Between A Rockstar And A Hard Place
Behind the music…Being best friends with a mega-star has its perks and Nicole Wilde, music journalist, laps them up. But when said friend, Dylan King, gorgeous lead singer of The Burnouts, has zero sense of self-preservation – once a drop of alcohol hits his blood stream ? and an inability to keep ‘little Dylan’ in his pants, it also comes with responsibilities.Now, Nicole has to track down Dylan in time to play a charity gig tomorrow. Half a dozen groupies, a haunted hotel, a tattoo parlour, a reality show runner-up and a crazy bed-hopping, sleepless night later – will she find him before the tour bus leaves town? And when she does, is it time to head home? Or to jump on the tour bus and go along for the ride!Between a Rockstar and a Hard Place is the fun and fabulous prequel to Portia MacIntosh’s How Not to be Starstruck. Look out for it March 2014.Praise for Portia MacIntosh'I don’t usually get girl crushes but I totally wannabe Nicole or at least her BFF. Music, festivals all the elements the crazy rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle topped off with a cutting edge humour.' - Book Angel Booktopia'Between A Rockstar And A Hard Place is such a fun, exciting and genuinely funny read. This is such a brilliant taster of what is to come from Portia, I am so excited to see what Dylan gets up to next.' - Victoria Loves Books'A sweet novella about one woman, one rockstar and a whole heap of trouble!' - She Loves To Read
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Behind the musicâ¦
Being best friends with a mega-star has its perks and Nicole Wilde, music journalist, laps them up. But when said friend, Dylan King, gorgeous lead singer of The Burnouts, has zero sense of self-preservation â once a drop of alcohol hits his blood stream â and an inability to keep âlittle Dylanâ in his pants, it also comes with responsibilities.
Now, Nicole has to track down Dylan in time to play a charity gig tomorrow. Half a dozen groupies, a haunted hotel, a tattoo parlour, a reality show runner-up and a crazy bed-hopping, sleepless night later â will she find him before the tour bus leaves town? And when she does, is it time to head home? Or to jump on the tour bus and go along for the ride!
Between a Rockstar and a Hard Place is the fun and fabulous prequel to Portia MacIntoshâs Starstruck.Look out for it March 2014.
Look out for more books by Portia MacIntosh from Carina UK
Starstruck (March 2014)
Between a Rockstar and a Hard Place
Portia MacIntosh
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2014
Copyright © Portia MacIntosh 2014
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E-book Edition © June 2014 ISBN: 9781472090973
Version date: 2018-07-23
When she was fifteen years old, Portia MacIntosh fell in with a bad crowdâ¦rockstars. After disappearing on tour and living the rock ânâ roll lifestyle for a few years, Portia landed a job in the music industry â but only so that she didnât have to join the real world just yet.
Now in her twenties, Portia is ready to spill the beans on the things she has witnessed over the years. Well, kind of. If her famous friends knew that she was borrowing their lives to inspire her fiction, they would stop inviting her on tour and banish her from the inner circle. Then she really would have to rejoin the real world, and sheâs still not ready for that.
Portia only started writing novels to share her secrets, but then she realised she actually quite liked writing â maybe even more than she likes living on a bus with a bunch of smelly boys â and has since tried her hand at writing about other things.
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Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Thank you to the HQ Digital UK team â especially Victoria, Lucy and Jo. Iâm looking forward to working with you on the next book.
None of this would have been possible without my lovely friends in the music industry. Thank you to all the bands I know/have worked with over the years â Iâve had so much fun, and I hope you donât mind me taking inspiration from our adventures.
Most importantly of all, thank you to my incredible family for humouring me throughout my Almost Famous phase (Iâm sure it will end soon). Your love and support mean so much to me.
And finally, thank you to my band boy.
For J.A & J.O
Chapter One: Out of the frying pan, into the crowd
They say when you canât find something, the first thing you should do is look for it in the last place you remember seeing it. Well, the last time I saw the thing I have misplaced, he was up on stage performing some of his greatest hits in front of 50,000 screaming fans. I am, of course, talking about super-famous rockstar Dylan King â best known for being the lead singer in The Burnouts, less known for being my best friend.
We first met when I was just starting out as a music journalist and he made it his mission to sleep with me. He pulled out all the stops to impress me, but the harder he tried, the harder I resisted and Iâm so glad that I did because Iâd rather have him as a friend than a famous notch on my bedpost. There are downsides to being his best friend, though. Dylan is what youâd call a liability, and despite his fame and his ability to sell records, his record label know that he can be unpredictable and theyâre constantly telling him to watch his behaviour â this is like telling a bull to ignore the colour red because Dylan only views their warnings as a challenge to see just how far he can push them, and one day he will push them too far. Thatâs where I come in. Iâm a Dylan wrangler. Iâm the only one who is always there in the background, regulating his rebellious behaviour and making sure he doesnât take things too far. Iâm the one who makes sure he is on time for sound checks, the one who makes sure he carries condoms and the one who always tries to make sure there is at least a little blood in his alcohol stream. The reality is that Dylan, Dill as I call him, is almost always drunk, has little respect for women and thinks that he is God. Still, I love him to bits, and Iâm happy to do all the things his tour manager is paid to do. Itâs not that Claire doesnât do her job well, itâs just that Dylan doesnât listen to her.
