Yesterday, on Facebook and Twitter, I released the first of nine (NINE!) video teasers for Some Girls Are. Each teaser includes an audio snippet of the novel, as read by the amazing Kim Hutt, who gave her time and voice to make my mean girl narration come to life (thank you, Kim!). That audio is accompanied by some, well, visuals. Check it:
AND it turns out some Some Girls Are ARC giveaways just might happen with future video teaser releases… so stay tuned. In the mean time, the GoodReads giveaway is still going on and, if you have an account, entering to win a copy is a piece of cake.
Light, fluffy, delicious cake.
On a happy-making note, the super cool and super nice Tye, of The Book Gryffin, interviewed me! Her questions, ranging from my feelings on book-banning and adults who might have trouble with Some Girls Are, were very thoughtful and fun to answer. You can check it out here! Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Tye!
And on a very surreal note, a bookshelf was named after me. No, really. The hilariously awesome Korianne of Korianne Speaks got a bookshelf that was made in Canada and she NAMED IT AFTER ME. Because, you see, I was also made in Canada. And coincidentally, some people have told me I resemble a bookshelf.
Anyway, even if the bookshelf is, as Korianne tells me, very unstable (me and Courtney Summers the Bookshelf MAY have this in common), I am greatly honoured. Check out this blog entry over at Korianne’s to see the proof of this glorious event because I know this sounds like something I’d totally lie about. The Great Naming Announcement is in the second vlog, but it goes without saying you should watch all of her vlogs. ALSO! She is wearing Lady Gaga glasses in her vlog, WHICH IS THE PERFECT SEGUE INTO MY NEXT PARAGRAPH…
I shamelessly admit to being glued to BBC Radio 1 the other night so I could hear the premiere of Lady Gaga’s new song, Bad Romance. The wait was agonizing, I tell you. AGONIZING! And the radio personalities kept talking about Robbie Williams and it DISTURBED ME. But it was so worth it in the end because the song is AMAZING (of course).
I’ve had it on repeat ever since that beautiful moment it graced my ears. Have y’all heard it? What does everyone think? Gaga does it again, Y/Y? YYYYY. I have decided I need to get married so I can stomp down the aisle to this song, take THAT JK Wedding Dance that I have watched a million times and cried at each time! So that is my new, latest, greatest ambition. My LAST greatest ambition was having a bookshelf named after me, but. Well. Y’know.
And I know, I know. It is always Some Girls Are and Lady Gaga with me lately. I can never think of things to blog about and so I wait for Some Girls Are and Lady Gaga stuff to happen to me so I can write about them. Someone recently insinutated–TO MY FACE! AND NOT EVEN ON THE INTERNET!–that I should not have trouble thinking up blog entries to write about because I am a writer.
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I KNOW!
I was like UGH MAYBE I WILL WRITE A BLOG ENTRY ABOUT HOW RUDE I THINK YOU ARE but then I had some cookies instead and my anger melted away. Yum.
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publication date
Tuesday October 20th, 2009 @ 6:44am
581 words, 57 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: music,some girls are (your mom)
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Ahem. May I just say that those of us who truly worship you would be thrilled to read anything you deign to blog about. We are your minions and you can recognize us by our tattoos of you face and our named after you furniture. We are so happy that you channel your gifts into amazing books that we love that we would rather you save the truly awesome stuff for that.
That is all.
Forever your adoring minion,
Book Gryffin AKA Tye :)
PS: Hee…. still get such a kick at your references to me and all of your Aussie Minions, AKA Sonja and Nicole:D Thankyou!!!
yes lady gaga (or the gagster as we refer to her) is amazing…not least because she put hot eric the vampire in her paparazzi filmclip…just to sidetrack…but yes she is brilliant. and walking down the isle to a lady gaga song is totally a reason to get married. Although I myself have been wanting to write a musical based on her fame cd because it is perfect and theatrical and thematic and can you imagine the costumes!!! all those wigs and glitter! that is my dream….or someone else could write it and i’d just go see it….i’d be good with that….
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Courtney I could quote you on a daily basis with all of this hilarity being spewed in this post. Tell Ms. “You should not have trouble thinking up blog entries to write about because you are a writer” that YOU ARE AWESOME AT WRITING ABOUT LADY GAGA & SGA SO SHE CAN SHOVE IT!
