Hi, guys!
That gif has nothing to do with anything. I’ve just been waiting forever to use it since I ganked it from a comment thread on ohnotheydidnt. Incidentally, that is the part of the movie I laughed REALLY LOUDLY at in the theatre that no one else did. I still don’t understand what’s not funny about Bella falling down. That’s all she does. That’s why we love her.
Anyway.
I hope this entry marks my return to regular blogging! I sent off the revised draft of Some Girls Are to my editor and agent on Tuesday and then I crashed, hardcore. AND THEN I HAD A DISNEY MOVIE MARATHON (okay, I watched A Goofy Movie and Beauty & The Beast, but at my age that is a marathon). Now I’m struggling to get caught up on everything and everyone.
BEHOLD MY EFFORTS TO GET CAUGHT UP ON EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE: I went into Google Labs and enabled the different looking stars function in my inbox and now all the emails I still have to reply to look like this:
Isn’t that alarming? I know. Every time I open my inbox, I have little heart attacks. Why are those emails exclaiming at me?!
And then I remember.
So I gots updates since I last blogged, which I’m pretty happy about otherwise I’d feel sort of stupid. First: Mur Lafferty interviewed me for her insanely awesome you-should-be-listening-to-it-regularly-if-you-aren’t-already podcast, I Should Be Writing. Have you ever wanted to hear me talk? Like, out loud? Because if you have, then THAT is the podcast for you.
Mur and I discussed everything from Cracked Up to Be, mean girls, my next books, the writing process and zombies. I’m a big fan of I Should Be Writing, and I was more than a little nervous about being on the show (the phone scares me!), but Mur made it an AWESOME experience and I’m grateful to her for having me. Thank you, Mur!
Second: the Ontario Library Association Super Conference in Toronto, which I attended January 31st, was SUPER FUN! It was my first conference ever, so I must tell you about it. My Canadian publicist, Vimala, set it all up for me to sign at the H.B. Fenn booth at 12:00 and I was crazy nervous.
Now, I never told anyone this, but since we’re BFFs, I’ll tell you: for some reason it never fully registered with me that it would be an actual SIGNING. Like, I envisioned myself scribbling in a pile of books in the corner of the Fenn booth and then, I don’t know. Standing aroound trying to look cool while discussing the economy with people. Imagine my surprise when we got there and I saw this:
(REMEMBER THAT COVER? Me neither.)
I was like–oh my God, it’s THAT kind of signing. With a table and a pen and post-its and a bottle of water and everything! I arrived at 12:00 on the nose and there was already a modest line of librarians waiting for their copies of my book to be signed and I really couldn’t believe it. I was so scared I wrote my name at the speed of light. Everyone was very nice. I like librarians. Actually, I LOVE librarians. They are kind, encouraging and passionate and they never said a word about the petrified look on my face while I signed.
Here is photographic evidence of my signing:
I was having a bad hair day, okay. My roots are growing in. Also I looked petrified. So that was fun, and lasted about an hour, and then Vimala and I traipsed around Toronto. And by traipsed, I mean we drove from bookstore to bookstore and I signed stock and that took a couple hours and was also fun. I’m such a small town girl, though. While we were walking along the sidewalk I saw pigeons and I was like O_O and I couldn’t stop O_O at the pigeons and then I got BODY SLAMMED by someone because I wasn’t looking where I was going and then I was like, “I WAS LOOKING AT THE PIGEONS!”
It was pretty embarrassing.
Pigeongate aside, I had a great time and I’d be remiss not to give some shout-outs: thank you, Vimala, for not losing me in Toronto and being really awesome, thank you Rosalyn, for keeping things moving at the signing and making it a joy (and for picking Cracked Up to Be as a Dewey Diva winter pick!). Also, a big thank you to the ladies at The Flying Dragon, who welcomed me into their bookstore with open arms. Talking books with them was the highlight of my day. If you are in the Toronto area, be sure to stop by and check out their books. Wonderful people, wonderful atmosphere, wonderful cookies and tea!
So yes. That is pretty much all that is new with me. TWO THINGS!
Anyway, look for my next blog entry coming soon! And then the next one coming soon after that! Like I said, this will mark the return to regular blogging! IT IS SO EXCITING I CAN’T STAND.
NEITHER CAN BELLA.
CAN YOU?
SERIOUSLY, WHY WAS I THE ONLY ONE THAT LAUGHED.
IT’S FUNNY.
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publication date
Saturday February 21st, 2009 @ 3:36am
870 words, 70 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: cracked up to be,some girls are (your mom)
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me: *laughing*
Will: What?
me: So there’s this girl walking along and then she falls for no reason. *laughing some more*
Will: ?
me: Well I can only assume it is Bella Swan, because she is Hollywood “plain” and she falls for no reason.
Will: Mmm-hmm.
me: Also it’s on Courtney’s blog.
Will: *rolling his eyes at me*
me: Chance it is Bella: 5000%
I KNEW YOU WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
JUST LIKE YOU KNEW IT WAS BELLA.
LULZ. FTW.
YOU CAN BLOG FOR BOTH OF US!!!
