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published on the internet Mar 22nd, 2010

Last week totally got away from me! AND ALL THE REST ARE ABOUT TO. The winner of the Teri Hall giveaway was Jess and she was notified last week. Congrats, Jess! I hope you enjoy The Line as much as I did! And thanks to the rest of you for entering–I hope you’ll check the book out. It’s so worth it.

AND please stay tuned because later this week, I’ll be posting an interview with the amazing Anna Jarzab, which will include a giveaway for her debut, All Unquiet Things, which I absolutely loved.

I have some news:


1) Some Girls Are is a nominee for YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults (!!!)

&

2) The title of book 3 has been made official. It will be called FALL FOR ANYTHING. No release date yet, but I will be spamming everything up just as soon as I have one, no doubt.


Here is more news: I am on a major deadline for FFA and I have lots of work to do, so I must away for a couple months (well, “away” in the sense that I am going to try to strike that balance between working like mad and also staying visible enough that people still remember my name COURTNEY WINTERS remember it also I told that joke like three weeks ago on Twitter, rock). Imagine me under a book and the only way to get out from under that book is to WRITE LIKE I HAVE NEVER WRIT BEFORE! I apologize for the absence that has seem to defined so much of the first half of my 2010–I truly feel bad for my lack of participation in my usual internet haunts–but it must be so.

That said, I need you to know these things:

  • IF YOU HAVE EMAILED ME OR ARE GOING TO… it could be a while before you hear a response (yeah I know someone out there is going, “AND THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM HOW YOU NORMALLY ARE WITH EMAILS IN WHAT WAY?”). But I like to think I was consistently inconsistent. So now I will be more inconsistent THAN THAT. So that is not very delightful. I have decided for the sake of uhm, continued writing progress, when I respond to email will be determined by the progress I’ve made writing! Which yeah, is pretty… vague. (If the email is urgent you will hear from me within a timely fashion.) I try to reply to @ replies on Twitter as much as possible so if you need to contact me about something and feel comfortable doing so in a public capacity that’s an option.


  • I CAN’T DO any interviews or supply books for giveaways at the moment, beyond what I have already committed to. I’m sorry. I’ve tried to maintain a balance these last few months and it always ends up with someone who has been kind enough to give me their time and blogging space waiting to hear back from me for far longer than they should have to. That’s not fair and I don’t want to string anyone along.


  • I WILL be on Twitter and Facebook, so you might want to follow me on there or add this page here. Remind me to be on these two things in moderation because they are just SO MUCH FUN!


  • I WILL update the book pages on my website weekly, so if you want to keep up with who has reviewed it or, if you’re a book blogger who has posted a review and want to see if I’ve posted it, you can check that out (thank you for reading and blogging!).



    • So stay tuned for my interview with Anna Jarzab later this week! THERE WILL BE A GIVEAWAY! How can you go wrong?

    And that’s it.

    OH WAIT! One more thing!





    Oh yeah.

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    1. Jordyn
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Dude, I totally remember the COURTNEY WINTERS joke from three weeks ago. I’m now convinced that I have an AWESOME MEMORY in spite of the fact that I lose my cellphone approximately five times a day.

    2. courtney
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      QUICK WHAT IS EDWARD’S NUMBER!

    3. Dani Duck
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Good luck with your book. I’m sure you’ll writ good. I’ll have to check out your books. I’m so behind with my reading.

      BTW what’s that clip from? It made me giggle.

    4. Jordyn
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      SPA-RKLE

      (this is short comment. bloggy says it is TOO SHORT.)

    5. K.
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      B. and I are proud of you, Courtney Autumns!

    6. Hannah
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Haha, sweet! (The last image)
      Love, Hannah

    7. Phronk
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      I remember the weeks-old Courtney Winters joke too. That’s how memorable it is. It was a real treat to revisit it. A real treat.

      Best wishes with the disappearing to work all the time.

      P.S. Did you know that there are now Lady GaGa songs in Rock Band? It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

    8. nova ren suma
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      I will miss you, Courtney Winters! But I can’t wait to read FALL FOR ANYTHING one day so it is so so so so so so so worth it and I forgive you!

      You’re amazing!

    9. sruble
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Congratulations on the YALSA list!!

      Totally missed the Courtney Winters joke. :(

      Did you know that FFA also stands for Future Farmers of America? I know lots of useless trivia, but not usually the kind that’s needed to win board games, like Trivial Pursuit.

      So, would it be ok if I interviewed you and made up the answers you give? I would not do this, maybe. Ha.

      Totally want sound with Lady Gaga clip.

      One more thing – I just saw werewolves running past my window with their heads on fire, but that’s not the weird thing. I’m not on the ground floor! Do you think they were flying?

      Either the zombies in my WIP are eating my brains when I wrote this or I was trying to make you laugh. Or both.

      p.s. I’m planning my own internet vacation soon …

    10. courtney
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Dani: Thank you! The clip is from Lady Gaga’s Telephone video.

      Jordyn: NOW THE WORLD KNOWS AND I WILL NEVER GET THROUGH!

      K: OMG YOU’VE ALREADY FORGOT. Also: <3 <3 <3

      Hannah: Lady Gaga rocks!

      Phronk: I should recycle jokes more awesome. And THANK YOU! I need thos best wishes. AND OMG AAAH *buys Rock Band asap*

      Nova: I WILL MISS YOU. GOD IS IT ALMOST APRIL? Don’t leave meeeeeeeeeee! (YOU are amazing!!)

      Sruble: Thank you!!!!! And I did not know that about FFA but I am lulzing so hard about it. OMG FLYING WEREWOLVES WOULD BE TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!! (I LOLed at your comment. You rock.)

    11. sruble
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      All I can think about now, is writing a novel about flying werewolves whose heads keep catching on fire. Maybe I can find a way to put them in my zombie novel.

      Thanks for that!

      (I might have made them fly, but you were the one that doused them with flames.)

    12. Emily Hainsworth
      5 months, 2 weeks ago

      Courtney Winters! Did you hear Courtney SUMMERS is nominated for YALSA’s Best Books For Young Adults?! Does that mean there’s going to be a RUMBLE?? Oh yeah.

      CONGRATULATIONS, BB!! ~*~