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Here’s a round up of fan art from the last two weeks, mostly in a black and white mode, with some BONUS NEWS at the end.
Let’s start with the art that was handed to me at my Free Comic Book Day event at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Thanks again to everyone who came and said nice things to me on my birthday, and especially to those who handed me art and cake.
First there was some Midnighters art from (appropriately) Melissa:
Yes, that’s Rex looking pretty cool, and I like how Melissa seems a bit annoyed at having to pose for the drawing.
And from Christina, a triptych of Tallys:
The hot air balloons are a cool touch, as are the necklace, interface cuff, and knife for each Tallyversion.
And finally, from Meshell, I got Alek and Deryn as lovebirds:
It’s cool that I got fan art from every trilogy at that event. You’re all doing a good job of coordinating! Plus: OBLIGATORY LORIS WITH MUSTACHE.
And now return to the regular mode of art delivery, these were all sent to me via the internets.
Here from Laura is a bit of Darwinist fashion design!
One of the coolest thing about Keith’s art is how it hints that there would be a whole different Darwinist culture out there, with clothes, furniture, and whatnot all influenced by the Victorian biotechnology at the base of Darwinist society. This hat is a great example of what all that might look like, complete with bee and nautilus-shell motifs.
And here’s a very a spunky-looking Deryn from Lilly.
I like her haircut, and the way she’s leaning forward, ready to go.
And briefly leaving the monochrome, here’s some Deryn cosplay from Alexa, showing before and after:
Pretty amazing difference. According to Alexa, this transformation required “two rolls of athletic tape, half a can of hairspray, and many uncountable bobby pins.” Just remember that the next time you’re cross-dressing: Never say die!
And finally, here’s a lovely still life in the stack-of-books mode, which for some reason I have lost all attribution to except the letter “g”:
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I sort of didn’t do FAF last week, because I was all excited about the Uglies manga AKA Shay’s Storycover. (And lazy. Also because I was lazy.) But here is a FAF for you all! And because I’m in Australia, it’s a day early for you North and South Americans.
This post completes the job started back on October 29, which is showing you all the art I’ve received while on tour. Next Friday (promises, promises) I’ll get back to posting the art I’ve received since tour started.
So here we go, starting with something that’s not quite fan art, but is pretty cool to look at.
One of my favorite things on tour is when people give me books to signed that are obviously well read. Like, in-the-bathtub, on-the-bus, under-the-covers read. Sometimes readers apologize for their tattered copies, but I take it as a compliment. And especially excellent are the signs of notations and post-itting.
So check this out:
This was only DAYS after Goliath came out, and already the book was festooned with post-its and notes. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL READING.
And in case you think this is a unique event, I got a whole set of the trilogy receiving the same treatment at my Books of Wonder event:
So yeah. That’s cool.
Here’s a painting of the Leviathan in its friendly I’m-a-whale mode.
It’s interesting how for some readers the airbeast is a big, scary monster thing, but others see it more as a friendly animal. Clearly, for some people beasties are always a win.
Here’s a happy sketch of Tazza that makes the same point:
Another type of fan art that I only see while on tour is the GREAT BIG SIGN. As in this one:
Now, you can see why I might like this sign in particular. But all signs are cool.
Also popular with me? Cookies.
The Austin Teen Book Festival folks did these cover cookies for all us authors, but I’m still counting it as fan art. (And, reader, I ate it.)
Here’s a piece of Midnighters fan art! A flame-bringer symbol rendered in clay.
Yes, having missed fifty percent of the last few Fan Art Fridays, I hereby declare Fan Art Friday to be Fan Art Fortnightly. (It’s not easy being a lazy blogger, okay?)
This part 2 of the Non-Drawn Fan Art trilogy, guaranteed to have zero paintings or drawings, but with lashing of tattoos, cosplay, and photography. (Fan fic will be the concluding edition, in two weeks.)
First up we have tattoos, which are the most flattering/disturbing medium of fan art, because they’re, like, PERMANENT. This should go without saying, but I’ll say it: Do not get fan tattoos without serious consideration!
And yet, kind of awesome.
For all you Midnighters fans, here’s an awesome mindcaster tattoo on a fan I met in Florida. I have forgotten his name! (Sorry, dude. But I follow you on Twitter.)
And showing even more commitment, here’s an unknown rockstar in Russia who is obviously a huge fan of Keith’s!
Note that this isn’t from Leviathan, and is Westerfeldian in no way. But as you all love Keith as much as I do, I thought you’d want to see it.
Finally, here are a couple of non-real facial tattoos. (Non-real being the way to go with facial tattoos, I’d say.) The first is from Rachel, and is a mix of Special Tally and the cover of my (very) adult book, Evolution’s Darling:
And here’s another (fake) Special tattoo, spotted on the Behemoth tour last October:
By the way, if you want to read an academic paper on tattoos and body modification in the Uglies series, click here.
And now for some cosplay! Here’s Saiyuki-15, playing multiple roles:
Yes, that’s some awesome costuming AND jewelry making.
Here’s an intense Dr. Barlow, from FlyingBicycle at Deviant Art.
And now some photography from Zvaella, featuring a page of Leviathan:
Our last piece of FAF is photography plus Photoshoppery, from Ponylov. It’s one of my creations that amuses me the most, Shay’s eye-clock from Pretties:
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Just wanted to announce that Leviathan has won the Locus Award for Best YA Novel of 2009. w00t!
Congrats to the other winners, which include the wonderful Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, which won Best Novel. It was blurbed by me as follows:
A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details. This book is made of irresistible . . . it totally pushed all my buttons!
Also winning for Best First Novel was Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. Paulo just came out with an awesome YA novel, Ship Breaker, which, by happenstance, I also blurbed:
A riveting tale of adventure in a broken world. Gritty and real, yet full of wonders, Ship Breaker is the best debut novel I’ve read in ages.
By the way, you should have all realized by now that I only blurb books whose titles rhyme with “Zombie Staker.” It’s just a thing I do.
As a special surprise, those of you in the NYC area will get to see both me and Paulo this week! Joining us will be Jon Armstrong, author of another wonderful first sf novel, Grey.
Here are the details:
Time:
Thursday, July 1
7PM Place: McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince St.
(b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012
212.274.1160
Anyway, thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Locus Awards. It’s great to see people from the adult science fiction world reading and thinking about YA. And if you don’t know Locus Magazine, you should check it out. It’s a the best source for news about sf and fantasy publishing.
And now, because I missed Fan Art Friday last week, here are some Intentionally Enplasticized Reproductions, otherwise known as Lego Midnighters!
These are by Ean, who can be found here on Flickr. Cool, huh?
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Just wanted to announce that Leviathan has won the Locus Award for Best YA Novel of 2009. w00t!
Congrats to the other winners, which include the wonderful Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, which won Best Novel. It was blurbed by me as follows:
A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details. This [...]
A Russian fan recently directed me to this site, which gives a full accounting of books by my Russian alter-ego, Скотт Вестерфельд. (Technically, Скотт is not an alter-ego, given that he is, in fact, me. But I prefer to imagine him as an actual other person, reading this post and chuckling as he consumes champagne and caviar, surrounded by all the author’s copies that my Russian publishers never bother to send me.)
I’ve always enjoyed Скотт’s covers, which have a pulpish fabulosity that makes my own covers seem restrained, almost priggish, in comparison. So I thought a series of posts examining his work would be fun.
Let’s look first at Скотт’s Midnighters series. These books have had no fewer than three separate sets of covers. Whether this is because Скотт is astonishingly popular or simply because this series has never gained traction, I have no idea. (Someone would have to send me some royalty statements in order for me to take a guess. Hint, hint.)
Anyway, here are the first two Midnighters covers, published in 2006:
These covers are fairly true to the books in their details (13-pointed stars, small-town buildings, all sort of metal weaponry) but the central figures are somewhat bizarre. First note that Jonathan Martinez (um, Hispanic) and Jessica Day (textually a red head) are both blond and blue-eyed here. That’s whitewashing in its most aggressive form—Aryanization.
Also odd is the subway train looming up behind Dess in Book 2. Note to Russian artist: there are no subways in Bixby, Oklahoma. The stimulus bill wasn’t that big.
But it turns out that these covers have been replaced, so let’s move on. This is what they looked like in 2008:
Holy guacamole, that’s a different look. The whitewashing is pretty much over with Jonathan, and Jess has arguably reddish hair. Of course, everyone is suddenly in bondage leather, which might not be strictly canonical (or even purchasable in small-town Oklahoma). But the energy in these covers is lovely.
I also like that Dess is on Book 1, while Jessica and Jonathan have been moved to Book 2. Because everyone likes Dess better. Plus, this Dess is much more awesome than wimpy oop-I-fell-over Dess from the first set of covers.
But this take on the series didn’t last either. A little book called Сумерки came out, which was about some dude who sparkled, and there was a sudden call for everything to look a bit more . . . vampire-y.
So these are the books in their current form:
A little more urban fantasy, and apparently a bit more successful, given that we finally have a cover for Book 3 in this style:
A Russian fan recently directed me to this site, which gives a full accounting of books by my Russian alter-ego, Скотт Вестерфельд. (Technically, Скотт is not an alter-ego, given that he is, in fact, me. But I prefer to imagine him as an actual other person, reading this post and chuckling as he consumes champagne [...]
I sort of missed it, but yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace, of course, is the patron saint of Dess, the hypernumerate character from my Midnighters series. She’s also one of the towering figures in the history of computing, given that she wrote the world’s first computer program . . . back in 1843. This achievement is as amazing as it sounds, given that the computer didn’t exist back then, except in theory. But that didn’t stop Ada.
It’s stories like this that make me realize that history itself can be quite steampunk. That is, ideas and technologies don’t all appear in a neat, predictable order. Sometimes theory gets ahead of practice in ways that are profound and mysterious, and imagination is never limited by the engineering capabilities of the present.
That’s a good thing to remember, so happy belated Ada Lovelace Day.
Also thanks to everyone at Marrickville High School, where I had a great visit yesterday. About 40 students (mostly Year 9s, or what us USians call freshmen) were stuck with me for about two hours. That’s a long stretch, but they all stayed focused and smart and full of brilliant questions.
Thanks for a great day, Marrickvillians, and good luck with your NAPLANs.
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I sort of missed it, but yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace, of course, is the patron saint of Dess, the hypernumerate character from my Midnighters series. She’s also one of the towering figures in the history of computing, given that she wrote the world’s first computer program . . . back in 1843. This achievement is as amazing as it sounds, given that the computer didn’t exist back then, except in theory. But that didn’t stop Ada.
It’s stories like this that make me realize that history itself can be quite steampunk. That is, ideas and technologies don’t all appear in a neat, predictable order. Sometimes theory gets ahead of practice in ways that are profound and mysterious, and imagination is never limited by the engineering capabilities of the present.
That’s a good thing to remember, so happy belated Ada Lovelace Day.
Also thanks to everyone at Marrickville High School, where I had a great visit yesterday. About 40 students (mostly Year 9s, or what us USians call freshmen) were stuck with me for about two hours. That’s a long stretch, but they all stayed focused and smart and full of brilliant questions.
Thanks for a great day, Marrickvillians, and good luck with your NAPLANs.
Here I am posting without any cool ideas in my head. Just news:
ONE
Team Toshi Banana tells me that there will be another Forum Meet-Up soon! The last one was awesome, with about a hundred people showing up. (Seventy-eight at one time was the record.)
Meet-Up Number 2 will be this Saturday, February 13th, at 5:00 pm EST (US time). That’s 9AM Sunday morning here in Sydney, so I may be a little late.
The Forum is reached by clicking the word “Forum” on the menu bar above. I KNOW YOU CAN FIND IT. (Argh, okay, here’s a link.)
TWO
This will be sad news for some of you: It appears as though the Midnighters TV show will not be going to pilot. In other words, NBC doesn’t like the scripts they’ve come up with, so they aren’t going ahead with the show.
My guess is that this is because TV-land is obsessed with making everyone 20-something, and Midnighters doesn’t actually make sense with 20-somethings. Because staying up till midnight when you’re 27 is PURE DEAD MAGICAL! I discuss this sad phenomenon in hilarious detail here.
To be fair, this is just a guess. I only bring it up because the marvelous Ally Carter’s Heist Society has just been optioned by Hollywood, and they’re making everyone older—in their 20’s.
Note that Ally doesn’t seem to mind, and that I haven’t read HS yet, because it only arrived in in stores, like, THIS WEEK, so maybe aging it up is okay. But I just want to know from you teens out there . . .
WHAT DID YOU DO TO HOLLYWOOD? IT’S LIKE THEY hate YOU!
And I’m sure it’s your fault.
Okay, that’s it for today, except . . .
THREE
Walker Wednesday!
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&&that’s too bad about Midnights – def disappointing-major!
Maybe if they didn’t mess with it so much from what you wrote… I know they can’t, with films&tv, makes thing the exact same, but some things oughta be consistent between it all, otherwise don’t bother. Maybe something will happen in the future with it – with people who know how to do it right.
celly-wa said, on 2/9/2010 10:53:00 PM
awww! i was looking forward to seeing midnighters as a tv show! ah well i think that its better having no tv show than ones when their twenty something it would ruin my visions.
Team Toshi Banana said, on 2/10/2010 2:34:00 AM
Hooray! Forum meet-up #2 has been announced!
But the midnighters tv show got canceled? I was looking forward to seeing it… but there’s still the uglies movie!
Hope-la said, on 2/10/2010 5:02:00 AM
I don’t watch TV that much anyway, so I can’t say that cancellation is a big deal for me anyway.
Scott-la, please show up for the Meetup! It would make my day!
Rebekah said, on 2/10/2010 6:48:00 AM
I claim responsibility for Hollywood’s hatred of teenagers. I won’t say what I did, but I will say that it included some very angry badgers.
The cancellation of a TV is rarely a truly horrible thing, especially when what makes so many books great can’t effectively be translated from text to screen (this is part of why the Watchmen film, which followed the source material ridiculously meticulously, went over like a lead balloon in some circles).
Kay-la said, on 2/10/2010 8:51:00 AM
Sorry about the TV show, dude :\ Let’s keep our fingers crossed for our Uglies movie though!!
Kay-la said, on 2/10/2010 8:52:00 AM
Ahem. *Your* Uglies movie. Sorry bout that
Ann-la said, on 2/10/2010 9:09:00 AM
Well, although I’m disappointed that there will be no Midnighterness on TV, I’m a bit glad we’ve been spared the outrage of them really screwing it up. I agree, aging Midnighters would never work.
I’ve never read Heist Society, but I will put it on my list.. no opinion there, as I’d have no idea what I’m talking about.
Hollywood, I’m assuming, doesn’t want to put too much stock into inexperienced actors. They want to see actors who’ve been doing this for years, rather than a fifteen year old who may have only had a few commercials. I’m not saying young actors can’t be experienced and wonderful, but I wouldn’t want to risk it with a bunch of unknowns with little experience. Not fact or anything, just my assumptions.
However, if they cancel the Uglies move, there will be hell to pay. Just sayin’.
Elena-La said, on 2/10/2010 9:53:00 AM
Thats messed up about the TV show, I was hoping it would go through I mean the books were awesome and the writing was perfect… Ugh its these moment I hate Hollywood with their changing everything.
“Hey, that book is totally great, why not make it as a show?”
“Oh wait… but lets just change one thing… make that five!”
I was really looking forward to the Midnighters show after a HUGE dissapointment with Vampire Diaries, Hollywood just tossed the whole book & story away and kept only one thing the same… the Title.
Sorry for what happened Scott-la, *Cough cough* What about the Uglies Movie?? *Cough*
Fox said, on 2/10/2010 10:02:00 AM
Hi Scott!
my name is Maria, i have never written you, but i think it’s time to connect with you)
id like to go to this meeting but i live in russia in moscow so it’d be some difficuld for me;)
oooh its so awful that we cant see midnighters aaah(
good luck Scott!
Those finger puppets are totally awesome! I can so imagine a finger puppet show of midnighters. =D
Beli-wa said, on 12/29/2009 11:13:00 PM
Awww I haven’t read midnighters yet not enough Monet to buy it and I owe a hugggeeeeee fine at the library:( But I wanna read it so BADDLY anyways I’m do glad you blogged again scott cause I have no life so I depend on the blog and a few other sites. :p
PING AT EVERYONE:
you guys have any good Levathian quotes? I needed some for school project but forgot and my teacher forgot to collect all of them before school ended. So anyone wanna help me out? Please and tank youuuuu.
Lol Im listening to GREEN DAY 21gunsss:D
immortal_angel said, on 12/30/2009 12:03:00 AM
That fan art is amazing.
scott said, on 12/30/2009 2:54:00 AM
Beli-wa: How about the quote from Alek’s dad: “The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”
gabfra said, on 12/30/2009 6:04:00 AM
looovvveee the midnighter puppetts
and the extras cover is totally awsome.
and Beli-Wa: you should deffinitily find a way to read midnighters. its totally awsome. what i do when i have a big fine at the library is use my dad or brother’s card. or ask a friend to use there card. haha i know…very BA =P
but READ IT. its awesome =]
Jessica-la said, on 12/30/2009 6:16:00 AM
Wow I havnt read Midnighters in a loooonnnnggggg time!!! It was such a great seris though!!!
Team Toshi Banana said, on 12/30/2009 7:23:00 AM
Ha ha those finger puppets are so bubbly!
I liked the Extras cover too!
Alli-wa said, on 12/30/2009 7:38:00 AM
The finger puppets are so cute! I am slowly working my way through Leviathan (reading The Great Gatsby for school is my first priority).
Special w/ a Heart said, on 12/30/2009 8:46:00 AM
OMG luv the finger puppets! and the Extras pic? niice. thats sick(in a good way. in my world there are 3 ways 2 say sick: “hey man, that new jacket iz sooo sick!”:) “hey, that’s just sick and wrong!”:( and “mom, i’m siiiiiiiiick…”)
Julie-wa said, on 12/30/2009 9:05:00 AM
ooo, Scott-la, that’s a great quote.
It seems so easy to find quotes within the Uglies trilogy, but I did have an awful time finding quotes within Leviathan.
Any other good ones, or favourites of yours?
Lauren-wa said, on 12/30/2009 9:13:00 AM
Scott,
I was wondering how to work in writing, I have seven-day school weeks and I work… how can I fit it in? I am currently writing a book for Young Adults and I would love to hear an input… thanks sooo much for being a role model to me!
Yes, you read that right, and I’m typing it again, because it’s that much fun:
Manga. Head. Explosive. Goo.
It’s a brand of hair gel made by Garnier, to create those delicious mohawk-tastic heads of hair just like your fave manga characters. Don’t believe me? Here’s the website.
Can anybody find a photo of actual Manga Head Explosive Goo in a store? I need to see it.
Okay, now that that’s dealt with, a few more cool images, starting with a SCARY DOLL ALERT!
This is the Italian version of Peeps, published by Fazi. Although Justine can’t look at it, due to her scarydollaphobia, I love it and can’t wait for a matching treatment for The Last Days.
Hey, I just noticed the secret color-coded message in the title, which works in English as well as in Italian. See what I mean? Kewl.
And in Скотт Вестерфельд news, we have Jonathan and Jessica looking very fantastical on the cover of the Russian Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness . . .
I could just look at foreign edition covers all day sometimes. So much easier than, um, writing.
Speaking of which, it’s back to the Leviathan mines for me!
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Wow, that Peeps cover is really creepy, I’m with Justine on this one!!
She should get Maureen Johnson to take to the American Girl Place to overcome her fear, like she did with Libba Bray!
Joey-la said, on 2/7/2009 8:01:00 PM
I mean Maureen Johnson took Libba Bray to American Girl place to overcome her fear, I just re-read what I wrote, and it didn’t really make much sense!
Kai-la said, on 2/7/2009 8:05:00 PM
From the Garnier site: “Manga Head Explosive Goo will give your hair superhero powers.”
Indeed.
Love the look of both the foreign edition covers, though, I wonder about Jess’ dress? Not what I would pick for battling ancient predators.
Kayla said, on 2/7/2009 8:24:00 PM
Um if you want a picture of the Manga Head Explosive Goo in stores, you don’t really need one, seriously, if you’re in Aus atm, go to coles or Woolworths, shampoo aisle, they’re EVERYWHERE with a bunch of other Garnier products, I have like all of them
presley said, on 2/7/2009 8:25:00 PM
wow, that is some mad crazy hair. the doll on the cover is a bit creepy, but really neat! i love foreign covers!
Dahlia-wa said, on 2/7/2009 8:29:00 PM
Finally, my dreams of having Yu-Gi-Oh’s rediculous hair have come true!!!
That might be good to have if I ever go to Comic-Con (no idea who I would dress as).
Foreign covers are cool. I think when Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz is available in the US I’ll order it on Amazon so I can get the English cover (it is sooo much cooler. Don’t believe me? Look it up on B&N and Amazon).
Click my name. We might be doing another live blog soon. Still debating.
Rosie-Wa said, on 2/7/2009 8:40:00 PM
dude i need some of that hair gel and i thought the midnighters cover said tony hawkus or something lol!
Emi-la said, on 2/7/2009 8:52:00 PM
WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY!!!!A NEW POST!!!!!!!!!
Sabrina said, on 2/7/2009 8:52:00 PM
Hey Scott, this is a purely random comment to tell you that my 48-year-old, married-with-two-kids mother, who doesn’t read, ever, beyond Woman’s World Weekly, Reader’s Digest, or the latest Sylvia Browne, loves the Uglies series so much that after she recently thumbed through the copy I had lying on my kitchen table, she ran out and bought every single book for herself. I’m know you were totally writing for middle-aged middle America with those, so there you go.
Emi-la said, on 2/7/2009 8:53:00 PM
oops!!!I meant Yay not Way!!
Haley~Hyperness is ICY said, on 2/7/2009 8:57:00 PM
WOAH. SCARY GEL. BUT AWESOME. love how it says “explosive” in the name. makes it sound…awesomer.
That doll book cover is really creepy…but that is why I love it so much i think.
and the midnighters…that is kick butt.
Those of you who’ve read Peeps will no doubt remember toxoplasma gondii, the cat-borne parasite that can infect humans and change their personality. An old pal of mine, science journalist and blogger Rebecca Skloot, is a bit of an expert on toxoplasma, having written this article on whether the parasite causes “crazy cat-lady syndrome.” Fascinating stuff.
She’s just posted this charming video of a possibly toxoplasma-positive rat who LOVES its little cat friend.
For those of you who haven’t read Peeps, toxoplasma controls its rat host’s brain, making the poor creature seek out cats in hopes of getting eaten. This is because toxoplasma can only reproduce itself in the stomach of a cat. But as Rebecca points out, if the cat takes the pacifist route and simply refuses to eat the rat, it can stay uninfected.
Stephenie Meyer fansite Twilight Moms has declared my Midnighters series its Book of the Month. Join the Twilight Moms discussion here. (Well, you have to be a mom, or at least 25, or married to be a Twilight Mom, but you can always read the discussion.)
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Almost forgot to say that the new Midnighters covers are IN STORES NOW!
And for you online shoppers, here are multi-store links for The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness, and Blue Noon. (Check to make sure the store you choose is showing the new cover!)
Thanks to everyone at HarperCollins for re-launching this trilogy in such beautiful form.
#2 or three tooo i forgot they look neat goin to go write more midnighters fan fic fixed it too. crappy section is now gone
Gabrielle said, on 1/3/2008 9:15:00 AM
Numbah three! … ?
I wish I were in New York. All the cool authors live there and don’t really go anywhere else very often.
Love the new covers, too. I kinda wish I didn’t already own the older ones… But then, I think that the old covers are really cool too.
They probably thought the oldies looked a little too horror-ish? I dunno. I kind of thought that when I got them.
But they are still made of awesome.
dragonfly said, on 1/3/2008 9:43:00 AM
I really do like them. I’m kind of glad I read the library books before, so I can buy the new ones!
Hailee-Wa said, on 1/3/2008 10:01:00 AM
kool i love the new covers, my friend own the older ones and i will have to buy the new ones and rub it in her face HAHA
Kailyx said, on 1/3/2008 10:20:00 AM
The covers for both hardcover and trade are so ridiculously awesome, I want to get both, which would be pretty silly of me. More annoying is the fact that I’m still not sure whether the third cover is Jonathon or Rex. Looks a lot more like Rex, but with an acrobat symbol. Did they tell you who they had in mind when they made the cover?
Bran-la said, on 1/3/2008 10:21:00 AM
Cool, i want those covers so bad but i already have the original. so…..im not gonna get them.
hillary! said, on 1/3/2008 10:28:00 AM
Thst’s funny I saw them all at a Borders in LA on the 26th. SCOTT! You should totally go to thta Borders! I would actually be able to meet/see you!Well, anyway DFTBA!
Reese said, on 1/3/2008 11:10:00 AM
All the best authors live in New York. And yet, I’m stuck here in Kentucky. But thats okay! Because Scott came to Lexington! And I got to meet him! Its totally bubbly-making just thinking about it!
Scott: Did you know that you are really hard to get a hold of?? I clicked your contact me link but it didn’t work. We want you for the SUPER AWESOME PROJECT!! Which will get more teens into reading and raise awareness about censorship. For more info go to reesespeaks.blogspot.com
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midnig said, on 1/3/2008 11:10:00 AM
i want those covers. i must have them.
see, increased trilogy publicity….piggyback on Extras, make people realize thier awesome, make you write a fourth one. or a fifth one, so the covers match……………….
srsly. darkling. werewolves.
Reese said, on 1/3/2008 11:12:00 AM
I’m with Bran-la on this. I can’t get the new covers. I already have the old ones. *sighs and looks forlornly at the beautiful pictures.*
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midnig said, on 1/3/2008 11:13:00 AM
did u replace the ” AT ” with an @?
cuz you have to do that to make the email work.
Reese said, on 1/3/2008 11:14:00 AM
No, I mean my computer did something weird and I can’t see the address. Very sad.
Savvy-la loves David said, on 12/20/2007 3:31:00 PM
Again, I am disappointed by the lack of hoverboard derring-do
capt. cockatiel said, on 12/20/2007 3:33:00 PM
Leviathan… :DDD
Netta-la said, on 12/20/2007 3:34:00 PM
Heehee
derring-do
so fawsome
Taylor said, on 12/20/2007 3:45:00 PM
me gusta! pretty…idk why, but i like the melissa cover best…i guess the colors are bolder or something.
yeah, whatever happened to the derring-do promise? thank you for pointing that out, savvy-la!
so, scott-la…where are the hidden “derring do”s???
Taylor said, on 12/20/2007 3:53:00 PM
i can’t wait for leviathan…even the name intrigues me!
oh, and i have reigned supreme over my spanish teacher! seriously, like at the beginning of class she called me out to the hall and i thought it was b/c she’d found some hidden grade i missed, but as it turns out, she put the decimal in the wrong place when she entered the participation grade for everyone in our class (that was my 97 grade), so it ened up being counted 1000 times! so everyone’s grades were screwed up, i was just the only one who thought to tell her about it. for some people, the participation grade brought them up, for others, it brought their grade down (me). so now she’s redoing the grades of the people whose grades were lowered by her mistake, but those whose grades were made higher stay the same, since it’d be cruel to do lower their grades for her own mix-up. so now i have a 100. well, 99.6, but teachers here round up.
Taylor said, on 12/20/2007 3:54:00 PM
i must’ve described that in the most confuzzling way possible, but that was me rambling. i’m just excited, b/c most of my friends are happy b/c their grades will be higher now.
My first post on this blog was about the cover of Blue Noon, book three of the Midnighters trilogy. So perhaps it’s appropriate that my real first post on the redesigned blog is the redesigned Blue Noon cover.
And it’s timely too, given that all three books of the trilogy are being re-released together on January 2!
So here’s the new Rex:
For reference, here are all three of the new covers together. That’s Jessica on book 1 and Melissa on book 2. (Poor Dess and Jonathan!)
You can pre-order the new look books now. Here are multi-store links for The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness, and Blue Noon. (Check to make sure the store you choose is showing the new cover!)
Anyway, now that you’ve seen all three covers, what do you guys think?
12 Comments on Long Live Rex!, last added: 12/17/2007
omg i luv the new book covers, they’re amazing. I hope you make another book to go with the midnighters!
Emily-wa said, on 12/17/2007 8:54:00 AM
I guess you just have 2 make a 4th and 5th book soDess and Jonathon don’t get left out!
Allie-wa said, on 12/17/2007 9:04:00 AM
omg that is so fawesome.
Weird, though. The symbol looks like the crobat symbol but its…Rex? w/e.
That is so cool. Midnighters rocks! I’m so happy.
TheRisenLilith said, on 12/17/2007 9:08:00 AM
Nice covers, Mr. Westerfeld!
Allie-wa said, on 12/17/2007 9:38:00 AM
I just keep staring at them. Beautiful!
And thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! Midnighters posts are fawesome.
dragonfly said, on 12/17/2007 9:55:00 AM
I likes!
I think I’m going to buy all three with the new covers. I have the first two (paperback) but I can’t seem to find them (I think I lent them out…). So…fun!
Kailyx said, on 12/17/2007 10:00:00 AM
I like these trade covers, I think more than I like the normal hardcover ones. But I’m pretty sure Allie is right- although the guy looks like Rex should, the symbol on his eye looks like the acrobat symbol. Strange.
Mioki-la said, on 12/17/2007 10:08:00 AM
Honestly like the blocky blurry covers better.
“Bixbie high’s late bell shrieked in the distance, like something weak and ready to be cut from the herd.”
sasheee-wa said, on 12/17/2007 10:12:00 AM
WOWWEE! great stuff. i want to but them
i aggree with emily-wa, dess and jonothan are gonna HAVE to have there own books (yay) XD
Lauren said, on 12/17/2007 11:05:00 AM
OMG! I love them! I wish I could of gotten them instead of the old ones *dies* lol But the other covers are fawesome too.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midnig said, on 12/17/2007 11:09:00 AM
ha! peoples listen to me.
those covers are fool, i almost like them better. they’re fexcellently fawesomely fool.
i love the rex one, and that really looks like how i see Melissa.
i’m actually tempted to go buy new copies just to get those covers.
you know what’d be great to coinside with the new covers? like, dude, they could be a promotion for the announcment of the release of the fourth one with darkling werewolves.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midnig said, on 12/17/2007 11:11:00 AM
and the seer and acrobat symbols do look pretty similar, so yeah.
i love the other covers, but these are so awesome…
ahh, if i wasn’t at school i would be already halfway through making a huge batch of midnighters-themed icons.
have i mentioned i love that rex one?
he’s so blue…and i love his freaky eye color.
i mean, i only have the first two. if i wait, the only one available’ll be rexy, so i’ll just *have* to buy all three of the new covers…
Okay, still at World Fantasy. Lots of cool YA authors here. Mostly have been hanging out with Garth Nix and the rest of the Aussie contingent, and keep running into Holly Black and Cassie Claire, who turn out to be in the same hotel as me.
More later on con activities, but first lots of Halloween cossies to share. From the Uglies books, this from Jamie and Nona:
And Tamir (too old to trick or treat, but went for the Special treatment anyway):
And finally Ally B. From Arkansas, who also dressed up to take some littlies out:
And this interpretation of Shay’s “nest of snakes” tattoo, from Colorific:
And Tara-wa as a Cutter:
And a trio of hoverboarding Smokies:
And from the Midnighters side of things, a darkling-proof pumpkin!
And Dess and Melissa:
Sorry if I missed anybody, I’m darting in and out of my hotel room. Hope you had great Halloweens!
10 Comments on Many Specials, last added: 11/2/2007
I love them… I was interested to see that no one found the same temp tattoo I used. Guess these peeps are more creative. ^__^ Brill.
Aly-wa said, on 11/2/2007 12:34:00 PM
that is soo cool i wish i could have tried something as amazing as that! wow…my second comment and im in the top 10 already…feeling very cool over here!!!
<3 Aly-wa
elise-wa said, on 11/2/2007 12:37:00 PM
P.S.-ness
And I have gotten a friend to read Uglies- she’s hooked! Hopefully she’ll be able to find the second one… We prolly only have (seriously x__x) around six copies in my whole town.
Nona said, on 11/2/2007 12:42:00 PM
Yay, we got posted! Love everyone’s costumes, especially Tamir’s makeup and the Midnighters pumpkin.
Have fun at World Fantasy, Scott!
Ally-wa said, on 11/2/2007 12:48:00 PM
yay! its me! lol those r all so cool!
Amy-la said, on 11/2/2007 1:05:00 PM
so fool! i would have been someone from scott’s books, if i was creative and if i had the time
I love the costumes and the pumpkin
th hoverboards were sooo col!!!
Riderchild-wa said, on 11/2/2007 1:31:00 PM
totally kick costumes
wish i were that creative 2
-Riderchild-wa
Bran-la said, on 11/2/2007 1:38:00 PM
How do you send the pictures. If you go to contact up top, it says to send it to scottwesterfeld.com and it doesnt work! I tried but it doesnt work! Plz, tell me how!
A while back, a perplexed reader sent me a link to a movie with the following title: Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour.
The pitch for the film on MSN Movies reads: “A 17-year-old (newcomer Rissa Walters) returns to her hometown of Pine Valley just in time to discover a dark secret about two brothers and the terrors of the ‘paranormal hour’ between midnight and 1 a.m.”
To answer your burning question: this has nothing to do with me or Midnighters. And if you check out the movie’s website, you will see why that makes me breathe a sigh of relief. That has to be the most woeful trailer I’ve ever seen.
Hmm, the film stars Brian Comrie and Dan Comrie, and in the production credits we also find:
Director: Lisa Comrie
Screenwriter: John Comrie
Screenwriter: Lisa Comrie
Story: John Comrie
Producers: Fred Comrie, John Comrie, Lisa Comrie
Did the whole family get together over Labor Day and make this thing?
Still, this is not an outrage to Midnighters fans. “Paranormal time” doesn’t mean anything about time freezing, and in any case borrowing ideas is what genre is built on. (I love Heroes, for example, which is a massive mash-up of concepts stolen from decades of comics.)
But I do have one serious misgiving: this film looks so incredibly bad that it may single-handedly ruin the notion of midnight being in any way cool.
It opened back on October 19 and grossed a little over $500 per theater on its first weekend. Let’s do some math! About 51 people saw it per theater over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which at $10 a ticket means about 17 people per day. And your average theater shows a film, what . . . six times a day? So about three people showed up for the average showing.
Ouch.
Did any of you see it?
11 Comments on Knockoff-ville, last added: 10/30/2007
Wow, that’s a big ouch. No, I didn’t see that movie…I hadn’t even heard of it until just now.
Eugene said, on 10/30/2007 10:47:00 AM
Surely those 51 people who saw it were also Comries.
Kaleb Nation said, on 10/30/2007 11:11:00 AM
Should read: ‘The *Last* in a series of Sarah Landon mysteries’
Danielle said, on 10/30/2007 11:27:00 AM
This may seem like a strange question but..
Why are the covers on your books in the US different to the ones that are sold in the UK?
And also you have inspired my for my english coursework.
Thankyou so much
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 10/30/2007 11:53:00 AM
i did hear of it somewhere. i think i might have seen one commercial on it or something. that’s really funny though. 3 people per show? major ouch.
phlebotnum said, on 10/30/2007 12:02:00 PM
I’ve never heard of it either, but my worry is similar to Scott’s in that I desperately want to see Midnighters made into a television series (I see it as stylistically similar to that old WB show Roswell, but with better writing and, hopefully, acting). A lame treatment of a similar concept could really color a producer’s decision to greenlight a series. Let’s hope the numbers on this one stay fairly low! *fingers crossed*
Liset said, on 10/30/2007 12:10:00 PM
I remember seeing the poster somewhere and thinking the same midnighters type thing…
is anyone doing NANOWRIMO???
if you don’t know what that is… then check it out! www.nanowrimo.org
Rosie-wa said, on 10/30/2007 12:12:00 PM
oo..i dont want to see it…than i’ll be like depressed about the concept….thus making midnighters sad for me
Mary Elizabeth S. said, on 10/30/2007 12:28:00 PM
I hadn’t even heard of it.
