Mandy and Lexi - Weekend Update Edition

1) "You Can Leave" has hit 53 on Billboard Indicator charts!

2) After Hours is now available for preorder in hardcover, paperback, and e-book!  Check it out here on Amazon or from other retailers, listed here.

3) Mandy got a new two-book deal with Simon Pulse!  Check out the announcement below!

4) Secrets, Lies, and Scandals was listed on RT's Books Before the Buzz! Check it out here!

5) The "You Can Leave" music video has almost 20k views!  Watch here!

6) We got our pictures back from a photo shoot by the lovely Vania Stoyanova!  Check 'em out!  Soon these will be the banners for the blog!

AFTER HOURS E-book availabe for pre-order!

Cool stuff - this morning, I woke up to find that the Kindle version AFTER HOURS is now available for pre-order! :)

Hopefully we'll see the hardcover and paperback versions on Amazon soon!

Check it out HERE.

In Good Company!!

Happy Sunday Ya'all!

I have exciting news this week! My management company Patton House Entertainment has merged with a larger management company called First Company Management! First company manages the christian group The Newsboys, they starred in the movie "Gods Not Dead" this year! They also manage a lot of other great acts and I am excited to be one of the First Company artists.

Friday night I went to the SOLD OUT Newsboys and 7th Time Down show here in Nashville! It was amazing and so inspiring! They are on tour now and I recommend everybody catch their show!!


Check out First Company Managements Artists Here!


Mandy and I are enjoying a Roommate day in Nashville and we hope you all have a great week!!

xoxo,

Lexi

What's up this weekend?

Just a quick note - I'll be blogging like a madwoman ALL WEEKEND for the SCBWI Midsouth Conference, which is basically a conference where writers from all over the Midsouth come to learn all of the ins and outs of the publishing world.  I'm leading a trusty blog team with amazing authors like Colette Ballard, Bethany Griffin, and illustrator Cat York, so if you want a taste of what a writers conference is all about, check it out - we'll be at SCBWI MIDSOUTH 2014 all weekend!

Lexi is singing in good old Ogallala, Nebraska tonight, where it's already cold - and my parents are in attendance!  Go Lex!

Book Deals and Billboards!

Big news, guys - Lexi, who hit the Music Row Top 50 this week, has finally done it - she's hit THE BILLBOARD/INDICATOR CHARTS.

That's right, guys - Lexi is number 59 on the Billboard/Indicator charts!

Make sure to congratulate her on this AMAZING achievement! :)

"You Can Leave" breaks the Top 50!! 

I hope you have had an AMAZING Summer! I can’t believe it’s almost the end of August! We had an amazing California/Nevada/Arizona radio tour a couple weeks ago and now I am finally back in the great state of Tennessee!  We are so excited to announce that "You Can Leave" got to #50 on the Music Row Charts! Woo hoo what a dream come true! 

If you haven't seen the music video for “You Can Leave” on CMT.com and GAC.com! I attached the links below! Check it out and share! 

To watch on CMT.com click on the link below!

www.cmt.com/artists/lexi-larsen/

To watch on GAC.com click on the link below!

http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2014/03/29/watch-lexi-larsens-you-can-leave-music-video/

Fun Fact: Did you know the boy in the “You Can Leave” music video is actually my high school sweet heart and really good friend now? His name is Joe and he is from Ogallala, Nebraska too! I wanted to be able to get those feelings back and I knew having him in the video would make it very raw and honest for me! It was such a fun day!

Happy Sunday ya' all!!! 

Lexi

On people hearing about your book who are not related to you

Of course I knew that my family would read my book.  I mean, they did when I was like, seven, and writing these really lame stories about being away at summer camp or something that I never actually did.  They mostly revolved around pranks and unsophisticated crayon drawings of girls with too-big heads and noses that always faced to the right. (Clearly, I was never cut out to illustrate books).  Reading my work was probably a lot like torture, but my parents, especially, were always really encouraging about my writing.  :)

Anyway, lately, a lot has been going on - some really cool things that I CAN'T TALK ABOUT and some that I can.  Like that AFTER HOURS has been showing up ON THE INTERNET.  I mean, people are actually talking about it!  People who aren't my family and friends.  People who NEVER MET ME.  How weird is that?

It's really exciting. But it's also extremely intimidating.  People are actually looking forward to reading something THAT I WROTE.  This is all really scary, because as with any book, there are going to be people that love it (um, let's hope) but no matter what, there are going to be people who don't like it, too, which might reduce me to weeping while eating box of stale chocolates during old Freddie Prinze Jr. movies.  (Just kidding. About the chocolate. I don't eat chocolate.  But I am still down for Freddie Prinze Jr. movies.)

Anyway, it's on blogs, a few people have pinned it on Pinterest, and it's even on GoodReads, which is the scariest review site EVER (according to my author friends) but it's also where I can stalk people as they read it and catch updates as they love it and/or make fun of it mercilessly.  Let's hope for the former.

Other fun news:  I got to see my cover comp yesterday, and I'm really excited about it.  The AFTER HOURS cover will be glossy, but some parts of the cover - like parts of the door, the dollar bill, and the title - will be matte, which just creates a really unique look (and feel) to the book.

That's all the news I can share (for now)!  I hope you're enjoying the blog!  Feel free to comment or ask us questions - we love hearing from people!

Have a great Saturday! :)