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The Spotlight

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adult fiction music pop teen young

Max Martin is more famous than you are and he knows it.  A former TV star, his current re-invention in music has found him selling more albums than any living pop artist.  His every move is followed by #Martinis, who fill arenas around the world.  At sixteen, he is content to ride high on a wave of vapid hits, living the only like he knows - happily sheltered behind a wall of manipulative handlers and hangers-on. 

Until it happens.  The thing that changes his whole life.  The thing that challenges him to become the kind of person that he never thought he would want to be.

The Spotlight is a story about what happens when the wall of fame comes crashing down; when a pop star must become a real, living human being who walks among us.  

How does a self-involved, former-megastar fit into a small town with a new family? And just how is he going to get that girl to see that he’s more than what she thinks he is – an obnoxious, annoying, poseur puppet.

(The Spotlight is a novel work-in-progress, rolled out chapter by chapter on Wattpad.  The author reserves his right to change things as they move along, but promises not to do anything too dastardly.)All Rights Reserved

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