These Comries–do they know that there is zero original material in their movie? I mean come on…crazy brother…haunted house…old psychic lady…witching hour (renamed paranormal hour, big deal)…mystery that can only be solved by [insert main character’s name here]…not to mention that said character is the one who “uncovered” this mystery (which the whole town talks about, because it’s an urban legend there)…
Well, practically nobody saw it, and hardly anybody heard about it, so hopefully the coolness of midnight hasn’t been tainted.
Okay people, begin your anti-word-of-mouth campaign on this movie…now!
~Mary
Kenina-chan said, on 10/30/2007 12:36:00 PM
I can’t remember where I heard of this before and I thought of Midnighters. But it seemed like time didn’t stop in the trailer and everything didn’t turn blue and lots of other stuff. Well, I have to go do two projects that are due tomorrow. Bye.
Shausto-la said, on 10/30/2007 12:37:00 PM
aww. almost makes me feel sorry for them. well, at least they tried..
i wish i could do nanowrimo, but i really have no time. at all. instead i do nanobagzmo..it helps save the world.
and keeps you safe from the Bag Monster.!!
At our reading at Books Inc. tonight, we ran into more awesome fan art. Long-time commenter Liset came in with this retro Team David shirt:
And note the Midnighters-y line on the botttom: “With love for Flyboy too!”
On top of which, I scored this awesome piece of So Yesterday-themed art:
Thanks for all these little touches of sweetness to offset the rigors of touring.
Tomorrow is insane, between a school visit, a signing, and flying to Seattle, so there may well be no blogging. But don’t forget the last few dates of la tour:
Wednesday, Oct 10
3:00pm-4:30pm Hicklebees
1378 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
School event followed by in-store reading/signing
Thursday, Oct 11
7:00pm Shorecrest Performing Arts Center
15343 25th Avenue NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
Books will be sold by Third Place Books
Public presentation and signing.
Friday, Oct 12
4:00pm Edmonds Branch Library
650 Main St.
Edmonds, WA 98020
Books will be sold onsite by Barnes & Noble
Monday, Oct 15
7:00pm Joseph-Beth Booksellers
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503
Reading/Signing
Ciao for now.
Quick Note: If you’re commenting about the book Extras, please be kind to your fellow readers and use the Extras Spoiler Page.
212 Comments on More Fan Art, last added: 10/30/2007
Wow, i wish i was creative and Scott was coming to my town. That would involve him coming to my country…
easyelders said, on 10/10/2007 1:05:00 AM
17084 - good site. PeterPan
Lil said, on 10/10/2007 2:26:00 AM
That is such an awesome tshirt!!!
I think we need some more Scott-related merch that we can buy…
Yes??
(more than what we already have that is…)
Rosie said, on 10/10/2007 3:22:00 AM
whoa…i wish i was creative
PLEASE COME TO NORTHERN VA …i said pleas
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/10/2007 4:11:00 AM
awesome fanart-ness!
I made some midnighters buttons too, but i went lazy and used the badge-a-minit.
i made one that’s white with black letters “Something About You Is Just So…” and then 11:59 bigger and in red.
and one of the first midnighters cover
and that blue pic from the back of all the kids. and i’m gonna make more to go with my melissa halloween costume.
please! add some stuff to Wearable Extras……like last days concert shirts….or bixby high sweatshirts…..or U R So 11:59 in juniors sleeveless sweatshirt with the red writing………
Addie-Wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:32:00 AM
Nice.
Maybe I dont like you posting so much.
Gots get out the door.
I want a button.
Bri-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:55:00 AM
whoa. kick fan art. i luv. good luck on the rest of ur tour. and uh… are there like copy write laws that say i cant make a “Special Circumstances” shirt myself. because as much as i luv ur’s scott, im not made of money and it would be a lot cheaper just to make my own (for my halloween costume. im being a special.)
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 5:36:00 AM
– I hope there arn’t.
Amy-la said, on 10/10/2007 7:13:00 AM
so0o0o0o0o fool!
I’m on team david too!
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 7:21:00 AM
Wow a Special Halloween costume. That’s a really good idea.
Too bad I cant make myself a Pretty…
luna said, on 10/10/2007 7:24:00 AM
ooh i was number 10 yay me
luna said, on 10/10/2007 7:24:00 AM
I was going to be a Special. *Tear* ohhh well give me costume ideas whats good. what to wear. my mom wont let me get color contacts so errgh
scott said, on 10/10/2007 7:28:00 AM
Bri-la: There are no copyright laws about any halloween costumes you make for yourself!
Do you guys really sit around worrying about breaking copyright? That’s awful.
Besides, I stole “Special Circumstances” from Iain Banks’ books. That’s how culture works—you steal stuff. Shakespeare stole the plot of Romeo and Juliet from a poem, for heaven’s sake.
Liset said, on 10/10/2007 9:02:00 AM
hooray!
last night was so fawesome!
I’m glad you like your gift scott… hope it wasn’t werid!
tehe
But seriously,
I think meeting an author is waaaay better than meeting a movie star or a rock star. yuuuup!
Even though it meant I had to walk through a dodgy neighborhood to catch the MUNI…..^-^
Oh and serafine zane: i totally want a button maker….!
Hailee said, on 10/10/2007 9:24:00 AM
wow this is probably the closest i have gotten to comment number 1. lol well that is really kool i am thinking about making and team zane shirt i was so hurt when he died … i cried literally i had to put the book down becaused i couldn’t se the words because my eyes were so blured with tears. My friend laura on the other hand likes david we have an on going rivaly about it … srry i am not a very good speller
Hailee said, on 10/10/2007 9:26:00 AM
Oh a specail costume for halloween that is so bubbly i love it … but i wont copy you Bri-la so dont worry. i might go as my self and wear a shirt that says rusty on it … lol only yuor readers would understand.
Hailee said, on 10/10/2007 9:31:00 AM
Yeah if i had the chance to meet eaither a cute pop star or a awsome writter i’d pick the author. books are my life and i dont meen that in a dorky way i meen i get out of the house and all its just nothing is better to me than sitting in my chair and reading a good book.
It takes you to a place were everytings in order ..and by that i meen that good always wins . WHen i read it takes me away from real life for just a spilt moment i become someone else … the character i am reading about.
ik ik iam aultra cheesy but oh well
Emily said, on 10/10/2007 9:38:00 AM
Hey, any one out there, what happened to
Leviathan ? September came and whent. >:
I love steam punk, so I was very excited!
Liset said, on 10/10/2007 9:41:00 AM
Hailee!
I know exactly how you feel, reading is extremely awesome!
But just don’t forget to go out there and live too!!!
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 9:47:00 AM
I have crazy theories about reading. There’s a mental disorder that makes people believe that everything has cosmic importance. Sometimes I think I may have that disorder.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midni said, on 10/10/2007 11:17:00 AM
ohmigod, is EVERYONE on earth going as a special for halloween? i’ll be a lone melissa, walking around in a crowd of scarred tattooed secret agents.
and it’s only even slightly illegal if u make t-shirts and then sell them. and only if the original person complains.
and u gotta love literature common domain! like the millions of tribute names i put in stories……
TEAM ZANE!!! like the david t-shirt though.
and i read waaaaaaaaaaay too much. i counted all the books i could remember from this last summer….i got over 50 then couldn’t remember any more….but there were definitly others. who needs a life?
way too long comment.
but wat about Levithan? i second questions about release date/plz plz more info.
and ppl looking for button makers—the one i got was the cheap kind, and they can run really expensive. google button making machine and badge-a-minit is like the third result.
FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midni said, on 10/10/2007 11:33:00 AM
awwww…people at school. now i’m just writing long pointless posts to myself. i’m always on when no one else is.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midni said, on 10/10/2007 11:43:00 AM
still no one………..now commenting on really old threads to defeat boredom.
CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES FOR INFINITY!!
hey lizzy-wa, where’s the link to the chasing midnight page???? i can’t find it—ur name just goes 2 ur page.
i want chocolate jello pudding………….
and candy corn.
Liset said, on 10/10/2007 12:00:00 PM
serafina, do you not go to school?
maybe you should go play outside.
run around the block…
^-^
exercise is good!
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 12:13:00 PM
I would be Melissa But I don’t think I look like her—
I have long red hair so I could prob. get away with being Jessica — but I don’t know if their is much to do there.
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:13:00 PM
I must ask this question yet again: Under “leave a reply”, it asks for your name, then your mail. Does it mean your email or your real mail address?
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 12:14:00 PM
Any Other Costume Ideas that have do do with Scott’s books ?
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 12:16:00 PM
Oh—— SORRy Allie-wa !!!
— I put my e-mail address.
I would say Laura-wa for me but I don’t think it sounds right.
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 12:16:00 PM
I didn’t realize how much authors steal from other authors.
—Interesting.
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:18:00 PM
Sorry for the multiple comments.
Hey Serafina Zane - the same thing happened to me yesterday. Everyone was at school, and I was home, sick (as I still am today *sigh*) and no one was posting. typing your name made me realize your name is Serafina ZANE and not JANE!
Am I slow or what?
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:20:00 PM
Again, sorry for a THIRD comment, but I have to thank Laura! I didn’t refresh my screen so I couldn’t see your comments before posting my comment above. Sorry…
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:22:00 PM
That is the coolest shirt I think I’ve ever seen.
….
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:26:00 PM
I want so bad to be Melissa for Haloween. I was going to, too. But then my friends who were going to be Dess and Rex with me got into this super big fight. So now I don’t know….
*sadness*
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:29:00 PM
Scott-
You should totally sell 13-pointed stars somewhere! I would buy like 39… It would go so well with my costume!!
-randomness-
Riderchild-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:36:00 PM
cool!! that’s SO kick!!!!!
now, scott…WHEN R U COMING 2 NEW ENGLAND???????? I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EMPHASIZE THAT!!
neways….pretty cool fanart!!
-Riderchild-wa
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/10/2007 12:57:00 PM
i’m being melissa and i have pink hair and glasses. realisticness is relative.
yes. my name is Zane. not my *real* name, but whatever.
and i go to school. i just have ninth period creative writing. we sit in a computer lab and all we need to do is come up with a poem a week. i spend a lot of time on the internet.
i put email.
i made a 13 pointed star image in photoshop for the bixby high sweatshirt i will someday make……….unless they get sold on Wearable Extras first…hint, hint
amelia-wa said, on 10/10/2007 12:57:00 PM
Scott-la you shouldn’t just come to Northern VA, you should come to Southern VA. Better sites down here because your not right by Washington DC, ttly crowded, I went up there and so much traffic. And down here theres so many different sites and everything. Much more bubbly-making, and kick. ttly. you live in England, Riderchild-wa, Lucky. I have a friend who lives there. Also, Laura, You could Laura-la. Thats pretty bubbly-sounding
Amelia-wa
Kadie-Wa said, on 10/10/2007 1:03:00 PM
Sweet!! I gotta try that.
Kadie-Wa said, on 10/10/2007 1:04:00 PM
So, there used to be a few of us who would post like crazy! but now, when ever I get home, there’s at least 40 posts, and lots of new pplz!! it’s so cool!!
Kadie-Wa
(I forgot my siggie on the last one, whoops! )
Kadie-Wa said, on 10/10/2007 1:05:00 PM
Oh, and one more thing, if anyone remembers this….
SUMOS UNITE! :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Kadie-Wa
emzie said, on 10/10/2007 1:32:00 PM
I like the button the best.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 1:50:00 PM
OMG I got a button maker for christmas last year now i can finaly make something
GO TEAM ZANE!!!
WE ALL MOURN YOU
R.I.P.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 1:54:00 PM
it should say:
the smoke lives
go team zane
i love zane
kicker
nana love
extra!!!
I have lots more but will not post them all
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 1:55:00 PM
ok i will come back later but i have on thing to say
I love zane
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 2:25:00 PM
OMG smeone post
Meggi-wa said, on 10/10/2007 2:28:00 PM
Hey, how come you never come to Utah? Did you even know you have fans here?
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 2:40:00 PM
O ya, cool T but im srry, the words dont work for me! TEAM ZANE, all the way! Oh ya and you guys are going to be pround of me!! I have read all the Uglies “Trilogy” books and wait for it wait for it…………………….MY MOM JUST GOT ME THE FIRST MIDNIGHTERS BOOK! Totally Icy, right? ok well i got to go READ! Shout out:
HEY STEPH-LA and UNMOLLY-WA
Oh and, behold, book number 5!
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 2:49:00 PM
You’re lucky, Bran-la. My mom was going to the library so I asked her to get the first Midnighters book. Instead, she got So Yesterday (Which was still awesome, btw) But I was reading the Amazon.com preview of Midnighters, and it stopped mid-sentence.
Totally bogus.
Lizzy-wa---Co-Prez of CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES said, on 10/10/2007 2:57:00 PM
THAT IS SO FOOOOOOOL! totally fawesome
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 3:21:00 PM
I no i am so excited. ill be able to become a chan let me help if you dont understand:
Me and my friends made rules for the endings
To be la or wa (bran-la)- you have to have read either midnighter series OR uglies series
To be chan- you have to have read the midnighters series AND the uglies series
To be sensei- you have to read ALL his books (the ones he lists on the website)
and if he adds more books to series or just makes more you have to read those before you can have ur ending back!
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 3:21:00 PM
It so cool!
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/10/2007 3:31:00 PM
i guess i’m sensei then.
well i haven’t read any of the adult scifi
but i’ve read midnighters and uglies and so yesterday and peeps and the last days and extras. so i think that counts.
dude, all u people holding copies of midnighters, go read it!!!!!! it’s awesome!!! tlly my fav of all scott’s books.
u should add peeps/so yesterday/the last days to ur qualifiers.
and author-dude. you know there is NO MENTION of the Last Days whatsoever on the main site? it is the book that time forgot…that never existed….why the dissing of the fawesome rock star book??????why?????
FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 3:46:00 PM
I consider Extras Part of the the Uglies “trilogy” thats y i call it the “Trilogy” or i call it a series, o and i want to be a sensei!
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 3:55:00 PM
Thanks Ameila-wa for the tip.
I wanna try being Melissa for Hallow’s Eve
I have a picture in my mind what she looks like but could anyone give me a discription on what clothes she wears ?
–thanks
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 3:58:00 PM
Then I’d also be sensei. I’ve read all but his adult books beacuse, well, I’m not an adult. xD
But I think I’ll stay a -wa because it sound so bubbly on my name.
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 3:59:00 PM
I don’t really know, Laura-la. I want to also be her, so I’ll probably just be wearing gothic cloths. Anything would be icy, I’m sure.
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:03:00 PM
That is what I was kind of thinking.
For some reason I think of that psycho girl on Breakfast Club for Melissa or Dess.
idk
SOME ONE –
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:04:00 PM
you should wear those fawesome gloves she always used to wear to avoid contact
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:06:00 PM
Oh and you know how we (Scott’s fans ) say words like…
Nervous-making and stuff like that -
What other words work for that ??
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:07:00 PM
Sometimes it just doesn’t SOund right ? you know ?
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:08:00 PM
Like pretty-making? Icy-making?
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:09:00 PM
THE GLOVES !!!!
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:09:00 PM
Sometimes, yeah I guess. But I’ve never really cared about sounding right, so….
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:10:00 PM
ahhm, you can just say random scott-la talk and all passing fans will understand you
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:10:00 PM
OMG YES!
I had totally forgotten about them! How bogus am I? Thats what I get for only reading the Uglies trilogy for 2 months….
Sophie-la---President Of Darkling & Midnighte said, on 10/10/2007 4:14:00 PM
i want to go as melissa too but how would i do my cosume? or maby a Pretty? Mabye some one give me an idea because i can sew my own costume……..
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:16:00 PM
I dunno. A pretty you would really just need pretty-making cloths, a metal bracelet and maybe some flash tatoos. Melissa would probably just need those fawsome gloves and some other gothic apperal.
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:17:00 PM
a pretty would be really hard though, cus being a pretty is about how you look with your big eyes and full lips adn perfect skin. you cant just make clothes to show that..
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:19:00 PM
ok. So… get some fawsome gloves and some gothic clothes — not too gothic.
Ooooooo—- I get a wig that has brown longish hair.
——-Fawsome
Don’t forget about the Steel objects like a 13 pointed star.
YESSSSSSSSssssssss
Fexcellent. Psycotically Fexcellent.
Can’t wait
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:19:00 PM
True. But makeup would help a bit. And if you went over-the-top with flash tattoos no one would really see your face anyway.
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:25:00 PM
i have this awesome scary monster mask that looks like some scary sea moster.. but i have no idea how that would tie into some sort of character from any of these books.
unless [i think Hailee said this above] if you wore a shirt that said rusty on it with it.. does that make sense, as a rusty destroying the earth?
capt. cockatiel said, on 10/10/2007 4:34:00 PM
Oh, I have decided to do some fan art for Scott. Now I just have to, um, draw it. >.> I’ve got one day. I’d better get to work.
Sophie-la---President Of Darkling & Midnighte said, on 10/10/2007 4:37:00 PM
ok were would i get a flash tattoo???? and if i am melissa i need a wereable extra w/ melissa’s sign on it!!!!!!!!!!
If i choose to be a pretty what should i wear?????? a dress Simi-formal or a shirt and skirt????? What??????
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:40:00 PM
it would be fawesome if you could go in like a ballgown like tally always imagined herself to look like in new pretty town. or you could go as a smokey, with that handmade sweater and mud all over your face. or that cool jacket david always wears. and his shoes. you need his shoes.
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:42:00 PM
If you went as Melissa, you could get huge headphones, and be all pre-Maddy Melissa.
lol
Scott-la should make a t-shirt that says
“-semi
Only half a word”
It would be so bubbly!
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:46:00 PM
Midnighters fan art would be so icy! If I could draw for anything I would so be all over that. But I can’t, so I won’t.
But maybe I’ll try and get some halloweeen fan arts in….
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 4:47:00 PM
haha..i would so buy that shirt.
and i completely forgot about the headphones..how could i forget about the headphones?? i’d love to go as a halfling, but i have no idea how to do that..
anyway.. the moms is yelling.
i guess i have to go
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 4:48:00 PM
See ya, Sausto-la. Stay icy.
Cicely said, on 10/10/2007 4:58:00 PM
Yay, I finally bought Extras! Only 8 days after it came out. Now I’m going to read it. (As opposed to what, I don’t know.)
Cicely said, on 10/10/2007 4:59:00 PM
I drew some Uglies fanart. It’s a stick person Tally. It’s a very nice stick person. A masterpiece for me, actually, and I say that without any sarcasm.
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:07:00 PM
Yay for stick figues! I feel you’re pain, Cicely. My best friends are icy drawers. I suck.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:24:00 PM
hi
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:25:00 PM
I toadaly stink at drawing 2
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:27:00 PM
OMG why is bran-la and unmolly-wa here???
I miss you guys:(
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:29:00 PM
man i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wanted to see scott-la but you never came to houston
tear tear sniffle
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:30:00 PM
As did I. Scott-la, you need to come to DC!! Or anywhere in Maryland, really. I would adore to see you! It would be totally icy-making!!
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:30:00 PM
wow it sooooooo meast up my poast
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:35:00 PM
please talk to me
I think that the extras book sooo rocked aya and frizz and tally and david
im happy that tally moved on from zane but david should have died not zane
peris was such a wimp in pritties he didnt go with every one else what ever some friend
shay and fausto should have gottin togeather
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:36:00 PM
O_O
Save it for the spoilers thread, please, Steph-la. I’ve read it, but some people reading may not have. We really should be bubbly and let the others read at their own pace.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:36:00 PM
i know right
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:37:00 PM
i really need to read extras again, but my sister hasnt finished it yet, and she wont let me have it again until she does. but i loved david. and shay is like my favooorite character ever. she so does not get enough credit.
[and yes; shay and fausto==shausto..love]
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:37:00 PM
if others havent read it yet by the way..get off this blog and go buy the book. its ahhmazing.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:37:00 PM
scott-la is the greatest writter ever
i heart u scott-la
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:38:00 PM
will he make a 5 book?
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:39:00 PM
oops i am sooo bad at typing
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:39:00 PM
i hope so, but probably not. the series seems like its done.. thers not really a big cliff hanger either to keep going. but i still have so many questions scott-la!
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:39:00 PM
Indeed. But I still think that we shouldn’t talk of it here.
(But I soooo agree. Shsy and Fausto=love)
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:39:00 PM
that will toadaly mak my life compleat
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:40:00 PM
SQUEE FOR ZANE!!
ZANE = LOVE
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:40:00 PM
TEAM ZANE
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:40:00 PM
I so think he should write another Midnighters book. The ending of the 3rd was so open!
*hint, hint, Scott-la*
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:40:00 PM
i agree with u
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:41:00 PM
go zane he sooo rocks a lot more than david
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:41:00 PM
Oh, no my comments are invisible!!
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:41:00 PM
im still missing the third..*shames*
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:41:00 PM
I HAVE NOT READ ANY OF THE MIDNIGHTERS BUT I WANT TO
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:41:00 PM
umm.. team david all the way
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:42:00 PM
woahh.. david was sooo fawesome its not even funny. i loveedd him
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:42:00 PM
Thats so bogus, Steph-la. Midnighter rock!
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:42:00 PM
u r soo nutz
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:43:00 PM
i know midnighters rock
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:43:00 PM
never mind. I didn’t expect that one to post. Which was slightly embarrasing.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:43:00 PM
go shausto
shay+fausto=love
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:43:00 PM
I agree with both. I’m in love with Zane, but David has his icy qualities as well.
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:44:00 PM
I with when you do less than 3 it would show up. But nooooo. That is so bogus.
*hearts for Scott*
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:44:00 PM
it is ok i still love all the people on this blog
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:45:00 PM
ohh my god i have a WRock song stuck in my head and it wont go away.. ahhh!
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:45:00 PM
u r nutz u make no sense
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:46:00 PM
lol
I have Switchfoot and random Extras quotes tap danceing in my head…
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:46:00 PM
go zane i still love u
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:47:00 PM
I TOATALLY WANT TO READ MIDNIGHTERS!!! But i cant get my hands on them for a while.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:47:00 PM
i will make a song about the uglies “trilogy”
it will sooooooo rock
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:48:00 PM
Aww. That is so sad-making, Allie-wa! Midnighter’s was how I first got hocked on Scott-la’s work. Then Uglies, then Peeps/Last Days. So Midnighters owns my obsession, but everthing else is fawsome too!
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:48:00 PM
me to it sounds sooo good
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:48:00 PM
switchfoot????
wt
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:49:00 PM
YOU DON”T KNOW WHO SWITCHFOOT IS?!?!
*dies*
They’re only the best rock band ever! Their my second most powerful obsession! They are so icy!
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:49:00 PM
I poasted comment 100 i rock
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/10/2007 5:49:00 PM
stupid internet eating my long epic comments detailing my costume.
team zane. all the way.
i’ve got this stupid Fall Out Boy song stuck in my head…..but it’s like a medly of four different Fall Out Boy songs….all from different albums…..with random Taking Back Sunday interludes.
my head is a very odd place to be.
reaaaally doing bio homework now.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:50:00 PM
wow people all who thinks that scott-la rocks say
I
ok people
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:51:00 PM
ive just got this random harry potter song about tom riddle buying a pink diary stuck in my head.. evil wrock can make you crazy after a while..its scary
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:51:00 PM
SCOTT-LA IS THE BEST!!
*love for Scott*
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:51:00 PM
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:51:00 PM
my head is a very odd place to be.
—
Dito. I doubt any Mindcaster’s could stand to be around me.
Except my friend Effie. She could so be a mindcaster. She tottally always knows what everyone is thinking. And she don’t care that my mind is crazy.
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 5:52:00 PM
why is everyone just posting random stuff about scott-la being amazing? we all know taht..thats [hopefully] why were alll here..
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:52:00 PM
TIBET
Tara-wa said, on 10/10/2007 5:53:00 PM
Because it is so true. And plus I have nothing else to say…
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:53:00 PM
U R ON THE OUTSIDE OF AN INSIDE JOKE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I WIN
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:54:00 PM
SNAPS FOR SCOTT-LA
(AND EXTRAS)
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:55:00 PM
1234
SCOTT-LA HAS TO MAKE A BOOK 5 IT WILL SOOOO MAKE IT EVE N
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:55:00 PM
1234
SCOTT-LA HAS TO MAKE A BOOK 5 IT WILL SOOOO MAKE IT EVEN
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:56:00 PM
OOOPS
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 5:57:00 PM
BRB
SO DONT MISS ME
Steph-la over + out
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:06:00 PM
Have any of you heard of the Band Mates of State.
It is some psychotically fawesome music they have got there.
Totally bubbly-making,
It was on a US cellular commercial once.
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 6:06:00 PM
I’m ignoring the fact that I have a major docial studies assignment due tomorrow when I say…
UGLIES #5!!!!!!! PLZ!!
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:07:00 PM
Too bad that they only play around the NY area.
It is so sad-making.
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 6:07:00 PM
lol social studies not docial studies.
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:09:00 PM
WOW… IT is like only 8:10 here.
Got atleast 2 more hours till sleep.
I have been on since i think 4.
Not good. Bogus.
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:11:00 PM
9:10 here.. watching private practice.. not as good as greys anatomy though.. and i still have a major english paper due friday. and i havent started yet..hmm..
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:19:00 PM
ohh, is anyone still here? i feel all lonely on scott-la’s blog..
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:25:00 PM
o hay steph-la
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:26:00 PM
I love Zane
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:26:00 PM
im here
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:27:00 PM
Im reading Midnighter at this moment
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:28:00 PM
like right now
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:29:00 PM
ya this conversation is intresting
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:33:00 PM
oh sorry bran-la.. trying to write my outline about egypt. fun..
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:34:00 PM
project, ooo , tons of fun
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:35:00 PM
im getting really tired and it isnt even my bed time
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:36:00 PM
are you in austrailia? its like 9:30 here..
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:36:00 PM
in australia its the afternoon, awsome
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:38:00 PM
its late here
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:38:00 PM
no im not im in the us and it 8:38 were i am
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:39:00 PM
your an hour ahead of me
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:40:00 PM
awesome. im on teh east coast of the us. im so bored.. egypt is not very entertaining..
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:42:00 PM
Steph-la come back
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:44:00 PM
im south in the us and i am tired and my friends arent being very nice and all my guy friend is saying i “okay” and “lol”
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:46:00 PM
o and hes being rude
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:49:00 PM
boys, why cant thaey be like david or frizz or zane
Susan-la said, on 10/10/2007 6:50:00 PM
Sweet tee shirt.
Even though it has david on it…and i can’t stand him.
=[[ oh well.
i love zane =]]
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 6:50:00 PM
I was obsessed with Egypt the summer before last. its mythology is awesome.
Also, there was an icy movie about it called Stargate, and a series called Stargate SG-1. Alright, probably not icy to anyone but me. I bet most people don’t like it, really. But I think it’s worth watching.
Allie-wa said, on 10/10/2007 6:52:00 PM
If you could know any one character from the Uglies ‘trilogy’, who would it be?
For me it would be Zane.
Shausto_la said, on 10/10/2007 6:55:00 PM
it would so be shay. i love her so much she is my absolute favorite. but i have to go for good now.. too much to do, and only 5 minutes to do it..
Bran-la said, on 10/10/2007 7:08:00 PM
id be tally
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/10/2007 7:49:00 PM
i dunno. meeting tally would scare me. i might vote shay, because there might be nano-related adventures. and i’d never be satisfied with only meeting zane once….then i’d demand for jace wayland to come to life too….and all the midnighters. like dess! that’d be awesome. and jonathan….second the flyboy love.
and i *just* finished my big bio project i did *not* leave til the last minute. okay, maybe i did. cuz it’s due 2morrow.
too little time….
Laura said, on 10/10/2007 7:55:00 PM
I like Shay — as a ugly
I like Tally— as a pretty and special
Em G said, on 10/10/2007 8:21:00 PM
To Bran-la
I dunno, If there were really boys like Frizz, when you asked them things like “Do I look fat?” or “Do you like her?” The answers could be…upsetting…
^_^ haha.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:39:00 PM
man is anyone still here?
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:39:00 PM
i sooooooooo agree with u
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:41:00 PM
I have a question for Scott-la.
What do u want us 2 call u?
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:42:00 PM
OMG STARGATE S A REALLY FUNNY SHOW!!
I LIKE THE OLD ONES BETTER.
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:43:00 PM
MY DAD made me get off the comp
Steph-la said, on 10/10/2007 8:48:00 PM
OMG my mom is getting me midnighters 2marrow
I am sooooo happy!!!!!!!!
I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!;):0 ^_^
Stacy said, on 10/10/2007 10:45:00 PM
Too bad I’m going to miss you guys this year. We’ve got our publicists in town tomorrow, then Friday is crazy busy, too. Perhaps I’ll catch you at a show somewhere next year. Glad to hear the tour is going so well!
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/11/2007 4:00:00 AM
midnighters rox!
i’d rather have guys like zane than ones like frizz. radical honesty scares me.
Laura-la said, on 10/11/2007 5:52:00 AM
I would rather have all of the Midngihters as my friends then people from Uglies books.
Em G said, on 10/11/2007 8:30:00 AM
Why? >: I would love to have Tally as a friend! (: Shay to. I would punch her. ^_^ Hee hee.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midni said, on 10/11/2007 11:09:00 AM
think about tally from someone else’s POV. she’d kinda scare me.
i would rather have all the midnighters to weather high school with.
Serafina Zane---Co-president of the Chasing Midni said, on 10/11/2007 11:25:00 AM
is liset’s hair like green/blue in that picture? awesome. i wanna dye my hair green.
*sad and alone in the middle of the school day*
Pickle-wa said, on 10/11/2007 12:34:00 PM
that is fawesome..i didnt even see the hair. i with i could die my hair some kick color like green/blue,but i would probably get disowned or something. so im stuck with natural brown.. which isnt so bad.. but blue is just so much more icy.
Allie-wa said, on 10/11/2007 12:56:00 PM
I ‘m getting Midnighters book 1 today!! I can’t wait to read.
Courtney-chan said, on 10/11/2007 1:09:00 PM
YAY i just finished Extras! don’t worry, i won’t spoil anything! *goes off to spoiler page*
*hearts* said, on 10/11/2007 1:33:00 PM
this whole blog is a huge spoiler page.. why worry anymore? if someone who hasnt read extras is on here: get off and go buy the book
Allie-wa said, on 10/11/2007 1:35:00 PM
I guess it just a cur tezy. (hah see if u can figure out what I mean there…)
Mickinley said, on 10/11/2007 1:36:00 PM
that is the coolest tshirt evaaaa
where do i get one!?!?!?
Kate-la said, on 10/11/2007 1:42:00 PM
awesome t-shirt!!! It’s so kick!!
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/11/2007 1:51:00 PM
my parents couldn’t care less about hair color. as illustrated by the fact that over the last year, mine’s been blood-red, plum purple, and now a sort of fushica pink. i want to do green or blue though.
my parents say hair color’s at least semi-temporary, so it’s okay. unlike piercings or tattoos. which would also be cool…..
Steph-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:02:00 PM
IS BRAN-LA HERE????????????
Steph-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:02:00 PM
HI
THE SHIRT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEAM ZANE SHIRT
GOSH!!!!!
Steph-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:03:00 PM
I JUST GOT MIDNIGHTERS^_^
Steph-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:04:00 PM
OMG 200
Steph-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:04:00 PM
extras was such a good book
Allie-wa said, on 10/11/2007 2:09:00 PM
@)!
or, rather
201
Sophie-la---President Of Darkling & Midnighte said, on 10/11/2007 2:51:00 PM
my mom made me get off last nigh!!!!!!!
if it was me meeting one of the Uglies charicters i would want to meet tally!!!!!!!!! i am soo like her in speacials!!!!!!!!!!! unprictibale, wild, ad tottaly icy!!(with out the cutting)!!!!!!
Lizzy-wa---Co-Prez of CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES said, on 10/11/2007 2:53:00 PM
im totally like Shay-la! id totally meet her!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Bran-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:56:00 PM
i like tally and im reading midnighters right now i already read the uglies books but i canr believe theres no new blog, thats not icy.
Bran-la said, on 10/11/2007 2:57:00 PM
whoa go steph-la
we go to the same school
I Love It Black said, on 10/11/2007 4:10:00 PM
30045 - good site. PeterPan
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/12/2007 10:11:00 AM
FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!!!!!!
Serafina Zane---FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREW said, on 10/12/2007 2:29:00 PM
love ur hair, liset. saw it on justine’s page. very fawesome.
zoe-la said, on 10/13/2007 5:15:00 AM
PLEASE, please, pleeeeeease come to south florida! like miami or west palm! it would be so freakin fawesome!
marie said, on 10/23/2007 6:50:00 PM
i love your worl. i’ve only read two books and have just started on pretties. i love your work andi find it adicting! please come to kentucky!>w
Amanda-wa (14) said, on 10/28/2007 8:07:00 PM
I soo want that shirt! That’s so cool. I LOVE the Uglies trilogy, and I’m a HUGE Midnighter fan, so thanks so much for the shirt template.
I also can’t wait to see the movie! The only problem with using Knightly and Swank(previous posts); Tally’s only 16, not quite an adult.
Dude, they need a midnighters movie too. When I become a famous actress, I will
HAVE to be in that. Plus, I have so many ideas. Watch them make a movie without me, and then I’ll be pissed that it wasn’t exactly as I evisioned it, and that it didn’t star me…
The author of A Wrinkle in Time has left us. Her work is one of the things that made me a writer, a science fiction and fantasy fan, an avid reader. Hers were the first books I read that mixed math and magic, the quest and the quantum. To put it simply, without L’Engle’s tesseracts, Midnighters would have no tridecalogisms.
And here Gwenda Bond quotes L’Engle at length on what authors know or don’t know about what their novels mean.
According to the NY Times obit, A Wrinkle in Time has sold six million copies since 1962, but lately moves only 15,000 copies per year. One copy a year for every 20,000 Americans? Somewhere, IT is having a good laugh, and getting ready.
How many of you guys have read her work? (Believe me, you should.)
104 Comments on Madeleine L’Engle, RIP, last added: 9/15/2007
My mom bought me the book because my names Madeleine also (she also new it was an awesome book). This summer I decided to read it and it was awesome.
Also, because of you, Scott, and Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight) I decided to write my own book. It’s a bout a seventeen year old girl who falls in love with a time traveler, and travels to the past and future to save the world from complete and total destruction. It’s working title is Rain.
Maybe one day it could be published and become the next “Wrinkle in Time”
Maybe.
chanel-wa said, on 9/7/2007 2:47:00 PM
sad.sad.sad.
Mandy-wa said, on 9/7/2007 2:48:00 PM
That’s so sad. I’ve heard of the book but I’ve never read it; obviously, I should.
chanel-wa said, on 9/7/2007 2:49:00 PM
i want to try her books
Shelby said, on 9/7/2007 2:55:00 PM
Oh, no! I cannot tell you how much this has ruined my day. A Wrinkle In Time is one of those first books I remember enjoying. It lives there with Holes and Harry Potter and The Bridge to Terabithia.
I remembered when my mom got it for me at the Used Book Sale too because it was all wrinkly and an obnoxious pink. I wasn’t going to read it (because back then in 4th grade, I wasn’t much of a reader) but I had a book report so I began and I had my nose stuck in it for 3 days.