The narrator of the SOME GIRLS ARE teaser is absolutely amazing! Love it!
Also, that Lady GaGa song is totally worth being glued to the tv for (and having a countdown for… as I recall you doing via Twitter)! :) I think it is my fav Lady GaGa song to date…
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Ummm. You might have a Lady Gaga convert on your hands.
Mmmkay, so the use of that particular footage for that particular voiceover = genius.
Also, I’m pretty sure I really like Lady Gaga, but I’ll have to get back to you on that. I am in love with the photo used in the background of that YouTube file, though, for certain.
Thumbs-up for the first trailer! :)
tye: man, your comment just caused a ~*sparkly explosion of happiness*~. You are too kind & and I can’t thank you and Sonja and Nicole enough for being such awesome advocates! You are totally not minions! Aussie YA Novel Advocates!
sonja: yes! I love the LG love! and omg. a musical based on Lady Gaga’s fame CD would be BRILLIANT! You are so right… there’s so much potential and the COSTUMES! Why hasn’t this happened yet? You need to table it to her.
Korianne: Aw, YOU ARE AWESOME! I am still completely honoured to have a bookshelf named after me. I think about it regularly. I really do too, that’s not sarcasm!!
Sara: Thank you so much!! It’s my fav LG song to date to, I think, or at least right up there with Paparazzi and Just Dance.
Emilia: OMG WELCOME TO THE HAUS OF GAGA!
A: TY, bb! I am seriously thrilled it gets A’s seal of approval. And eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you are in the Haus now. Just accept it. ;)
LW: Yay!!! Danke!!
Okay. I know I shouldn’t be excited for the newest CS masterpiece (being a dude and all) but dang it…I AM.
It seems like just yesterday that I was tearing through CUTB and now…there’s more? Oh, hells yes.
Love the trailer so much it gave me heartburn. Can’t wait to see the other ones. Um, hurry?
I dig Lady GaGa too. Some people think she’s really a dude. Where do you stand in all this???
The people need to know.
YBFAM (Your Brother From Anotha Mutha)
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IT’S OKAY TO BE EXCITED & A DUDE. I’m glad to hear this! And I feel apologetic about the heartburn. ;)
As for Lady Gaga: dude or not she is ALWAYS AWESOME. ALWAYS. FOREVER.
YSFAM
9 video teasers! Cool. Love the visuals they fit perfectly with your opening.
Why were they talking about Robbie Williams and not Lady Gaga? It’s all about the Gaga, right? BTW, can’t see/hear Lady Gaga because YouTube video was removed :(
“Someone recently insinutated–TO MY FACE! AND NOT EVEN ON THE INTERNET!–that I should not have trouble thinking up blog entries to write about because I am a writer.”
How RUDE! And everyone knows that books and blogs are like totally different things. Duh! (rolls eyes) Ooh, cookies! Can I have one?
p.s. I wish I had an unstable Courtney Summers bookcase. LOL!
Eeeeeeee! SGA & Lady Gaga posts are ALWAYS FTW!!!
I think YOU need to do a vlog in your Gaga glasses, Y/Y/Y?? ;)
I can’t comment on the interview, for some weird reason, so I will comment here instead. This is what I was going to say over there:
Excellent interview! Lots to think about with girl bullying and how it has seemed to escalate in intensity and violence over the years, even though it’s been a problem for a very long time.
I hope there are some teachers that will find a way use Courtney’s books in the classroom, even though censorship will be a problem for most.
Can’t wait to read Some Girls Are, and the new, darker WIP, although I don’t think they can knock CUTB off of the favorite spot. I really connected with Parker and her desire to have everyone just leave her alone.
Sruble: I was listening for a good hour or so waiting for the premiere so I had to listen to all the normal programming and they kept talking Robbie Williams! It was TORTURE! And everyone is welcome to cookies. And aww, I am really really glad you liked the inerview. I hope you like SGA when you read it. :)
Emily: I AM TOO SCARED TO VLOG BUT IF I WASN’T, I WOULD Y/Y/Y!