How To Be An Adult Fangirl
COMING: DECEMBER 22, 2026
What Happens When the Fantasy Gets a Little Too Real?
For more than twenty years, Harley Harper Mitchell has been a fangirl.
She knows the songs. She goes to the concerts. She’s made some of her best friends through fandom. She’s even met Blake Beckett, the lead singer of the world’s biggest boy band, enough times that he knows who she is.
But Harley has a life outside of fandom. She has a career, a husband, friends, responsibilities, and a perfectly normal adult life.
Then she wins a date with Blake on the Insomnia fan cruise.
It’s supposed to be one night. One incredible experience with the celebrity crush she’s had for most of her adult life. Something she can laugh about with her friends and remember forever.
Except the night doesn’t go quite the way either of them expects.
For the first time, Harley isn’t looking at Blake from the crowd or spending a few minutes with him at a fan event. She gets to know the person behind the celebrity.
And Blake gets to know her, too.
How to Be an Adult Fangirl is a contemporary celebrity romance for anyone who has ever had a celebrity crush, traveled way too far for a concert, made lifelong friends because of a fandom, or wondered what it would actually be like if the person onstage noticed you.
Tropes: Celebrity romance • Fangirl x boy bander • He falls first • Slow burn • Forbidden attraction • Protective MMC • Plus-size FMC • Anxiety representation • Dual POV • Found family • Music industry • Fangirl friendships • Plenty of boy band nostalgia
How To Be An Adult Fangirl will be released on all major platforms, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, Walmart.com, Chapters, Indigo, Waterstones, Blackwell, Gardners, Booktopia, Fishpond, The Nile, Jarir, Kinokuniya, and more.
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Karah-Leigh Hancock is a romance writer, marketing professional, and former award-winning journalist with a background in storytelling across print, digital media, and publishing.
She is the traditionally published author of Backstreet Boys: 30th Anniversary Celebration and The Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book. Her fiction focuses on contemporary romance, celebrity culture, music, fandom, and women finding the confidence to go after the lives they want.
Karah-Leigh holds a master’s degree in marketing and is currently completing her MFA in creative writing with a focus on romance.
When she is not writing or working professionally in marketing, she can usually be found traveling the world with her best friends to see her favorite boy bands, listening to Taylor Swift, reading romance novels, rooting for the Atlanta Braves or Kansas City Chiefs, or spending time with her cat, Maddie.