Amy-la said, on 9/7/2007 3:12:00 PM
never read it.
I GOT MY COMPUTER TODAY!
Addie-Wa said, on 9/7/2007 3:18:00 PM
I haven’t read it yet:(
*shivers* Midnighters without tridecalogisms. Scary.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/7/2007 3:24:00 PM
Yeah. Tridecalogisms have changed my life as i once knew it! without them i…
And that is soooooo overzealously sad! i own A Wrinkle In Time, but i read it in Kindergarten and dont remember anything about it. just that it was one of the best books ive ever read. maybe i should reread it. hhhhmmmm.
Tears.
Rest In Peace. And the Ground.
Lizzy-wa *tears* *crys* *sniffle*
Malcolm said, on 9/7/2007 3:48:00 PM
I could still describe where I was sitting and the classroom I was sitting in on a rainy lunchtime in sixth grade when I first finished A Wrinkle In Time. That was over 25 years ago. One of the strongest memories I have related to a book from that period in my life. It certainly played a role in me wanting to learn more geometry.
Kha said, on 9/7/2007 3:49:00 PM
I feel really guilty because i’ve always wanted to read a wrinkle in time after partially watching the movie, thinking, “of course the book is always better than the movie…” Am I right? But i never get a chance to….(Now im really considering it, next time to the trip to the library of course. I should really thanks madelein for writing this book beacuse it really inspired scott to write by far, by my opinion, the best book out of all the books you’ve written scott, so thanks again madalein and god bless.
Isabella said, on 9/7/2007 3:59:00 PM
Oh wow, that’s so sad. I remember a few years ago how a teacher read us A Wrinkle in Time.
Amy-la said, on 9/7/2007 4:01:00 PM
i think my sister read it, but i never did.
KawaiiOkashi said, on 9/7/2007 4:14:00 PM
=[ i’m sorry for your loss.
AshAngelAk said, on 9/7/2007 4:19:00 PM
An awesome book, an awesome author. I didn’t realize she was that old…or did she die from unnatural causes? *is going to go look it up*
I definitely suggest A Wrinkle In Time to anyone who hasn’t read it. Even though it is a late elementary/early middle school book, it is still really good
haddy-la said, on 9/7/2007 4:22:00 PM
THAT IS SO SAD wrinkle in time is like ya scifi goodness a god among them
Taylor said, on 9/7/2007 4:28:00 PM
wow. that’s rather unexpected.
and it’s a book that i’ve always been meaning to read, but then i’d see some new book and forget. i just requested it from my library, though. my mom walked in right after i read the post and i went “MADELEINE L’ENGLE PASSED AWAY!” and she said “who’s that?” and then my jaw dropped to the floor.
so i don’t feel nearly as ignorant now. and she wants to read it too since i told her about all the circulation it’s gotten since ‘62.
wow again…one of my friends is in love with all of her books, how will i tell her?
dylan said, on 9/7/2007 4:35:00 PM
that’s a shame…book was great. the tv movie sucked. Dylan:)
jamie said, on 9/7/2007 4:53:00 PM
when i was in 6th grade i was in a book partenership with this guy jake and we read a lot of the Wrinkle in Time series… we ended up bonding over the book and now hes one of my best friends…. i cant believe she died, its really sad.
Kelly said, on 9/7/2007 5:02:00 PM
Whoa. That was what I thought when I saw the first line of this post. Madeleine L’Engle was one of the first authors that made me realize that there are clever, brilliant, vast books that take you away to mysterious places… in other words, A Wrinkle In Time was one of the first books to make me love reading. I read some of the others, too, but I remember none as vividly. My copy seems to have vanished, and I had been meaning to read it again for about a year now. I think I’ll be part of the rush to pick up a new copy.
meghan d said, on 9/7/2007 5:15:00 PM
I was so sad when I heard this. I read about 15 of her books when I was younger. They really affected me somehow, and made me love reading.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/7/2007 5:23:00 PM
she really is great.
-Lizzy-wa out.
Hannah said, on 9/7/2007 5:30:00 PM
I love that book. It was one of the first books that I read more than twice. Its sad more people haven’t read it.
kathy~ said, on 9/7/2007 5:52:00 PM
unfortunately, i haven’t read any of her work………I always saw that book but was not always so convinced. Now i WILL read it.
Thankz, Scott.
Rainy said, on 9/7/2007 5:55:00 PM
Aw, that’s really sad, but it’s nice that she had a chance to leave her mark on the world.
I read the first two Wrinkle In Time books in 6th grade. They were part of our school reading, and still are. Those were actually the only books I liked for school reading, and The Giver, though everyone else I know hated it *shakes head*.
I just got back from a camping field trip for school (3 Days) and am so completely tired.
Ali said, on 9/7/2007 6:02:00 PM
…sadness.
:-C
I read A Wrinkle in Time out loud to my family during a vacation in Montana. It’s one of those lifelong cherished memories, and is probably the reason I can read out loud today. I read the whole series in about a month. It might be one of the reasons I started liking reading. Sort of my Harry Potter, I guess, a few years before those came out.
Ahh, I be sad now. I think I’ll go revisit her books. The second one, with the unicorn, was always my favorite.
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 6:12:00 PM
tommorow, the eighth, is my birthday!!!
Ally-wa said, on 9/7/2007 6:14:00 PM
:[
No sadly I have not read it. My “to read” book list is getting really long. (going on it)
Tiera said, on 9/7/2007 6:19:00 PM
Omigod.
I just assumed that Madeleine L’Engle was one of those authors that wasn’t that old and wouldn’t be dying anytime soon- I had no idea that A Wrinkle in Time was published in 1962!
The only book I read of hers was A Ring of Endless Light, and I loved it. I’m definitely going to add A Wrinkle in Time to my list of books to read.
Cicely said, on 9/7/2007 6:19:00 PM
That’s so sad! I love those books! I’ve read “A Wrinkle in Time” three times. My mom’s going to be so crushed; Madeleine L’Engle was one of her favorite authors.
Amy-la said, on 9/7/2007 6:20:00 PM
i havent read it because ive never been into scifi until i read scotts books. (isnt that happy-making scott?!)
Amy-la said, on 9/7/2007 6:21:00 PM
the happy-making thing is that scott made me like some scifi, not that this author died
hillary! said, on 9/7/2007 6:36:00 PM
oh my… i am crying right now, I love Madeleine! She was my favorite! I loved her before I loved Narnia and Redwall, she taught me to grow up, she taught me to love myself. Why does it feel like my childhood is slipping away right before my eyes. I loved her more than Harry Potter. Her books are the largest collection I own. I actually drove my teachers crazy beacause I would only do book reports on her. This is not good for me. I still read about Meg, Vicky, and Polly when I feel utterly alone. They are universal characters with universal problems, desopite the science fiction. Life sux. But she also taught me to let go. She was a wonderful writer. She is one of the main reasons I am not resentful that my biological father is dead. I learned to forgive because of her. How many writers can do that? Teach children across the world to love and forgive and persevere?
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 6:38:00 PM
guess what?
hillary! said, on 9/7/2007 6:54:00 PM
what?
Marlena said, on 9/7/2007 7:06:00 PM
Oh my gosh.
I can’t believe she died.
We read A Wrinkle In Time in fifth grade, and, like you, Scott, it was one the first scifi books that I liked. It’s so unique and magical, I remember reading ahead of my class and yearning to find out what would happen. I read it three times before we had to give it back, and I always wanted to read the sequels, but I never did.
Though my only experience of her writing was A Wrinkle In Time, it has always been one of my all time favorite books. Every reread is full of the same magic that it had when I first read it, and the world just comes to life; the epic tale of love triumphing over evil and oppression that moved me to tears then continues to touch me now.
It is a terrible thought that the woman who created this magic is now gone, but I now that she is now in a place far more magical. She will live on in her books, but she will be deeply missed.
kim said, on 9/7/2007 7:13:00 PM
read it once. i didn’t really liek it must read again since the type of books that i like have changed.
sad-making
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 7:15:00 PM
MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMMOROW!!
kim said, on 9/7/2007 7:19:00 PM
guten tag.
okay rachael-la, we get it. how old are you going to be?
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 7:21:00 PM
13
kim said, on 9/7/2007 7:26:00 PM
my sister is 13. i am 15.
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 7:30:00 PM
haha im in eighth grade im younger than everyone but i look 15 or 16
Rachael-la said, on 9/7/2007 7:43:00 PM
im gonna go to bed. night.
Jenny said, on 9/7/2007 7:51:00 PM
Wow… I can’t believe it. Ms. L’engle… gone? One of the greatest Science Fic writers of all time. A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light… *sigh* How depressing. I hope she rests in peace.
Zpoe said, on 9/7/2007 7:56:00 PM
Madeleine L’Engle is one of the most inspiring authors to me. I love a Wrinkle in time
Walter Underwood said, on 9/7/2007 8:20:00 PM
I first read A Wrinkle in Time a few years ago and enjoyed it (I’m past 50), but my wife and several of her female engineer friends LOVED the book when they were young. The math-smart female character and “love conquers all” message were just what they needed to hear while growing up.
My own early teen years are defined by Space Cadet, Have Space Suit Will Travel, and the Judith Merril S-F anthologies, but I’ll raise a glass to Ms. L’Engle for empowering that early generation of girl geeks.
Kadie-Wa said, on 9/7/2007 8:22:00 PM
She died? Sad. I’ve never read any of her books, but I will deffinatly read one now. Now that I have been intruduced to it, I will HAVE to read it. Sad. Sad, sad sad.
Kadie-Wa
Rebecca said, on 9/7/2007 8:28:00 PM
I found out from Cecil’s blog earlier today. It was sad to hear that Madeleine L’Engle is gone. I can’t remember when I read A Wrinkle in Time, but I know I was older than most kids are when they first read it. I’d heard about her books for ages but had never got around to reading any. Don’t know what finally made me pick one up, but I’m glad I did. ML was such a well-known author though. She’s one of the first YA writers I ever heard of.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/7/2007 8:43:00 PM
Still Crying.
Rachael-la…actually, im the youngest. im in 7th grade, i turn 13 in November, and i look like a…a VERY short 7th grader. ok im not that short but everybody says i am. 4′8″. pretty short. but im really smart and take half 8th grade classes. i would have put an exclamation point on the last sentencs, but im two sad to be happy.
Still Crying.
-Lizzy-wa out.
Kadie-Wa said, on 9/7/2007 9:02:00 PM
Lizzy-Wa, I’m a november too!! But I’m a year older then you. I thought that I was the youngest one on here!! (And I’m really short for my age too) ((Well, actually everyone else is EXTREMELY TALL))
Kadie-Wa
Tori said, on 9/7/2007 9:14:00 PM
oh thats depressing… we read the book as a class in 7th grade which i have to say ruined it a little BUT. so true; was an AMAZING story +it reminded me of something… with the whole everybody is perfect in a bland sort of way because their being controlled by some political figure/mastermind [or large brain. ha ha.] type nightmare that i saw in a movie. ^^ and that’s always cool in an eerie sort a’ way. right??
was anyone who read it satisfied with the ending? it seemed a little rushed, or is that just me?
Melissa said, on 9/7/2007 9:50:00 PM
That is such a sadness. I’ve read it, long long ago. And now I shall have to read the series again.
Perhaps after Skin Hunger - since Justine was so adamant about everyone reading that.
hillary! said, on 9/7/2007 9:52:00 PM
That’s why there are sequels
tigressflowers said, on 9/7/2007 10:35:00 PM
I read A Wrinkle in Time back in middle school. I really only remember it as being the first book where I went “this is how this book is going to end” and low and behold I was correct
I love this obit. Not only does it mention my very first favorite author of all time, for the very book that is mentioned (The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman) but it is also as a bonus written by my second favorite author.
Coincidentally, The Golden Compass is the reason that I write.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/7/2007 10:46:00 PM
hmmm
still crying.
-Lizzy-wa out.
Jess said, on 9/8/2007 1:02:00 AM
i’m confused.
did someone say they read A Wrinkle in Time back in kindergarten?
…
Kelly said, on 9/8/2007 4:15:00 AM
‘A Swiftly Tilting Planet’ is the book that made me want to be a writer.
My heart hurts.
Paige Y. said, on 9/8/2007 5:42:00 AM
I’ve loved her work since I first read A Wrinkle in Time in fourth grade. One of the great things about Wrinkle was that I didn’t understand much of the science behind it but I did get the major themes. As I got older, I understood more and that made me enjoy the book on a whole new level. As a side note, my husband gave me a first edition of her first novel for my birthday one year (I do have a wonderful husband!).
Morganne-la said, on 9/8/2007 8:09:00 AM
Awwww! That’s so sad! My friend LOVES her books! And I liked the few of them that I’v read.
Whitney-la said, on 9/8/2007 8:37:00 AM
Oh my gosh! That’s terrible!! I love Madeline and her books. They are so amazing!! :[ well, at least i have read all of her books.. Rest in peace!!!!!
Ninety said, on 9/8/2007 8:43:00 AM
I was upset when I heard she died as well. Although I didn’t like Wrinkle in Time very much, I loved the story behind the book. How she never gave up and didn’t care about what other people thought about her writing… I really admired her for it.
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 9:02:00 AM
i think we need to talk about happy stuff because i think she would of wanted it that way.
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 9:11:00 AM
if you click on my name, it will go to my youtube account. look at the backround, its the cover of extras!
Kara-la said, on 9/8/2007 10:00:00 AM
Awwwwwwww!
I read like 4 or 5 of her books. A Wrinkle in TIme used to be my favoritest book.
Kaylee said, on 9/8/2007 10:27:00 AM
That’s so sad. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is that when you die your books will still live on, so it’s not like your leaving this world without contributing something to it.
I need to read her books.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 12:08:00 PM
Jess-la…i read it in kindergarten. dont remember much. just started rereading it.
i cant believe that! only one person out of 20,000 people have bought it in the last year! that’s just sad-making.
Well, ive just ordered 13 (lucky 13, thanks to her) copys from the internet. they should be on there way. im keeping 3 (even though i already have one) and im giving the rest to my friends for EXTRAS (newly declared world wide holiday).
lets start the circulation back up again!!! that should make her happy.
-Lizzy-wa OUT! (im happy again!)
Bri-la said, on 9/8/2007 12:13:00 PM
o that is really sad. wat did she die of??
i never read any of her books. i guess i really should now. but i think our 5th grade class watched some movie based on “A Wrinkle in Time.”
Whoa midnighters without tridecalogisms…. that would not be nearly as good…. tridecalogisms changed my life. i mean seriously after i read those books i would count the letters of every big word i saw to check.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 12:18:00 PM
ME TWO!!! i’m making a list. so far, i have memorized 117 (multiple of 13) tridecalogisms! all my friends think im crazy. and im starting to notice little tidbits of info, kinda like Dess.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 12:26:00 PM
hey! guess whats so cool! i just got all the twilight books from the library. so i just got online to see when they were due. and guess when there due? EXTRAS! (the newly declared world wide holiday for all of u slow peeps. Ocober 2!) it’s soooo hypochondriac! (guess what i just found out? hypochondriac sounds ttly awesome rite? but what it really is is something having to do with bacteria or some kind of disease or something. dizzy-making)
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
ashley said, on 9/8/2007 12:37:00 PM
I wish I had known this earlier, it’s a terrible loss to the literary world and the imaginations of children everywhere. I would never have started reading sci-fi or fantasy without A Wrinkle In Time. Her legacy will live on.
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 12:57:00 PM
i made a potter puppet pals video about spider pig. but it isnt on youtube yet.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 1:10:00 PM
ur wierd.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 1:11:00 PM
sorry!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 1:50:00 PM
23 days or
571 hours or
34270 minutes or
2056210 seconds
Til EXTRAS!!!!!
(multiple of 13! thanx Madeliene!)
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Courtney said, on 9/8/2007 2:51:00 PM
i haven’t read it but i soooooo want to!
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 2:58:00 PM
lizzy-wa, i know im weird!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 3:15:00 PM
i am two! do u think anybody on here ISNT wierd.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Juanita said, on 9/8/2007 3:50:00 PM
I’m so sad about her death. I’ve read a lot of her books - the stand-alones like Camilla and Both Were Young, as well as the Wrinkle in Time series and some of the Austin books. I think this is the first time a writer I really like has died during my lifetime. So, so sad.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 3:57:00 PM
i think she died naturally. she was 89.
-Lizzy-wa out!
kelsey said, on 9/8/2007 5:31:00 PM
I’ve never read any of her books, but I’ve heard a lot of good stuff about them. I think I will read them soon though.
bye guys b/c i have to go babysit, I know what a drag, but i get payed alot so peace out.
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 5:51:00 PM
I LEARNED ALL THE WORDS TO SPIDER PIG!
spider pig
spider pig
does whatever a spider pig does
can he swing from a web?
no he can’t
he’s a pig
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 5:53:00 PM
(i didnt see the movie, and i dont want to)
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 7:03:00 PM
its definetely not a movie for the theater. i dont get why people pay 7 bucks to see it.
when it will be on tv soon enough. but i like the song Amy-la!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 8:24:00 PM
i made a video. well its just a bunch of pictures put together. first there is a picture of uglies, a picture of pretties, a picture of specials, a picures of midnighters secret hour, a picture of midnighters touching darkness, a picture of midnighters blue noon, a picture of peeps, and a picture of the last days. then there is a series of pictures of me stacking them like a tower. then it falls down before i finish it. then i try a different way. it works. then there is a picture of that tower fallen down. so it didnt work that much. then the credits say that i shouldnt build towers for a living. and while this is happening, fall out boy is playing.
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 8:25:00 PM
( i think that was the longest comment i’ve ever written)
Amy-la said, on 9/8/2007 8:26:00 PM
i wish my computer would allow me to put my video on youtube
that is about the freakiest looking insect i’ve ever seen…was that in your food or was it flying around or what?
Stephanie said, on 9/9/2007 9:43:00 AM
She died?!?! That’s so sad. I love her Time Quartet… I must have read them all a dozen times. Her books are actually what helped me get through my grandfather’s death. I was feeling really down and depressed, when one day I came across her books, and they made me feel a whole lot better.
RIP, Madeleine L’Engle.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 10:47:00 AM
yeah seriously! WAS that in your food?!?!?!? i would sue if i were you. eeeeewwww. thanks a lot. i just made waffles and now i cant eat them! eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!!! excuse me but i have to go kill a spider. my sister’s screaming.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
rian said, on 9/9/2007 10:54:00 AM
This is unbelievably sad. That book completely amazed me. I heard the news from answers.com this morning and the first thing I thought was “Dang!” I’m still going to be Mrs. Who for Halloween though.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 11:06:00 AM
Mrs. Who?
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 11:34:00 AM
Only 1977963 Seconds Til EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(thats a multiple of 13…thanx Madeleine!)
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 11:36:00 AM
Hey…i just realized something.
hey Scott-la…did you name Madeleine after Madeleine. you no, the mindcaster? did you did you did you?!?!?!
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 11:38:00 AM
i mean its spelled the same and all. rite?
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Liset said, on 9/9/2007 12:53:00 PM
oh man,
just saing IT gave me the shivers…
she made me want to be a writer too…
Liset said, on 9/9/2007 1:52:00 PM
I have a wrinkle in time right here in my dorm room bookshelf. There’s not such thing as a children’s book…
my copy is battered and old, since i read it at least once every year since i was in 4th grade. Mrs. Who was so wise, “nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything”
Madeleine will not be forgotton.
And the cover still freaks me out…
oh, the cover says the books was only $2.99
can you believe that?
a masterpeice for 3 dollars…
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 2:01:00 PM
unbelievable.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/9/2007 2:25:00 PM
KOOL!!!!! POST 100!!!!!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
MoRgAn said, on 9/10/2007 2:26:00 PM
omg thats so sad i loved the Wrinkle in time series she wrote… those books were and still are awesome
DaStarBillie said, on 9/10/2007 5:53:00 PM
Oh my god, I can’t believe it! Madeleine L’Engle was the first author whose book I loved so much that I looked up other things they’d written to read. She was the person who made me a dreamer, and I haven’t gone a day without reading since then.
The world has suffered a great loss with her death.
thicklen said, on 9/15/2007 9:14:00 AM
WHAT?! I just read A wrinkle in time two days ago!!!
Okay, it’s officially International Editions Week here at Casa Larbfeld.
Look what came through the transom today:
This is definitely the most literal cover out of all the Midnighters editions. It’s a scene right out of the book, with all kinds of elements you can’t point to right in the text.
There’s something really sweet about that, almost like a kid’s book cover.
For a truly huge file that reveals all nine kinds of fawsomeness in this cover, click here.
And like most Japanese editions, there’s a dramatis personae page at the beginning. I really like these interpretations of the five midnighters, although I’m sure you guys will find errors in detail.
Click here to read and translate the fine print, or to steal the line art for your own nefarious and illegal purposes. Like making shirts!
48 Comments on Japanese Midnighters = Fawesome, last added: 10/11/2007
is the contest still going on? if so then YAY!!!!!!!!!
if not then: if only i was a month earlier
:.(
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 6:17:00 AM
AWESOME! wow i’m gonna go look at the truly huge file
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 6:24:00 AM
whoa, that truly is a truly huge file…and i love how the raindrops reflect the scene!
and, um, sorry kim…
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 8/25/2007 6:55:00 AM
wow. that is nine kinds of amazing. we should have a midnighters manga book translated into englis. (then my friend would actually read it. :)) that is sooooo cool.
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/25/2007 6:57:00 AM
COOL. i just found out my science teacher said i didnt turn in an assignment, but i turned it in a day early.
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 7:06:00 AM
amy-la, was that last year (and they didn’t tell you), or has school started already where you live?
haddy-la said, on 8/25/2007 7:36:00 AM
best cover ever
Brittany said, on 8/25/2007 7:40:00 AM
Aw why don’t you have any women’s fit “Team Zane” shirts? Meh.
Love the Japanese cover. Wish there was a Midnighters manga. Scott–if Tokyopop ever contacts you with a proposition for it ACCEPT. Please.
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 7:56:00 AM
hey brittany there’s a juniors one in that shirt, but you have to go to that “eco-friendly” section.
haddy-la said, on 8/25/2007 8:41:00 AM
My shirts going to come right before i start my gifted class so i can even nerdieer
Kadie-Wa said, on 8/25/2007 8:51:00 AM
No way!! AHHH!! That’s SO COOL SCOTT!! Congrats!!
Geesh, is there a new language every week? I wonder what language will be next week…hmmm maybe Scottish?! That would be coooooool!!
Kadie-Wa
Kadie-Wa said, on 8/25/2007 8:53:00 AM
Wait…why does Rex have long hair? I never knew that Rex had long hair. I thought it was like…past his ears, not down to his shoulders.
Kadie-Wa
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 8:54:00 AM
I WANT SPANISH MIDNIGHTERS! whether it’s for spain or mexico or even cuba i want to read it! but i don’t know if any of those countries—especially cuba—likes us enough for that.
Addie-Wa said, on 8/25/2007 8:54:00 AM
Fawesome, i wish the US copies had character sketches. Have fun at DragonCon!
Bri-la said, on 8/25/2007 9:10:00 AM
Whoa total COOLNESS!!! that cover is really awesome!!!!!
emzie said, on 8/25/2007 11:06:00 AM
Coolio. Although I highly doubt Melissa would ever wear shorts. Wait are those even shorts? Are they jeans tucked into boots? Confuzled.
haddy-la said, on 8/25/2007 11:13:00 AM
the cover looks like a wrinkle in time
Taylor said, on 8/25/2007 11:19:00 AM
i can’t tell either, emzie, but i think it’s jeans-tucked-into-boots unless her legs get wider past the knee!
i’m watchin the karate kid…that’s like my fave movie idk why…and i just realized: i was the 3rd person to comment! well, technically the 2nd, but i was the 3rd comment. that’s the closest i’ve ever gotten to #1! not that it matters anymore, but WHOA!
Ana said, on 8/25/2007 12:05:00 PM
thats amazing but i picture them different but it’s cool too.
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/25/2007 12:08:00 PM
my friend in going to have her b-day party @ 4! this year there was a new middle school open, and i stayed at the one that opened in 2000, and she went to the new one. her school has the initials vmms. its kind of hard to say, so i dont say V.M.M.S, i say the letters as if it were a word. it sort of sounds like vooms
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/25/2007 12:09:00 PM
just to let you know, im in the 8th grade
Liset said, on 8/25/2007 1:00:00 PM
it fully took me a minute to realize they were raindrops.
I was like, “are those spheres suppose to be darklings???”
lol
japan looks like a fun place…
i’m watching west side story right now (a romeo and juliet musical) and I was thinking, how cool would it be if Midnighters was a musical??? Or anyother one of Scott’s books for that matter…
Jus imagine a midnighter song with 13 letter words. HAHA!
Kailyx said, on 8/25/2007 1:11:00 PM
I have to say, I like the new English trade covers much more than this.
I’m sort of wondering if the artist for the cover has any idea what Oklahoma looks like. Mountains and an evergreen forest? Washington, maybe. Oklahoma? Never. Plus the raindrops (if that’s what they are) look more like glass balls than diamonds. I’m sorry, but this is annoying me a lot, as what I’ve seen of Oklahoma was desert and fields and not much else, which is also how it’s described in the books. There’s still something I like about it though. Kind of cool.
Rainy said, on 8/25/2007 1:14:00 PM
I love the Midnighter’s cover! Whenever I read a book with those kinds of covers, after I finish I’ll go back and stare at it for awhile trying to figure out what picture means what.
At first I didn’t understand what those giant floaty orb things were, but I’m pretty sure it’s rain! =]
Funfunfun!
IndigoEyes said, on 8/25/2007 1:20:00 PM
Wow.
Just…
Wow.
Addie-Wa said, on 8/25/2007 1:21:00 PM
Kailyx, I didnt notice that before. There are not mountains and evergreens in Oklahoma. Just lots of desert.
scott said, on 8/25/2007 2:57:00 PM
Ah, yes. But they have lots of mountains and evergreens in . . . Japan!
Isabella said, on 8/25/2007 3:29:00 PM
…”nefarious and illegal purposes…” hahaha, love it!
KawaiiOkashi said, on 8/25/2007 3:29:00 PM
=D I would be able to read that book.
I’m so glad for my moms japanese lessons.
Kailyx said, on 8/25/2007 5:09:00 PM
I understand that there are evergreens and mountains in Japan, but the location of the town is important and is mentioned/stressed a lot. I just kind of think they could have been more thorough checking out what Oklahoma looks like, since the location plays a pretty big role in the book.
Then again, I get really picky when it comes to book covers. Ones that I don’t feel properly reflect the book tend to really annoy me.
Samantha-wa said, on 8/25/2007 6:50:00 PM
I like the cover, it would probably be a little less impressive without the mountains and evergreens… so I really don’t have anything against them.
What annoys me, though is how the symbols aren’t next to the right people on that page with drawings of them. Plus, I think Dess usually wears long skirts-I’m pretty sure, at least.
But yea… it’s still nine kinds of exciting!
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/25/2007 7:34:00 PM
i just started the first book this morning. im about halfway. that cover is like right on clock…icy…
haddy-la said, on 8/26/2007 9:08:00 AM
hey dose anyone now what the profiels say (KawaiiOkashi ) poke poke
Shelby-wa said, on 8/26/2007 9:26:00 AM
That’s fawesome! Btw, is there gonna be a movie? And if so, is the director or whoever still gonna make the Midnighters, like, older?
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/26/2007 1:08:00 PM
oh a midnighters movie would be cool! it seems like it would be easier to make than the Uglies movie.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/26/2007 7:38:00 PM
love the cover…fawesome!!
and speaking of cover inconsistancies, it’s always bothered me, on the back pics of the US original midnighters, there’s the five people and all, very cool, but there’s……the wrong number of boys and girls!!!
there’s like, four boys and one girl, as far as i can tell. but really, there should be three girls (melissa, dess, jessica) and two guys (rex and jonathan). so seriously, what’s up with that? sorry, that’s always bothered me.
Jess said, on 8/27/2007 3:51:00 AM
haha serafina, i thought you were talking about the jap cover. (i only skimmed the comment)
and i was like, um, can’t you see.. they are clearly girls, with their dresses, long hair, etc.
hillary! said, on 8/27/2007 8:37:00 AM
That is so freaking FOOL! I so want it! Where can I get it?!
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/27/2007 9:34:00 PM
I M SOOOOOOOOO with ya on that one Serafina-la. that was totally bugging me. and then they have jess on the cover too. but shes also different than the girl on the back. in the first one at least. unhappy-making. (thats 13 letters. just sayin. =P )
Shan said, on 8/28/2007 7:48:00 PM
whoaaa! soo cooolio
Shan said, on 8/28/2007 7:49:00 PM
weird, thats exactly how i pictured the nieghborhood
lizzy-wa said, on 8/29/2007 2:39:00 PM
except it never rained while they went flying. or at least it never said they did.
Robin said, on 8/31/2007 6:07:00 PM
Wow. That version of Dess looks really, really hot. *stares*
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/1/2007 12:04:00 PM
Overzealously weird.
Riderchild-wa said, on 10/6/2007 9:07:00 AM
i like the cover……much more literal than our covers……dunno…..is it just me, or in the lower picture, is rex put down as a girl??? it looks like he has long hair and a skirt….correct me if im wrong….
-riderchild-wa =)
Riderchild-wa said, on 10/6/2007 9:08:00 AM
o, yea….PLEASE COME TO MASSACHUSSETS (urgh! did i spell that right??)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-riderchild-wa
Laura-la said, on 10/10/2007 4:13:00 PM
It is so WIERD !!!!
— that is exactly how I pictured Bixby and Jess’ neighborhood.
So I’ve been fooling around with making my own promotional shirts for a while, and sometimes people want to buy them from me. But it’s not like I’m going to manufacture things and then (shudder) mail them. I don’t do packages and stamps very well.
But with Extras coming out in just six weeks, I suppose it’s time to let the t-shirts flow. So I invite you all to the launch of . . .
Yes, it’s the online store for shirts and hoodies that reveal your Ugly (and Midnightery) side. Behold a few examples:
All these and more are available right now by clicking right here.
A few notes:
1) As with all online clothes shopping, check the size info carefully. I chose Spreadshirts.com because they’re very clear about the measurements of their stuff. Just click the product details for info.
2) I don’t get any money from this, but one dollar from each shirt goes to Katrina relief. If anything goes wrong with an order, please bug Spreadshirts and not your humble and clueless author.
3) If you think these shirts are lame, feel free to design your own at Spreadshirt or Cafe Press. Click here for a big tridecashirt file. And here for a big file with all the Midnighters symbols. Rock out and share with the rest of us.
4) Yes, they ship to Australia and many other countries, but it costs.
5) Discounts on bulk orders (25 of the same thing).
Hope you find these fine wearables amusing, and let me know if you have any Special requests. (nyuck, nyuck.)
Those are really cool shirts and stuff but they are all either for women or juniors.
You should make them for Guys…I would def buy one.
joy from manhattan said, on 8/22/2007 10:09:00 AM
dude, those are FAWESOME! i wish there were more midnighters ones though….or like peeps stuff. though uglies is cool too…
Does anyone have like an image or a shape or clip art or something of a thirteen-pointed star? i’ve been looking for one because i want to make a midnighters shirt.very bubbly store.
scott said, on 8/22/2007 10:11:00 AM
Actually nine of the shirts are for guys. The retro tees and the regular t-shirts. The pulldown menu labeled “All Articles” also lists all the shirts by men’s (or women’s, or juniors’) if you want.
Gil said, on 8/22/2007 10:22:00 AM
Oh, cool. I guess I didn’t see it. I really liked the ‘I’m an extra’ sweatshirt. Do you think you could make some for guys?
And also…Did I win the extras sampler?
scott said, on 8/22/2007 10:29:00 AM
Um, I haven’t been doing the contest for a while. But some time soon I’m going to announce a way to give out lots of them. Sorry.
joy from manhattan said, on 8/22/2007 10:29:00 AM
figures, now that i won an i’m an extra t-shirt from insideadog, they’re selling them. actually, i haven’t even gotten my t-shirt yet…i wonder when it’ll show up
well, my grand plans are failing. i’m trying to make a Bixby High School t-shirt with a 13 point star, but it turns out they’re hard to make on the computer cuz it’s an odd number
oh well. i’ll satisfy myself with buying one of the other fawesome shirts
Gil said, on 8/22/2007 10:30:00 AM
Oh, man that sucks…so there’s no way to get them now?
Dawn said, on 8/22/2007 10:32:00 AM
You really shouldn’t have shown me these shirts…I’m so t-shirt obsessive when I’m supporting a cause!
Zpoe said, on 8/22/2007 10:33:00 AM
i want a shirt that says “team zoe”
Kenina-chan said, on 8/22/2007 10:34:00 AM
Yay! This reminds me of when we were making up t-shirt slogans in one of the comments threads. Heh..heh… ‘Your boyfriend makes me bubbly’ I’ll go check it out, thanks Scott.
Addie-Wa said, on 8/22/2007 10:39:00 AM
*speechlessness*
joy from manhattan said, on 8/22/2007 10:40:00 AM
ha! i figured out how to make a 13 pointed star in photoshop! victory!! midnightersness!
Kailyx said, on 8/22/2007 11:23:00 AM
Love the shirts! Especially the cat vomit one! Except um…what’s up with the one with brail on the chest? I just found that a little odd.
Sylvia said, on 8/22/2007 11:25:00 AM
Ooo, those are awesome. I’ll definitely check out that link.
capt. cockatiel said, on 8/22/2007 11:54:00 AM
That’s so cool! Yay!
S said, on 8/22/2007 12:09:00 PM
Oooh, I want a Team David shirt. I’m dig Team shirts. Though I make most of mine, such as my Team Jim shirt. (My friend has a Team Dwight shirt.)
lily-wa said, on 8/22/2007 12:19:00 PM
oh bang. those are amazzing. i dont really like the The somke Lives! one because there isnt really a “smoke” anymore, after the mind-rain, is there? but theyre still soo fool. love the cat-vomit one.
Bethany said, on 8/22/2007 12:38:00 PM
I love the shirts! No chance of me getting one, though, seeing how I just spent my T-shirt requesting money on Twilight shirts. Oh, well. I can make my own!
Those of you who want thirteen pointed stars, flyboy designed one at the westerboard (http://www.westerboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=287). I’ll bet that he would let you use his design, at least if he comes back…
capt. cockatiel said, on 8/22/2007 12:45:00 PM
*is still basking in their glory* They are extremely jokez. I really like the “You are so 11:59″ ones.
Stephanie said, on 8/22/2007 12:49:00 PM
Ahh, I love them all! I need to get the “You are so 11:59″ one.
Courtney said, on 8/22/2007 12:54:00 PM
ooh, do they have a Flamebringer lore symbol? i haven’t checked out the store yet. guess i’d better. i hope they have a flamebringer one!!!
Courtney said, on 8/22/2007 12:58:00 PM
ooh, i luv the You’re So 11:59 one! >.
Courtney said, on 8/22/2007 12:59:00 PM
awww, man, no Flamebringer! well, no Flamebringer by it’s self. o well… =)
Gabrielle said, on 8/22/2007 1:01:00 PM
The shirts are totally made of awesome! Goes off shopping. ^^
Isabella said, on 8/22/2007 1:32:00 PM
Oooh, fexecellent!
scott said, on 8/22/2007 1:42:00 PM
Courtney: There are now two flame-bringer shirts at the end. Your wishes are my commandses.
Demensiona said, on 8/22/2007 1:52:00 PM
Oh my gosh, they’re ALL so fawesome! I’m fotally buying the sweatshirt!
