The cover saga continues! My editor called on Thursday to let me know that they were doing a photo shoot for the new face of Cracked Up to Be! And, if I remember correctly, I made this noise at her: “Eeeeeeeeee!” until we hung up. I should be seeing the results of this photo shoot soon and then hopefully you will all be seeing the new cover not too long after that.
Eeeeeeeeee!
My author page is up on the St. Martin’s Press website, which is surreal. There is an ‘Interview with Courtney Summers’ on it, even! I think I would have talked less about zombies if I had remembered the St. Martin’s Press author pages were written in a Georgia font, which just seems very zombie-disapproving as far as fonts go.
AND on the Cracked Up to Be page–it has a page too!–there is a Q&A, also with this Courtney Summers person, whoever she is. The answers there are slightly more serious. So I think I have unintentionally done an excellent job of presenting myself as a big inconsistent flake with a zombie obsession. Except I totally did that on purpose. YES.
Also: ‘I enjoy watching zombie movies in my free time.’ Note how I couldn’t even expand on that. No, I don’t go out or have friends or even watch zombie movies inside WITH friends. I just sit in front of my TV and watch reanimated corpses eat brains by myself. 24/7.
I’m kind of tempted to sign up for my own author alerts. Is this egotistical? I figure it would be a good way to find out what I was up to since I don’t even know half the time. Like right now I thought I was typing a blog entry but I’m actually playing an air guitar.
Here is a photograph of a cow that I took over the weekend:
It wanted me to tell you “hello” and “YOU’RE NEXT.”
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Well, I signed up for your author updates firstly, so that you had good stats with SMP, and secondly, so that they could update me on the things that they know that I don’t, which, it would seem, you might not know either.
Still, let’s figure that if you know half, and they know half, then in the end you’ll know just about all you need to know about what you’re up to. However, it might pay to check that their half isn’t the half that you already know about, cause that probably wouldn’t help all that much.
ZOMBIE COW !
I like that it said hello though. Very considerate. One should always be nice to things about to be consumed.
I’m in total agreement with the “Eeeeeeee!” on the photo shoot! So exciting – can’t wait to see it!
Your pages on the Macmillan site are very cool! Should the celebrity ghost hunter show ever happen can I make a guest appearance? I can bring snacks for every one and will try my best not to run away at the slightest noise.
That cow is scaring me though. Is it a zombie cow?
I think you’d be crazy NOT to sign up for your own author alerts! (Says the girl who gets three separate google alerts for herself every day.)
“It seems pretty selfish, but I think I’d wish for the zombie apocalypse.”
Best sentence on an author page EVER!
Okay, this cow picture surpasses all cow photos I’ve ever seen. It’s ethereal, like “Transcendental Cow” or “The Zen of Cow.”
Your author page and Q&A page are excellent.
Damon: Still, let’s figure that if you know half, and they know half, then in the end you’ll know just about all you need to know about what you’re up to. <- GENIUS! Why did I not realize this?!
C.K.: Oh my gosh, guest appearance?! You will totally be on the team unless you don’t want to be, because I am sure being on a ghost hunting show demands a lot of time. If a guest appearance suits your schedule better, that is totally okay. OR: recurring role? And it is TOTALLY a zombie cow. I forgot to mention the part where it said, “Braainnnsss.”
Annika: You have given me the push that I needed. Mwahahah.
Sandmore: *bows* Thankee.
Danette: Hah! Yaaay! The cow is pleased. And thank you!!
Whoa, the cow looks like it’s floating! Or about to be abducted and…nevermind poor cow-bb, don’t think of it. :(
I would sign up for author alerts!! It will save you from all the time it would take to constantly google yourself. Maybe.
And you must USE the zombie-movies to create your author ~*mystique*~. It will be your stock answer for every question people ask about your personal life. Like C. Pike himself – all we know about him is that he lives in Santa Barbara and enjoys playing with his neices and nephews. So all the world will know about Courtney Summers is that she lives in *Canada* and watches zombies 24/7. :D Want to hire me as your personal marketing liaison? *munches brains*
Oh, and I’ve been meaning to ask…you *have* seen DEAD ALIVE, have you not?
Hee hee hee. Zombie cow. It actually is quite creepy.
Zombie cow. It will eat your brains. Then it will regurgitate them, chew them for a while and eat them again!! Four stomachs makes a truly scary zombie.
Is that cow one of the twelve cows of the zombie apocolypse?
PS – the World Air Guitar championships were on last weekend. An American guy won I think…or maybe he was Swedish… anyway he only won because I wasn’t there doing my best AC/DC work :)
Your author page and Q&A makes you seem so cool and smart and funny and interesting, and makes me even more inclined to read your novel (though I was going to anyway). Really. I loved the way you answered the questions, the mix of serious and silly (not that zombies are in any way silly, sorry).
Great job! And what a fantastic cow.
And eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! for that new cover.
Interesting cow-related news article: apparently cows can sense magnetic north/south.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/25/science-cows.html
Emily: Hah! You have turned my photograph into a nightmare for the poor cow-bb. IF YOU WILL WORK FOR SKITTLES YOU ARE NOT MY NEW PERSONAL MARKETING LIASON! YES. And… *shame* I haven’t seen Dead Alive. *hides*
Starrynite: That needs to be a book/movie/stage play RIGHT NOW. Ahahah, best ever.
Briony: I totally want to title my photo that now. ONE COW OF THE TWELVE COWS OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. I can’t believe that there are World Air Guitar Championships. This is amazing to me. We should go up and show the world what we’re made of. You will win as I am totally out of practice, but an experience will be had.
Nova: Eeee! Thank you. That is a relief because I still feel I might sound like a total dork.
Ben: That is CRAZY. And by crazy I mean AWESOME. Thanks for passing that on!!! Cows. Gotta love ‘em!
I have totally been thinking about the zombie cow movie! It kept me awake last night. We should make it.
The trailer would be all, “It started with an innocent game of cow tipping……(in growly movie voiceover voice) and ended with brain-devouring carnage” and then there’d be all these quick edits of this group of teenagers (of course) running away from the zombie cows.
*sigh*
I have too much time on my hands. Or I don’t use my time productively. You decide.
i think that life would feel pretty empty if you talked about zombies less.
You should exclaim over the fact that they are doing a cover shoot just for your book. That is a Big Deal.
As far as
stalkingtracking yourself, hey, go for it.FREE THE COW!
(I’m a vegetarian and animal rights grrl.)
ALSO: Re: zombie apocalypse:
Read SOULLESS by Christopher Golden.
Read SOULLESS by Christopher Golden.
Read SOULLESS by Christopher Golden.
Best. Zombie. Book. EVAH.
Starrynite: I feel you use your time very productively because I have not stopped laughing since I’ve read that comment. Oh. My. Gosh. That movie needs to be made, NOW.
Kelvin: Agreed!
Little Willow: I SO WOULD HAVE FREED THE COW. But. He was a zombie. So the risk was very high. :( Just added Soulless to my GoodReads though! Like I am going to resist something touted as the Best. Zombie. Book. Evah!!!!