about an actress and fan who switch places during ExcelsiCon. The only problem is she has a controlling stepmother, demanding stepsisters, and dislike for Darien Freeman, the new lead. She wants to win a cosplay contest to attend the cosplay ball and meet the new Carmindor lead. Geekerella is about Danielle 'Elle' Wittimer, a fangirl whose father founded the ExcelsiCon for Starfield fans. There are currently three books in the series: Geekerella, The Princess and the Fangirl, and Bookish and the Beast. It is centered around the fictional Starfield franchise and the fandom culture that sparks up around it. The feeling is mutual.īut as Vance and Rosie begrudgingly get to know each other, their careful masks come off-and they may just find that there’s more risk in shutting each other out than in opening their hearts.Once Upon A Con is a series by Ashley Poston. And while most Starfield superfans would jump at the chance to work in close proximity to the Vance Reigns, Rosie has discovered something about Vance: he’s a jerk, and she can’t stand him. When Rosie and Vance’s paths collide and a rare book is accidentally destroyed, Rosie finds herself working to repay the debt. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA. On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as he can remember-with all the privilege and scrutiny that entails.

Her only solace was her late mother’s library of rare Starfield novels, but even that disappeared when they sold it to pay off hospital bills. Most of all, she’s stuck in her grief over her mother’s death. Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck-on her college application essays, in her small town, on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. In the third book in Ashley Poston’s Once Upon a Con series, Beauty and the Beast is retold in the beloved Starfield universe.

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