From Texas to Tomorrowland

In this Disney College Program diary, Texas girl Katie Hudson leaves behind her small town for a new life in Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland, experiences rogue roommate drama you won't believe, and realizes that most pixie dust is bittersweet.

The "Earning Your Ears" series chronicles the experiences of young people from around the country and around the world who leave home, often for the first time, to live and work in Walt Disney World or Disneyland for several months, or even longer.

They are given "roles" to perform, from working in a Disney restaurant or shop to donning a costume and becoming one of the Disney characters who appear in the parks.

Each book in the "EARS" series makes you an honorary cast member as the author takes you behind Disney's pixie dust curtain to learn things the Mouse would prefer you didn't know, and what no guidebook will tell you, including how the theme parks operate from the inside out and what Disney employees do when they're not wishing you a magical day.

In Katie Earns Her Ears, former Disney World cast member Katie Hudson shares:

• The most vivid, detailed look at cast member training and the iconic Traditions class ever put into print
• The highs and low of working at the biggest restaurant in Disney World, including uncomfortably amorous coworkers, cockroaches, fighting kids, and impromptu song-and-dance routines
• The tragic results of a nefarious plot hatched by a vengeful roommate who came to the Disney College Program armed with a Taser
• The epiphany that Disney is not where Katie will ever work again—but how, despite that, the college program became her rite of passage and how its "magic" changed an adolescent into an adult

If you've ever wondered what it would be like not just to visit a Disney theme park but to work in one, the "Earning Your Ears" series is your E-ticket!