An airplane full of beauty pageant competitors crashes into the ocean. The girls must learn to survive without food, fresh water, and perhaps worst of all, lipsticks and eyeliner. Best-selling young adult author Libba Bray discusses her newest novel “Beauty Queens” with our own Becky Anderson in this week’s edition of Authors Revealed.
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