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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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Some Girls Are is now available for pre-order on amazon, amazon.ca and chapters! It looks like it's coming out January 5th, 2010–the same day as Alyson Noel's third installment in The Immortals series. Very cool!

SGA was also listed in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2010 Sneak Previews, along with quite a few other books I'm really looking forward to reading.

Meanwhile, I've been in creative limbo, slowly trying eke out words while stuff goes on around me that demands nearly all of my attention a

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I have a confession to make. I know I shouldn't do this, but I just can't help it and maybe it makes me a bad person, but I DON'T CARE.

Okay.

Here goes.

I hope we can still be friends after this.

I keep mentally comparing these two characters:









BUT WITH GOOD REASON. Check it out: they're both guys. They're both older than the women they love. They are both super protective of said women. Edward sparkles and drinks blood and moves supernaturally fast. Tuxedo Mask throws roses and wears a

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First, many thanks to everyone who entered my Dani Noir contest! Not only am I thrilled at the number of people who are interested in this fab fab fab book, all of your answers were winningly Rita-esque. So winningly Rita-esque, in fact, I'm thrilled I didn't have to judge them and pick an actual winner. Too hard!

So after I stripped the answers of all identifiers, I emailed them to my mom and asked her to pick her favourite. She spent a good amount of time poring over them and chose…

Khy's

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I just love when a book steals you away from the very first page and carries you along effortlessly until you reach the last page and you get so completely caught up in the story, you realize you haven't gotten up from your chair at all except once to go get popcorn because of said book, which only made your reading experience that much more amazing. Not to brag or anything (okay, totally to brag), but I read that book at the end of June. And that book doesn't come out until September.

But I C

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Happy Canada Day! Being Canadian, this day has some significance to me. I love Canada very much. My friend Lori posted this on her Facebook and I decided to steal it from her and share it with you because I don't know how many of you know this about Canada (or at least, Eastern Canada, which is where I'm from):






image via my confined space




Yes, that's right.






image via wikipedia




I like what Google did with their logo to mark this wonderful day:






image via google




True story: Canada also has k

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I have the best blog readers ever! Not too long ago, reader Melissa sent me a link to a Slate article about Lady Gaga. It's called How Smart is Lady Gaga? and it's a great read because it articulates why Lady Gaga is a genius better than I ever could. I agree with a lot of it, except for the part where I don't think Lady Gaga is pretentious–yes, I know, but I really don't!–and the part where she is called an exquisite horror. The term is not "exquisite horror," okay, it is "HBIC*."

But on the

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My mother and my sister were doing I don’t know what, but the point is they found a fan letter I wrote to the Backstreet Boys–or ‘The BSB’ as us diehards liked to call them–when I was 11-years-old hidden in an old typewriter at my grandmother’s house! Envelope and all!

What great blog entry fodder, I thought, for someone who has spent the last week writing in their sparkly pink housecoat and not brushing their hair!

So those who have been reading this blog for a while know of my fan history wit

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I’m still hard at work on Book 3, which still doesn’t have an amusing working title for this blog (although GagaPants, as suggested by Emily, does have a certain irresistible quality about it), and while the love for the story remains, it is edging toward Getting Harder territory. Oh, progress!

This is what Book 3 looks like so far:





One of my favourite things about this book so far is how differently it has arrived from the others. I wouldn’t mind if all books arrived the way this one did. Cr

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So I just want to share my latest accomplishment with you all: Mindi Scott, whose debut novel will be published by Simon Pulse in 2010 (can’t wait!), told me she heard Toto’s Africa and thought of me. Other people have said this to me as well.

IT’S BECOME A THING!

And that makes me so happy!

In fact, the latest incident of the Toto’s Africa-Courtney Connection came in the form of this BRILLIANT video, sent to me by my good friend Kelvin via Twitter:





At first, I thought he was sending it because

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