Wish Upon A Streaming Star
Krissi Dallas
(Season 1 Volume 1)
Publication date: July 7th 2024
Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
He’s an internet star.
She can’t stand him.
Together they just went viral.Daisy McEntire might seem like an uptight control freak, but it’s only because she’s trying to graduate high school, support her cancer-fighting mother, and save her family’s riverside campground. The last thing she needs is her obnoxious neighbor, internet star Caz Cortéz, keeping everyone up with his late night video stunts and ridiculous pranks. Forget that they grew up as best friends—that was before he relentlessly obsessed over his hair and stats.
But when Daisy accidentally botches one of Caz’s pranks on livestream, the video goes viral, endangering his sponsorships and throwing her into an unwelcome spotlight. As if the overnight attention isn’t enough, half a million dollars in an unbreakable lockbox mysteriously appears. The key to unlock it? Reenact a series of cliché Hollywood movie scenes together within 48 hours.
The catch? It all has to be done live on the Internet—no rehearsals.
Daisy needs the money. Caz needs the stats. Surely they can work together long enough to complete the challenge, split their earnings, and then get back to ignoring each other from across the property line.
The one challenge they can’t control, though, is the one that could jeopardize it all—falling in love.
Author Bio:
Krissi Dallas loves pop music, mismatched socks, and Tex-Mex food. She is wife to Dr. Sam Dallas, mom to two strong-willed little boys and a mini goldendoodle, and former junior high teacher of sixteen years. When she’s not busy serving in her church and community, Krissi gives herself over to daydreams and writing. She has five books in the Phantom Island series with the sixth and final installment on the way. Her Kindle Vella novel, Icarus Flight School, spent eleven weeks as the #1 Top Faved story in Teen and Young Adult and just released in paperback and hardcover. Her ongoing serial romantic comedy, Wish Upon A Streaming Star, is currently a Top Faved story on Kindle Vella where new episodes release every weekend. She’s a proud member of the writing community at Art House Dallas and loves nothing more than connecting with readers and writers of all ages.
Guest Post:
How long does it take you to write a book?
“Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” –Stephen King, On Writing
The first time I read this in Stephen King’s memoir, I was like, YES. That’s exactly what happens: two seemingly unconnected ideas suddenly find each other and you just know it’s the story you’re supposed to tell.
My Phantom Island series started out in my head, featuring a lost Island of four tribes that control the four elements. But when I married that idea to a summer camp for disturbed kids, it was the start of a magical portal adventure with one epic love triangle. Next, I wanted to write about teenage pilots saving the world from terrorism… but my Icarus Flight School series didn’t take shape until I grounded my world in espionage. Suddenly, I had a forbidden, friends-to-lovers romance trope in the middle of spy lessons, bombings, and plane crashes. With my newest release, Wish Upon A Streaming Star, I knew I wanted to write an enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about a girl falling in love with a YouTube star. However, the story idea wasn’t conceived in full until I merged small-town life and Hollywood clichés into one hilarious and heart-warming adventure that gives a modern-day nod to the themes of Pride and Prejudice. And it has been a reader-voted Top Fave on Kindle Vella since 2021.
If story inspiration is two ideas marrying each other and birthing a hundred-thousand-word baby, then writing that baby has always felt a bit like pregnancy. It would be nice if every book had the same gestation period, but that hasn’t been the case for me. Every book presents different adventures and challenges, based on subject matter plus life circumstances divided by current events. I’ve been a published author for fifteen years and have written the equivalent of almost ten books at this point—each one taking a different amount of time to complete.
Windchaser and Windfall took me four months to draft together. That was a magical summer before I was a mother, and I got to just fall in love with the story for myself.
Watercrossing and Watermark took me two years. Sequels get harder. Plus, I knew enough about storytelling at that point to slow myself down and evaluate everything.
Firetrap was seven years. I birthed two human babies in those years. Enough said.
Icarus Flight School was—get this—ten years! Remember what I said about current events? That book kept getting scrapped down to the initial twenty percent and rewritten, as technology and events in the media kept forcing me to change it. Now I get PTSD whenever I think about tackling the sequel. Someday…
Wish Upon A Streaming Star was the one that shocked me. I started writing and publishing (and revising and editing with a professional editor) 1-2 chapters a week from November 2021 to December 2022 and posting them on Kindle Vella. As a result, I had two full-length novels (90,000 words each) ready to go and a whole new audience of loyal serial fiction fans that my other books would never have reached. Season 2 is now in its final months on Kindle Vella, making it a four-book series. There are even rumors—that I started—about a Season 3!
Being a Kindle Vella author has been rewarding for a lot of reasons, but one of them is the level of productivity it forces on me. When I know I have an active audience each week, waiting for the next chapter, it keeps me going when I might normally quit. And one chapter a week adds up quickly into enough for a bound book.
If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s a formulaic writer who pumps out books on a specific timeline. All of my projects are a reflection of me, not the latest trend or trope. Therefore, each story has to grow within its unique DNA until it’s ready to be shared with the world.
So consider this my birth announcement for Season 1 of Wish Upon A Streaming Star! We have twins, weighing in at 90,000 words each, in two illustrated volumes—available now in Kindle Unlimited, paperback, and e-book. Help me welcome them into the world!
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