-And now Flame-bringer shirts?! Scott, you’re TOO good to us!
^_^
hillary! said, on 8/22/2007 1:55:00 PM
“I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to” HAHAHA! I want that one! And the hoverboard monitor, and the Polymath, and the Mindvaster, and the you are so 11:59, and…I want them ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, after I finished reading Uglies for the first time I went downstairs and told my dad I wanted a hoverboard, he told I was insane=( Then, whem my brother and I were watching back to the future I totally scoffed and said “What a lame hoverboard!”
And everyone at school thinks I’m insaned fir this same reason. They balme Scott.
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 1:56:00 PM
i so0o0o0o0o want one!
hillary! said, on 8/22/2007 1:57:00 PM
FEXCELLENT NEWS! I saw The Last Days in PAPERBACK at the bookstore today! Why wasn’t I informed of this earlier?
joy from manhattan said, on 8/22/2007 2:16:00 PM
cool. but i figured out how to make a 13 pointed star, and now i’m totally gonna make a bixby high t-shirt. and i agree, the You R So 11:59 shirt is fawesome
Liz said, on 8/22/2007 2:27:00 PM
Cool shirts. I’m not sure about wearing a shirt with a braille message written across my chest, though
hillary! said, on 8/22/2007 2:36:00 PM
HAHAHA! Braille written across the chest! I get it now! Not a good idea to wear that around MY friends. But what does it say?
hillary! said, on 8/22/2007 2:38:00 PM
oh! It says ‘The Smoke Lives!’.
Kara-la said, on 8/22/2007 3:24:00 PM
Oh my God. The Team Zane one is the best thing I have ever seen.
I’m buying one. Or 5. But I might just have to wait for my birthday.
hillary! said, on 8/22/2007 3:27:00 PM
Yeah, Team Zane is the Best!
Bri-la said, on 8/22/2007 3:31:00 PM
WHOA!!! SWEETNESS!!!!!! that is so cool!!!! i think im gonna hav’ta wait for my b day tho.
haddy-la said, on 8/22/2007 3:39:00 PM
i love that they support katrina relief i was in katrina I HAVE TO GET ONE
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 3:57:00 PM
oh em gee that is so awesome! now i don’t have to diy a shirt b/c i don’t do well with fabric paint…
and idk if scott’s still checking the comments, but why aren’t there girl’s “team aya,” “team tally,” or “team shay” shirts? b.c i think it’d be cool to get an aya one but there’s just guys shirts in that style.
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:03:00 PM
oh wait, i mean in juniors…i’m kinda confused
scott said, on 8/22/2007 4:11:00 PM
Taylor: It is done! Check page 2 for girl’s Team Aya, Team Tally, and Team Shay.
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:16:00 PM
huzzah–and thanks!
cool i think i’m gonna end up getting like 2 shirts. that one and an “i’m an extra” one b/c i like how it says the release date on the sleeve. vyes, this is where my paycheck money is going lol.
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:17:00 PM
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:18:00 PM
“i dont want to hurt you but i will if i have to” needs to come in juniors
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:18:00 PM
AND can get it within 0 business days! talk about fast service! haha
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:20:00 PM
i want an im an extra shirt and the smoke lives. i would get i dont want to hurt you but i will if i have to if it came in juniors
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:26:00 PM
yeah i’ll probably get the team aya and the i’m an extra shirts…
amy-la i wonder if scott’ll put that one in juniors now! that’d be awesome.
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:31:00 PM
i just bought two shirts!!!
the pretty minded ugly aka Amy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:32:00 PM
that is so happy-making
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:34:00 PM
i’m playing w/ the tshirt designer–i have to wait for my mom to get home from work before i order anything. i want to think of some so yesterday reference, i have my book next to me.
haddy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:34:00 PM
i wish polymath was in womans *poke poke*
haddy-la said, on 8/22/2007 4:36:00 PM
i may be younger than all of you but i am bigger not realy fat just a little
Serafina Zane said, on 8/22/2007 4:37:00 PM
those are so cool!!! now i’m all obsessed with ideas for westerfeld-themed t-shirts….
like these…
–So pretty i had to eat him
–like, a The Last Days band shirt
–bixby high school sweatshirts
–Fawesome/fexcellent t-shirts
so many possiblilties…..i’m probably gonna end up buying like a dozen. and then i’ll confuse all my friends with references to things they don’t understand….
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 4:42:00 PM
ooh, maybe i should just do “can i take a picture of your shoe?” or like “i’m an innovator/trandsetter/jammer/some-other-group” or maybe “your boyfriend gets the Nod”
i love your ideas serafina zane!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/22/2007 4:45:00 PM
thanks. i like the can i take a picture of your shoe? idea. i was really bored once (waiting in an airport or something) and i actually tried tying my shoelaces diagonally like Jen and took a picture of them on my phone
haddy-la said, on 8/22/2007 5:03:00 PM
why is scott not awsering our pokes (requests)
T said, on 8/22/2007 5:07:00 PM
good luck with spreadshirt. i refuse to give them any money. i had a terrible experience with them and will never give them any business. oh well.
i like the shirts…though i wish there was a stylin’ hoodie that was not juniors [seeing as i am 27!]
i’m really looking forward to the new book!
Mandy-wa said, on 8/22/2007 5:33:00 PM
That is sooooo awesome!!!!!!! My best friend and i have been talking about making shirts and stickers for Uglies every since we read the books!
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 5:47:00 PM
yay i just bought 2 shirts! “team aya” and “I’m an extra!”
i should wear one of them the first day of school and confuse people.
and the whole sticker thing is pretty cool, mandy-wa! scott you should try that! but somehow i doubt that “Spreadshirts” would make stickers lol…
Serafina Zane said, on 8/22/2007 5:50:00 PM
yeah, that would sort of force them to get a new name
i’ve got like this button-making thing, so i make buttons for obscure book references and stuff all the time. my backpack is totally covered in them…it makes it like two pounds heavier……….
Rainy said, on 8/22/2007 7:11:00 PM
Is there a Team Zane in the girl’s style?
Hehe, there’s a women’s braille shirt. So, how would a blind person read that…? It might cause problems. =]
Kadie-Wa said, on 8/22/2007 7:16:00 PM
SAWEET!!! (yes, I TRIED to spell it that way!!) I wonder when our tshirts are going to get here…I wanna wear it for the first week of school!! THat would be so cool!!
Kadie-Wa
P.S. Sorry I haven’t really been on lately!!
kim said, on 8/22/2007 7:24:00 PM
are you still going to be at dragoncon in atlanta? you’re not on the guest list and it’s next weekend..
Taylor said, on 8/22/2007 7:28:00 PM
rainy yeah there is it’s on page…let me check…1 when you’re looking at “all articles” it’s the last one it says juniors’ but it’s a girls shirt. i got an Aya one like that.
Gil said, on 8/22/2007 9:00:00 PM
i think it would be cool if there were shirts with a hello my name is sticker and it says like tally, zane, david, shay, aya, and all of those things but it should look like the names were written and not printed by a computer…just a thought
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/22/2007 10:42:00 PM
that is so dizzy-making! i am going ballistic! if only i could tell my hole-in-the-wall to spit some out so i don’t have to ask my mom for her credit card…and then pay her back later… *sigh* oh well! i’m gonna go check out the make your own thing now! THANK YOU SCOTT-LA!!!
Lena ( From Love, Lena said, on 8/22/2007 11:11:00 PM
THANK YOU! These are AMAZING! And, it also helps that a dollar goes to charity! I’ve been absolutly DYING to get a cool midnighters shirt.. But my ‘Rents wouldn’t let me make one myself (Metallurge.. I wish I could find a shirt with THAT sign on E’Bay. Well.. I did make my own symbol so, yeah.) And I ADORE the Uglies Quote one.. Now I have to convince the ‘rents to get one or twelve for me.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 5:41:00 AM
hey, am i the only one for who the store’s acting wierd? like, somethimes it says that there’s 32 items, but then it says there’s 29. why are these three items disappearing?????
and again with the pokeage in case author-ppl are still listening–a last days band/concert tee would be fawesome……..
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 6:30:00 AM
serafina zane that happened to me a few times i just hit refresh and it went back to 32. sometimes it doesn’t display the girls’ team aya/shay/tally shirts and that’s why it said 29. i think it’s b/c those are the last ones scott made and the store sometimes doesn’t recognize them. weird, i know.
and i want a cool button-making thing! seriously that’d be so great to just cut out pictures/words/etc. and turn them into buttons!
ooh and yeah a concert tee would be cool but like idk how he’d do it since like there’s no band logo or anything…it’d be cool if there were t-shirts referencing so yesterday…maybe i should just make my own but it’s more expensive
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:05:00 AM
i made a Last Days button!
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:10:00 AM
Scott your shirts are so awesome. i am totally getting the I’m an extra one!!! but do you think you could make the tridecashirt in juniors? Also the i dont want to hurt you but i will is i have to in juniors and a different color (i hate pink)
You should totally make a shirt that has to do with bubbly or icy. THAT would be awesome!! ANd you should make some that reference to peeps or the last days.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:13:00 AM
how did you get a button making thing??
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:16:00 AM
i’m googling “button maker” right now…so far there’s been one fairly relevant result, and all the rest are for like buttons for a website. like the kind you’d click on and it’d take you somewhere. i want one maybe that’s what i’ll ask for when my birthday gets a bit closer.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:18:00 AM
yeah my birthday is only like a few weeks away
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:18:00 AM
i ordered it online from like, badge-a-minit. i spent like, all my birthday money on it but it’s fawesome.
and i second (or third or first or whatever) the ideas for peeps/the last days stuff. they would be so fawesome!!! and more midnighters stuff!!! and maybe some so yesterday stuff too!
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:19:00 AM
so yesterday would be so cool like i love the idea of can i take a picture of your shoe?? i would totally buy that one!!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:20:00 AM
i think it’s like, third if you google button making machine. some of them are waaay expensive though. the badge-a-minit one was cheapest, and it still used up all the money i had.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:24:00 AM
sweeet thanks
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:28:00 AM
can *I* take a picture…dumb typos…
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:28:00 AM
lol can take a picture of your shoe was my idea! yay other peoples like it. and yeah i changed my search to add machine at the end and i was just on the badge-a-minit site!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:29:00 AM
ha! now i made a “something about you is so….11:59″ button
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:31:00 AM
haha ive read all of scotts books except the midnighters series though i want to read it as soon as possible
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:33:00 AM
midnighters are like, almost my favorite westerfeld series. i mean, uglies is awesome, and peeps/the last days are fexcellent, but midnighters……classic
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:33:00 AM
i really want one now i have a hellogoodbye button on my backpack but that’s it…yeah this is going on my wishlist now…
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:35:00 AM
i love the midnighters series! idk which of scott’s books is my favorite though, i’d have to reread them all before i could tell you!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:38:00 AM
i’d probably say midnighters (the first one) and then peeps and then midnighters 2, and then the last days, then midnighters 3 (the ending!! how could you??! plz plz book four!!) then uglies/pretties/specials (and again!! ending!!! killing off awesome ppl??!!!)
but whichever one i’m currently reading is my favorite. and i can’t wait 4 extras!!!
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:38:00 AM
it’s probably between so yesterday (despite the fact that the title is the same as a hilary duff song grrr) and the uglies trilogy.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:39:00 AM
wow, thought i forgot something. ttly forgot so yesterday. yeah, that’d probably be next to uglies and the last days
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:43:00 AM
who do you like better zane or david??
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:44:00 AM
zane. ttly, all the way. i mean, i have nothing against david, he’s pretty cool, but zane…
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:52:00 AM
zane’s gotta be my favorite, i’m not really sure why i just like him better. but my mom would freak out if i got a shirt that said “team zane”—especially since it’s on her credit card! and i can just picture myself coming into school w/ that shirt on, and we get some new kid whose name is zane. can you say awkward? i got an aya one b/c i highly doubt there’ll be a new girl w/ that name!
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:52:00 AM
lol no offense but you can never really know if Tally liked Zane more because of his looks or if Zane liked Tally because of her looks. Even Tally was doubting herself when David asked her that remember? David loved her with all her imperfection and Zane loved her with only the emotional and mental ones. HE never saw her when she was ugly. What do you think he would have said then. He would have treated her like any other ugly probably. So for that reason im David all the way.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:53:00 AM
But you still have to take into account that David had never seen a pretty before but still. David is my kinda guy.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:54:00 AM
yeah, that would be really wierd.
and zane’s cool because like, david was a rebel because that’s how he was raised, but zane made the choice. and like, he wasn’t perfect, he sold his friends out too, but he was still good.
oh, and also, black hair, sleep deprivation, and caffine. sorry, but i’ll take that over homemade leather and campfires any day. but that’s just me.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 7:56:00 AM
but, like they said, they were in a whole city full of pretties, and they still chose each other, so i don’t think it’s just looks.
but david is cool, he’s just not as cool as zane. zane is even a cooler name. it has a z in it.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:57:00 AM
i have to agree w/ serafina’s last couple of sentences…and i just like the name. yeah sorry i don’t have any inspirational reasons lol.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:57:00 AM
zane is a cooler name ive got to admit.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 7:58:00 AM
i would have gotten a team david shirt but my cousin is named david and he goes to my school. so that would be really akward…
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 7:58:00 AM
oops shoulda refreshed before posting…i meant about the hair, caffeine, and sleep deprivation
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:00:00 AM
yeah, i know like three guys named david. don’t know anyone named zane tho…
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:00:00 AM
true true i would have died living in the smoke now if david was grown up in the city and became a pretty now THAT would be hott.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:01:00 AM
i want to name my kid zane that name is just too cool.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:02:00 AM
totally. and dude, i just realized, i have a cousin named david too. random.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:02:00 AM
but w/ the whole name thing: i get why david’s name isn’t as cool, like because his parents had older beliefs, so he had a more classic name; while zane lived in the bubbleheaded world, so he had a more futuristic, unusual name. it’s just an awesome name.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:03:00 AM
i kinda wish that they would have caught david and made him a cutter too…how cool would that be then tally wouldnt have to be slowed down by an ugly all the time when they run away. but thats just my opinion.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:05:00 AM
i only know one person named david…just the younger brother of one of the girls in my class…wait i forgot i work with a kid named david…that’s kinda pathetic that i did’t even remember the name of someone that i work with but i remember that it’s someone’s younger brothers name!
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:07:00 AM
i wonder if david will ever get any surge done or just do anything that would change the way he looks…i guess we’ll have to wait and see! but i doubt it.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:10:00 AM
i sorta doubt it, david’s thing is like, he’s the only character who hasn’t had multiple brain surguries.
that’s why extras is gonna be awesome, cuz tally was getting really crazy (in a good way) and now aya’s still like, human i guess, not off in pretty-ville or cutter-land
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:13:00 AM
i can’t wait for the release! this is like the biggest deal ever made for one of scott’s books. you know, the store, the contests, everything!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:14:00 AM
yeah, this is really the first one i’ve been waiting for the release date—-all the others i read after they came out
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:15:00 AM
Extras is gonna be sweet, but confusing in the beginning though, and i wonder if Tally and david will ever get back together or if she will ‘never love again’ or some crap lie that. THAT would make me very mad. i think it would be cool if david did get a surg just like an eyescreen or a tattoo. He would at least fit in better with Tally and they wouldnt look like total opposites.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:16:00 AM
yea ive never had to wait for any of his books they all came out right before i started reading them.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:17:00 AM
besides specials, this is the only book that i’ve actually known the release date of.
have you bought any of the shirts?
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:19:00 AM
yeah, just some superficial stuff so david doesn’t stand out as the normal dude. and even tho awesome zane is gone, i really think she should get back with david, i mean, he’s cool, and she should be happy.
october 2nd, can’t wait!!
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:20:00 AM
im going to my little sis is gonna buy me the I’m an extra long sleeve hoodie and what other shirt should i get?
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:21:00 AM
i haven’t got any yet, but i’m gonna get a “ur so 1159″ one and maybe a special circumstances sweatshirt
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:22:00 AM
in a way i kinda hope that david doesn’t get anything done to him. even if he is “the normal guy,” that’s kinda been his trademark thoughout the trilogy: not getting any surgery in spite of everything.
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:22:00 AM
i know totally they should get back together. And he hsould get AT LEAST one tattoo. my little sister is getting me the extras long sleeve hoodie. what other shirt should i get?? except midnighters cuz i havent read them.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:24:00 AM
how about at “Team tally/shay/aya” shirt? i would say get “the smoke lives” but just before i ordered it, my mom (who hasn’t read the books) pointed out that some people might think it’s some weird drug/cigarette reference. so i scratched that idea
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:24:00 AM
kinda but it would be so much more interesting. but something happens and his surgery goes wrong and he almost dies but then he survives and that is how they meet aya because she is in the hospital getting ready to get the pretty surgery…oh yeah now THAT would be cool
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:24:00 AM
i dunno, my fav uglies shirts are “i don’t want to hurt u but i will if i have 2″, and the sideways special circumstances ones, or the i’m an extra one
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:25:00 AM
yeah but i wish it wasnt in pink. read my above comment
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:26:00 AM
should i get a tally or shay one??
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:28:00 AM
well which of the two is your favorite?
and whoa we all posted in the same minute…fawesome.
and i would have gotten a special circumstances one but it’s just in women’s. and when compared to my regular shirts, it’s a lot wider.
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:29:00 AM
TALLY!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:29:00 AM
it seems like aya isn’t gonna get pretty surge tho…
i found the description of extras on amazon, check it out—
As if being fifteen doesn’t suck enough, Aya Fuse’s rank of 451,369 is
so low, she’s a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn’t care; she just
wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for
herself.
Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply
secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show
everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel
her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity…and extreme
eek serafina i’ve already seen the description but i’m not letting myself read it.
and personally, i sat tally, just cause shay’s had her meanie moments way more often than tally.
hi hillary!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:33:00 AM
Sound like its more focused on the scoop rather than surges.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:33:00 AM
it’s not spoilery or anything. and i second tally, shay gets angry a lot
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:34:00 AM
*SAY tally…typos, typos, typos
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:34:00 AM
ok ill get a team tally one. i got to go get my haircut. BYE!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:35:00 AM
Hi! Taylor. I just got a new book! I’m so happy! But, since I got it yesterday I’m almost done, so I’m gonna be very sad.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:35:00 AM
yeah someone posted the link awhile ago, but even though it doesn’t have spoilers i don’t want to read it. i’m odd, yes.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:36:00 AM
lol “i got it yesterday i’m almost done”
what book?
Rachael-la said, on 8/23/2007 8:36:00 AM
yeah im gonna get the im an extras one and a team tallly one
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:37:00 AM
Girl At Sea, Maureen Johnson is good! And funny!
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:39:00 AM
cool rachael-la! i got team aya just cause she’s the new girl in the series and she needs SOMEONE on her side lol. and b/c she’s an extra and feels all unpopular.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:39:00 AM
oh, i read that one. it was pretty cool. she’s a pretty good author–devilish was really funny
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:41:00 AM
oh i’ve read the key to the golden firebird and the bermudez triangle by mj and i’m very angry w/ the banning in bartlesville. TKTTGF is my fave though, idk why.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:43:00 AM
i have devilish on request at my library right now, but it hasn’t come in yet.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:43:00 AM
i know, the whole banning thing is scary and stupid. i mean, i read the book and it wasn’t bad in any way whatsoever.
key to the golden firebird was good, but it practically made me cry. 13 little blue envelopes rocked too
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:45:00 AM
Yeah I’ve only read 13 LBE, then I really had to read another so I got the new one. I really wanted to read Devilish, but GAS jsut looked so yummy! I’m on Team Zane.
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 8:48:00 AM
13LBE made me cry! TBT debaucle is ridiculous! I’ve never understood the point of banning a book. It just makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, I have TKTTGF, DEV., TBT, and GAS all on acquisition at my library. And Magic’s Child.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:49:00 AM
i read all of her books, and they’re all great.
Team Zane forever.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 8:53:00 AM
has anyone every read an abundance of katherines by john green? b/c that book has made it to like my top 20 favorite books and i heard about him from scott’s blog.
and yes, go team zane! cause we know he’s cooler.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:54:00 AM
i’ve practically run out of stuff to read, i read all the westerfeld books, and the whole magic or madness trilogy, and all the maureen johnson books, and like everything. so now i guess i’m just stuck waiting for extras.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 8:56:00 AM
i never read abundance of katherines, but i’ve seen it before
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:11:00 AM
I’ve heard of it, I think my library might actually have it.
Yeah, I know that feeling of having nothing to read. It’s like you’re empty or something awfully fat is dancing inside your head when you KNOW it is too big to even be in there. Or maybe that’s just me.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 9:22:00 AM
well actually, i’m just panicking cuz that means i have to do all my honors summer reading homework now.
my procrastination is catching up with me.
Kadie-Wa said, on 8/23/2007 9:28:00 AM
Whaa…I thought I was special because I won a tshirt. *sigh* Oh well. They are still so SWEET!!! I LUV THEM SO MUCH!! I can’t wait 4 mine to get here!! YAY!
Kadie-Wa 40 days until EXTRAS!!
or 1 month 4 days…whoops, i mean 9 days OR
3,456,000 seconds or
57,600 minutes or
960 hours or finally
5 weeks
YAY!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 9:29:00 AM
CAN’T WAIT!!!!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:33:00 AM
5 weeks sounds best.
Taylor, I know what you mean, when I was in honors/AP I always procrastinated or just never did it, not good advice. ALWAYS DO YOUR HOMEWORK! OK! or else you end up being hated by all your teachers cuz they know your smart but bored with school and lazy. Not a nice way to finish off High School.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 9:34:00 AM
rrrrrg you, geometry math packet. quadratic equations, you are the bane of my existance.
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:40:00 AM
OOPS! I meant that message for Serafina Zane.
I was inly ever in AP history and LA or English, or whatever you call it. My friends though, are in it al the way, even AP Phys.Ed.
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 9:44:00 AM
dude, how do you get AP Gym? i would hate that. i’ve got honors english, history, science, everything. which means too much homework. but hey, extras is coming!!!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:47:00 AM
AP gym is when they put all the nerds in AP in a separate class, they do everything normal gym studenst would do except they get homework.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 9:50:00 AM
sorry, i had to look up a bunch of stuff for my mom—we only have one computer and i refused to get off, so she made me do it for her.
i never knew there was such a thing as AP gym! idk if we have that in my school. we can’t take any till 10th grade, so i’m just in adv math & science (i’m going into 9th). i hated quadratics till once my teacher explained it in a different way and i was like “OOOHHH!” lol
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:52:00 AM
yeah, AP gym threw me for a loop too.
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:52:00 AM
What the ? What are quadratics?
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 9:52:00 AM
eew, gym HOMEWORK? i’d just about die! what, do they have to write like essays on the history of baseball or something?
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 9:55:00 AM
yeah, that and do a weekly report on an article in the newspaper on the sports section, whatever one you want as long as it’s an actual sport.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 9:57:00 AM
i really hope we don’t have that…i wouldn’t take it anyway, but i wonder who would!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 9:58:00 AM
ugh. gym homework. don’t give me nightmares.
and quadratics are really evil graphy algebra things with equations that you have to memorize that are really long. and my math teachers never make any sense. ever. my seventh grade math teacher was so confusing, she couldn’t even get us to understand adding and subtracting negatives because she explained it so badly.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 9:58:00 AM
oh yeah, and like a quadratic equation. like one that makes a parabola when you graph it, etc. it’s like a huge topic, so idk if i could completely explain it…
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 10:00:00 AM
i couldn’t explain it cuz i can’t understand it. i have math issues
dude, how far off-topic have we gotten?
what was the post even about? oh yeah, awesome t-shirts.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 10:04:00 AM
lol really. about the topic, i mean. hillary!, if you’re still there, did you get a shirt (or two, or ten)?
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 10:05:00 AM
I HATE PARABOLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are awful! and I had a really good Algebra 2 Teacher. She was so cool but those things were horrible for brain! The worst teacher in the world is Mrs. Richardson, my first algebra teacher, she lost two weeks into the first semester, so I either slept in that class or read. Then at the beginning of the second semester I HAD to change, so I got Mrs. Corridi! She is soooo cool! I drove her insane^.^
To get AP gym you have to be in a special IB program.
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 10:05:00 AM
*lost ME
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 10:08:00 AM
i officially finished the first page of my math packet. only like ten to go. better than last year though, that one was like 30 pages.
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 10:09:00 AM
what does “IB” stand for? *wracks brain* nope, still don’t know!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 10:09:00 AM
No, I dont have money and my parents DO NOT support my book/author obsessions, they already think I should be put in the loony bin. I got excited about the fact that I chatted with Justine and they commented on the fact that if I was accepted to Yale or someplace like that I wouldn’t be as happy as the day i chatted with Justine. And they’re correct. Why would I go to Yale if I want to be a librarian?
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 10:10:00 AM
International Bacleareats sp?
Taylor said, on 8/23/2007 10:13:00 AM
i have no idea what the second word means. even with my vocabulary exceeding that of most others in my class, i’ve never seen that word before…*grabs dictionary* MUST LEARN!
hillary! said, on 8/23/2007 10:21:00 AM
have you guys seen the *Utter, Utter Silliness* post? it’s so MJ!
Serafina Zane said, on 8/23/2007 10:29:00 AM
ha ha! hilarious. good to know i’m not the only one with waay too much time on my hands. now to investigate these “new clothes in wearable extras”
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/23/2007 2:06:00 PM
these are so cool! i think im gonna buy them out…
vicky said, on 8/23/2007 2:49:00 PM
i call ‘em “westershirts”. definitely will go buy one.
Haley Rae said, on 8/23/2007 3:43:00 PM
I want too many! They’re sooo pretty-making! AGHHH! Thank you, Mr. Westerfeld!!
Haley Rae said, on 8/23/2007 3:53:00 PM
I would LOVE “the smoke lives” on a long sleeved, hooded tee. Do you know if more styles of the clothes are coming out soon??
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/23/2007 5:52:00 PM
Haley-wa…you can make your own you know. u can just put the same words on a long sleeved hooded T. solutions!
Soxy said, on 8/23/2007 7:16:00 PM
oooooh I want a Team David shirt!!
jocelyn said, on 8/24/2007 6:13:00 AM
i totally want the special circumtances one, it looks soooooo cool.
Haley Rae said, on 8/24/2007 12:44:00 PM
By the way, ladies, David is totally my favorite! Rock on, Nature boy!
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/24/2007 3:13:00 PM
oh i love david 2! he sounds cute.
Jess said, on 8/25/2007 2:50:00 AM
that long sleeved shirt looks pretty cool.
i’d get that
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/25/2007 7:42:00 PM
i made my own. there on their way. one says…
Flasks.
Pour.
Breakthrough.
My Mind Is VERY UGLY.
and the other one says…
Crash Braceletes Are For Sissies…
And So Are Shoes
Kelsey & Lauren said, on 9/8/2007 8:48:00 AM
Midnighters are such awseome books. Scott Westerfeld needs 2 come out with a new Midnighters book. We have to know what 2 Jessica. She cant just be left behind.
Lizzy-wa said, on 9/8/2007 12:13:00 PM
HUH?!?!?!?! HEY! DONT GIVE IT AWAY, I STILL HAVE THE LAST HALF OF THE BOOK TO GO!!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT GO TO THE MIDNIGHTERS SPOILER ZONE!!!!!! SHCEEESHZ!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
rian said, on 9/9/2007 10:58:00 AM
Gahh! I am completely in love with Cafepress and people just keep giving me more reasons to love it. They have amazing Doctor Who shirts, Milky Pirate apparel, and now I find out they do Scott Westerfeld stuff? When will the amazement end?
danyelle said, on 9/18/2007 5:53:00 PM
will there be a fifth book?
Ashley-Wa said, on 9/30/2007 2:39:00 PM
I finished the Pretties!!!!!!!
I hate Shay now!!! She used to be my favorite!!!!
I also hate Dr.Cable!
Ashley-Wa (feet)
Riderchild-wa said, on 10/6/2007 9:17:00 AM
thats SO bubbly and happy-making!!!!
except, when i asked my mom about it, she said maybe as a present…..that’s MONTHS away in december!!!!!!! i can’t even decide which 1 i want…..neways….id just settle 4 all of them….if ne1 has some extras, i would gladly take them for u…sigh….i might as well wish 4 SCOTT TO COME TO MASSACHUSSETTS (hint hint)!!!!!!!!!! dont let me scare u away, scott…..im actually nice if u get to kno me….(innocent blinking)…..i also have 2 older sis’ who love ur books…..at least think about it???? please??????? (blinking resumes again)
well, gotta go help my mom load up the car….
-riderchild-wa
Yes, I realize that Justine and I have been spending all our time over at Inside a Dog, but I have not utterly abandoned you!
Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the first cover for the new trade paperbacks of Midnighters!
Pretty cool, huh? That’s Jessica of the red hair and green eyes, of course.
Remember, these are the same old book, just with new covers. And they aren’t available until early January 2008, so don’t go scouring for them. But I thought I’d give you guys your usual chance to sneak peak and comment.
wow those look kewl. I loved the Midnighters series. (:
Demensiona said, on 7/26/2007 7:21:00 PM
Wait oh my gosh look at THAT COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matches the look/style of Peeps and Uglies/more contemporary. And look at those colors!
Hey Scott is there a cover for a fourth book?
(Hahaha, it was worth a try)!
^_^
Dani said, on 7/26/2007 7:22:00 PM
I actually think that this cover is better. It gives you a good picture of her and makes you unserstand the symbols more. What’s going on with the contest to get Extras samples? Any updates Scott?
Becca-bear said, on 7/26/2007 7:23:00 PM
question, WAS I the first to comment?
if so is that contest still on?
I’m kind of confused! ah, well!
Morgan said, on 7/26/2007 7:29:00 PM
I like this cover way better than the other ones! Great color.
kathy~ said, on 7/26/2007 7:39:00 PM
man if the contest is still on i lost awwwwww,,,noooooooooooo
Becca-bear said, on 7/26/2007 7:49:00 PM
I HOPE it’s still on because I think I was the first one to comment on thi most amazing book cover :]
kheidi-la said, on 7/26/2007 7:50:00 PM
you know you could have mentioned this a week ago even if you didnt have the cover (i just bought the midnighters seiries but I that cover way better cuz you can see the person…)
jocelyn said, on 7/26/2007 7:52:00 PM
I like that cover, but I think I prefer the first ones.
Haley Rae said, on 7/26/2007 8:28:00 PM
I read the first two Midnighters, but never read the last one…Blue Noon.
Nice covers, though!
Rainy said, on 7/26/2007 8:29:00 PM
Yaay! Are there new covers for all of them, or just the first one?
jennifer, aka literaticat said, on 7/26/2007 8:43:00 PM
she looks like how i imagine justine looked as a teenager.
Dawn said, on 7/26/2007 9:25:00 PM
I really do like this cover a lot. A LOT. It definitely does kinda match up with the Uglies covers.
lily-wa said, on 7/26/2007 9:35:00 PM
that is such an fawsome cover. though i have to say i still like the other ones better. there’s not at much..mystery in this one. although on the upside, this one is not over photoshopped like the others.
Ana said, on 7/26/2007 10:43:00 PM
OMG i just finished the 1st and the 2nd boks and cant wait for the 3rd one. The book cover is amazing SCOTT {lovez it}.Cant wait to go and by it they look so coooooollll.
Dee said, on 7/26/2007 11:10:00 PM
Wow, it does look good! Thing is that, yeah, it doenst have as much mystery as the origonal covers. These look like all other book covers… Still, they are fool. (yes, i just finished The Last Days, which i loved!)
Little Willow said, on 7/26/2007 11:30:00 PM
I really like the clock within the G.
Rebecca said, on 7/27/2007 2:16:00 AM
Little Willow, me too!! That’s probably my favorite part of the whole cover. Although I do like the whole matching with the other books thing too.
*Jessie* said, on 7/27/2007 6:11:00 AM
That is so cool! I love that cover!!
ShellTheShark said, on 7/27/2007 7:15:00 AM
i did already comment over at inside a dog, but i do have a question, when will contests restart for the sampler books?
hillary! said, on 7/27/2007 8:31:00 AM
Like I said over at Inside a Dog, I prefer the old ones because of the mystery, but this is more eye catching for non-Westerfeld-fans. And it doesn’t look like my idea of Jess, even if it does match the others. And I agree with jennifer, aka literaticat, it does sorta look like Justine.
capt. cockatiel said, on 7/27/2007 8:51:00 AM
( I thought it looked a bit Justine-esque at first glance, too.)
Oh, it’s pretty! But I own all of them with the old covers, which I must say are also very cool.
intensegreeneyes said, on 7/27/2007 9:34:00 AM
both are cool (old and new)
i think everyone should thank and worship the cover gods
where are the other 2 books though???
hillary! said, on 7/27/2007 10:02:00 AM
Not done yet, not even due till January 2008!
Sylvia said, on 7/27/2007 10:26:00 AM
w00t, looks cool, love it! :]
Amy-la said, on 7/27/2007 11:30:00 AM
that cover is so cool. i finished the midnighters trilogy last night, so its kind of weird that scott posted about midnighters. i love the cover better than the other one!
Addie-wa said, on 7/27/2007 11:37:00 AM
Thats wicked awesome! Though isnt the flame bringer sign on her eye sorta a spioler? Or maybe it isnt and im just think that if i saw that not having read the book id have an idea just because i have read the book?
MoRgAn said, on 7/27/2007 12:03:00 PM
love both the covers and love the books
i don’t think the symbol spoilers it because its not like you know what the symbol means until they straight up tell you
Ally-wa said, on 7/27/2007 12:04:00 PM
The other books are going to get another cover to. They are going to have different characters on them. Theres more info than this at Insideadog.
Kayla-wa said, on 7/27/2007 12:18:00 PM
this cover is way more awesome than the other one because u can figure out what Jessica actually looks like instead of a big blur. i like the flamebringer sign on her eye too! whos gonna be on the other covers cause theres only 3 bookks?
Courtney-wa said, on 7/27/2007 12:48:00 PM
LOVE IT!!!
hillary! said, on 7/27/2007 1:38:00 PM
Life SUX! Today is my last day…No more internet access for me!
Tracy said, on 7/27/2007 2:10:00 PM
i personally like the old covers much better. i think that’s what caught my friend’s eye and made her read it and then tell me about it. the new ones look kind of blan. there’s not really anything special about them. (haha, SPEACIAL!!) it’s odd that scott chooses to FINALLY post about midnighters, when i’m in the process of re-reading the entire midnighters series! i need 2 buy the rest of them. (i only have the 1st one) cya!!
Lena ( From Love, Lena said, on 7/27/2007 2:27:00 PM
I dislike this cover for one reason, like the Uglies Trilogies covers, it specifies how Jessica should look. Not vaugly, but specificly. When/if the time for Midnighters comes, people will be expecting this face. Just like a lot of folks use the Tally cover on Uglies to use as a template for what the cast should look like.
But I love it because it is so completly modern and it just looks nice.
Lena ( From Love, Lena said, on 7/27/2007 2:29:00 PM
Also, If you get a set of questions from Stephie from Westerboard, they are mine…
Jen said, on 7/27/2007 2:36:00 PM
I like it, but the other covers are better I think.
Letticia said, on 7/27/2007 3:09:00 PM
cool cover!!
KawaiiOkashi said, on 7/27/2007 4:12:00 PM
Oh my goodness, they are soo awesome.
korbe said, on 7/27/2007 4:41:00 PM
that is badass on so many levels scott, i love the new cover
Hillary said, on 7/27/2007 6:40:00 PM
That cover is so awesome! I guess I’ll have to buy the trilogy in paperback too!
sarah said, on 7/28/2007 1:12:00 AM
awesome! very very cool ^_^
bons said, on 7/28/2007 8:34:00 AM
i like the first one’s
wayy better. but these
are pretty nifty too!
hah
Kadie-Wa said, on 7/28/2007 1:40:00 PM
Luv it!! That scar is SO COOL!! I think that people are going to want to read it bc the cover looks cool!
