Internet, I have great news. Unless you hate my writing. In which case I have very bad news and I am so terribly sorry for what I’m about to share with you.
From Publishers Marketplace:
SOME GIRLS ARE and CRACKED UP TO BE author Courtney Summers’s gritty story of one girl’s attempt to make sense of her father’s untimely death, to Sara Goodman at St. Martin’s, in a two-book deal, by Amy Tipton at Signature Literary Agency (World English).
So I have known about this since December and I’ve spent all that time since uhm trying to meet my deadline, but also trying to figure out what to say when I was given the okay to announce it.
BASICALLY:
I am grateful to Amy, who got this ball rolling in June 2007, and keeps it rolling. She is a true advocate and I love working with her. I love how she makes me think outside the box. I’m absolutely THRILLED I get to continue working with Sara and St. Martin’s Press. Over the course of two books, Sara’s magical editorial eye (seriously it is actually magical) has helped me grow as a writer and I can’t wait to shape books 3 and 4 (!) with her. I am especially grateful to my family because living with a writer is hard and to my friends because boy do they put up with a lot, especially when I am complaining to them about how my family doesn’t understand how hard it is to be a writer.
Nothing in this business is a given. I feel very fortunate to be part of this awesome YA community. It astounds and humbles and inspires me every day. I don’t have ENOUGH thanks for all the people who make it what it is and I’m so glad I will have the opportunity to share more of my crazy stories with you. And I hope you will consider reading them when they come out! And I must also thank you so so much for the support you have shown Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are.
THANK YOU.
I am very excited about this third book and I will be excited about book four too, just as soon as I know what it is about. But book 3, I can promise (at least at this point), is pretty dark and it is about how grief is not a beautiful thing.
I can’t really say much else about it at this point except maybe that I would HATE to be a character in a Courtney Summers novel.
Hee hee hee.
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publication date
Tuesday January 19th, 2010 @ 9:55pm
428 words, 25 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: fall for anything,omg
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Oh man you could not PAY me to be a character in a Courtney Summers novel.
But, I mean, you know. Make me an offer.
I mean. AAAAAAAAAAAH OMG CONGRATS YOU ARE AMAZING.
… omg I am so tempted. but no money would have to exchange hands.
MWAHAHAHA.
& THANK YOU.
zomg zomg zomg congrats!!!
thank you!!!
Incredible news, Courtney! Giant congrats to you!
Thank you!!!!
CONGRATS!!!!!! I am so glad that the future holds more Courtney Summers! :]
I AM SO FREAKING PROUD OF YOU.
SO MUCH SPARKLES AND LOVE TO YOU AND AMY.
PET REGGIE FOR ME.
Thank you, Dani!!!
V, omg, you commented while I was writing a comment heh. THANK YOU!!!!!!!! AND I AM PETTING HIM NOW. ~*~ <3
EEEEEEEEEEEE! Congrats girl! You deserve it!
BLAM! KAPOW! That’s what it’s like to be in a Courtney Summers novel! :D Look out, World! And congratulations, BB!! ~*~
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
NO, SERIOUSLY, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
(You deserve it.)
ZOMG yay! Congratulations, Courtney! I am so happy that I’ll get to read more of your brilliant brutal awesomesauce books.
I. Can’t. Wait!
so happy for you!
So thrilled that your brilliance will continue to be delivered to the world!
yayyyy this is awesome news!!!
You. Are. Brilliant.
Congrats – I can’t wait for 3 and 4! ~*~*~*~
I would be a character in a Courtney Summers novel about the zombie apocalypse, because live or die a Courtney Summers novel about the zombie apocalypse is something I WANT TO BE A PART OF.
Also, congratulations!
I would love to be a character in a Courtney Summers novel, I would totally get my bitch on and finally get in a fight!
Courtney, yay!!! Awesome news. Congrats! :D
PS – I’m now picturing Sara with a magical eye akin to HP’s Mad-Eye Moody. Lovely image, that.