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K I had to come back after about an hour of lulzing on the floor back and forth at *you* signing books and Bella falling on her a**. Courtney = WIN, Bella = FAIL. Also…I still want my highly illegal (whistles) CUTB copy ~signed~, Yo.
p.s. I wish I had a stylist and makeup artist in HS like Bella!! My hair always looked like, “hi, i’m not trying because this is HS” and I didn’t even DISCOVER eyeshadow till my twenties – let alone realize you could put it on UNDER YOUR EYES until I saw TWILIGHT.
I laugh because that is me everyday of my life…except without the nice hair, awesome makeup, lack of hips and no sparkly vampire in my life.
Emily: I SHALL. Hee, bb, now that you have accessed my snail mail address, if you send along your highly illegal (whistles) CUTB copy, I WILL SIGN AND SEND BACK. And omg, I so wish I had Bella’s stylist too. IT’S UNFAIR.
Adele: ME TOO. TOTALLY.
Good to have you back! Congrats on the revisions…I love Beauty and the Beast
I’m psyched that the podcast is up! Going to listen to that today and I love the photo of you signing but am just slightly concerned you’re not eating enough (you look a little on the spindly side).
The library conference sounds so exciting. Yay on your return to regular blogging!!!
I could watch that gif all day. Also, I am so impressed with that table you are sitting at to sign books. Check out that fancy blue satiny fabric. I think that means you are Kind of a Big Deal.
I laughed during that part of the movie. It was vair vair funny, much like the rest of the movie. Fortunately I was not the only one who laughed though.
I’m listening to the interview and yay! it’s so fun!
Daisy: Thanks, bb!
C.K.: I have to admit, I have a fast metabolism. I get such jealous looks all the time. IT’S NOT MY FAULT, THOUGH. ;)
Lori: hee hee <333333
Khy: It’s too bad we weren’t in the same theatre! After I laughed, I swear you could hear a pin drop and I was like, “Seriously? No one else thought that was hilarious?”
Whitney: Yay!! It was fun doing it.
Parker > Bella.
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I don’t know Courtney, at your signing, well…I think you’ve lost weight. Maybe incorporate more skittles into your diet?
Seriously, thanks for sharing. In other BIG news, I F-I-N-A-L-L-Y got my Cracked Up to Be copy. *squee*
I will be officially the last person on the planet to read it, but when I’m drafting, I just can’t read outside my genre. *weeps* BUT, seeing it there beside my computer will spur me on to get this MG finished!!
I’m laughing.
But then I didn’t see the movie, so it was total surprise. And I’m also one of those horrible (awful) people who have an insta-automatic completely uncontrollable laugh reaction when people fall, EVEN WHEN IT’S NOT FUNNY.
I know. Awful. I stand there forcing back inappropriate giggles while asking “Are you okay?” solicitously.
Yay you on the signing and the podcast!
Glad you’re back hon. I was worried you’d internet broken-up with everyone. (kidding) Love the signing pic. I thought I was the only one suffering from PDH (poorly drawn head). Stay strong. Sniff.
Angela: I’ve worked hard for ~this figure~! :) And eeee!!! I hope you like it!! Good luck on finishing the MG!
Susan: I DO THE SAME THING. We need to teleport to each other in those instances so we don’t have to laugh alone!!
Pseudosu: I would never internet break up with everyone! And yes, PDH is a serious problem. I think it will have to become my cause.
Woohoo, you’re back! You’re back!! *jumps up and hits the ground like Bella (but remains optimistic even with broken leg)*
Hannah: Best welcome back evah! Broken legs aside!! :D
Courtney,
All this writing–you’ve lost too much weight! (Yeah, I saw Angela wrote that, but I thought of it too!) Do I have to send some gator tail up there?
Congrats on your book signing! I’m not surprised AT ALL that there would be a line waiting for you–your book is excellent!
When I see pigeons, I’m like this
>:/
because one of them pooped on me.
Hahahahaha! Much funnier the second, third, and fourth time around. I looked down for a second in the movie theater and totally missed it, so didn’t laugh. They really should have had her fall down more in the movie, or make the fall longer and more drawn out.
Congrats on getting through your signing and seeing all the pigeons, and especially for getting your revision done and sent!!! :)
BTW, I know what you mean about emails piling up! Good luck getting through your inbox!
Danette: PLEASE DO! I’ve always wanted to try gator tail. ;) And thank you! And aaggh! I don’t blame you for making that face. Maybe we should start at >:/ post about pigeons, since they seem to bring misfortune to people.
Sruble: YES! She falls like, every other page of the book. The movie was not faithful in its adaption in this way. And thank you!! I’m gearing up for a second round of revisions right now. Here’s to us both getting caught up!!
Ok, I’m trying to listen to your podcast, which, I thought was just supposed to be an interview, but this person is blah, blah, blahing over 7 minutes already! There should be a warning!
8:50 – they finally introduce you – yay! Hmmm, I guess there’s a whole lot after you are interviewed too. Maybe regular listeners know that already. My bad.
Fun interview. I enjoyed it. Go zombies! :)
Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Mur’s podcats are awesome. :)