Kadie-Wa
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Taylor said, on 7/28/2007 2:15:00 PM
omg i love the cover! the shot is really nice, and the color scheme is really awesome too.
hey am i the only one who can’t open the inside a dog website? i keep getting that “the page cannot be displayed” message. i even googled it in case scott’s link was off (no offense) but i still won’t open! what am i going to do i need to see who wins the lolcat cover contest on the 6th!!!
so yeah could anyone tell me if if they can/cannot open it b/c i’m not sure if it’s just my computer being dumb or there’s something wrong with the site.
Taylor said, on 7/28/2007 2:17:00 PM
opps i forgot the “t” in “it” and i wrote “if” twice, i guess that’s what happens when i’m typing frantically
AshAngelAk said, on 7/28/2007 3:45:00 PM
Already commented on the other website…
But Taylor, I can’t get to the site either :S
ShellTheShark said, on 7/28/2007 4:58:00 PM
hey, is Inside A Dog not working for any of you? all day i haven’t been able to get on the site. its saying its taking too long to respond.
is it my computer, or IAD?
ShellTheShark said, on 7/28/2007 5:00:00 PM
ok, nevermind… i hadn’t read the last few commets. so at least it isn’t just me. i was gonna enter again in the contest… grrr…
Jillian said, on 7/28/2007 5:50:00 PM
That cover is gorgeous… *drools* Can’t wait until we can see the rest!! (Melissa, Dess, Rex on covers? Yes? *crosses fingers*)
AshAngelAk said, on 7/28/2007 6:06:00 PM
I don’t know what happened to the site. Scott will probably update us about it soon.
Jillian you can’t forget about Jonathan!!
Morganne'la said, on 7/28/2007 6:54:00 PM
OH MY GOSH!!!!! I LOVE IT SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! IT”S SO COOL!!!!!1
Taylor said, on 7/28/2007 7:02:00 PM
ok cool to know that i’m not the only one who couldn’t seem to access it…and shelltheshark i liked your covers!
but yay it’s back! haha i’m going to see if there’s any new entries for the cover contest!
Kadie-Wa said, on 7/28/2007 7:18:00 PM
I couldn’t get onto it until a few minutes ago…I wonder what happened…
Kadie-Wa. Sorry, don’t feel like retyping all of the numbers!
Kadie-Wa said, on 7/28/2007 7:19:00 PM
And Jillian, remember Mellisa was his favorite? If anyone, I think that it will be her and Dess on the covers. (My favs, but I like Jonathan too.) ((For some reason, Rex just scars me.))
Kadie-Wa
IndigoEyes said, on 7/29/2007 2:58:00 PM
Hmmm, there should be a different Midnighter on every one. Meaning that Scott is just going to have to write two more Midnighters books.
IndigoEyes said, on 7/29/2007 3:00:00 PM
Also, Kadie-wa, Dess, not Melissa, is Scott’s favourite.
casey-wa said, on 7/31/2007 8:02:00 PM
hey who are on the other covers? dess and johnathan i hope.
Katie Bug said, on 8/3/2007 3:30:00 PM
That is AMAZING!
Thats how i always imagined Jessica!
But you know what would be awsome?…..if you would right a fourth one!!!
Please?
Katie Bug said, on 8/3/2007 3:33:00 PM
ok im like in love Dess!! she is so freakin sarcastic!!
these are my favorite books.
andi said, on 8/4/2007 4:05:00 PM
I LUV IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0 are you gonna put it on as anew cover?
andi said, on 8/4/2007 4:08:00 PM
Kaitie Bug: I love Dess 2! 2 me, everybody’s insane xcept 4 Dess. Thats sort of Y i stoped reading #3. It was getting kind of boring… (no offense Scott.) But I absolutely LOVED the others!
andi said, on 8/4/2007 4:18:00 PM
Never mind. ignore my question about the cover> i saw Jan. 2008
Kailyx said, on 8/6/2007 10:25:00 PM
No fair. The trade covers of your books are always cooler than the hardcover. Definitely with Peeps- and now with Midnighters, too!
Jessie said, on 8/10/2007 1:52:00 PM
I love Midnighters soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much and that cover is so cool! Can’t u just make a 4th?! Pleeeeese?
Tara-wa said, on 8/13/2007 5:22:00 PM
*loves*
Thats freaking amazing! I love it! But I dunno which I like better… they both pwn.
Lizzy-wa said, on 8/26/2007 1:16:00 PM
love it. totally hypochondriac.
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A few notes on genre “reveals” and on the TV option of Midnighters, all starting with a long digression.
Digression begins.
Back when I was a young composer, I went to an early MIDI expo in NYC. Then (and now) MIDI* was the communication standard that allows electronic musical instruments to talk to each other, and back in those days of tangled patch cords and 8-bit sampling, that alone was a pretty cool thing.
But one of the exhibits was even cooler. It was a guy playing a trumpet, at the end of which was something that looked like a mute. This device was listening to the notes be played, analyzing their pitch, converting them to MIDI data, and then sending them to a synthesizer. All in realtime!
He also had a footswitch to change the change the sound of the synth. So it went something like this:
Stomp. He was a trumpeter making the sound of a piano. Stomp. He was a trumpeter making the sound of a guitar. Stomp. He was a trumpeter making the sound of an oboe.
This is still a fairly cool thing to watch. In 1980-something, it was wicked awesome.
Suddenly, though, he clicked his foot switch, and the synthesizer shifted to its next instrument sound . . .
Stomp. And he was a trumpeter making the sound of . . . a trumpet.
But a dorky, synthesized trumpet, instead of the real one he held in his hands.
I looked around at the rapt audience, seeing who else got the joke. Only a few did, but we exchanged wry stares. It was a moment of sublime post-modernity, irony, and outright geekiness.
But it was also a warning to the wise: If you twist something around too far, it’s just the same darn thing you started with. But suckier.
Flash forward almost two decades.
I’m watching Underworld, what looks to be a diverting film about vampires and werewolves at war.
Stomp. Latex-wearing undead. Stomp. Matrix-like slow motion. Stomp. The rain-slicked streets of Budapest!
What could possibly go worng?
Then suddenly, way too early in the film, an astounding revelation is made: In this war, the vampires use bullets full of silver nitrate-something-babble, which kill werewolves on contact. And now the werewolves have developed bullets with something-ultraviolet-babble, which kill vampires on contact.
Stomp. Superhuman monsters at war . . . and they shoot each other with guns.
You know, guns. The things that kill regular people.
Except the vamps and werewolves die even faster than regular humans. So that one extra reveal brings us right back to normal. But suckier.
Wait! These things can kill people? No one told me that.
Flash forward to yesterday!
I’m watching Tremors 2 on cable, and of course I’m not stupid. I know it won’t be as good as the original. But at least I’ll get some more of those fantabulous underground monsters!
And yet here we go again. After a long and mysterious metamorphoses that promises a great new evil being unleashed upon the world, the underground monsters change into . . .
Stomp. Monsters that can run around on top of the frickin’ ground!
Stomp my beating heart.
A war where people shoot at each other? Above-ground monsters? Trumpets that sound like trumpets? Doesn’t sound so magical.
I find this turn of events to be less than beneficial!
This brings us to the Midnighters TV show.
Last October, Scifi Wire brought us an interview with former Charmed producer Brad Kerns. He’s the man that the CW (formerly the WB and UPN) has hired to look into creating a Midnighters TV show.
He is quoted saying:
It’s a very intriguing world. It’s a very cinematically visual area. At this point I’m not yet convinced that we’ve figured out how to make it a series. We’d want to up the ages of the characters in the book from all teenagers in high school to probably in their middle to late 20s.
Stomp. Twenty-six year olds who . . . stay up till midnight!
Can you feel the magic? Because, you know, when you’re 26 and the blue time rolls around, you’re probably, um, in a bar. Or watching TV. You know, like, hanging out.
Now I’m the last person to say that visual media must stay exactly like its literary source. Or that twists on an old story can’t create something new and extraordinary. Or that we authors shouldn’t be made rich by TV. No, you won’t hear those arguments from me.
But come on. When you’re 20-something, midnight just ain’t magic. I’m hearing a trumpet that sounds a lot like a trumpet.
Which sort of blows.
Update! According to web rumors the CW plans to bring back Veronica Mars with a brave new format: a few years in the future, Veronica has become an FBI agent.
Stomp! That’s right, an FBI agent . . . who solves crimes!
Now that, my friends, is a twist.
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*Musical Instrument Digital Interface, to its friends.
96 Comments on MIDI-nighters on TV, last added: 4/28/2007
I completely agree: twisting something too much makes it seem sucky in comparison. The whole idea of making the Midnighters in their 20’s is ridiculous. Obvious, no one at SciFi has bothered to read any of the books, or they would obviously know the impact high school has on all the Midnighters.
What about the curfew? How would they meet? What about Melissa’s constant loathing of high school? It doesn’t make sense to make them 20!
I don’t even see what they would accomplish by making them in their 20’s. More money? More ‘mature’? More adult viewers? I think many young Midnighters fans would probably lose interest quickly because it doesn’t appeal to their age group. Or is SciFi suddenly deciding to try to appeal to adults with a TV series based off a book written for young adults?
Because, adults get bored rather quickly with Grey’s Anatomy, apparently.
End Rant.
scott said, on 3/17/2007 3:33:00 PM
Don’t blame Scifi! They’re only the messenger. It’s the CW who are eyeing this 20-something notion.
Scifi have actually done some of the most faithful adaptations ever, like the Dune mini-series. They can option me any day, dude.
Jillian said, on 3/17/2007 3:52:00 PM
Indeed, indeed.
But the notion of the Midnighters being over 20 just doesn’t sit right with me.
*eye begins to twitch at the thought of all the plot points that would have to be changed*
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/17/2007 5:05:00 PM
well i think that it will be cool to see the TV show to see what is turns out like… but i do think that making the people in their 20’s is just idk?? not the same!!! its like they say… “The movie is NEVER as good as the book.” Also scott iv been meaning to ask you what is your favorite book that you wrote??
xoxo Alexa
P.S. i LOVE the movie underworld… and urnerworld 2!! their are awesome!!!
gabby=) said, on 3/17/2007 5:20:00 PM
well this would stink. why exactly do they want them to be in the mid-twenties? that would kinda ruin the book, or tv series, or whatever. isn’t the whole magic of the story kinda worked around their age and such? do they just want to trash the book (the CW’s of course).
i would enjoy midnighters as a series, but if they plan on wrecking it, i wouldn’t watch it. okay, i lied, i would check it out first, then i wouldn’t watch it.
personally, i think you should fight (or calmly work things out, with is fine i guess).
i hope it all turns out well though. good luck
:)
Caitlin said, on 3/17/2007 5:45:00 PM
I agree with the others. I think making the characters older would totally screw things up. And then they would mess with more things: maybe the powers, because Dess is just too “nerdy” with her math, and Melissa can deal with the thoughts crashing through her brain, no problem! And then the whole thing will be like any other show, but with an extra hour and a psycho kitty (which will then be tamed by Rex and made into a cuddly house pet).
Argh. Sometimes TV goes too far.
You know what would be cool though? If they took the midnighters and just fast forwarded the time line til they were twenty, and going around finding more midnighters, like a continuation. And you could have flashbacks so everyone could know what’s going on. Now that’s something I would watch!
Kha said, on 3/17/2007 5:55:00 PM
gahhh!!! tv show? finally this is brought up again!…scott, remember the begining of last year or so, you said there would be a tv show? yeah, i was waitng all this time… :[ but hearing about the possibilty of a show again makes me happy inside…ahaha, which brings me to my next point, i was thinking i could play a role in midnighters when the first time i heard about this, but hearing that the characters would be in their 20’s…
*sigh….
mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation said, on 3/17/2007 5:56:00 PM
I completely agree with everyone. Making the midnighters older would just be rediculous. I mean, the curfew wouldn’t matter, and Jessica wouldn’t be grounded, and if Melissa were in her twenties and hadn’t learned how to control her powers yet, then she probably would be crazy. Also, where would the other midnighters meet Jessica? A business meeting?
Having the midnighters be in there 20’s would change most of the story line completely.
I would love to see a midnighters TV show, but the characters being in there 20’s would just change everything.
abandonedwings said, on 3/17/2007 6:09:00 PM
A Midnighters show would be so awesome!
But..the characters in their twenties?!
The characters would prolly be totally unlike themselves from the books.
I mean seriously, that would ruin it for most people, ’specially diehard Midnighters fans.
scott said, on 3/17/2007 6:21:00 PM
Thanks all for your support. It’s a bit odd, complaining when TV networks threaten to massively increase your audience. But still.
PS Alexa: I actually did like Underworld. I’m just against bullets that kill everything. In fact, I’m against bullets in general.
Justine Larbalestier said, on 3/17/2007 6:25:00 PM
But you like guns?
Sarah said, on 3/17/2007 6:51:00 PM
cmon, they only want to make them older so they can have more sex scenes and have everyone be so full of themselves, if they were all in there 20’s, they wouldnt be able to have any of the scenes that are in the book, such as all the highschool parts, becuase they will be to old to be in high school, and the magick of a few other things just wouldnt be there, it sounds like he just wants to make it the way he made charmed
M said, on 3/17/2007 7:06:00 PM
I have three, totally cheesy, totally over-used, totally chat speak letters to say: LOL
Kailyx said, on 3/17/2007 7:20:00 PM
It’s stupid and I’m going to hit them on the head with a herring if they do it.
And yeah, sadly, one of the things I thought of when I first read about it was basically what Sarah said about…yeah.
Plus, it sounds almost like it would be like ‘Friends’ then. Sounds far fethced, but still, don’t you think having twenty-something year olds who hang around all the time and have relationships within the group just sounds exactly like what ‘Friends’ was?
Of course, now they can hang out in the coffee shop 25/7.
max m said, on 3/17/2007 7:42:00 PM
I disagree with this midnighters show. I always thought that the midnight was a place that they had to go into not thats they wanted to. They were forced to. And now thier in thier 20s eww there going to love the midnight hour i dont know time to do what ever. And now thier in thier 20s arent they in collage??? not in bixby!
Lauren-la said, on 3/17/2007 7:55:00 PM
“Of course, now they can hang out in the coffee shop 25/7.”
Wow, that made my day! I don’t like Midnighters turning into something like Friends. Plus, it wouldn’t work. Isn’t the point of the group dynamics the fact that they aren’t all friends, but are forced to stick together because of … high school, mostly.
It just wouldn’t work! Plus, why would any of them live at home. And if they aren’t living at home, and they aren’t going to school, where are they going to go? Rex can’t get kidnapped, Jess can’t get in trouble for having a boyfriend, they can’t get in trouble for having a curfew …
Okay. I’m done ranting. If they actually made Midnighters into a TV show, I would watch it. Then go to school and complain to my only friend that has read Midnighters that it sucked and that I’d never watch it again. (of course, I’d keep watching it just so I could rant more later.)
Dawn said, on 3/17/2007 9:44:00 PM
This is why I’m always so wary of books into movies or now…TV series. Nothing is as good as a book or even the pictures your mind develops to go with what you’re reading. Tonight I was being all nerdy with my friends and we were on the topic of books in all sorts of different titles and genres, and we talked about books into movies and fanfic. Now, I mentioned why I’m not really for books into movies (Even though I think they did a good job with the Harry Potter books and The Chronicles of Narnia) I’m really really against fanfic with one specific exception. IF the person takes a universe and its mechanics that a writer created and adds their own character with a story that follows said mechanics of that universe, I’m all right with that. I’m not okay with stealing characters that a writer created and changing their story into something else. Only you really know Tally that extremely well and how her mind works to be able to write down her story. Or Dess, or whomever. No one goes around changing our lives to make them what other people would like them to be. Anyway…that’s me going off into a tangent and ranting when I really should stick to the topic on hand. To make a long comment short, I hope they do the right thing with Midnighters.
IndigoEyes said, on 3/17/2007 9:53:00 PM
The Midnighters in their TWENTIES?!?!?!?! That would ruin everything! The plot would be changed so much it wouldn’t be Midnighters anymore. So many plot points revolve around the fact they’re high school students. How would they meet Jessica, Melissa would be insane by then(unless they make her in control of her powers, which would furthermore ruin everything)Jessica’s grounding and the curfew wouldn’t work..and I’m probably forgetting a lot. Plus, some committee or whatever will probably take the edge off 90% of it. Dess will probably be considered too geeky, so her talent will be toned down. The idea that two 12-year-olds screwed up somebody’s brain isn’t politically correct enough, so a subplot about Rex’s tragic childhood will be conceived, or else the spiders under the house won’t be brought up at all. Also, one of the best parts of the trilogy for me is that the secret hour is MIDNIGHT. And for adults midnight is not a special time. Rant over(for now).
Anathema said, on 3/17/2007 10:05:00 PM
I haven’t read midnighters yet.. but scream no at the top of your lungs. Changeing the age group in a book or show what ever can compleately change the point of veiw of everything., One thing you might want to watch out for with scifi is the fact that alot of there book to tv adaptaions, made for t.v movies, and shows turn out well.. campy as all get out. (had to remind myself teens read this).
Just if you chose to option either of them, try your hardest to keep some kind of creative control. I’ve seen too many awesome books, By awsome authors destroyed.
M said, on 3/17/2007 10:41:00 PM
I have a question: Why do we need to put our email in? Just out of curiousity.
Korbe said, on 3/17/2007 11:02:00 PM
ok first off, scott i am loving the wordplay in this post!
“But come on. When you’re 20-something, midnight just ain’t magic. I’m hearing a trumpet that sounds a lot like a trumpet.
Which sort of blows.”
brilliant! haha.
but i am so looking forward to the show, but not looking forward to the age difference. im not going to repeat what everyone before me has said, because that would be redundant. but really, if you can, talk to them about it, and try and persuade them to see that its an extremely ridiculous idea. love you scott, and kudos for the bullets comment, bullets are bad!
Anathema said, on 3/17/2007 11:11:00 PM
the emails are so the government can track you..
no my guess would be that they are a securety thing, for if you where to i dunno post a billion one letter responses.. then they could use it to block or repremand you. it could also just be a way for the site to get ahold of you if need be..
keep asking questions.. they are good for you.
arome said, on 3/17/2007 11:16:00 PM
Touche to you, Scott. The teenagers should remain teenagers or it wouldn’t work.
It’s like having Ugly Tally played by a Mischa Barton.
Alissa said, on 3/18/2007 1:06:00 AM
I think the reason they want them older has something to do with the success of the Supernatural series. Which is really good, I watch it avidly every week, but those characters were meant to be that age. And not to go against the almighty Scott, but I think it would be sort of interesting to have older midnighters, in the right setting. Maybe late teens/early twenties would be better than late twenties (leaves room for more complicated characters), and the character would have to be modified significantly. I might even work better if it was an alternate story in the same universe, say a different town with older but similar characters.
Alissa said, on 3/18/2007 1:07:00 AM
It* might work better
Alissa said, on 3/18/2007 1:09:00 AM
My brother just came up with another possibility: have the midnighters in college.
Ali said, on 3/18/2007 7:47:00 AM
But Alissa, college kids like me stay up til three am, and then only roll out of bed when they HAVE to, around 12 pm. I totally agree with you Scott, though it sucks. There are way too many shows that I don’t watch about 20-somethings for them to make another, which I probably wouldn’t watch either, though my Westerfeld alleigence is strong. I am reminded of a line from a certain movie having to do with pirates. “I would rather see her at the depths of the ocean than in the hands of a pirate.” Too many good things are ruined by bad movies/tv shows. And even good tv shows get cancelled..
*mourns Firefly*
Wow, college kids, pirates, and space renegades in one posty thingy. Awesome.
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/18/2007 7:51:00 AM
well the only good thing that i can think of is… if Dess did find other citys… then they would probally go to collage in the other citys. And then something big is going to happen… and they will all have to go back to Bixby to do some really cool thing! but what can i say… i dont work for scifi?! And iv only read the first midnighter book… but i have the second on hold!! yeppe.
Or Scott… you could print out this page of comments… and then mail them to the scifi people, and then they might see how many complants their was and change it!!! (just and idea?!)
~Alexa
Cassandra said, on 3/18/2007 8:17:00 AM
(Note: If it showed midnighters in college, they would probably spend the secret hour doing homework. No plot. Nothing interesting. Just some people doing homework. And why would we want to watch that?)
Changing the age of any character is WRONG. Okay, so I wouldn’t mind seeing the midnighters as 14-year-olds having their own adventures and Jonathan showning up, but anything other than that and I’m not watching it.
If you were making a TV Series out of a book, wouldn’t you want all of the people who had read said book to watch the TV part? I’m not sure they realize how many fans they’re going to loose. We should write a pettition!
I will not watch a Midnighters TV Show if the character’s ages are changed.
Signed
Cassandra
Rebecca said, on 3/18/2007 10:00:00 AM
26? Good lord, try 18. Pretty much the minute you get into college, midnight becomes early. My standard bedtime, if I’m not going to work the next day, is 2:00 a.m., often later. Is this guy out of his mind? And, um, no offense to Charmed lovers, but I stopped watching after Prue died. The show felt like a joke.
Beautiful, excellent post, by the way.
Also, I would like to point out that when I first got to college, I found it kind of boring. There were no rules to break. (Sure you can break laws, but that’s another thing entirely.) In high school, you could break rules every second of every day, something adults found childish, but which I found helped me survive the dull. Eating lunch in the bathroom or sneaking into the cafeteria to get a snack from the vending machines or hiding out in the basement when we couldn’t find an open lab to go to were some of the things that made my day. 26-year-olds won’t, as many have already pointed out, have a curfew, won’t have to worry about the sherriff holding them in a jail cell for the weekend, won’t be forced to go to high school every day whether they want to or not. And no parents!! Parents make half the “fun.” Definitely, the magic is gone. Plus, group dynamics distinctly change in college and above. The way people relate to each other and how friends are made and kept is largely different. In my experience.
“This is why I’m always so wary of books into movies or now…TV series.”
Mmhmm. Prime example- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause. Do. Not. See. Movie. Movie = massive quantities of suckage. They killed it. They killed everything that was good about the book. This is not to say that the same thing would necessarily happen to Midnighters, but so far it looks like the TV show is headed to the danger zone. Oh, and if the bullets in Underworld bugged you, you probably shouldn’t see the sequel. Although my personal recommendation is not to see the sequel at all, as I think it killed the original movie. Too many special effects and no PLOT. Argh.
Sarah said, on 3/18/2007 10:22:00 AM
It’s true, me plus 15 of my other friends are all in college and we would never watch this as a TV series. It sounds aweful, it would be like a bad mix of supernatural, buffy and charmed..but just with a different title. It wouldnt be midnighters at all so they might aswell call it something else, and just make it another tv series.
So Scott, think of how many readers you also might loose with this tv show, if its ridiculously sexed up, and theres more violence, and drinking and everything that comes with the 20’s, many many parents seeing this will not probably want their teen to read the series. They might not believe their kid when they say ” No honestly mom the book is much more innocent.” A lot of people having not read the book might judge the series and think that you actually wrote something like what its probably going to turn out to be.
Addie-Wa said, on 3/18/2007 10:51:00 AM
I no this has nothing to do with this blog post but I watched Pokemon episode 38 on youtube!!!!!!!!! Sadly, I did not get a seizure. Do not think I am crazy but I thought it would be cool to be able to say “I got a seizure from watching pokemon.” Though I would not want a big seizure and die. I oplny wanted a minor one like Jen did.(if thats even possible) So ya, I watched the Computer Warrior Polygon(episode 38). GO ME!
I wouldn’t mind getting a pakka-pakka induced seizure. I’ll watch that.*smirks*
IndigoEyes said, on 3/18/2007 11:15:00 AM
Lived past epilepsy attacks.
M said, on 3/18/2007 11:24:00 AM
I like Pakka-Pakka. After I read that, I couldn’t stop laughing whenever I saw Pokemon while flipping through the channels. Then I had to explain to my friends why I was on the ground laughing when we saw just a few seconds of Pikachu and friends.
Thanks for telling me what the email is for. It just didn’t make all that much sense to me. Thank you for explaining!
bnicki said, on 3/18/2007 2:16:00 PM
It is wonderful that i’m not the only one noticing how things are going from FREAKIN AWESOME to AWESOME to HEY WASN’T THAT JUST ON THE NEWS! Still Underworld was awesome then again add Vampires to anything and i’m on board so the bar is set pretty low.
Nona said, on 3/18/2007 2:25:00 PM
I went to that site above…I sadly did not get a seizure but my eyes are kinda twitchy. I’m thinking of showing the vid to my grandma just to see what would happen…or maybe not.
Yep, I agree with you Scott. Twenty-year-olds would lose the magic and the fun they have fighting the darklings in the book, I think. Speaking of Midnighters, I went to B&N to get the second book and they were all out. They only had the third in paperback and I cant just skip the second so I shall have to wait to buy it. Ah, well…
My favorite thing about Underworld is the english accents. Very posh.
Keep it up writing Extras.
Savannah said, on 3/18/2007 2:54:00 PM
First off, I’d just like to say I play trumpet, so yeah, no dissing the trumpeters Scott!!!
But with the show, I guess I was kind of hopeing that they would actually start out where the books did. I really want to see that on TV, I dunno, maybe thats asking too much. But I don’t want to see them all grown up and crap! Thats icky!
jessiegirl said, on 3/18/2007 4:48:00 PM
I love the midnighters series, but i have to jump on the give-their-20’s-a-chance train. It isn’t like they will go from 15 to 26 in one season. In a best case scenario, where you get characters aging one year per season, that is 11 years of television. That is a loooong time.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer lasted 7 seasons, and it’s spin off Angel lasted 5. both wildly popular shows with similar outside of normal reality premises. What the midnighters actually fight for would become important, would drive them. That is something that will last beyond just the age 18. their uniqueness will not go away because their 20something.
Katie said, on 3/18/2007 6:07:00 PM
that’d just be weird. i mean, 26? they’d probably sex everything up! curfew wouldn’t make any sense! they wouldn’t even be in collge! and you wouldn’t see dess’s mathematics all of the time or melissa getting to develop her powers! and they’d probably sex everything up between jonathon/jessica and maybe even rex/melissa! oh, and jessica getting grounded would be pointless. she’s not gonna ground herself, and she wouldn’t live with her parents. even if she did, you can’t really ground you 26-year-old daughter! her being grounded is a big point!
LingLing said, on 3/18/2007 7:18:00 PM
well, it would be be cool to see Midnighters as a TV show! But having some 20 something years old person playing the roles. . . it won’t be the same.
Laine-wa said, on 3/19/2007 4:34:00 AM
I’d love to see Midnighters as a TV show too, but that’s just ridiculous…
P.S.–You were a young composer, Scott???
Sloth said, on 3/19/2007 7:10:00 AM
I’d love to be all tough and say “If they make them 20 there’s no way I’ll ever watch the show!!” but if I did, I’d be lying. I just love the whole story too much to not see what they do with it. I mean, hello! It’s still midnighters!!!
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/19/2007 8:28:00 AM
im not too optimistic on this one. sorry.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/19/2007 8:36:00 AM
when you first started talking about midnighters being turned into a show i wasnt too happy. i mean, shows/movies never seem to do the books justice (ie ella enchanted need i say more?) and it would kill the story. no cerfew problems,no parental restrictions ie jessica’s grounding sentance. BAD IDEA SCOTT
Judy said, on 3/19/2007 10:32:00 AM
Hey yall sory its been so long had alot of thing come up pluss for the fact that i have to use the school computors for this and spring break was last week DANGE I mist alot cool cover on EXTRAS Scott.
kim said, on 3/19/2007 2:46:00 PM
i agree with caitlin. that would be really cool. i always wanted to know what would happen after the end of book 3. why can’t you make another book scott? it would surely be welcome.
Tommy said, on 3/19/2007 2:48:00 PM
I haven’t really read midnighters yet (I just got hooked on Peeps and I now want to read the sequel), and I probably will read it because it sounds hell of interesting.
Now, since its based on YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE shouldn’t the main characters that are normally young adults be…I don’t know…YOUNG ADULTS? I mean honestly, doing that could possibly ruin the whole thing.
So I sincerely hope that they stick to the ‘teenage’ thing. After all, adults can be interesting and all but…Teens can be even BETTER some times (no offense ), especially ones with special powers.
That’s just my oppinion on the matter.
Also, I’m a charmed fan (and a Buffy fan too). So yeah, I love supernaturally themed series (i.e. supernatrual, Charmed, Buffy, Angel…some other ones that I can’t think of…)
Well, good luck with every thing!!!
tigressflowers said, on 3/19/2007 4:35:00 PM
okay… so apparently people here dont realize that when you go to College there are dorms, some w/ curfews. And changing a few things like making Bixby a College town (which would only make it slightly larger) Or they could be going to a community college… and still living at home.
There are a lot of ways to make it like they are in highschool. w/o having them in highschool.
although i do think it would be best for them to still be in highschool.
haddy-la said, on 3/19/2007 5:23:00 PM
Dang thats screwed up and what about jessica and mellisa getting sucked into midnight and in their 20s now thats crazy so their 20 they just go on to live life normal when midnight comes . that would like make NO scence in the thired book. and what if people see the show and read the books they will be like “WTF” . and what if the show was good for no one thats read the book and then they read it and was like “holy sht this book sucks” because all they know is the show. to sum this up ill i have to say is noooooooooooooooooooooo dont do it
Natalie said, on 3/19/2007 6:40:00 PM
NOOOOO! Uping thier ages would totally ruin the whole thing!I was so excited about Midnighters but changing their ages would totally mess things up. How will they meet eachother? At a college? Bixby wouldn’t even have a college. The nearest one would be where… Tulsa? Ridiclous! What about the hate of high school and living with thier parents and having to sneek around them? The curfiew would be pointless! Arg this is stupid! I repeat that making them older would be the worst possible thinbg to do to Midnighters! They made the character’s of “Fearless” older and it mixed up the entire plot/storyline/charaterization and look how it turned out… the pilot didn’t even air for crying for out loud!!!!!
Scott, Show this blog to the guys at CW and maybe they would reconsider Let the big guys see that the little fans want it at least similar to the books as far as ages are concerned!
You TV guys are nothing without fans… so keep us happy for goodness sake!
goddessofthenight said, on 3/19/2007 6:42:00 PM
Huh. interesting.
1.) I want to see Underworld! But my parents say I’m underaged….they ALWAYS SAY I’m underaged…
2.) Wait. Midnighters=20ish? No way! Then why the heck would they be still living in Bixby? And why would they go to school…and live in houses…..you get my point. NOT A GOOD IDEA.
Unless all the producers, directors, etc are SHAKESPEARE (or better) they cannot possibly make this work.
3.) Aw..I wanted to try the Pakka-pakka thing, but stupid video won’t load! Maybe next time..
goddessofthenight said, on 3/19/2007 6:43:00 PM
by the way, isn’t it paka-paka and not pakka-pakka? Then again, I don’t think it really matters because romaji (japanese in english words) is very…flexible.
Natalie said, on 3/19/2007 6:52:00 PM
want to contact the CW? Email them here and tell them your opinion on Midnighters on TV. Have your friends and family email too. If enough people email they might reconsider or at least let Scott explain to them more about why Midnighter’s that should be in high school… (It can’t hurt to try)
“people here dont realize that when you go to College there are dorms, some w/ curfews”
wow, really? i didn’t know those still existed. my mom had a curfew when she was in college in the late 60’s…. but i guess some of the more conservative colleges do still have curfews, nows i think about it. still…. that is le crazy mucho. if they tried to do curfew at my school, we’d probably burst out laughing.
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/19/2007 8:18:00 PM
Heh heh, I’m a bit late, eh? I thought we had this post’s discussion a while back? I do remember the whole ‘midnight ain’t so grand now’ talk. So I’ve nothing to say here. Except for maybe: if they do the show this way, it will flop. No one in their right mind would watch a show about 20 somethings running around at midnight. No one, I tell you. No one.
concrete girl said, on 3/19/2007 8:30:00 PM
omg, don’t even bring up Ella Enchanted. That book was one of my favorites (I cried every time. Sad, I know). If they did that to Midnighters… ahh! I love Midnighters. I think approximately 75% of the plot would be altered (at least) to change their ages, so I would hate it if they changed it. Sigh. But I have no control. They will do what they like. And I will cry or rejoice.
Turrner said, on 3/19/2007 8:45:00 PM
I see some one has spent time watching movies. Yeah I love underworld, although chessy and a little perdicetabl it’s still cool (more so at about 5 am, when you had like 29 to many Moutain Dews).
I know what you mean by somthing being the same but worse, recently I whent to see Night Rider starring Nicholas Cage. It was better then some comic-book -movies, but I said a lot of line 3 secounds befor the chartiors said them and my friend freaked out. Or X-Men 3 is like the worse intrpertaion of Phineoix ever!and they redo Pheinoix like ever 2 acrs (story lines).
I’ed still watch Midnighters if it was a tv show, until it go to a point of everything revolves around guns/blowing things up and not the story. That’s what happened to Smallvile and I stoped watching that about a year ago.
Shannon said, on 3/20/2007 8:16:00 AM
i thought the blue time only happened in bixby. is there even a college in bixby? what would they do for jobs in a small town like bixby without a college education?
Shannon said, on 3/20/2007 8:19:00 AM
btw the paka-paka thing is silly. if you have ever seen someone have a seizure you would not be lining up to watch an episode that would induce one. seizures are scary and serious.
Judy said, on 3/20/2007 11:07:00 AM
well going with what you said would you watch a movie where a girl that is sixteen is having a baby!! Kindof like me!
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/20/2007 12:10:00 PM
i know concrete girl. Ella Enchanted was one of my favorite books (this is pre midnighters obviously) when the movie came out i was really excited but when i saw it, it was a huge let down. It strayed too much from the story line and… they changed ellas age by a lot… kind of like here… getting my hint yet? i dont see how making the midnighters 20 would help the story at all.
rockstar said, on 3/20/2007 3:46:00 PM
*clicks tongue* hmmmmm. Hehe.
scottscott (from the tomtom comertail- just so tempting)……. very interestting post. i luv yor posts in general- they’re just so…. NEAT. I kno itz really random, but SERIOUSLY.
yup, making the midnighters like, 2-ish is kinda like a reular word. ***kinda like when you say AWESOME too much in a paragraph or sumthin, everybody’s like, OMG, your whole world must be aweome, oryou just have a really tiny vocabulary…. bbut, when youuse a word ike, say superfantastical, everybody’s like, hey, COOL! it’s so superfantastical.
rockstar said, on 3/20/2007 3:47:00 PM
*******Ok, not 2- 20**********
……suuperfantastical!
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/20/2007 4:41:00 PM
This is really randome… and has nothing to do with books… but i FINALLY go a cell phone!!!!!!!!! yeppe im sooo happy!!!
~Alexa
Natalie said, on 3/20/2007 6:45:00 PM
Yeah, totally. Making the midnighters older would be bogus. But the idea of a tv show would get my attention. I have to agree with you, the first tremors is AWESOME.
Judy said, on 3/21/2007 12:36:00 PM
Is midnighters a good book or something cause ive never read it i meen i dont have enuff mony to buy all of these books and i dont know about them. It seems as though i am in a bit of a sticky situation.