Teri: THANK YOU!!!!! :)
A: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh man. make me cry. thank you.
Jess: Thank you so so so much!!!
angela: Thank you!!!
Daisy: awww, man. Thank you. BRILLIANCE OR TWISTEDNESS? ;)
kelly: thank you!!! I’m so happy!!
Kristin: You. Are. So. Nice. Thank you. :)
Briony: omfg. you made me laugh so hard. THANK YOU, CP.
Adele: Odds are good this would happen if you were!!
Shari: Thank you so much! And hee–I love that image of Sara. I think all editors must have them!!!
YAY! I’m so glad that you were signed for two more books. CUTP and SGA were SO GOOD. Congrats!
Yay!!!! Congrats, Courtney, what fantastic news–for you and ME (cause I get to read more books!)!!!
HOORAY!!! Congratulations, Courtney! You are on FIRE, bb! ;-)
Yay! I am so proud of you!
Is “& her name is eddie” the title? A hint? I MUST KNOW.
Congratulations!!!Yay!
*wants your next book to come out NAO*
EEEEE!!!!!
Great news. No book in years has hit me as personally as SGA did and it has left me in thought. Thank you and I will be there reading anything in the future with your name on it.
Yay, I love reading your announcements! As always, I’m so proud of you and happy for you because I know how much you SUFFER FOR YOUR ART! And remember: Sandra Bullock. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Aw! Dood! That is so kickass!
SQUEEEEE! Congratulations on your new 2 book deal!!!! The book sounds like it will be real and cringe worthy again. Yay!
So happy for you! Don’t know how you were able to keep the news to yourself for so long. I would have needed superglue.
“I can’t really say much else about it at this point except maybe that I would HATE to be a character in a Courtney Summers novel.”
I probably would hate being a character in one of your novels too, if I actually had to live through it. If it was just my name, and I didn’t have to deal, then it would be ok. Although, it’s really weird reading a book with a character with your name.
Yay, Courtney! I am so excited for you!
SOME GIRLS ARE keeps taunting me from my bookshelf, but I have to wait to read until I finish my Stuff. Soon, though. Very soon. :-)
C: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY and YEEEEEEEEEEHAW too!!
Cannot. Wait.
<3
Suze
Genevieve: Thank you so much!!! I hope you like these next two as well. :)
Anne: Aw, thank you!!!
Dawn: Hee–thank you so much!!!
Whitney: <3 Sort of a hint. Her name is Eddie. But that’s not the title. BUT her name might be in the title.
Ed: Thank you!!! :D
Steph: Awwww! Thank you!
Brian: Thank you so much. :)
Lori: <3 <3 <3 <3 SANDRA!!!!!!!!!!! <3333333333333
oslowe: Danke!
sruble: THANK YOU!!!! Hee, I hope it is real and cringe-worthy. That’s what I’m aiming for, anyway. ;)
Mindi: Eee, thank you!!! I can’t freaking wait for yours. :)
Susan: THANK YOU!! ~*~ <3
This is so amazingly awesome!!! After reading Some Girls Are at the beginning of this month, I kept thinking I need more of your stuff to read!
Thank you Amber!!!
You deserve it Courtney. Congrats!
Belated Congratulations, that’s fantastic news. I’m half way through SGA I kind of want to put it down but I just can’t Addictive and terrifying stuff!
Congratulations, Courtney! Can’t wait to add the next book to my growing Courtney Summers collection.
CONGRATS!!!! Of course like I said NONE of US were surprised.
The Year 8 team are reading Some Girls Are as I type and LOVING IT!!!!
Dude, Id hate to be one of your characters too….
:)
Pseudosu: Aah thank you!
Alexa: Belated thank you! I’m so thrilled you felt that about SGA. :)
Danette: Aww, thank you so much.
Tyecat: Aaaah! I am so glad they are! And THANK YOU!! :) You are such a champion!