If online bookstores can usurp Cracked Up to Be’s release date by shipping the book early, I have decided I can too! And make my celebratory blog post now! It’s a dangerous precedent I set, I know, but I really want people to start referring to me as the James Dean of YA Lit because I’m such a rebel. Flouting release dates! Dating unsavoury types! Flippin’ off the paps!
Anyway, you guys, my book is unofficially out right this VERY SECOND and tomorrow it will be OFFICIALLY out and oh em gee! I have been unable to focus on anything as a result. It’s pretty awesome. What am I writing about again? I can’t remember.
I’m really excited, basically. I know it’s cliche and repetitive for me to say I don’t totally believe it’s happened yet, but dangnabit, I don’t. I have exactly three copies of the book resting on the table in front of me and I’m like, srsly? And then everyone’s like, GET THOSE OFF THE TABLE and I am like NO DON’T TOUCH THEM THEY WILL DISAPPEAR THEY ARE TIME LORDS TIME LORDS DO THAT YOU KNOW. DISAPPEAR. JUST AFTER YOU’VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ONE AND ARE SURE YOU’LL BE SPENDING THE REST OF YOUR DAYS WITH THEM IN THE TARDIS, THEY LEAVE OR KICK YOU OUT OF IT.
*sob*
So in celebration of my book’s Unofficial AND Official release, if you comment on this entry, you’ll be put into a draw to have a copy of the finished book shipped to you from Amazon. I anticipate everyone being really busy for the holidays so I’ll probably comment in that case, because I don’t think having 31 copies of my own book is enough.
Preparing Cracked Up to Be for publication was a bigger adventure than I could have anticipated or hoped for.
Thank you for that.
EDIT: Just realized I didn’t put an end date on the contest because I am awesome like that… you gots until December 24th, 5 PM EST time, bbs! I will contact the winner sometime after that. Holiday madness. Thank you everyone for your comments and congrats! I ain’t gonna lie. You made me cry. <3
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HA! I am SO EXCITED for you!
Am anxiously awaiting top sales figures. But I have complete confidence in you. Heck, even the undead love you. :)
~*11 HUTT AVE.*~
HUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAH!
And Hooray!
And YAY!
And…and…and… WOOT!
(can you tell I’m excited?)
Does that mean we get to congratulate you twice? Because I have no life, even during the holidays. I would totally come back and congratulate you again tomorrow.
Happy unofficial release day! Unofficial congrats!
I want to read Cracked Up To Be soooo bad. It looks amazingly good. :)
Congrats on both your unofficial and official release days!
I’ll be scouring book stores in San Francisco tomorrow and buying up all the copies! (OK, I’ll leave a few behind for others…)
LOL you’re a nut! *hugs* ~*SPARKLES*~ and gratz on the new release!
Woohoo! Sign me up! :)
And again — congratulations! I’d have my book mounted on the wall — center of the mantel, a small shrine of candles surrounding it. So yeah, I think it’s more than reasonable to leave yours on the coffee table. (g)
GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!
I keep getting emails from Amazon to say that they won’t send me my copy. Amazon will pay. Meanwhile, CONGRATULATIONS!
I AM BUYING IT TOMORROW. I WILL CUT A BITCH IF IT’S NOT IN THE STORE. FOR SERIOUS BB.
Enter me, enter me! I can’t wait to read CRACKED UP TO BE!
Congrats!
I am commenting on this entry!
Also, YAAAAAAY! Congrats to you. :-)
give me your book! or a tardis!
Congratulations Courtney!!! I can’t wait to read it!!!
Hmm, let’s see… what could be THE MOST bad-ass rebel-y way for me to go pick up my copy tomorrow… maybe I’ll wear extra layers of black eyeliner, and my leather jacket (oh wait I always wear that), and stalk broodily, maybe even menacingly over the the YA section where I’ll yell out something like, “That’s wut I’m talkin’ ’bout!” or “WOOT!” Or “Hells-to-the-yeah, check it bee-hatches!” while waving CUTB victoriously over my head.
Too bad I don’t smoke anymore or I could actually light up IN THE STORE just for the rebel factor, (even though we know smoking is wrong and bad and the surgeon general himself may slap up dead in the face if we did that).
Anyway– expect a pic of this monumental event in your email.
uh–”Us” in the face…yeah.
happy unofficial release day!!
So excited for you!
Seriously, you think I’d need another copy shipped from Amazon.
I want it from Chapters, thankyou very much !
I got my copy in the mail today and it’s a thing of beauty. CONGRATS, Courtney!
*hyperventilates*
Oh, I’m so freakin’ excited!! Gimme a paper bag before I pass out!!!!!
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Uh. Muh. Guh. I would totally love to win a copy of this book. And then maybe I’ll buy (like, with MONEY!) a copy to send to my friend who lovvvvves young adult literature.
Hooray! I was at the bookstore today & wushing it was tomorrow so I could maybe see your book :D (maybe because my nookstore’s not huge on YA, sadly).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
-Lucile
1Happy Release Days ~*agent buddy*~!!!!! I am so so excited for you, and can’t wait to read
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Courtney, I am just so very happy for you. You deserve this. This is so amazing. As are you. I think I’m tearing up.
My, this creeped up on me.
I feel OLD OLD OLD.
CONGRATS COURTS!