Fundamentally Transgressive Whimsicalness said, on 3/21/2007 5:11:00 PM
I agree with everyone else on this: making the characters older would create an insurmountable number of discrepencies in the plot!! (wow, I sound rather intelligent today… AND DISCREPENCIES IS A TRIDECALOGISM, YO!!!!!! XD) Those characters are MEANT to be teenagers! Only teenagers could have as much fun as they do in a time that only they can enjoy. I’m sure adults could find something to do in an extra hour of the day when time freezes, but come on, Melissa can’t touch people so she can’t do all of the adult things with Rex that CW would probably have her do, especially if the producer of Charmed is looking at working on it; Jessica would NEVER go that far with Jonathan (although there was ONE part in the books that my friend looked at and totally took the wrong way, and it was between Jessica and Jonathan); and they would probably give poor Dess some lame lover to make up for her being all alone, even though that’s also part of the awesomeness of Dess. In the end, what would the characters do with that extra hour as adults that they can’t do as teenagers, without making them WAY out of character?? And mid-twenties is only a few years older than late teens, so why not knock a few years off and go cannon?? If anything, CW could have so much fun making teens look like the irisponsible children they think high schoolers are these days! What the crap, people… this is just stupid. Plain stupidity wrapped in a protective layer of authority to give it meaning. COMPLETE AND UTTER RANDOM CRAP.
Avie said, on 3/21/2007 6:39:00 PM
They should so not make the Midnighters over 20!!! That would completely sqause the whole plot and would ruin it! That sounds stupid to have adults live in the 25th hour and be trying find their purpose!? I mean someone who hasn’t read the books sees the show info and goes: ‘Oh, um adults who roam around at midnight with giant shape shifting creaters after them. Oh, they have special powers, well, uh um, yah, i’ll uh… look into that…’. If i saw that no way would i watch it, but i would deffinately read the books. Because anyway if they made them adults then young people wouldn’t want to watch it as much, and adults aren’t either??? WHATS UP WITH THAT???
SolShine7 said, on 3/21/2007 8:34:00 PM
This post is so clever. Your wit makes me smile. I agree with you on all points, but Underworld is still freakin’ cool. Kate Beckinsale is the best kick-butt vampire out there…and Underworld, at its core is a love story. And that’s fresh spin on the whole Romeo & Juliet thing.
Savannah said, on 3/22/2007 8:57:00 AM
Speaking of Shakespeare, ((I know this is pretty off topic but the Romeo and Juliet reference reminded me of it)) Is it just me or is The Last Days Kind of Midsummer Nights Dream? Zahler like Pearl, Pearl likes Moz, Moz like Minerva, Minerva likes Moz.
Judy said, on 3/22/2007 1:26:00 PM
Why dosnt anybody talk to me anymore!!!??????
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/22/2007 2:57:00 PM
yea they are VERY good books, judy… and they are deff worth saving ur money up for… or ask for them for easter or something!
~Alexa
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/22/2007 3:48:00 PM
omg yes. you should definitely read the midnighters. they are THE best.
Sorry, but whenever I have the chance I have to try to get someone to READ MIDNIGHTERS. They’re that cool. The absolute best. So read the series. That’s what libraries are for.
Stephanie said, on 3/23/2007 10:44:00 AM
hey scott please add more blogs!!!!!!
Sarah said, on 3/23/2007 11:17:00 AM
we= he*
Sarah said, on 3/23/2007 11:17:00 AM
We will write more blogs in time. But remember, he is only one person, and he is the man who has written all of these fantastic books for us. So chill out and give the man time to write!!!
Annie said, on 3/23/2007 5:25:00 PM
I know everyone has said this about a billion times, but I will say it again. Making the Midnighters in their 20’s will. not. work. Curse whoever wants to change their ages! -grumbles and kicks a wall- I say we find the address of whomever wants to do this and peacefully protest outside their office until they change their minds about making the Midnighters twenty plus.
Jess said, on 3/24/2007 8:21:00 PM
oh scott.
you put so much effort into your blogs.
i applaud you.
now onto the real matter: THEY CANT BE IN THEIR 20′S.
they just can’t.
is that cool with those producers? “Scott Westerfeld’s fans have said NO WAY.”
good luck!
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 8:28:00 PM
Psh, this will be a fun rant…I haven’t bee on in forever…but anyways…holy crap, holy crap, holy crap…if anything, the MINDNIGHTER actors should be younger, not older! I’m a freakin’ 12 year old, so I guess I could say that everybody my age would make fun of the show if they used 20 year olds. Seriously, isn’t that a bit, if not a lot, extreme? I already stay up ’til midnight even on weekdays, but my parets flip at that, and my dad won’t let me have a bf til i’m AT LEAST 17. So really, to stay on topic, even though I still am, you should tell whoever the person is, the director of WB or whatever, to go to, ahem, a very nasty place. Melissa would have died because of to much thoughts, unable to make it through hs, especially not college, Rex wouldn’t be picked on, so really, the first part of the book is already gone. Then there’s the problem of Jess’s little sister, who would be in her late teens…I think…going out wouldn’t be a problem, and isn’t everybody older than 18 or something allowed to stay out past curfew? It’d be like Caitlin said. What, would everyone end up having a darkling kitty pet? Maybe a nice wittle fishy for all the wittle kids to. I also agree with Sarah, and mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentationis right…wow, long post…more writing than I should have done…oh wells…ooh! My sister and I used to play friends. When we were *cough* 5 *cough*
But technically, it’d be like the Eragon movie, which sucked. Everything was wrong in that; the time periods, order in what everything happened, eye colour, hair colour, ages, meetings, on and on…which’ll be what the Midnighters show will be like if you use 20 yeard olds as actors…ok, I know I forgot something…thinking…thinking…loading…oh! Midnighter T.V. show would be even more a laughing stock than Eragon to! And only adults would watch it, most likely not kids like me who loved the book…no matter how sad it was…but anyways, let me make sure I didn’t forget anything else…the tv series or whatever would be dissed by every 10-12 year old in the world if it was messed up!!! Ok, that’s all…my rant over…for now…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 8:34:00 PM
Alissa- ur crazy!
Ali- I love that movie! ‘Where’s the monkey? I want to shoot something!’
And I remembered another thing that I forgot! Ok, so if the midnighters show was based on kids in college, or older peoples, only adults would watch it. I would stop watching it after about two minutes, then complain to my friends for a month before they told me to shut up about it…or they would agree with me…they never are the same twice…but back to the topic, to tell the truth, since I already mentioned I was 12, I bet even the ranges of 9-19 would diss it…my opinion, but probably true…so sad how they ruined Eragon…probably be worse for midnighters…such a great, great trilogy gone done the sewer drain…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 8:37:00 PM
Man, I forgot a lot of things…I don’t remember exactly how old everyone is in the book, but it might actually help, in my opinion, if you lowered the ages…but that may be because I’d love to be in it if the ages were the same or lowered, but again, 12 year old…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 8:40:00 PM
FUN! Now I’ll go see if i ca get a seizure…except then one of my older friends would say: You’re young, stay pure. But whatever, lte’s see if 12 is young enough! w00t!
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 9:00:00 PM
Haddy-la, so, so smart…actually, if someone read the book, then saw the series, they would probably say WTF…I would, at least…and then probably: “Man, the ppl in this show should go to *a nasty place in the sky*.” ‘Cause I would, and so would all my friends if I made them read the bok, then watch the show…but anyway, if they were in college, it would suck *a very bad thing*. I sometimes stay up until midnight, much to my parents displeasure, so even late teens (18, 19) would be pushing the curfew…man, my city better get cop cars out if they really hink that everyone 13 and under is inside by 9:30 P.M. Psh, I’m sometimes outside shooting peoples windows with airsoft guns with friends at 10:30. Then there’s the age and gender isue thing. Everything would be “sexy this” or “sexy that”. Sorry, jus my opinion, but anyways…best get off now that it’s 10:30 P.M.
Shelby-wa said, on 3/25/2007 9:02:00 PM
Dude, I haven’t even heard of buffy, angel, supernaturalist, and all those other things…sad if they were meant for young adults…
Shelby said, on 3/27/2007 3:05:00 PM
Hey, cool.. Someone else with the name Shelby. Anyway, I agree that making the midnighters older would be totally bogus. The plot would be completely different, the characters would never match the pictures in our minds, and the whole concept of handling a magical hour and an impertinent landlord at the same time would seem lame. I can see that they probably had a hole in their ratings for that age group, but I don’t see how this show could be successful unless they stuck to Scott’s orginal ideas. Since the Friends reference, all I can think of is Joey walking into the apartment, grabbing Chandler by the hand and flying them out of the window.
Shelby said, on 3/27/2007 3:08:00 PM
Oh, and Shelby-wa, younger wouldnt be any better.. I’m fifteen, and I can guarantee that seeing little kids make out on top of a big metal horse would not only be creepy, but it would also be depressing since the only admirers I have are in the marching band..
elaeye said, on 3/27/2007 8:27:00 PM
Lovely post; yes, I agree with most of the points.
*deep breath* Midnighters as a TV series would ROCK (must be exciting to see it considered!) but…yeah, the twenty thing doesn’t quite make the cut for practically all of us teen fans.
Someone should make a petition. XDD
Rachel said, on 3/28/2007 6:55:00 PM
Hahahahaa,THATS WHAT I SAW TOO!! Joey the acrobat..
dessometrics said, on 4/6/2007 6:22:00 AM
Sweet, Scott. I see where you’re coming from all throughout the rant.
Lovely point you made. It’s sort of like decorating a pizza. Sooner or later, adding anchovies, pepperoni, sausage (Even though I can’t have those last two, considering I’m allergic to pork…), extra cheese, M&M’s, garlic, peanut butter, and pineapple, is just NOT appetizing. So you’re all the way back to having a pizza you don’t want to eat.
Anyways–Midnighters on TV? I’d record that. Heck, I’d probably end up taking my TV with me everywhere I went in fear of missing an episode.
But…twenty-year olds? Okay, that’s kind of…lame-making. And it ruins the whole highschool perspective that they all eminate. What else would they possibly be doing in Bixby?
Oh, I could see it now: College. Because eeeveryone knows that going to Bixby College beats highschool any day, right? Not.
Jobs? Puh-lease. I’m somehow not picturing that a place like Bixby has any good jobs available for Dess or Melissa.
Hopefully they’ll change that idea of theirs. Twenty-year old Midnighters just kind of ruins the midnight-magic.
lauraya said, on 4/17/2007 1:31:00 PM
ok noone should be older than 18 in the midnighters because the hole point of everything will be messed up.
i mean really twenty six year old running around midnight would not make anysense in general. they would deffinately do nothing but studdy. But who will listen to me really brad whats his face wont he will only listen to u scott so please make a tv show but dont let them ruin it by being twenty 6 or twenty or whatever it was please i love ur books just dont let them ruin it for me please please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
linguini said, on 4/17/2007 1:32:00 PM
hi
Lea said, on 4/17/2007 8:40:00 PM
High school is a big part of the Midnighters’ lives. Making them in their 20s would suck!
LAZ said, on 4/28/2007 11:04:00 AM
I was searching Imdb.com for the Midnighters T.V thingy and i found this site… hope it helps http://imdb.com/title/tt0495154/
Ok?
Not “die” as in “expire,” of course. “Die” as in “the.”
That’s right, the Midnighters series is now in German! And the new website for the series is far cooler than anything in English.
Like check this out:
Because, you see, German midnighters have entirely different symbols! (It’s a teutonic thing; you wouldn’t understand.)
There are pages and pages of fun to be had, including many screensavers like the one above. But the funkiest thing is the Tridecalogism-Generator, which looks like this.
Okay, if anyone knows what “abschicken” means, do tell. Is that like a dude who’s afraid to take his shirt off in public?
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This just in: Justine also got some cool downloads today, including a Magic or Madness screen saver that rocks out loud. Here’s her post linking to the screensaver.
80 Comments on Die Midnighter!, last added: 5/8/2007
The german site is totally delicous to the eyes but, I can’t read it.
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/12/2007 8:52:00 PM
I should get my brother to read it for me. He speaks German, luckily. Or unluckily, when he prances around shouting “I am a jelly donut!” But in German.
Very pretty… mesmerizing.
abandonedwings said, on 3/12/2007 9:00:00 PM
The symbols are really cool!!
Soon enough, MIdnighters and all your other books will be in like….a million languages!! (aren’t there like…126+ languages ot something? Lol…)
katerate said, on 3/12/2007 9:03:00 PM
‘Schicken’ means ‘to send’, and the prefix ‘ab’ I think is ‘off’… So all together it means ’send off!’ Yaaaaay Deutschklasse!
But that’s super cool it’s in German.
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/12/2007 9:04:00 PM
There is a quiz! In German! I took it, guessing at the questions, and the answers. I guess it was for what character I am most like? The result, after all, was “Dess(28.8%)” which I take to mean that I am like Dess. Which is a lie, but whatever.
Korbe said, on 3/12/2007 9:06:00 PM
I totally found all 13 pieces of metal, that was so much fun. unfortunately i dont live in Germany or i could win an ipod nano.. oh well. but that site is severely awesome, and thanks to free online translators i could actually read some of it, even though it was very scrambled! that was definitely awesome Scott, thanks!
Dawn said, on 3/12/2007 9:39:00 PM
OOH!!! How cool!
Rebecca said, on 3/12/2007 10:19:00 PM
that is one amazing site. my computer has been westerlestier-ified. mormo on my screensaver, midnighters on my desktop.
:D
Korbe said, on 3/12/2007 10:37:00 PM
yeah, i started translating the quiz, i got as far as A on the first question. what color best describes you? A jet black, and thats when i gave up >.
Lindsay said, on 3/12/2007 11:12:00 PM
abschicken is German for “post” as in you should abschicken a new blog every day
haddy-la said, on 3/13/2007 12:28:00 AM
that is so cool… to bad i cant read it. first i downloaded the magic or madnessness screan save i love it then i went to the website and got the pretty symbol background…in suck a nerd
Rebecca said, on 3/13/2007 12:38:00 AM
oooh! kinda related, but look what just came to my inbox from Word-a-Day:
“This week’s theme: words related to the number 13 to mark the
thirteenth
anniversary of Wordsmith.org.
triskaidekaphobia (tris-ky-dek-uh-FO-bee-uh) noun
Fear of the number 13.”
Guess that would be what the darklings have.
Jess said, on 3/13/2007 4:32:00 AM
hey hey scott.
lol you’re just getting way too popular now aren’t you?
i mean, you probably dont even read our comments any more
natalie said, on 3/13/2007 5:13:00 AM
Thanks! Great that you like the site, and “abschicken” means “to send” your generated tridecalogisms to us so we collect them for the German Specials site. So you all are welcome to join with your English tridecalogism creations.
Cheers
Natalie
Justine Larbalestier said, on 3/13/2007 6:04:00 AM
Jess: He reads all the comments. Truly, every single one. He’s just too busy to respond what with having to finish writing Extras and all. The man is working very hard!
scott said, on 3/13/2007 8:53:00 AM
Jess, Justine is lying! I never read the comments.
Well, except HER comments, when she lies,
because a little ping goes off in my brain!
And speaking of EXTRAS, it’s at 57,339 words!
The Uglies books tend to be around 85,000.
Must. Finish. Soon.
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/13/2007 9:54:00 AM
Go, Scott, GO!
Rebecca said, on 3/13/2007 10:18:00 AM
The end is in sight! Congrats on the many words!
Justine Larbalestier said, on 3/13/2007 10:18:00 AM
Scott, why are you lying about me lying?
He so too does read all your comments. When he particularly likes one he reads it out loud to me.
Kaliana said, on 3/13/2007 12:15:00 PM
HA! I KNEW IT! I was close with my awesome guessing!
Well at least I tried to guess anyways . . .
I noticed that no one else seemed to dare to post their guess before confirming it.
As soon as I become fluent in German, I am TOTALLY getting the German Midnighters . . .
–looks at German Uglies–
Skip you! =P jk - I’m just more into Midnighters.
–stares at Scott because I KNOW you read all these– Oh and Sam says that Specials SUCKED! It was very depressing in the end - and not because [spoiler removal] the only depressing thing about that was it was near the end and there wasn’t enough bloodshed in it . . .
But yeah. And she agrees with me that you shouldn’t have TOTALLY KILLED DR. CABLE!
Sam has no more favorite characters in the Uglies Trilogy anymore because of you killed all her favorite characters - not literally but, you know . . .
Kaliana said, on 3/13/2007 12:19:00 PM
Addition to last comment:
DOWN WITH ZANE!
–hides behind bullet proof glass–
katerate said, on 3/13/2007 1:44:00 PM
Oh god. You did not just say Specials sucked. I’ma come at you and hit you. Multiple times.
“The depressing thing is that near the end there wasn’t enough bloodshed…” which is like saying there weren’t enough people hurt or there weren’t enough people dead. Whaaaaaat. This depresses you? Well then.
I thought a nice amount of people died (if there can even be considered a ‘nice amount’). A some on the good side, a some on the bad. Nice balance.
D: And Zane’s my homeboy, dood.
katerate said, on 3/13/2007 1:46:00 PM
I have no idea why I put A’s in front of the words ’some’. Uhhhh. I guess I could cover it up and say that it’s my southern twang.
Shelby-wa said, on 3/13/2007 5:56:00 PM
:( Poor Zane…I liked him…why does it seem that Scott likes to torture us by also ending his trilogys with sad things? Zane died, Jess got stuck in the blue time (spoiler), and I don’t know what other books you’ve written that are sad…is Extras like a sequel to Uglies, Pretties, and Specials??? Psh, it’s not nice not to read comments…I luff the site, I just used worldlingo.com, although that didn’t work all to well…you should write another Midnighters book…wow, the longest post here…anyways, where was I? Ok, I’m brain dead…CSAP testing messes me up…and now I’m ay off topic o_0
Shelby-wa said, on 3/13/2007 5:57:00 PM
Rather have Dr. Cable killed than Zane…he was nice…
Savannah said, on 3/13/2007 6:00:00 PM
That is totally FAWSOME!!! I love it! I think I get which symbol is for who though, lets see if I can get this right.
Started from the left, The first one is The Flame Bringer. The second is The Acrobat. The third is The Mindcaster. The fourth is The Seer. And the fifth is The Polymath. Please teel me Im right!
Kaliana said, on 3/13/2007 6:29:00 PM
“Rather have Dr. Cable killed than Zane…he was nice…”
NO WAY! Dr. Cable ROX! She was my FAVORITE character!
I think Tally should have died . . . That would have been awesome ^^
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/13/2007 6:52:00 PM
aw thats so sweet scott! you read comments you like out loud to justine? that makes me feel loved, even if you didnt read any posts by me, it still makes me feel loved. Oh and congrats on Midnighters in German. And i never knew that was how you spelled teutonic.
Shelby-wa said, on 3/13/2007 6:59:00 PM
Interesting, I’m Jonathan, according to the test…it took me about half an hour to take it…
“NO WAY! Dr. Cable ROX! She was my FAVORITE character!
I think Tally should have died . . . That would have been awesome ^^”
Zane was my favorite character…and Dr. Cable deserved to die!!! Her fault Zane died
Ok, so, Jonathan is my favorite character from Midnighters, and Zane is my favorite from Uglies…and Hunter from SY, and…well, I haven’t read the other books yet…
gabby=) said, on 3/13/2007 8:30:00 PM
oops, that was weird.
huh, i wonder what happened.
gabby=) said, on 3/13/2007 8:30:00 PM
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/13/2007 8:48:00 PM
gabby im sure scott checks these once in a while but he’s probably not always on waiting for people to ask him questions. but if you happen to be reading this right now scott, would you mind if put qoutes and such from the midnighters on my website? ill make sure to put that its yours and nobody can steal it and all that stuff but i want t omake a page dedicated to the midnighters and i wanted to put some cool quotes on there. thanks if you do respond. if you dont ill be sitting here… waiting… for you to answer me. so please answer soon because im tired.
IndigoEyes said, on 3/13/2007 8:53:00 PM
I checked out the website…very,very cool, even though I couldn’t actually read it. I took the quiz totally randomly and got Melissa, which is what I get whenever I take a real Midnighters personality quiz. Cool. Oh,and Scott, when you posted the Uglies German thing (like, two years ago) you used ‘Die Uglies’. Are you going to do that every time one of your books gets published in German? Cause that will get very old after a while.
IndigoEyes said, on 3/13/2007 8:57:00 PM
Okay, just proved I have been reading posts obsessively. Not cool.
Lauren-la said, on 3/13/2007 9:10:00 PM
I should’ve payed more attention during elementry school when they taught German. Then maybe I could understand the site.
“Irgendwas an Dir ist so …11:59.”
Hey, if I can memorize that, then I can tell people they are so 11:59 in German! Or something like that.
Whoa, I took the quiz and I’m “Dess (48.5%)”. Thats pretty good for not really understanding the questions!
Lauren-la said, on 3/13/2007 9:11:00 PM
“Jonathan ist Akrobat, und das ist absolut megacool”
Ha ha. Am I right in thinking that this says “Johnothan is an Acrobat, and that is absolutely megacool” ?
haddy-la said, on 3/13/2007 10:01:00 PM
wow that was amazing translateing
Shelby-wa said, on 3/13/2007 11:04:00 PM
lol, sometimes it’s easy to translate…yeah, you’re right about what it says…
scott said, on 3/13/2007 11:20:00 PM
Gabby: Deep blue.
IILWJ: Yes, you may use all the quotes you want.
IndigoEeyes: Yes, I will use the “die” joke every time, because it’s a Simpsons bit, when Sideshow Bob claims to the parole board that his “Die Bart Die” tattoo is merely German for “The Bart The.”
Sorry that took so long!
Does EVERY thread have to mention Zane dying? Sadness for those who haven’t read Specials yet.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/14/2007 8:18:00 AM
OMG Scott! I love you even more now. You’ll have to come check out my website sometime. It’s still a work in progress right now but I promise it will be amazing when I’m done. If you go on photos there are tons of midnighters pics. Click on my name to see it
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/14/2007 8:19:00 AM
oops sorry i meant deep blue not dark.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 3/14/2007 8:19:00 AM
oooooo and dark blue? how fun. thats my second favorite color next to lime green
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/14/2007 12:58:00 PM
well im still reading midnighters… but i can tell the 235 pages that iv read so far are AWESOME!!!! and also i only now how to say one thing in German… and im not sure how to spell it (if u havent already noticed I cant even spell half of the stuff i say but i dont care!! hehe) but any way here it goes… “ish libby dish” i dont now if thats right… but it means “I love you”. and ill deff have to tell Wenni (my GERMAN friend) to read your book!!! all of them!!1
xoxo alexa
Alexa xoxo said, on 3/14/2007 1:00:00 PM
o yea scott someday i hope that i could end up a famous writter like you!! i though that i might and tell you that so if your ever in a book store many days from now and see a book written by Alexa Fowler. then i hope that you will take a look at it!!!
xoxo alexa
Topaz said, on 3/14/2007 2:42:00 PM
Yeah! Now Germany can expirience the amazingness of MIDNIGHTERS!
Shelby-wa said, on 3/14/2007 3:27:00 PM
Psh, their fault for reading the spoliers…besides, it is sad…poor, poor, Zane…I don’t know who would be sadder…Zane, although he’s dead, or Tally, since she liked him a lot…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/14/2007 3:27:00 PM
Yesh, only a moron would hate Midnighters…
gabby=) said, on 3/14/2007 4:00:00 PM
thanks scott, your so kind.
my favorite color is a light blue.
:)
IndigoEyes said, on 3/14/2007 6:22:00 PM
My favorite colour is French blue, which is almost purple, and how I pictured Midnighter-eyes-at-midnight.
Shelby-wa said, on 3/14/2007 8:01:00 PM
Hmm…he never answered if Extras was, in any way, related to the Uglies trilogy…
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/14/2007 8:50:00 PM
How could it not be related to the Uglies Trilogy if it is an extention of it? Wasn’t this metioned in the Extras post?! Isn’t it in the same futuristic time period? Yes, I do think so.
Rebecca said, on 3/14/2007 9:16:00 PM
The Extras post tells all about the new book. Looks to be more of a companion than a sequel, kinda like Peeps and The Last Days.
kell said, on 3/15/2007 12:40:00 PM
oh my, that abschicken comment had me laughing for quite a bit there scotty. kudos to my main author, kudos
Shelby-wa said, on 3/15/2007 3:17:00 PM
Hmm…I guess that means I better read the Extras post, since I haven’t read that yet…and I was just curious, capt. cocktail…
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/15/2007 4:57:00 PM
I would like to point out that I am not an alcoholic beverage, thanks. Sorry if I sounded rude.
IndigoEyes said, on 3/15/2007 5:35:00 PM
Rebecca, The Last Days is a sequel to Peeps, because Cal and Lace show up. And it is implied in the Extras post that Tally will show up, so…yeah.(I’ll stop babbling now.)
Topaz said, on 3/15/2007 6:37:00 PM
Hahaha Capt. COCKTAIL? I like that. That makes me laugh
Rebecca said, on 3/15/2007 9:21:00 PM
IndigoEyes: True, but “sequel” implies a continuing story, whereas a companion, in my experience, means a story set in the same world but about different people. So even though the cover of The Last Days says it’s a sequel to Peeps, I consider it to be more of a companion because it’s told from the POV of completely different characters. However, I can see where it might be thought of as a sequel too, since Peeps does kind of end on a cliffhanger (that being the fate of the world as we know it) which is then one of the main focuses (foci?) of The Last Days. I can’t say how similar Extras will be to the Uglies series but since that storyline was resolved in Specials and the new book is told by a completely different character (Aya), it sounds like a companion story. Set in the same universe, but telling a new story about new people. That’s my take on it. I like to ramble on about stuff like this.
:P
IndigoEyes said, on 3/16/2007 4:50:00 PM
And ramble you do. No offense, though, and good point.
IndigoEyes said, on 3/16/2007 5:28:00 PM
My pathetic argument doesn’t have much chance against that.
Jess said, on 3/16/2007 7:59:00 PM
Haha, scott and justine. you’re confusing me.
YOU’RE GIVING ME MIXED SIGNALS.
glad to hear you’re on track with Extras!
xx
Rebecca said, on 3/16/2007 11:17:00 PM
IndigoEyes: No worries at all, I was just saying why I thought of it the way i do.
Cassandra said, on 3/17/2007 8:17:00 AM
Jeez, I don’t check the site for a week or two and there are like three new blogs.
The german site is so cool. I’ve been using this site to translate it, but everything comes out funny. Like it says:
“They immerse each night exactly around midnight one hour long into a mysterioese and fantastic world, called „the secret hour“. ”
And
“In addition the Midnight is not completely abandoned. There are gliders, which are so similarly as queues (it is, it fly, also occur) and Darklinge, which accept so rather each shape, which pleases them - so long she large and fear is exciting.”
It gives you a headache after a while.
By the way, the symbols go left to right: Flamebringer, Polymath, Seer, Acrobat, Mindcaster (I know, totally not what I thought they were)
Natalie said, on 3/17/2007 12:24:00 PM
The music on the homepage is way to cheesy Halloween for me lol
Ally said, on 3/18/2007 6:49:00 PM
hello hello
Savannah said, on 3/20/2007 1:47:00 PM
Hey, Scott. This may sound quite random. But I really need to know how you came up with the symbols. I know, I know. It’s a Teutonic thing. But what kind of Teutonic thing??? This is incredibly ergent!!!!!!
kim said, on 3/22/2007 3:58:00 PM
i want to learn German!
Cassandra said, on 3/24/2007 5:37:00 AM
I want to know is Scott is the one who came up with any of the symbols period. Well, except flamebringer, we know he did that one cause Jess described it.
Lauren-la said, on 3/24/2007 6:51:00 PM
I’m fairly sure that all of the symbols were made by Scott, since there was something in the front of the Midnighters books saying that the symbols were copyright Scott Westerfeld.
I think.
nick said, on 3/25/2007 7:17:00 AM
i can’t read German, but i am trying to read the ancient greek version of harry potter. Maybe they’ll do one for midnighters. That would be cool, sort of.
Oh and how would they do the tridecalogisms in german. German does have a lot of long words, but i doubt the tridecalogism in German would have 13 letters
Ich bin ein ‘midnighter-fan’
Sarah said, on 3/26/2007 3:24:00 PM
“abschicken” is German. it means to post, submit, or send.
P.S.-Midnighters would be a bad trilogy for someone with triskaidekaphobia to read. (That’s fear of the # 13.)
Ally-Wa said, on 3/29/2007 11:30:00 AM
I guess for the tridecalogisms they would just choose different words. For most of them it’s not like they talk about the words, they just say them. There was one word though that had something said about it in the book though, but I guess they would just have to remove it.
Oh yeah, I’m Dess (24.3%) on the quiz! Yay!
Peter said, on 3/30/2007 6:39:00 AM
Great Site. I wish the english Site would be as nice
nick said, on 3/30/2007 2:33:00 PM
ummm English site??????
Lindsey said, on 3/30/2007 9:15:00 PM
I have no idea if anyone told you :]
I’m not going to read 88 comments to check!
Or if you were being sarcastic.
Abschicken means “send!”
Mel Lucas said, on 4/9/2007 8:44:00 AM
MY THOUGHTS ONLY! I live in Bixby Oklahoma I’m going to tell you alittle about this town. It is one of the fastest growing communities in Oklahoma. People who make 100,000.00 or more reside here. Yuppies!!!! Its a very small town but there is lots of money floating around here. Right off the main street there are lots that are going for half a millon. Just go see how much the Lowes on 121st and Memorial bring in, in one week. You will be surprised at the money that is in this town. I don’t have money but will continue to struggle to live here because my children are going to the best school in Oklahoma. Bixby North Ele. Now down town Bixby is a diffrent story. There are old buildings and houses that when they go up for sale they think because the house is in Bixby it should go for what the other houses go for in new Bixby a hundred thousand or more. To funny. My husband and I have looked into buying a home here so that our kids go to the best school but ifyour not driving a BMW or married to a attorney or doctor its like they shun you for being poor. Well not as rich as they are. As for the book that is wrote about Bixby, Oklahoma people need to know that the town is growing so big and there is so much money moving here that the average person would starve if you try and keep up with the Jones’s. Ha!
Aiden said, on 4/9/2007 10:03:00 AM
… I’m German and I wish I knew what these signs mean. Teutonic heritage doesn’t necessarily make you smart enough to decipher that. But the symbols DO look pretty. Oh, by the way, why the heck is it so difficult to order the ENGLISH versions of the Midnighters books and send them to Germany? I tried four major book stores and they all didn’t have it in store, so now I have to wait AGES until it gets here. D’ugh.
Shan said, on 4/23/2007 6:24:00 PM
I am now reading the second book to the Midnighters series…now i have a question..which symbol is Dess? the ring with the odd triangle thing in the middle? or what? someone explain plz!
Rhea said, on 4/26/2007 7:59:00 PM
Ok, i looked up “German to English Translation” on google. I clicked on the second link and once i was at the website, i typed abschicken. It means to send off. So it’s like to email.
Blue Noon, the last book of the Midnighters series, is out in paperback at last. Now you can own all three for about $20.
Also, Justine is reading here in New York on Wednesday night!
When:
Wednesday, March 7
6:00 to 8:00PM
Where:
Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library
331 E. 10th Street (west of Ave. B)
Who:
Erin Downing (Prom Crashers)
Maryrose Wood (Why I Let My Hair Grow Out)
Justine Larbalestier (Magic’s Child)
Leslie Margolis (Price of Admission)
Eireann Corrigan (Ordinary Ghosts)
Daniel Ehrenhaft and Adrienne Maria Vrettos (reading from 21 Proms)
See you there!
21 Comments on Blue Noon in Paperback, last added: 3/31/2007
oooooh am i the first comment?? anyways, thats AWESOME!! im reading blue noon LITERALY RIGHT NOW!!! its AMAZING!! i love all of your books scott!!!! there just… well AMAZING!!
Rebecca said, on 3/3/2007 8:57:00 PM
i saw blue noon at bookpeople in austin about a week and a half ago. i thought i’d just missed the release.
Caitlin said, on 3/3/2007 9:40:00 PM
Cool. But I couldn’t wait for it to become a paper back. Why must the publishers wait a whole year before the newest book becomes less than $20. I think it’s a conspiracy.
Good luck to Justine though.
Savannah said, on 3/3/2007 10:30:00 PM
YAY!!! I always have to borrow the books from my friend to read them but I cant own them untill there paperback cause well… it cost too much. So finally I can own Blue Noon And read it over and over like I did the other two!!!!!!!!
Lyra said, on 3/3/2007 11:52:00 PM
Any chance either of you will be appearing in New York somewhere around… March 23rdish? Or that week? I’m going to New York for my birthday….
Stephie-wa said, on 3/4/2007 12:15:00 AM
Oh! I havent posted on her in ages…sad i know.
I am so excited of extras haha. I wish I oculd go to that ^…I am going to new york city at the end of the month =] to bad nothing is going on. haah.
news! westerboard spam is finally taken care of..for not at least. haha
katerate said, on 3/4/2007 1:09:00 AM
You gotta find out where in Jersey you’re gonna be!!
Erin said, on 3/4/2007 2:14:00 PM
Yes! Finally my friends can stop asking to borrow my hradback copy of it.
gabby-wa said, on 3/4/2007 2:38:00 PM
will you ever come to ohio??
Shelby-wa said, on 3/4/2007 5:18:00 PM
I love that book! But Blue Noon is so [SPOILER] …I think you should write a fourth book…like, about the next generation, and have the Midnighters find a way to [SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER]…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/4/2007 5:19:00 PM
Oh, whoops, hmm…hope no one who hasn’t finished Blue Noon reads that…
Shelby-wa said, on 3/4/2007 5:20:00 PM
Slow today…coming to Colorado anytime soon? Maybe to Denver, Boulder, Littleton, Estes Park…
Amy said, on 3/4/2007 7:02:00 PM
finally i can buy them! i never buy stuff in hard back(im not rich!)
Topaz said, on 3/4/2007 7:16:00 PM
Yeah! Even though I don’t own any version of BLUE NOON and have already read it, it makes me happy that it is now in paperback–so all those who (somehow) managed to wait for it in paperback can read it!
-Topaz
Dawn said, on 3/4/2007 10:33:00 PM
I agree with Shelby-wa. If you can continue the Uglies series, you should TOTALLY continue the Midnighter’s series. Especially the way it ended. YAY for all of them on paperback, though!
Judy said, on 3/5/2007 4:37:00 PM
Hey everybody you will not believe what i get to do today ……………….i get to get my permitt isnt that so cool even though my grandma sayse everybody needs to watch out when i drive and im a better driver that she is oh well i have to go ttyl
Natalie said, on 3/5/2007 7:10:00 PM
I LUV THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
capt. cockatiel said, on 3/5/2007 10:26:00 PM
Midnighters Fans! Scott can not continue the Midnighters series until he buys the rights from the publisher! Therefore, though he may/may not want to, he has no choice but to wait, gather up his moneys, and then (if he so chooses) make his move. And if/when he does, I’m sure you will all lift your arms up high and sing his praises while doing some sort of dance. Or, you know, just smile and explode with happiness inside, if that’s your cup of tea.
Lauren-la said, on 3/9/2007 7:19:00 PM
If there is a fourth Midnighters book, I will throw a party. The Midnighters series needs another book!! We need to find out what happens to …(rambles about spoilers)… and everything!
Maybe I should go buy the paperback Blue Noon just so the books would all look uniform on my shelf. But then I would have two copies. And I like my hardcover copy.
susen said, on 3/26/2007 9:02:00 PM
there should totally be a fourth book that would be so cool!!!!!
sienna said, on 3/31/2007 9:26:00 PM
Oh my god. After reading Uglies i was totally hooked on your books. Like literally. I think that everytime i grabbed a new book or series i wouldnt leave my room untill i FINISHED IT.
which i why im saying that a 4th midnighters should totally be in the future..
