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It's the most wonderful time of the year! Unless you're in school, in which case it's the lamest time of the year. Unless you LIKE school, in which case things sure have changed since I was that age. ANYWAYS. It's the most wonderful time of year because today the UPS man came and handed me…

Four! ARCs! Of! Some! Girls! Are!

I am so giddy about this it means I HAVE TO DO A GIVEAWAY. Of course. So you must read on to find out how YOU can be entered in a random draw to win a copy of THIS A

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NOTE: Please be aware, I can't promise/guarantee that those who email me their info will get a copy!!!

But it is good to be able to pass along names of interested bloggers & streamlining the process helps.

If you're a book blogger interested in a review copy of Some Girls Are, please hit up the contact form on my website and let me know! Please include your name, book blog URL and snail mail address. I will be passing on a list of interested bloggers along to my rockin' publicist at SMP soon

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Daisy Whitney is a reporter, new media whiz, host and creator of the New Media Minute (which is not only carried on her site, but TVWeek and ABCNews, among many others), and with the sale of her debut novel–as I recently blogged–to Little Brown (in a two book deal!) she now adds 'YA author' to her resume. Two words:


YAY, DAISY!!!


One thing that constantly amazes me about Daisy is that she has a million things to do, a million deadlines to meet, is constantly on the move from one location to the n

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I haven't updated my blog because I'm afraid the day after I do, I'll get the go ahead to share my cover, and then the blog entry I wrote before that moment will be lost to my cover reveal forever. And it takes me FOREVER to write these things, you guys!

BUT THEN I was like, maybe I won't get the go ahead to show my cover until I try that? Maybe that's exactly how it has to happen and it's the only thing that's standing between me and the go ahead for my cover reveal? So maybe I should just se

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I got my first pass pages today! I'm really looking forward to sitting down with them and reading Some Girls Are as it looks as a book. The last time I did this with Cracked Up to Be, it felt like something had changed in the reading, but in a positive way.

Uhm, hopefully I will have the same experience this time around.

St. Martin's Press put their Winter 2010 catalogs online! If you check out the St. Martin's Griffin catalog, you can see the listing for Some Girls Are! It has a non-final v

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I got an email from my editor saying first pass pages were on their way! Which means I get to see what the pages of Some Girls Are will look like and make any last changes for the finished copies. The cover reveal and ARCS have yet to happen, but it's crazy to think how close January 2010 is!

I am excited and nervous to think of my mean girls out in the world, being mean.

Meanwhile, I have moved out of the achy-joint hurty stage of my plague and graduated to the I Cough So Hard I Wake Myself

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I have the plague. It's awful. Mostly all I have done these past few days is wander around with Kleenex shoved up my nostrils and you totally needed that mental picture, yes you did!

In spite of my plague, it has been a really happy-making week and this is why: my good friend, Daisy Whitney, just landed a two-book deal with Little, Brown for her YA novel, The Mockingbirds! Yay, Daisy!!!

Anddd what's The Mockingbirds? To steal the description from Daisy's blog entry announcing her sale (st

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Maybe you guys remember back in June when I wrote a blog entry about how the new book I was working on came to be? "Imagine A Book," I called it, and I talked about how differently it was conceptualized than my other books and how I'd written a bunch of pages in a really short amount of time and I loved those pages and those pages looked like this happy-happy-joy-joy:





It was sort of obvious this was the giggly post-introduction period. This was me and my manuscript over the awkward date stage a

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I know, I know. Bad blogger. I'm dealing with an unexpected event right now and it's an ongoing thing. No worries, but I've had and have to prioritize accordingly. Life, dudes. Life. I've spent the majority of this week trying to get back on the ball. So far getting back on the ball has involved copying and pasting all the emails I have yet to reply to into notepad, staring at them and weeping softly.

GLAMOROUS.

But it's not ALL glamorous soft weeping. Last Tuesday, I got the final cover f

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Here are the fruits of my Saturday.




Zombiederota by Courtney Summers*

based on Desiderata by Max Ehrmann**

Go cautiously amid the carnage and the waste

and remember what safety there may be in remote areas

As much as possible, be amiable

make friends with all survivors

don't speak your survival plan loudly and boastfully

but do listen to others' plans

even to the dumb and moronic ones;

they might know something you don't.

Avoid deceased, reanimated persons;

they are a danger to the brain.

If you f

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