I totally can’t wait to go to the bookstore and be all like ‘yo yo, my friend courts wrote this’
im going to definitely read this either way, but i may as well try for the draw! heh. i cant believe that day has finally come, though! WTF? you are FAMOUS now!
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Oh, and by the way: GO YOU! FRIKKIN AWESOME A! CAN’T WAIT AND THUMBS UP AND OMG, I SORTA KNOW THIS PERSON!!
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Congrats.
I already have my copy (yay!) but I’d love to win one for my friend (or as a giveaway for my blog?). I’m too in love with it to give my copy away and foam from my mouth if they touch it! haha XD
HOORAY! Congratulations!
And because I figure people like to know this sort of thing, I love, love, love reading your blog entries, and it’s an enormous, huge, tremendous part of why I’m looking forward to reading your book. Every time one of your entries pops up on my igoogle (which is how I follow blogs) I feel kinda Yay!, even if my day has been crummy or cranky until then. So maybe that can be part of your James Dean M.O.? Your blog posts are a mood altering substance! :)
I dedicate this comment in [spoiler! hee--sorry, bb! - c].
And as soon as I can get my a** to the bookstore, I plan on picking up a ~*sparkly*~ LEGAL (cough*cough) copy of my very own and enjoying it in all its final version GLORY. And if perchance I should *gasp* find it NOT facing out…I will remedy that little problem!!!
Did I hear you tweet earlier that you were eating Skittles lines off the shiny cover of your book??? LOL
Merry Christmas/Happy Timelord Book B-Day!!!!!
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I hope your book hits my shores soon.. I just moved to Singapore from NZ. or I’ll buy a copy from Amazon. Am ridiculously excited for you, was raving about you to my mum last night too :)
Congratulations, Courtney! Enter me, please! :-)
It’s CRACKED UP TO BE day!
CONGRATULATIONS, COURTNEY!!!
My copy won’t be in till Dec. 29–I should have just waited instead of ordering it online but now I will get a present when everyone else is already tired of playing with theirs.
HOORAY!
I didn’t really understand anything in caps, but congratulations, I’ve been really looking forward to reading Cracked Up to Be.
Yay! for release dates. And yay for yet another competition. I will get my hands on a copy of your book godammit! Bloody UK late release dates *grumble grumble*
Sending you lots of love and festive ~*sparkles*~ in celebration of the release. I will email you soon (when i finally get around to finishing New Moon lol) xxxx
CONGRATS SPARKLE WIFE. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t put me in the mix because you know, I already won dahhhhhhhling. Srsly, I was/am pumped. I never win!
By the way, since I ordered 3 copies of the book, I’m pretty sure my local library will be getting a brand spanking new copy of Cracked Up to Be. Woot woot.
My copy is here! Thank you, Amazon and Mr. U.P.S.
Looks amazing and I can’t wait to read it.
Congratulations, Courtney!
Am I too late? Looking forward to reading it.
NO DON’T TOUCH THEM THEY WILL DISAPPEAR THEY ARE TIME LORDS TIME LORDS DO THAT YOU KNOW. DISAPPEAR. JUST AFTER YOU’VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ONE AND ARE SURE YOU’LL BE SPENDING THE REST OF YOUR DAYS WITH THEM IN THE TARDIS, THEY LEAVE OR KICK YOU OUT OF IT.
Never fall in love with a Time Lord. If a Time Lord ever ask “How long are you gonna stay with me?” DO NOT SAY FOREVER.
If you ever get a clone of the Time Lord you loved, do not let the CBC air your bitter sweet ending because they will hack it to death.
Yay for Courtney! Soak it all up, sista! This is YOUR time. I know everyone’s gonna love CUTB as much as I did. I JUST KNOW IT!
*does backflip into a garbage can*
- Thomas
i want it!
SOOO BADD!
YAY! CONGRATULATIONS!
EXCITING! I see you’re also a Doctor Who fan.
Congrats on the release of Cracked Up To Be!!! =D
Congratulations! And wah, David Tennant is leaving! But I’ve heard great things about your books and really want to read it . . . so the news balances?
Omg! I got ~*sparkle-censored*~!!!! Sorry, bb!! That was a total DUH. blush*blush
HAPPY RELEASE! Loved the book. So amazing. When do we get your next book? =D
Congrats on the release and all the great reviews so far!!
And don’t worry, if you fall in love with your books and they leave you like a Time Lord (which they kind of will, but only because they’ll be snapped up by readers everywhere), you can always make a clone of one to go live with you in an alternate reality, and you can read it forever! ;-)
I want my own Time Lord! Please? and Congrats!!
(Now I have French and Saunders in my head. Sir? Sir? Are you the doctor, sir?)
Just a Merry Christmas shout out for you Courtney. I’ve really enjoyed your hilarious blog and following your process this year. You’re adorable, and talented, and fabulously sparkly. Here’s to your continued success!
I should’ve said that too – please don’t throw my name in for the draw. I’d feel too guilty if I won again (not that Conky would allow that anyway)!
I’m still feeling bad for Donna and she didn’t even fall for a Time Lord. Not fair. Those Time Lords play fast and loose with human emotions.
You are a Doctor Who fan, too? I just spent two hours looking for the Christmas Special. You become more awesomer ever time… you blog. I just finish CUTB, it was AMAZING.
Oh and Merry late Chirstmas. =D
I just want to reply to my own comment and tell myself I am dumb. It was Catherine Tate I was thinking of . . . not F & S. Courtney, carry on blogging and don’t mind me!