Its not fair!!!! I mean jessica was my favorite character!!!!!!! All along i was thinking that something bad was going to happen as soon as a read the part were jess feels like she has to make choice but doesnt know what to do..
Okay, for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about: There’s a front-page story in the NY Times today about Susan Patron’s Newberry Award-winning book The Higher Power of Lucky.*
The novel starts with a ten-year-old girl named Lucky hearing a conversation from next door. The neighbor’s dog has just been bitten by a snake . . . on his scrotum. (Poor thing.)
Lucky hasn’t heard this word before. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.” Like any language-loving kid, she finds these secret words fascinating. (Much like my tridecalogism obsession in Midnighters, but along a somewhat different axis.)
Cue the real world.
According to the Times article, Librarian.net has been burning up with this seven-letter kerfuffle. That’s not exactly true, but some school librarians have actually said they’ll ban the book, and the debate has leaked out to various litblogs and library sites. So I thought I’d offer my thoughts.
First some odd but revealing quotes.
The Times reporter writes, “Authors of children’s books sometimes sneak in a single touchy word or paragraph, leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book over one offending phrase.”
Hmm. How does one “sneak” something into a book? Everything in a book is right there in black and white, literally. The only people past whom the contents of a book can be snuck are people who don’t read books. You know, the ones who leaf through them distractedly, looking for reasons to ban them.
Nice of you to adopt their framework, NY Times.
And by the way, the word (cover your eyes!) “scrotum” appears on page one of Lucky. That’s some pretty crappy sneaking. All my snuck-in words are printed upside down on page 217 in invisible ink. (Hint: Lemon juice.)
Also bizarre is the phrase “leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book.” Yes, that’s us lazy authors, leaving librarians to ban our books. Why can’t we ban our own books for once?
A teacher and librarian from Colorado is also quoted: “This book included what I call a Howard Stern-type shock treatment just to see how far they could push the envelope, but they didn’t have the children in mind.”**
This is just so random. Who else would Susan Patron have in mind, except children? Children who find fascination in new words. Word-nerd kids for whom the mysteries of the body and those of language are wrapped up together. And does anyone really believe Patron is trying to get on Howard Stern with this?***
But I don’t mean to be harsh, especially not on school librarians! I know you have a tough job. You have all the usual trials of working at a school, plus tons of crackpots hanging around waiting to pounce on every word in every book you shelve. I also realize that librarians have more at stake in this than I have. Like, their jobs. And I get that my books are YA, while Lucky is middle grade, and will admit that I haven’t ever used the word “scrotum” myself. (The subject hasn’t come up.)
But let’s remember that we all have children in mind. They are our readers, without whom we’re just wasting our time. No authors I know are trying to sneak, offend, or randomly envelope push. We’re trying to write the best, most relevant books we can.
That often means balancing the needs of kids who want to read their own stories in their own vernacular with the needs of parents who don’t want their cotton-candy invented memories of what childhood is like disturbed. This is a very hard line to walk.
Susan Patron walks this line by telling an uplifting tale of surviving the loss of a parent, while throwing in one amusing anatomical term. I walk this line by writing about bomb-throwing, eco-terrorist, self-harming, champagne-drinking, tattooed heroines, while never using dirty words. (The astonishing thing is that I get away with it and Patron doesn’t. Even with the age difference, this tends to support what I said about some folks scanning rather than reading.)
But we all face the same problem: it’s impossible to please everyone. So all we authors and librarians can ask of each other is, yes, to keep children in mind. Especially these children:
The word-loving kids, for whom silly seven-letter terms that make adults blush are pure magic, the sort that animates a lifetime of language acquisition.
The kids who face abuse and addiction at home, whose only way to understand what they’re going through is through narratives that will curl your hair and mine.
The bomb-throwing kids, for whom tales of future revolution give a framework for their own necessary confrontations with authority.
The vacuum readers, who consume anything and everything, and thereby learn to filter out whatever they’re not ready for.
As long as we keep all these kids stocked up with lots of books, we’re doing a pretty good job.
Now a question for my teen readers, for whom this post was no doubt really boring:
What’s your favorite dorky-dirty word? The kind that makes you giggle, and you’d get vaguely in trouble if you used it at school.
Mine is “dingleberry.”
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*Full disclosure: The publishers of Lucky are Simon & Schuster, one of my 29 publishers worldwide. Dude! I just counted : I have 29 publishers!
** “They didn’t have the children in mind?” Why “they”? Lucky is written by one author. Is this a conspiracy? Why am I always the last to be informed of the scrotum-sneaking children’s literature conspiracies? I pay my dues! And why are people always worried about “the children,” and not just “children”? What’s up with that?
***Some people seem to subsist entirely on outrage, and think everyone else is constantly trying to outrage them, because we want to get famous or something. Trust me on this: Most of the time, we had no clue you’d be outraged!
87 Comments on Resplendently Scandalicious Scrotaphobias, last added: 4/16/2007
when will knee-jerk reactionaries realise that children just don’t (never did?) live in an enid blyton novel anymore…
that’s not to say there is no place for ‘nice’ books or that we shouldn’t have any boundaries - but come on, all that fuss over one little scrotum???
oh, and mine is “bosom”
Kevin Wignall said, on 2/18/2007 4:43:00 PM
hi scott, i don’t swear much in my adult books and haven’t in my first ya book, but only because it’s never been necessary.
i occasionally write for ellery queen’s mystery magazine which doesn’t tolerte swearing at all. i’m okay with that, but it’s pretty weird (BOLLOCKS) that i’ve killed people in gruesome ways, including a breakfast knife through the eye but can’t have someone saying bugger! there’s something messed up about that.
p.s. being an author, i’ve managed to sneak the word bollocks into this reply - bet you didn’t notice.
Diana said, on 2/18/2007 5:47:00 PM
Scrotum is neither swearing nor a dirty word. I’ve also learned, in my conversations with hunting dog owners, that because of the way dogs tend to run around, you know, NAKED (shocker shocker!), with their scrotums out in the open and vulnerable and even DANGLING when they are performing various bodily functions, that it is a pretty common place for dogs to get bit. Also, the noses, because they like to stick their noses into things
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/18/2007 5:51:00 PM
Personally, I do not believe in banning any book. It is wrong, I tell you, wrong! Unknowingly, my English teacher had us read only banned books in our class last year. He really only knew that one of them was banned. He only realized it this year when I was talking with him about the evils of Lord of the Flies and 1984.
My favorite word? Hmmm… mine is ‘meconophagist’ which really doesn’t fit the question, but I am no longer allowed to use it at school. I said it one too many times…
Little Willow said, on 2/18/2007 5:54:00 PM
The people who find LUCKY offensive are really making something out of nothing.
While watching A WALK TO REMEMBER for the nth time today, I realized it is now ‘dated’ — because it mentions Pluto.
Samantha said, on 2/18/2007 6:00:00 PM
Hey scott,
I don’t think that banning a book is acceptable. Books can help you learn. My point is that the people who are complaining need to stop. If they don’t like it then they shouldn’t be reading it. DUh
lol
So, about these secret words on pg 217 and using lemon juice?
Kallie said, on 2/18/2007 6:05:00 PM
Sorry, but I have to do the Simpsons’ quote… “Think of the children! Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?!”
I remember my old-fashioned history teacher for my sophomore year got so embarrassed saying things even remotely “dorky-dirty.” She said “boompa” instead of butt and “wah-bimbas” instead of boobs. We all found it extremely amusing when we had to go over the characteristics of ancient fertility statues.
As for my favorite word…I dunno. My friends and I had stupid words for boobs like “breasticles” and “ta-tas.” Slightly worse than “dorky dirty,” I suppose…
M said, on 2/18/2007 6:19:00 PM
I love this blog post. I hate how there are the books that hedge around saying the “Dirty” words when we hear them everyday at school. Protect us? Come on. The worlds not sweet and cuddly. Unless you’re a My Little Pony. Then everythings happy! I also loved how it’s a conspiracy. That made me laugh.
Loej said, on 2/18/2007 6:41:00 PM
I’ve cleaned my destroyed brains up off the keyboard to submit my favorite dirty-not-dirty word.
‘dairy-air’.
Loej said, on 2/18/2007 6:43:00 PM
P.S.
Sorry about the wierd post wording. I started the first part about two hours before the second part. I get distracted to eas
Stephanie said, on 2/18/2007 7:56:00 PM
I think this is ridiculous. Banning a book because of one word? If this rule was applied to every book in existence, then library shelves would be practically empty. I really doubt that children are going to be scarred for life because they read the word “scrotum”. They would either not understand what it means and automatically move on, or research it and find the truth. And is the truth that life changing? If I found out what a scrotum was at that age, I would probably just say “ew” and move on; I doubt many kids would go “OMG! Life as I have known it has been changed forever! I’m going to go into a catatonic state because of the great offense this word has had on my existence!”
The whole “authors are slipping in words to corrupt the minds of the masses” is laughable as well. If I were an author, I would totally make it my goal in life to figure out ways to insert pseudo-dirty words in my novels to damage the minds of children. Plots? Who cares about plots? Let’s all find clever ways to cause corruption! Hurray! *eye roll*
That turned into a rather long rant. I apologize.
“Buttocks” has always made me giggle for some reason, so I guess that’s my dorky-dirty word.
Amy said, on 2/18/2007 8:02:00 PM
ha1 that is really funny. what would make someone ban that from a library? then they would have to take out all books with odd material(the notebook). my favourite dorky-dirty word is either dingle-berry or douche bag(spelling?). this friend of mines last name is appleberry, so his nickname is dingleberry. needless to say, he hates it.
shelly rae said, on 2/18/2007 8:03:00 PM
But Scott! Dingleberries is a tridecalogism maybe you can sneak that one in–if you haven’t already I may have missed it.
I wonder if these censors feel the need to remove the word “balls” from the library shelves cause sports books would be so outa there.
I have two words to share:
Nipples–because so many creatures and things have them.
Truculent–which is not dirty at all but can certainly sound that way (she is soooo truculent!) and because I like feisty people.
I’ll buy a copy of this week The Higher Power of Lucky and donate it to the library.
Anon
Stephanie said, on 2/18/2007 8:34:00 PM
Okay, as soon as I saw the word “scrotum,” I giggled. I don’t see the harm in kids reading something like that in a book. I definitely think sheltering kids from stuff like that only hurts them later on. I mean, look at what it did to me. I’m laughing because we’re talking about the word “scrotum.” It made my day. It’s a sad world.
martha said, on 2/18/2007 9:15:00 PM
I am a librarian. What a crock!!!! This is so silly. These same librarians probably pasted diapers on the naked little boy (full frontal) in “In the Night Kitchen”. It is not a bad word. It correctly names a normal piece of anatomy. What is wrong with that????? Children NEED information … correctly named body parts happens to be good information and if that also includes a great story, well wonderful!!!
Onyx said, on 2/18/2007 9:25:00 PM
I don’t know why, but luscious has always seemed like a kinda but not-so-dirty word to me. Bring on the blushes, people.
haddy-la said, on 2/18/2007 10:01:00 PM
Its not like we here a whole bunch of crap like that at school if we read it in books well hear it at school
katerate said, on 2/18/2007 10:14:00 PM
Scott, I poured the lemon juice on page 217 like you said, but all it did was make my book soggy D:. It does smell very nice now, though.
By the way, I don’t have a favorite geeky dirty word, but my sister does. It’s ‘chocha’. Hah.
Mary S. said, on 2/18/2007 11:18:00 PM
Oh, katerate, you’ve erased the message!
When one uses lemon juice to compose a secret message, one simply writes the message in lemon juice on white paper. The ‘wet spots” dry away, and the message is invisible! Then you simply heat the paper (usually with an iron on low) and ta-da! the words reappear.
But don’t feel bad. I didn’t get to read the secret message either. I was reluctant to use an iron on my book, considering it could have gone rather wrong. Besides, if Scott wants to sneak something into his books, my subconscious doesn’t mind, and the rest of me doesn’t know, so what’s all the fuss about?
I was (still am) one of those “vacuum kids”. I read EVERYTHING, much of which my mother doesn’t know about. (She would freak…and I don’t want to stress her out.) I have yet to be “scarred” or “corrupted” by anything, though I have been affected by various books. Isn’t that the point?
Lol, my dorky-dirty word is……
“breast”
As in,
“I would like the chicken, please.”
“Will that be a thigh or a breast?”
“Uh…”
So, yeah.
~Mary
haddy-la said, on 2/19/2007 1:28:00 AM
if my mom knew what was in some of the books ive read she might kill me
my favorit is uranus (im a geek(a smart slightly nerdish person))
Gilly said, on 2/19/2007 3:20:00 AM
hey Scott,
my favourite word is OBLONG but thats hardly a dirty word, however it could account for a dorky word!
considering i have friends that use nothing but dirty words that book wouldn’t affect me or them in any way. it would be hell funny to read though! i work in a bookshop
so I’m going to so look for that book the next time i work!
keep it real man, your my idol and my favourite author (corny i know, deal with it)
I’ll see you when u come down to Melbourne! cannot wait!
cheerio. Gilly
Gilly said, on 2/19/2007 4:48:00 AM
p.s when u come down to Melbourne for the reading conference will you also be bothered with signing books after? because my dream would be complete if you signed just one of my books by you! you can even sign other peoples books I DON’T MIND!
i also have to thank you for your stories (careful cheesy stuff coming through) i think your books have been a fantastic inspiration for me and have really helped me open up my eyes to the world and see it through your’s. you have changed my perspective on so many things (man your good at corruption) and i thank you for reshaping my world! *sigh* *tear*
but enough mushiness for one night. good luck with “extras” i know it will be totally “bubbly”
cheerio once again *salutes*
Gilly
Dean Wood said, on 2/19/2007 7:57:00 AM
Well, I just got my first cup of coffee and was busy scatching my scro…..Ah, never mind, when I ran across this latest attempt of the literary Nazi’s to police or make much a do about nothing. I love these folks! In thousands of years, they still have not learned that if you want to make something popular…BAN IT!!!
This book, at best, probably would have sold @ a hundred thousand copies. Now it will be Two Million!
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/19/2007 9:10:00 AM
scince this IS america and it is suposidly(wow cant spell) a FREE country, and we have FREEDOM of speach, the author of Lucky should be able to put whatever she wants in her book. i mean seriouly if you go and listen to the conversations in the hallways of my Catholic high school, it can be pretty distirbing. the people scream curses at eachother while passing the principal and in study hall these guys were having a conversation about how hot jessica alba was and…erm…other stuff involving her and them…that i would rather not put. i just finished reading my sisters keeper which was a very good book. it also said the f word… A LOT. my friend said that shes reading holly black’s valient(i want to read tithe but she wont let me borrow it till shes done reading it) which also frequently says the f word. its not like weve never heard these words before and its going to cause a small apocaypse in our own little worlds if a book says a word that probably half the kids that read will just skim over it because they have no idea what it means. if we are supposed to hve freedom of speach, how can books be banned? i mean really. how stupid do you have to be to ban a perfectly good book because it mentions one part of the anatomy in context! when i know for a fact that some of the books in my school library have numerous curses in them! ok im done. rant over
bnicki said, on 2/19/2007 10:15:00 AM
I offically loved this blog all the sarcaism i LOVE IT! And i now feel like i should protest this talk of banning by going and checking out this book reading it then telling the librarian about this “dirty” word and letting her try to ban it so i can cause a stink about her being wrong.lol But i won’t but i actually might read this book. OH and she probably won’t ban even care seeing as how this is high school and i’m a junior and us talking about a scrotum and using that nice cover-up word is the least of her troubles.
OH and my “dirty” word it sexual relations…through that into a conversation and all the adults will go straight in there minds only mind you to oh God one of my students is having sex possibly pregnant. lol Silly adults…how funny!
bnicki said, on 2/19/2007 10:16:00 AM
I meant my dirty word IS sexual relations…THROW that into a conversation
Johnna said, on 2/19/2007 10:35:00 AM
Humph… I’m still trying to figure out which book to iron on! Page 217 in Midnighters: THe Secret Hour???
Lynda said, on 2/19/2007 11:29:00 AM
This has just made my day. I somehow doubt that our school library will ban this book, seeing as I’ve recently checked out a book titled, “Unexpected Development.” If you can’t guess, it’s about a girl who has breasts. I must admit, it didn’t have scrotum in it, but it did have other words… numerous words meaning breasts. In my opinion, kids are going to have to learn these words sooner or later, whether it be from a book, from a teacher, or from a friend. Why try to prevent the inevitable?
Sadly enough, I don’t have a special word that makes me giggle myself to tears and make my parents blush. The closest I have to one is poop, but it hardly makes anyone blush seeing as everyone does it.
As for the secret lemon message, is there any other way to reveal it that doesn’t concern an iron, or anything that will possibly make my parents ground me?
Nicky said, on 2/19/2007 1:27:00 PM
That was a beautifully worded post about a horrible topic–and no, I’m not talking about the scrotum. I mean the censorship, which is one of the worst things in the world. In my mind it’s right up there with multiple homicide and child molesters, because there are few things so awful as the stifling of ideas and murder of thoughts.
Of course, hearing this news instantly makes me want to go out and buy a copy of the book myself, something I never would have been interested in if not for the talk of banning it from libraries.
The more you “protect” children from the world, the less they’ll be able to function in it. Isn’t asking for the meaning of words that make your parents and teachers uncomfortable an integral part of childhood? Maybe parents should pay more attention to what their kids are actually doing/reading/watching personally and focus less on banning entire books because they find it easier to have society babysit their children than doing the job themselves.
Ban a book, and you shoot yourself in the foot. When my elementary school talked about banning the “Goosebumps” books, I instantly started reading them, although I’d never been interested in them before (and still wasn’t), but now I wanted to stand up for the books and support them against the banning. Or was that burning? Is there really that much of a different, save for the amount of melodrama and smoke? The motives behind it are just as twistedly evil–brings to mind where the “good intentions” road is purported to lead.
Oh wait, can we say that word? Maybe I should be on the safe side and not mention it, leaving that last sentence unclear and confusing to anyone who doesn’t know the reference. Because a confused kid is certainly better than an educated one; you never know what they might be learning! Better to just pull books from the school altogether–safer to just let them learn all that on their own from the babysitter–I mean, the TV. Eh, same thing.
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As far as words go, mine would be “sithspit” because I almost ended up in severe trouble for saying that in 7th grade science. Good thing my teacher already knew I was a geek…
Kim said, on 2/19/2007 3:12:00 PM
My word is actually “ta-tas”. I heard it first from my winterguard instructor, and I’ve used it in hushed tones ever since. I made the mistake of using it within earshot of my dad once, and he promptly left the room mumbling about dirty clothes.
Caitlin said, on 2/19/2007 3:12:00 PM
Hmmm. I guess my favorite dirty, not dirty word would be…groin. it seems to be the most politically correct term for the scrotal area, and for some reason it makes me giggle, therefore resulting in an idiot look from my friend.
but what I am really happy about is that I finally know what to call myself! I am a vacuum reader through and through. I fully support the idea that you authors need to fill the shelves of my local bookstore with as many stories as you possibly can.(hinthint)
I also think that the banning of any book is wrong. especailly if it’s for the meniton of a “questionable” word. It’s not as if we won’t hear it in our required health class anyway. sheesh, librarians need to chill.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/19/2007 3:38:00 PM
The worst reason to ban a book is this: “It will turn our children into communists!”
Yes, poor J.D. Salinger and his hilarious book (at times) The Catcher in the Rye. The best part of this complaint? The parents read the book, too. Ha ha! I’m not joking. This happened. I laugh at all of the people who came up with this, too.
Topaz said, on 2/19/2007 3:41:00 PM
That was a fun class, Capt. Cockatiel! I loved reading CATCHER IN THE RYE, LORD OF THE FLIES and 1984.
But on the subject of banning books…anyone heard of the freedom of speech? Doesn’t is seem weird to say “Yeah, you can say whatever you want” and then say “Well, you know what, we’re banning it.” How dumb.
So, to quote Caitlin; “Sheesh, librarians need to chill”
Even if I am a librarian. I’m telling myself to chill. Huh. That’s weird.
-Topaz
scott said, on 2/19/2007 3:59:00 PM
A quick word about our librarian friends:
Lucky did win the Newbery Award, after all, which means that a panel of librarians thought it was the best middle-grade book by an American of last year! So methinks the vast majority are on our side with this.
The Times failed to mention that, and I compunding their error by failing to as well. Bad author.
Librarians rule.
Christina said, on 2/19/2007 5:34:00 PM
I won’t comment on the whole scrotum induced banning, so my word is Wenis- a slang term used for the skin on the elbow. Another word- Fahrvergnügen- which, I think, is German for “the love of driving” and is only amusing because the first part sounds like fart-FartFacNoogen!
Drake said, on 2/19/2007 5:37:00 PM
Heh, i dont think books should be banned. Maybe limiting age groups for more… ‘exotic’ novels, but certainly not banning them and not for this. Scrotum? When people want to play dodgeball they tell the Teachers Aid to “get the ball sack.” *rolls his eyes* Some people
My favorite is phallis, hehehe
Lauraloo said, on 2/19/2007 5:40:00 PM
i think banning books is the most annoying thing that can be done to a book. can you imagine how an author would feel after such slander? jeez, its like one giant insult.
and my favorite doky-dirty word is “nude”… only because of the look on this waiter’s face after i ordered a “nude” salad (as in a salad w/o dressing).
Gisele said, on 2/19/2007 7:28:00 PM
Honestly! What has this world come to? Doesn’t everyone know how traumatized kids will be when they read the word ’scrotum’? Eegads, I just typed it. My eyes are burning! Ahhhh!
I mean, come on! I think the whole thing is absurd. It’s an anatomical term–a correct term! It’s in the dictionary for Pete’s sake. And it’s not used in a sexual way.
Are they going to stop carrying dictionaries in the schools now, too? There are a LOT of anatomical terms in the dictionary.
*scratches head* I just don’t get it.
Great post, by the way, Scott! Nicely put.
Naomi said, on 2/19/2007 7:35:00 PM
Am I the only one reading this and being cynical enough to believe that it WAS a publicity stunt, including the word scrotum on the first page?
All publicity is good publicity in anyone’s book. Scrotum is such a stupid, unchildish word. Yes, I’m against not dumbing down children’s books, but when I see such obvious stunts like this one I just sigh in resignation.
I have no wish to ban the book; hell, this kerfuffle reminds me of the time the US banned one episode of the Pingu cartoon because it showed the young male penguin peeing into a toilet.
But they - the publisher and editor and author - orchestrating a row over the word ’scrotum’, for godsake, is just a bunch of dog’s bollocks.
Oh, rude word, hummm, spunk. If you need me to explain it, you were never a teenager in the 70’s.
Samantha said, on 2/19/2007 8:02:00 PM
I think the word that makes me crack up is……
ready for this..
Mianus
*my-anus*
lol
It is actually a place outside of Philedelphia
Amy said, on 2/19/2007 8:15:00 PM
gosh, talk about propaganda on the NY side! not telling the whole truth about the book, cheap! maybe it is a publicity stunt, you never know.
oh, and if these kids are anywhere near age 10, then there is no hope anyway! when i was 10 i cursed like it was nothing(not that i do anymore), i knew all about sex already. really, the word ’scrotum’ wouldve been nothing new to me. everyone think kids are way more sheltered than they are. in sex-ed in 5th grade the girls had to watch the boys video too(that was scarring!)
Rebecca said, on 2/19/2007 9:36:00 PM
“parents who don’t want their cotton-candy invented memories of what childhood is like disturbed.”
^that is an excellent line
you know, between this and maureen dowd, i am beginning to question the nyt’s taste. honestly. i wonder when they’re going to start banning biology books. what about the kids taking anatomy? if the people making all this noise about one little word would stop for five seconds to actually, ya know, think, we wouldn’t have this problem.
She said “boompa” instead of butt and “wah-bimbas” instead of boobs.”
i think that almost makes it worse than just saying “boobs” and “butt.” it certainly makes it funnier.
:D
the words “behonkus” and “bozo” used to crack me up no end when i was younger. i was also not allowed to say “dork” and got in trouble for having it in a story that i submitted to a little newsletter when i was about ten or eleven. now, the word “bugger” comes to mind. hehe!
scott said, on 2/19/2007 10:26:00 PM
Trust me, Naomi and Amy, the authors and publishers of this book weren’t pulling a stunt. It’s not outrageous enough to be a stunt. How do I know that? Because nobody even noticed the word “scrotum” until Lucky won the Newberry Award. (And if someone knows they’re going to win the Newberry, they wouldn’t worry much about publicity stunts.)
Seriously, check out Lucky’s reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and School Library Journal on Amazon. It doesn’t occur to anyone at all to mention this one word, because the whole issue is not just stupid, it’s randomly stupid. (See the difference?)
I know we’ve all been trained to suspect that every literary “outrage” is the result of a publicity stunt. That’s a trick that book-banners use to cover themselves: They’d like you to believe that they’re not banning art, they’re banning someone who’s abusing art for publicity’s sake. Clever, because suddeny the author is the evil one, not them.
So no, Naomi, I don’t think you’re being cynical. I think you’re being bamboozled by an old, old trick.
I’ve worked in publishing for almost 20 years, and have never seen anyone sitting around thinking this or that book is going to be an outrage. You know why? Because the books that wind up being deemed “outrageous” are random, OR they’re the result of great success, which is partly what’s going on here.
Take Harry Potter. I mean, do you think HP gets all that flack for being “devilish” because it’s the only book out there with magical teens? Please. It’s just the only one that illiterates ever come across, because it’s so huge. And would anyone say that Rowling added magic to her world to make it “controversial”? Hah!
That reaction wouldn’t have occured to Rowling, I’m sure. Just like Patron is no doubt perplexed by this.
This is not to say that publicity stunts never happen, say, like that creepy OJ Simpson book. And we can no doubt come up with a few others. But to see that level of cynicism in the word “scrotum” is to let the book-banners win, because then you’ll believe anything they say.
Rant, rant, rant.
Justine Larbalestier said, on 2/20/2007 12:28:00 AM
Word, Scott. What you said times a million.
The idea that all us writers are sitting around coming up with words that might get us banned is ludicrous. Mostly because the majority of banned books get little or no attention.
That’s right. According to the ALA the book challenges they deal with are a tiny percentage of those that happen all over the USA. What happens all too often is that a vocal parent complains about a book and it is removed without any discussion. No notoriety, no extra sales, no nothing.
A couple of people I know have been caught at the centre of one of these controversies. It has involved an avalance of poisonous letters from people who’ve clearly not read their books. They’ve had to get silent phone numbers. It is hellish to go through. Nobody in their right mind would court that kind of attention.
Judi Moreillon said, on 2/20/2007 10:19:00 AM
This is an embarrassing moment for many school librarians who would rather die than ban a book. Please do not lump most of us into the category of censors (as the NYTimes seems hell-bent on doing).
One thing to be learned from this is that listservs (and blogs) are NOT private communications. At least one of the librarians quoted in the article was surprised to read “her words” in this influential newspaper.
Others on the listserv were outraged by the invasion of our “privacy.”
This realization of being spied upon by people who love feeding media frenzies is a far more important conversation than the discussion librarians had centered on the use of the proper word scrotum in a well-written, engaging children’s book.
Lyra said, on 2/20/2007 3:18:00 PM
Worst reason to ban a book: “Defamation of the logging industry.” *jawdrop* That cute book by Dr. Seuss that actually discourages greed and such, The Lorax, was banned for that very reason. Dude. How pathetic is that?
As for a favorite word… That would be “pucker.” Not excruciatingly silly, but it serves its giggling purposes.
Caitlin said, on 2/20/2007 5:35:00 PM
I’d like to point out that when I said that librarians need to chill, I didn’t mean ALL librarians, just the overzealous, slightly misguided ones. I personally love librarians. some of the coolest people I have known in my relatively short life have been librarians.
Just wanted to clear things up, I didn’t want to be perceived as a librarian hater.
scott said, on 2/20/2007 5:38:00 PM
Ain’t no librarian-haters here, I assure you all.
bnicki said, on 2/20/2007 6:37:00 PM
Diddo they are the keepers of the books who could hate them. Its either love your librarian or go broke buying all your books. And we just get a little upset with librarians just like we do writers (like when you killed off Zane yep i’m still mourning) sometimes. And i’m sure both groups get tired of us fans.
~Silver~ said, on 2/20/2007 7:05:00 PM
This reminds me of the days when I was still in school (2 years ago) when I had to look hard for books or found a book that was gone a week later for bad themes (such as being a lesbian or gay) or words. Sometimes it’s just plain sad that they are taken away for a word such as “pucker” or “uranus” or “jesus juice”. Yes i swear that last one was in a book before. Such is life I guess doesn’t matter to me since I buy books these days like I have for years now.
Hikari said, on 2/20/2007 7:40:00 PM
Now I’m picturing a conversation between Ellie and Tally:
Ellie: Honey, I don’t care that you’ve been cutting yourself and doing whatever Shay does and getting tattoos all over your body and breaking laws and breaking bones and running away and making stuff explode and engaging in hand-to-hand combat and drinking, as long as you never use body-part words.
Tally: Uvula.
Ellie: YOU’RE GROUNDED FOR A BAZILLION YEARS!!!!
Tally: I’m leaving. *boards out the window*
Seriously though, people seem to think that they have to protect kids’ pwecious widdle eaws from normal words that THEY’RE GOING TO HEAR ANYWAY.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/20/2007 7:53:00 PM
All I have to say to that is: exactly.
haddy-la said, on 2/20/2007 10:29:00 PM
Please i begging you if you read this message and have the awnser email me at [email protected]
ok so what is the exact wrighting in the letter that shay left for tally for the way to the smoke.in uglies
i could not find the book anywhere help me soon i have to have it for tomarrow
Mary S. said, on 2/20/2007 11:15:00 PM
I sent you the poem, haddy-la. Word-for-word, punctuation mark-for-punctuation mark. Hope it helps!
~Mary
laureniscool said, on 2/21/2007 4:23:00 AM
The best word ever is “tromploy”
It’s not rude..
But it is rather funny =]
Judy said, on 2/21/2007 1:31:00 PM
I agree w/u bnicki im still morning to and now i dont even know if i spelled that right
Judy said, on 2/21/2007 1:33:00 PM
how cum no one tells me when he makes a new blog entry and when the name sayse scott is that refering to scott westerfeld
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/21/2007 3:48:00 PM
yes it is refering to Scott Westerfeld, the fawsomeset guy in the world. (thats not a fictional character) and, if you read my post above, you can see tht all this censeorship crap makes me very mad. to words for you censorship people who ban stuff because it says one word you’d rather not enter this so called tickle me pink candy land world where everything is perfect: FREE SPEACH. if you dont like something such as the divinci code or harry potter because it goes against what you believe, DONT READ IT.
ok rant over.
Judy said, on 2/21/2007 4:26:00 PM
I just want to say something it not about religion its about wether or not its right its all fine in movies and books and stuff like that but think about it do you want people to think of you as someone with a bad mouth or someone who thinks about bad stuff all the time. well other people can do that and im not saying that its bad for that word to be in there but Ive never onece in my life gotten in trouble ive always been the one to run and hide from dangorouse stuff and who would do what ever her parents said i dont like trouble i meen i let a girl kick my but if you know what i meen thats just the way i am and it sounds like i offended you so im sorry i didnt meen to.
Judy said, on 2/21/2007 4:28:00 PM
One more thing what is Harry Potter or who is he i meen ive never herd of him!
Marie said, on 2/21/2007 4:31:00 PM
Harrie Potter is the stupidust wisard novel and movie ever whritten and i hate him he just gets on my nerves there is no such thing as magic or wisardry or anything like that and I hate him. The only real magic is GOD’S magic
Judy said, on 2/21/2007 4:33:00 PM
OK
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/21/2007 9:17:00 PM
Just thought you might want to know that it’s free speech. With two e’s. Sorry if you are offended. Just thought that the constitution of the US of A should be portrayed corectly.
Savannah said, on 2/21/2007 10:03:00 PM
hey scott. Im one of your “teen readers” and i totally didnt find this boring. In fact I accidently burnt my dinner (stroganoff) reading it. :] And I find it totally bogus that they would ban an amazing book from a library for having a few naughty words. ^_^ I dont care if the librarian will get in trouble, if its a great book than thats all that matters! Screw the stupid “parents who don’t want their cotton-candy invented memories of what childhood is like disturbed” as you so geniusly put it. oh, haha, by the way, my favorite “dorky-dirty word” is vaginal. ^_^
haddy-la said, on 2/21/2007 10:31:00 PM
yea its like just get the “f” over it. my favorit thing, that wonk get me in trouble, to tell people i dont like is BURN!
Shannon said, on 2/22/2007 11:30:00 AM
I know a lot about dirty, not dirty words. I teach middle school and often I rush over words like breast because it cause adolescent boys to giggle, but my incident yesterday topped the cake. The students and I were burning time at the end of class and completing a MADLIBS about “Proper Care of the Scalp” together. Someone innocently offered “ball” for a noun. When “ball” was placed in the sentence the phrase became “Then massage your ball…” Yeah. Enter massive amount of giggling. Oops! Luckily I do not allow them to use words like scrotum!
Shannon said, on 2/22/2007 11:37:00 AM
ps
the word breast was in reference to a chicken breast…didnt want any misunderstandings
Judy said, on 2/22/2007 1:32:00 PM
nobody affended me i realy dont care its just yesterday was a bad day for me and i wasnt feeling good
Does anyone wach the news well my school was on the news some creap thretend to bonb the school i cant beleive it that stinks anyway i dont care what you say but u proboly will never catch me using lanuage.
Judy said, on 2/22/2007 1:34:00 PM
And when i agreed with her i was agreeing that i missed ZANE not the other if i agreed with that than i wouldnt have any friends!
Hikari said, on 2/22/2007 9:47:00 PM
Whoa, Lyra, somebody really banned the Lorax? What a lame excuse! The logging industry has defamed countless forests, and they’re upset because somebody called them on it. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Sorry for ranting, I’m a tree-hugger extraordinaire.
Jess said, on 2/23/2007 6:17:00 AM
This is so random, but.
I never noticed the word BOLLOCKS in Kevin Wignall’s comment.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/23/2007 3:17:00 PM
none taken capt. cockatiel. i can’t spell to save my life. im used to people correcting me.
Jude said, on 2/23/2007 3:35:00 PM
Children’s books. I think people who aren’t in touch with kids think children live in cocoons where innocence is preserved. It’s an idealistic view that is quaint and honourable but unrealistic.
I teach and I know what kids are like. From a teacher’s perspective teaching Shakespeare with words like bosom and ass (Midsummer Night’s Dream) is great. The kids love it. If bosom can get a laugh, I think scrotum definitely would. Now whether this is good or not from a class management point of view is another thing. It definitely helped to sell the play to the kids. They were scrabbling over reading it!
When I was head of department I so wanted to teach Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time but was aware of some parents’ potential objections to the F word on the first page. As a teacher you have to be conscious of these things. Come to think of it Curious Incident also had a dog at the start- dead this time. Mmmm.In any case, all this publicity can’t be doing the Power of Lucky any harm though can it? Kids’ll want to read it just to see the word and adults will just to see what all the fuss is about.
rockstar said, on 2/23/2007 8:47:00 PM
my word is cheeseball. Meand my friend will giggle at thsor hurs.or until teachers think we’re on crack-kinda immature, but it’s just so FUN. i do like dingleberry though. I think i’ll use it.almost asu to say as “chimmichanga”, or however u spell it.
:D idn’t it cute?
Maya said, on 2/23/2007 9:04:00 PM
hehe you said scrotum… im acting stupid and immature as much as I can before I turn thirteen (oh what a dreaded age). For the record I don’t think that books should be banned just because they cuss. Hell, I’m 12 and I cuss. *not something to be proud of*
Hedinthecloudz said, on 2/24/2007 12:18:00 PM
Wow, that was a great post. I always find it ironic that Fahrenheit 451 is banned, which seems to me to happen because it disses our government and such and actually speaks poorly of book banning.
“Worst reason to ban a book: “Defamation of the logging industry.” *jawdrop* That cute book by Dr. Seuss that actually discourages greed and such, The Lorax, was banned for that very reason. Dude. How pathetic is that?”
Actually, if you were saying bad things about the logging industry now, you could go to jail for that! Paranoid, much? They’d call you a terrorist for little more than writing The Lorax…But anyway, Dr.Seuss is lucky he lived fifty or whatever years ago!
My favorite dorky-dirty word would have to be “pituitary.” VEry dorky, and it is kinda dirty, seeing how it controls reproductive organs or something like that. You can never use it, though!
arome said, on 2/24/2007 3:23:00 PM
vacuum reader. huh. that explains my weird childhood…
banning books should be a sin. stealing from people the joy of reading. but on the good side, now more people will want to read the book.
mine is tushies.
Kataqu said, on 2/24/2007 5:19:00 PM
Eh, stupid moronic book banning people…. A really good friend of mine just wrote a whole reasearch paper on this topic. This whole thing reminds me of the time our school’s academic team (probably fifteen of the most perverted people you’ll ever meet) broke into the “Dirty Books Drawer” in our school library. It was mostly just anatomy books and such. Ridiculous.
Which also brings to mind my favorite unintentionally dirty happening. One day, during academic team practice, my dad, a somewhat prudish man (so much so that I am not allowed to say “fart” in his presence), stopped by to watch us.Fun stuff, when our coach asked the question, “What is the name of the title character in Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.” And according to Murphy’s law, another student had to ring in, knowing the answer was Bilbo, but unintentionally replacing both “B”s with “D”s.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen my father quite so shocked.
And my favorite dirty/not dirty word is “yak”, my friend’s word for vomit.
gabby-wa said, on 2/25/2007 5:14:00 PM
i bet those librarians don’t have anything better to do. that, or their trying to draw attention to themselves. one little word. come one. hmmm, my “dirty” word would have to be anus. its so funny to say.
i thoroughly enjoyed reading about the bomb-throwing, eco-terrorist, self-harming, champagne-drinking, tattooed heroines, that was the best book.
and the lemon message, could you give us a hint??
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/26/2007 2:46:00 PM
yeah im not sure which book to try it on. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. i wonder which one? lets go try all of them! perfect reason to go get so yesterday and the lst days. (i havent been able to get them yet)
Tourmaline Vache said, on 3/5/2007 5:02:00 PM
I cannot say how much I agree with all of you that book banning is a terrible, horrible concept. My 8th grade LA teacher (whom I admire tremendoulsy) was looking for a new book for advanced readers to put on the summer reading list. She asked me to read My Sister’s Keeper and tell her if if was appropriate. It was a great book, but she couldn’t put it on the list. Jus because of swear words, references to homosexuality, and some “graphic” scenes. Come on. I read it and I didn’t turn out to be some mass rapist, so how much harm could it do? Book banning is an antiqued idea and it should be treated like the plague- it exists, but don’t spread it. You can hear worse things taking a walk in my health class, and that is required of all eigth graders. Knowledge is power and should be spread, not withheld.
Tourmaline Vache said, on 3/5/2007 8:24:00 PM
Ooops! I forgot my favorite dorky word- defenestrate. It isn’t dirty at all, it just sounds funny… “I’m going to defenestrate you if you don’t stop talking”….. or something to that effect…. and it becomes a tridecalogism if you ad an s or a d to the end- “I defenestrated him yesterday” or “She defenestrates people on a daily basis” fun……
Hezaa said, on 3/7/2007 6:24:00 PM
Hm, my favorite dorky-dirty word is “tromboner.” My friend made it up when he was trying to figure out what to call a trombone player in a band. He giggles like dorkness whenever he says it.
Morgan said, on 3/8/2007 12:20:00 AM
Mine is “testicles.”
We are studying banned books in my Children’s Lit class in college, but we aren’t required to read the book we write our paper and take a stance on; the professor said that secondary sources were fine.
I was very, very angry. THIS is what they are teaching future educators.
Holly said, on 3/30/2007 1:57:00 PM
Banning books is just ridiculous! If anything, music should be banned. I’m not saying music with one swear in it. I’m talking about songs such as “Maneater” “Fergelicious” and, the queen of them all… “My Humps.” That’s what’s teaching kids a bad lesson, not a book with the word “scrotum” in it!
Holly said, on 3/30/2007 1:58:00 PM
My favotite dorky-dirty word is probably vagina. Mostly because my friend, who’s a guy, always says “Va-jay-jay” and it’s funny in a really creepy way.
Rpies said, on 4/16/2007 3:26:00 PM
That’s crazy they should be happy those kids are reading. I agree with the music ban. I even like a few of those songs, but I could flip through the radio stations and hear a bunch of inuendo in a few seconds. If they’re smart enough to read and comprehend the word scrotum then I think they’re old enough to handle it.
I haven’t posted anything for Midnighters fans in a while, so here are a couple of bits of fannish art and one document for obsessed scholars.
But first, the event at Kinokuniya was a blast. Our thanks to all of those who came, especially fan-mail deliverers and shameless flatterers Steph, Jaimee, and Christina/Mikey! Fun was had by all.
So, a few days ago I got this present from Kallie, my own anti-darkling coffee mug!
In addition to this triple-decker tridecalogism, the other side has stuff too intricate for my still-life photography skillz to capture. It features thirteen 13s in Phoenician numerals and the five midnighter talent symbols. Kewl.
Now here’s something for your CafePress pleasure. The tridecashirt!
Yes, it’s amazing how much free time I used to have. But what is this for? Well, I hereby give you all the right to copy, re-mix, and promulgate this image in all media in existence or yet to be invented, forever and throughout the known universe.
In other words, steal it to make t-shirts if you want. Or coffee mugs.
Click here for a much bigger file, and here if you want a vast Photoshop doc without the white background. (’Save As’ under File after it loads, then open in Photoshop.)
And finally, for the truly Midnighters obsessed, here’s the chronology of events for whole series, from September 1 to October 31. Funny how October 6 in Blue Noon takes 100 pages to unfold!
I apologize for the formatting, but this is the stuff of novelist’s working documents. Page numbers refer to the hardbacks, btw, and may have shifted slightly since page proofs.
Massive Spoilers Warning!
Chronology, Book 1
p. 1 first day of school at Bixby High (Sep 1) Rex sees that Jessica has Focus; Jessica meets Dess in trig
p.17 that Thurs. (Sep. 4) Jessica’s first week of school almost over, she has first midnight experience with frozen rain
p.21 next day (Fri., Sept. 5) Jessica has lunch with Jonathan; midnight with cat, snakes, and panther
p.100 next day (Sat., Sept. 6) Jessica at Clovis Museum; midnight with Jonathan, flying, attack by slithers and darklings, busted by Sheriff St. Claire
p.177 next day (Sun., Sept. 7) Rex and Dess tell Jess at midnight about lore site
p.189 next day (Mon., Sept. 8,) Constanza invites Jess to party at Rustle’s Bottom on Fri.
p.201 next Wed. (Sept. 10) during midnight hour Melissa changes Jess’s parents’ minds about grounding
p.211 next day (Thurs., Sept. 11) Jess ungrounded, kisses Jonathan on top of Pegasus sign
p.231 next day (Fri., Sept. 12) party at Rustle’s Bottom, Jess discovers talent of flame-bringer
p.302 two midnights later (midnight of Sun., Sept. 14) right after midnight time, Melissa picks up on human thought threat to Jessica
Chronology, Book 2
p.4 Sat. night (Sept. 20) Jessica goes out at midnight although still grounded for another two weeks, Jessica has been in secret hour two weeks, two weeks later bruises from letting go of Jonathan’s hand just fading, Jessica has physics test on Mon., Jessica and Jonathan spot stalker with camera, Dess awakes early Sun. morning from dream, takes dad’s GPS
p.30 next day (Sun. Sept 21) Jessica had only felt secure in Bixby for a week before cameraman danger started, she and Jonathan visit Rex, Rex and Melissa touch, a week since drive back from Rustle’s Bottom; at midnight Rex and Melissa find Darkling Manor, see halfling
p.89 next day (Mon. Sept 22) Rex and Melissa skip school, ten days since Dess led Rex and Melissa across desert to snake pit, weekend before last found out Jessica was flame-bringer, Jonathan and Dess go back to Los Colonias, visit Darkling Manor, find bill for Ernesto Grayfoot, Jessica locks Beth in closet while out with Jonathan
p.157 next day (Tues. Sept 23) Dess finds Madeleine, Melissa and Rex go to Constanza’s house at midnight, Melissa finds out Ernesto is Constanza’s cousin, Madeleine puts directions to Constanza’s in Jessica and Jonathan’s heads, fight with darklings
p.206 next day (Wed. Sept 24) plan to meet at Constanza’s house on Friday, Beth resumes Beth Spaghetti night
p.235 next day (Thurs. Sept 25) at Madeleine’s, Dess realizes that runway is where halflings created
p.248 next day (Fri. Sept 26) Rex kidnapped, changed into darkling, Anathea released but dies, Jessica burns Rex back into human form
p.328 next day (Sat., Sept. 27) midnight hour, Jonathan meets Beth in Jessica’s bedroom, Dess, Melissa, and Rex at Madeleine’s
Chronology, Book 3
p.4 (Mon., Oct. 6) a month ago beginning-of-football-season pep rally, TEN DAYS ago Melissa invaded Dess’s mind to save Rex, blue time falls just after nine a.m., TEN DAYS since Rex’s transformation, Jessica’s grounding to end, a month from when police brought her home, Jessica’s last night of grounding, Dess at Maddy’s figures out Cassie captured by darklings, midnighters rescue Cassie
p.104 next day (Tues., Oct. 7) Rex found lore signs in kitchen this morning, at midnight Melissa mindcasts Cassie to make her forget
p.123 next day (Wed., Oct. 8,) Constanza tells group in a couple of weeks moving to LA with grandfather, Halloween MORE THAN three weeks away, another eclipse during lunch, Rex meets that night with Angie, then with ancient darklings, refuses their offer to join hunt
p.199 next Wed. (Oct. 15) Beth Spaghetti Night, Beth has Cassie over for dinner
p.210 that same night (Wed., Oct. 15) Samhain is SIXTEEN days away, Madeleine, Melissa, and Rex meld with old mindcasters, find out what darklings put in Rex’s mind about Samhain
p.224 next day (Thurs., Oct. 16) midnighters meet at Madeleine’s at night, to meet for experiments on Sat. morning
p.237 next day (Sat., Oct. 18) another eclipse, Rex does experiment with Caddy, ten days to Halloween
p.255 a week later: (Sat., Oct. 25) Halloween is SIX days away, Constanza to fly to LA day after tomorrow for a week
Samhain (FRIDAY., Oct. 31) Jessica stops rip by putting hand in frozen lightning on Mobile building
p.336 two weeks later (mid-Nov.) Beth taken by midnighters to remains of rip, meets Jessica
106 Comments on Midnighters Round-Up, last added: 3/3/2007
yeah, i think it is a person. on the pretties i always thought it was her contacts with the backward clocks in them that shay had in the beginning and tally got later. but i dont know.
Topaz said, on 1/27/2007 1:10:00 AM
I want backwards clocks in MY eyes.
Little Willow said, on 1/27/2007 12:38:00 PM
That shirt is fantastic - good job! - and that mug is adorable. Hurrah for the timeline. September is the best month - though I’m biased due to it being my birth month.
kris said, on 1/27/2007 7:23:00 PM
Um, really, shouldn’t you be WRITING, not creating t-shirt designs. Although it is kinda cool.
Cassandra said, on 1/27/2007 10:41:00 PM
Tridecashirt may have 12 letters,
but TridecashirtS has 13
Happiness!!
haddy-la said, on 1/28/2007 12:39:00 AM
5? well it would be cool if he could derect it but sadly he cant
Mary S. said, on 1/28/2007 12:51:00 AM
Now, to be fair, you brought up the subject of Midnighters, and also the subject of chronology, so you’ve only got yourself to blame for the following post. Brace yourself.
I was wondering about Midnighters and aging.
Okay, so part of the reason why darklings live so long (from humans’ prospective) is because they are frozen most of the time and only unfreeze (and age) for one hour each day. It takes them 25 of our days to live and age one day in their lives. Judging from this, would it be correct to assume that daylighters, who are frozen during midnight, do not age during that extra hour? But that midnighters *do* age during that extra hour?
So that means midnighters age one hour faster than everyone else, right?
‘Kay, so now you’re wondering why I’m asking about that extra hour.
Well, if midnighters age one hour faster than everyone else, doesn’t that mean their perceived ages are incorrect?
There are 8,760 hours in a daylighter year, but there are 9,125 hours in a midnighter year. So midnighters are 365 hours (15.2 days) older than daylighters for each year that they live.
None of this matters to anyone but a polymath, but my next point does.
If my theory is correct (you doubt me?!), then Rex, Melissa, Dess, and Madeleine, who have lived in Bixby all their lives, are all older than they realize. But Jessica and Jonathan haven’t been there as long, so midnight hasn’t aged them as much.
The end result: midnighters who live in Bixby have shortened lifespans.
A 16-year-old midnighter is 5840 hours (243.3 days) older than a 16-year-old daylighter. A 24-year-old midnighter is actually 25. And a 72-year-old midnighter is really 75.
Okay, so their lives aren’t shortened *that* much, but still. Why hasn’t anyone else noticed this? Why didn’t Dess?
Why are you looking at me like that?
Geez, people, do the math. *sulks*
~Mary S.
P.S. Scott, your books rule the world (mine, at least). So, thanks.
Topaz said, on 1/28/2007 1:54:00 AM
Um…I think Mary is right. I did the math just now (I hate math so that means I was REALLY motivated) and I got the same conclusions as her. And yeah, dosn’t it seem like Dess would have noticed?
Oh, well. Scott still rules. And he can’t really make a forth book in the trilogy so we’re stuck.
-Topaz
Topaz said, on 1/28/2007 1:57:00 AM
Oh, and Kris? Scott can do whatever he wants; write books, make t-shirt designs or create a army of bannana slugs and take over Santa Cruz.
But I agree, we’re all leaning towards writting books.
-Topaz
haddy-la said, on 1/28/2007 2:26:00 AM
i say if you wright a GOOD book in the fist place youcan do anything even create a army of bannana slugs and take over Santa Cruz but i think i would takeover a tropical island (like hawii a mythical place thats spelled wrong..)
Amy said, on 1/28/2007 1:23:00 PM
wow mary! you did alot of work. but it is a very good point. did scott think of that when he wrote the book?
(spoiler for blue noon!)
well, we know he kind of thought about it in blue noon, because dess talked about jessica and jonathan and how it would get gross after a while with her only living one hour a day. that was a run-on sentance!
Kaylen said, on 1/28/2007 8:21:00 PM
Awesome t-shirt, I’m so going to try to make one! And great math work!
Loej said, on 1/28/2007 11:47:00 PM
And then what?
Judy said, on 1/29/2007 3:57:00 PM
Captin Cocateil I realy dont know what the thing in her eye is i always thought that it was just a person with a hoverboard or a sersion about to prefor sergerie or a speacial i really dont know and even if he dosnt direct the movie totaly i cant weight to see it i read uglies pretties and specials in 4 days and im realy excited about seaing it last time i talked to scott he talked to me ive also e-mailed him so ill see what i get back!
Judy said, on 1/29/2007 3:59:00 PM
haddy-la
he told me that they were deciding wether him or someone elss should direct it who would be the best director they dont know yet.
Judy said, on 1/29/2007 4:28:00 PM
captin cocateil
do you think maybe the thing in her eye is the peson who is taking the pic. and they left it in there for people who are very observent to find and wonder about i realy just dont know!!!
Judy said, on 1/29/2007 5:02:00 PM
do yall live in India or something cause yall have a different time zone than i do todays date here is January 20, 2007 and it is 4:03PM and i was just wondering cause i live in the United States and Texas,if anyone wants to tell me where they live that would be cool.
Judy said, on 1/29/2007 5:03:00 PM
Im sorry I just realized something I said January 20th its the 29th here
Amy said, on 1/29/2007 9:42:00 PM
it the 29th here at 6:42 pm to be exact!
annony the mouse said, on 1/30/2007 2:51:00 AM
Scott lives in Australia.
Judy said, on 1/30/2007 1:59:00 PM
That is so cool that he lives in Austrailiea but why does the thing say that it is tomarow and not today
Judy said, on 1/30/2007 2:02:00 PM
Of course he may live in Ausie land but he realy lives all over the world cause he travels and he keeps us updated. Im at school right now so i’d better get TTYL
Amy said, on 1/30/2007 3:01:00 PM
it weird that it can be the same time, buit its really a different time. ya know? IT MUST BE REALLY HAR TO DEAL WITH THE 12 HOUR JETLAG-oops caps log. i had trouble with a nine hour one from hungary to CA. it sucked.
Judy said, on 1/30/2007 3:56:00 PM
ya i bet it did were do you live amy
Judy said, on 1/30/2007 3:58:00 PM
I live in diana texas but im moving to harlton whitch isnt much difference cause it only 30 minuts away from where i am now
scott,you are awesome, can’t wait to read book 3…just got into your books, i read uglies, pretties,specials, midnighters 1,2, and not yet 3…but i have read peeps and the last days…you have me hooked!!!!keep on goin!
soo said, on 1/30/2007 10:05:00 PM
mary s,you are totally awesome..you are like a polymath, its amazing, how did you figure that out??You must be really into the books!!! Very IMPRESSIVE!
Soo said, on 1/30/2007 10:07:00 PM
ps. i read 3 of scott’s books in one day, anyone read more than that in a day?
JoJo said, on 1/30/2007 10:30:00 PM
Haha, my english teacher got me hooked on the Uglies series, and since I started taking the libray aide class(hey, it’s senior year, I wasn’t goinng to take Physics II AP anymore), I’ve read most all of your books. I just finished Midnighters (and sacrficed my calculus homework in the process) and can’t wait to read the next books in the series!
Judy said, on 1/31/2007 3:41:00 PM
I could have read that many in one day if it werent for me being so buysy I have chores and I have to feed and water and untangle 20 german shepards also i am packing cause be are moving and also I almost got killed by one of the german shepards it got loose and was trying to kill my chinees krusties and so i was trying to kick it off of him and he came after me so I ran into the house and was looking for the 357 bullets cause my mom doesnt tell me where anything is anymore but instead i found my moms 22 so i took it out and shot in the air 2wice but it didnt fase him so he started coming after me again and i shot at him and got him he died a few days ago also i got a blue ribbon in archury and so at first I was shooting him with that but what good that did i aimed at the inside of his mouth and he moved so it went through his lip,,, also hes an x-border patrole dog so that is why he was like that he was trained to kill and hes killed 2 humans b-4 but he is dead now and i regrett getting the gun out or finding it but i was alone i couldnt do anything elss.
Judy said, on 1/31/2007 4:10:00 PM
Well TTYL i think that he is the best author in this intire world but that is my opinion but is there just one world this is something the world may never know. Keep righting untill the world stops spinning!!!!!!!!!!!
Amy said, on 1/31/2007 8:03:00 PM
i read uglies, pretties, the secrete hour and another book- but the last one wasnt written by scott. and i was sick. so had alot of time. plus i have NO life whatsoever, im pathetic.
haddy-la said, on 2/1/2007 12:15:00 AM
ditto
On said, on 2/1/2007 12:31:00 AM
i read pretties and specials in one day but i was going clear across the state in a car with only my brothers and my mom…very boring so i read pretties in the car and specials later that night until 2AM. i coulda read uglies that day but i left it at home so yeah…there’s pretty much the story of my life…ha
ImInLoveWithJonathan said, on 2/2/2007 1:57:00 PM
why does it say its 5:56? its 1:56 here. i think he is on arizona time or california on this website. i think that timezone i 4 hours apart from mine.
Judy said, on 2/2/2007 4:20:00 PM
Well that is so cool that you live in washington have you been to the white house maybe you can e-mail me some pictures from there have you ever seen the president in person not talked to him just seen him
it is 3:23 here right now in texas and Scott lives in Austrailia i herd from capt. cocatiel
Judy said, on 2/2/2007 4:21:00 PM
Hey Johnathan lover where do you live in Oklahoma or something
Judy said, on 2/2/2007 4:25:00 PM
you must live in California or Arizona cause he is on Austrailian time I looked it up
Judy said, on 2/2/2007 4:27:00 PM
go to www.ask.com and type in what time is it in australia and you will know what time it is
Amy said, on 2/2/2007 7:07:00 PM
yeah, not in california time, i know that
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/2/2007 7:55:00 PM
It seems that the Australia time is throwing everyone off these days! But why are they so concerned? Does it really matter? Shouldn’t we accept Australia time? I will, and I will show up to school super early. Ha ha! That would be fun. Our Social Studies teacher is always explaining time zones to us, and he’ll start talking about how you could live in your own time but then you’d be locked up. Hmmm…
Topaz said, on 2/2/2007 11:37:00 PM
Oh my gosh!!!
I was serching Cowlick, USA (don’t ask) and I came up with this website: http://www.storie.it/contenuti/Adue-frame.HTM
Okay, not to weird, right? But the third person down is named SHAY YOUNGBLOOD! Weird, huh? Huh? Huh?
Seriously! Check it out! Shay Youngblood! Coincidence? I think not!
Hey, guys, there is gonna be a midnighters TV show. Check out imdb.com, and search for midnighters. It says it’ll come out in 2007, but that you have to join their club or whatever to find out more.
Also, what’s all this talk about an Uglies movie? Dontcha think it would be kinda insulting for an actor to be cast as an “ugly”? Maybe they’ll just do makeup or sumting.
PeepGrrl said, on 2/3/2007 9:25:00 PM
BTW, who here lives in NorCal?
haddy-la said, on 2/4/2007 2:29:00 AM
PeepGrrl uglies arenormal people but in the book people are brainwashed to think their ugly and you can look up midnighters on tv on the search bar to see a post for it
Amy said, on 2/4/2007 4:55:00 PM
yeah peep girl. they were looking at magazine models and saying they were ugly. so, all of us are uglies. the pretties just would have to be EXTREMELY beautiful.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/4/2007 6:26:00 PM
Though you must admit, going home and saying to your mother “Hey, Mom! I just got my big break as an ugly!” is not so glamorous.
Joy Shapley said, on 2/4/2007 6:55:00 PM
My Scott Westerfeld checklist:
Uglies: yep!
Pretties: yep!
Specials: yep!
Peeps: yep!
The Last Days: yep! (just finished today)
Risen Empire: yep!
Killing of Worlds: yep!
Midnighters 1: yep!
Midnighters 2: yep!
Midnighters 3: yep!
So Yesterday: yep!
Doing pretty well huh? Is there anything else for me to read?
Thanks for whoever said Shay and Zane were on the cover of Pretties. I guess that makes sense. I just wondered because the Uglies and Specials faces (probably Tally) have a more similar face shape (she has to be vaguely similar as an ugly and a special because David recognized her, right?) but the Pretties face is really different. Anyway.
On said, on 2/4/2007 7:50:00 PM
Has anyone ever read Mergers by Steven Layne? It’s pretty good…kinda like Uglies in a way,but different. I recommend this book to Uglies fans. Anyways I just finished it today and because I was reading it all day and didn’t do any work, I can no longer go to my friend’s house to watch the Super Bowl…bummer. Anyways Steven Layne is coming to our school on…Wednesday…I think. But yes it shall be exciting! I recommend This Side of Paradise by him too!
On said, on 2/4/2007 7:51:00 PM
Oh my gosh…this is weird…it’s only 6:50 PM here, but when I posted the comment before this, the time said 11:50. What’s up with that?
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/5/2007 10:19:00 AM
Once again, the Australian time has baffled another mind.
On, this sight is on Australian time, and it never changes back to time anywhere else in the world where Scott may or may not be. Australian it is, Australian it stays.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/5/2007 5:56:00 PM
coolio i thought it was on west coast time. ( il ive on the east coast)
Amy said, on 2/5/2007 8:42:00 PM
THE TIME ZONE- the most confusing thing to Scott Westerfeld readers. anyway, that book sounds good, whats its about?
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/5/2007 9:43:00 PM
The last time I checked, west coast is only 3 hours different from east coast… so, yeah. I know because all my relatives live in New York.
ImInLoveWithJonathan said, on 2/6/2007 3:38:00 PM
yeah me too (im fromn philly) but i thought it was 4 hour difference. o well. what ever
annony the mouse said, on 2/6/2007 5:17:00 PM
it’s not australian time. it’s east coast australian time. I’m in PErth! That’s on the west coast of australia.
sam said, on 2/6/2007 10:38:00 PM
hey you there???….
sam said, on 2/6/2007 10:43:00 PM
are u on the site?
Amy said, on 2/7/2007 1:03:00 AM
im a little confused. what?
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/7/2007 5:55:00 PM
I’m confused, too. We had been talking about time… but now it’s all a bit jumbled. Hopefully no one else will be boggled by the time on this site.
PeepGrrl said, on 2/7/2007 9:38:00 PM
To all you guys who replied to my last comment, I know that Uglies are normal people. DUH! I was saying what Capt. Cockatiel was saying: That although Uglies are normal people, not many actors would want to be cast as an ugly, and then see an actor who is “more gorgeous” than them play the same character in a “better” phase. Pretty self-confidence reducing. Not that any of that about being “more gorgeous” is true, but I’m sure an actor would DEFINATELY feel that way.
On said, on 2/7/2007 11:45:00 PM
Oh, to Amy [that’s my best friend’s name, she has pink highlights and I have purple..not that any of you guys would care..ha] Anyways, Mergers is about these four different people (each a different race) and they all have special powers (telepathic, empathic, morphing, and time turning/traveling) They have to take down this physco dude that “merged” all the different races and that’s not the way the world’s supposed to be, so they gotta change it back to the way it is. It reminded me of Uglies cause like all the people look exactly alike except for the gender. Oh and no one knows that they were all merged except for some people cause the physco dude went back in time and changed all the documents that let people know that different races once existed..what a meanie! I thought it was good. So yeah, you all should read it too! Oh, yeah I thought the author of Mergers was coming today..but he’s not coming ’til the 23rd..ha, my mistake. But it’s still gonna be sweet! Ok..I really need to stop avoiding my homework..which means I need to leave this site..darn..I’ll find some other way to procrastinate!..ha
On said, on 2/7/2007 11:55:00 PM
Oh! I thought of something about Australia when I was going back and reading all the other comments when I was supposed to be doing my homework. My basketball coach used to be a professional basketball player down in Australia!..that’s all for now!..I need more ideas to avoid homework you guys..I mean this sight is great and everything, but I need more! Homework is evil! Seriously! Learning is supposed to be done at school, not at home! Well, I guess I don’t mind it..except when you have homework due in every single subject due for tomorrow!..okay I’m gettin’ off track..this is a Scott Westerfeld site, not a complain about your homework sight..hmm..Scott’s books rock! Fricken awesome man! I wanna meet him someday..he should come to our school! How often does he go to schools? Hey! If I go Thailand to visit my family sometime, maybe I can find him there, since he goes there a lot! Yes! Score! Ha..I might be going this year when my dad comes back from Kuwait! Whoo! Scott Westerfeld, here I come!..man I talk a lot..everyone tells me that actually. Those Uglies movie people need to get their butt in gear and have that movie come out sooner! Okay..it’s gettin’ late..stupid homework! Laters
Amy said, on 2/7/2007 11:57:00 PM
that sounds good. i thinki will read it. what is everyone all-time favourite book(outside os scotts books!)? i need some really good books, and all of us seem to ike the same type.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/8/2007 9:55:00 AM
Hmmm, so I can’t pick So Yesterday?! Curses… well, then I’d have to say (get ready!):
Cirque du Freak — Darren Shan, Faerie Wars — Herbie Brennan, Backwater –Joan Bauer, and (oh, how can I just pick one more?) The Riddles of Epsilon — Christine Morton-Shaw.
So, there’s a list, though the last one is the best. I’m reading it again, though it’s still not up there with my 5 times of reading So Yesterday. Or was it 6…?
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/8/2007 3:48:00 PM
you should definatly read twilight and new moon bye stephenie meyer. wicked and son of a witch by gregory mcguire are really good too. i second faerie wars, the purple emperor, and ruler of the relm. they are vey good
On said, on 2/8/2007 6:07:00 PM
Oh um…The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor is good. Its genre is more fantasy than science fiction. The author is like high school aged. It made me cry at the end..yeah, I know, very pathetic. But then, Specials made me cry at the end too.
haddy-la said, on 2/8/2007 7:13:00 PM
the city of ember, the people of sparks, the prophet of yonwood, all by jeanne duprau all but the last one is set in the futer where the world died. they are alot like The Giver
Amy said, on 2/8/2007 7:34:00 PM
wow, thanks guys!i will have alot to read now.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/8/2007 8:17:00 PM
I did not cry at the end of The Prophecy of the Stones, nor at the end of Specials. I’ve never cried at the end of a book or movie. People will be crying around me (during a movie) and yet I am not sad at all. It’s kind of strange.
Hope you enjoy the books, Amy!
On said, on 2/8/2007 11:20:00 PM
Well, I usually don’t cry..well just not a lot..well ok, if it’s sad then I’ll cry..but other than that I usually don’t cry!..ha so yeah I almost died tonight! I had basketball practice and there’s this really BIG girl on my team and she almost drove me into the floor..ha! So are any of you guys Grey’s Anatomy watchers?..where are you all even from anyways?..I’m from Nebraska! Dear old Nebraska!
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/9/2007 10:07:00 AM
Grey’s Anatomy?! I am a House fan. House is the only medical show that I watch. House. House. House. House. Sorry.
I am from the Pacific Northwest. Nowhere special… but we have special rain. It has author-attracting abilities. Sort of.
On said, on 2/9/2007 4:48:00 PM
Where’s the Pacific Northwest and what’s house all about? My friend was tellin’ me about it, but I haven’t tuned into it yet. If it’s about medical stuff, then it’ll probably be good cause I’m into that kinda stuff.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/9/2007 7:18:00 PM
The Pacific Northwest is Oregon and Washington and Northern California. I live in Washington. Seattle. With the special rain. Though maybe you missed all of those comments by Topaz and I way back in September or October? Anyways.
House is THE BEST doctor show ONE EARTH. House is the best character — he’s so funny, and witty and sarcastic. You must watch it! He has a cane…
PeepGrrl said, on 2/9/2007 8:53:00 PM
On the subject of books, anything from the Ender series is AWESOME, especially Speaker for the Dead. I also recommend Tithe and Valiant, both by Holly Black, anything by Piers Anthony, and A Skanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick.
PeepGrrl said, on 2/9/2007 8:54:00 PM
OH, and i LOVE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!
Amy said, on 2/9/2007 8:57:00 PM
i like greys anatomy and house. oh i just read these really good books called ‘blue is for nightmares'’white is for magis’ and two more in the series. i reccomend them to everyone. and peepgrrl, thanks i think i have read a piers anthony book.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/9/2007 9:13:00 PM
the only book i have ever cryed at the end of was pheonix rising. that was saaddddddddddd i loved ezra. (main character’s boyfriend) i wont tell you what happens in case you decide to read it. it was really good.
On said, on 2/9/2007 9:17:00 PM
Ha..I’m plannin’ to go to college in Washington for medical school, but that’s not gonna be for another eight years! Plus Washington has an awesome volleyball program. I gotta give them props for beating Nebraska in the Championships last year, but we won this year so it’s all good. Oh anyone ever heard of Cynthia Voigt? I just started reading one of her books.
PeepGrrl said, on 2/9/2007 9:36:00 PM
Yeah, I’ve heard of her, but I can’t think of anything she’s written. Anybody have any movie recommendations? It doesn’t have to be sci fi/ fantasy, just good.
On said, on 2/9/2007 10:03:00 PM
Oh! You have to see The Guardian..it made me cry lol. But yeah I finally got one of my friends to read one of Scott’s books for her book report. She’s readin’ Uglies and so yeah I hope she likes it. And I’m a big Will Farell fan so you have to check out Talladega Nights. It’s really dumb, but I find stuff like that funny.
Amy said, on 2/9/2007 11:46:00 PM
yeah! the guardian! it was so sad! awwww
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/10/2007 6:22:00 PM
My favorite movie of all time is Dragonheart. But another great movie is Millions, which is based off a book. The author was originally a screenwriter, so he wrote the screenplay. It was really good, but the book is even more hilarious!
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/10/2007 7:08:00 PM
wasnt cynthia voigt (or something like that) the one who wrote my sister’s keeper? i started reading that and im about half way through. that is so sad.
On said, on 2/10/2007 7:13:00 PM
I’m tryin’ to think of another good movie..oh! The Notebook is really good..but it’s like a chick flick, so yeah. I heard the Prestige was really good. I’m goin’ to Night at the Museum tonight with some friends and some of my other friends said it was good cause they went last night. I heard Freedom Writers was good too.
On said, on 2/10/2007 7:16:00 PM
Man, Scott hasn’t blogged anything in a while!..just noticed that, ha.
On said, on 2/10/2007 7:17:00 PM
I have no clue what else Cynthia wrote. But I just finished Homecoming by her, and now I’m starting on Dicey’s Song.
haddy-la said, on 2/10/2007 8:18:00 PM
why do you like the gardian it made what to laugh and barf at how bad it was. but house rox
haddy-la said, on 2/10/2007 8:19:00 PM
scott needs to blog
haddy-la said, on 2/10/2007 9:33:00 PM
“Triskaidekaphobia” is the scientific name for what is believed to be one of the most common superstitions: the fear of the number 13. thats funny and hers the wiki page for it its prety cool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia
On said, on 2/10/2007 11:45:00 PM
Our school blocked that site from us. It’s so dumb, our school pretty much blocks everything on the internet, so what’s the point of gettin’ all these computers if they’re not gonna let us do anything on it.
My home computer blocks wiki. Crazy father and his computer blocks! Wikipedia is supposed to help me! And I needed it for a report, too. Arg.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/11/2007 4:46:00 PM
i know i hate when the computer blocks things you need for a project. stupid controls
PeepGrrl said, on 2/11/2007 7:40:00 PM
Hey, ImInLoveWithJonathan. Jodi Picoult wrote my sister’s keeper.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/12/2007 10:14:00 AM
Yeah, that’s who I thought wrote it! My mom reads all books by Jodi Picoult. So I’ve seen it around the house. But I don’t really keep track of my mother’s favorite authors, unless something like this happens and I remember. So yeah.
On said, on 2/13/2007 4:49:00 PM
I don’t really have a “favorite” author, there’s just too many out there, and they’re all awesome! But Scott is a super awesome author..totally different category.
capt. cockatiel said, on 2/15/2007 9:56:00 AM
I have a bazillion ‘favorite’ authors…
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/15/2007 6:28:00 PM
thanks yeah i figured that out when i went up into my room and saw it on my dresser. but thanks.
ImInLoveWithJonathan! said, on 2/15/2007 6:29:00 PM
i know her from somewhere i just cat remember what book i read of hers. its really bothering me now.
Savannah said, on 3/3/2007 2:57:00 PM
I stole the second pic and actually did make it into a shirt! WHAT NOW SUCKER!!!
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