Hey, some quick news for those of you who haven’t noticed recent updates on my Appearances page. I’m going to be reading at the Jefferson Market Branch of the NYPL this Wednesday.
That’s in three days! And with many other excellent authors.
The details:
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 6:00PM sharp
(Come early to get a seat!)
Teen Author Reading Night!
Coe Booth, Daniel Ehrenhaft, John Green, David Levithan,
Carolyn MacCullough, Leslie Margolis, Scott Westerfeld
Jefferson Market branch of the NYPL
425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue)
6th Avenue and 10th Street
New York, NY
And the very next night, I’ll be appearing at Books of Wonder with anoter mob of fabulous authors. No, really:
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 5PM-7PM
Susan Cooper, Ellen Kushner, Gail Carson Levine,
Celia Rees, Delia Sherman and Scott Westerfeld
Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th St
New York, NY
And . . . there’s one last thing you can help me out with. What movie does the plot of So Yesterday remind you of? Like, what’s a hip, urban adventure to compare it too? Maybe a missing person caper of some kind.
I need to know!
October 2nd, 2006 07:24
sounds exciting…i’ll come early for Books of Wonder…Perfect…after i get out of school i’ll have time to jet home and then jet over to the book store..perfect..wil you be sining?
And So Yesterday seems like a modern ugh…Oddesy? I seriously don’t know…Sorry…Dylan, loved the Uglies Trilogy and the Last Days
October 2nd, 2006 07:46
scott, will you talk to susan cooper for me and report on every precious, mythic word in your blog? “the dark is rising” was my all-time favorite when i was a kid.
so yesterday reminds me of the maltese falcon for some strange reason. macguffins, you know.
October 2nd, 2006 09:24
The only movie I can think of offhand is Go (which I like very much) but I’m not sure if that was successful enough for your likely purposes. I also think that people who liked Slacker and Before Sunrise would like it, though the tones are very different.
October 2nd, 2006 11:12
Hey, this is a little random, but Eoin Colfer made an appearance (oh I CAN tie to the subject!) in St. Paul today, where I live… (he said my name was beautiful, he used it in one of his books once, oh yeah!) but anyway: Scott: COME TO MINNESOTA! lol, please?
October 2nd, 2006 13:21
Okay, this is funny because I know a movie that reminds me CREEPILY of So Yesterday. When I saw it that was the first thing I thought.
It’s called Elizabethtowne. It stars Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. In it Orlando’s character is SHOE DESIGNER for a company that’s never named but likes swooshes and was founded in Oregon. (I actually know the great grandson of the FOUNDER of Nike. Like the guy who actually put the shoe tread on the waffle iron, no joke.) Anyway, something is terribly wrong with the shoe and it gets recalled and he loses the company a billion dollars. After that the similiarities kind of end except that his character reminds me a lot of Hunter. Random tid-bits of information, and of course, the un-named shoe company fiasco. It’s a great movie. Someone watch it and tell me if I’m crazy or does it totally strike you as VERY much like So Yesterday?
I wish you would come to Oregon, Scott. We’re very cool here. Or at least California. Are you ever going to come to the west coast at all?
October 2nd, 2006 13:43
Scott, would you ever come to Canada???
Seriously.
I wish I lived in NYC. If only.
Please??? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
Canadians are uber cool. And nice. And we read.
And we do NOT live in igloos, or have beavers have pets. Don’t believe whatever you heard about us. Really.
Hmm…maybe I should cast a magic spell to make you come to Toronto.
October 2nd, 2006 14:25
Ok, cool.
Now, when are you going to partake in a bit of Oklahoma?
October 2nd, 2006 14:28
Mabye you should do your own Heartland tour.
(Sorry this is in two bits, I am only creative in short bursts.)
October 2nd, 2006 14:54
Maybe… So Yesterday could be like a Finding Nemo set in NY. Except that there are people, not fish. And everything is high-tech and cool!
Ah, okay, thats porbably the worst comparison I’ve ever come up with.
So, on that Appearances page it says you’re going to be in Seattle in a few weeks. Are you just going to the library people’s thing, or maybe would you do some book signing things around there?
October 2nd, 2006 17:03
You’re a teen author? Dude, you look like you’re at least in your twenties! Bummer!
BTW, if you go to Oklahoma, the coffee is great at Nordaggio’s.
October 2nd, 2006 21:28
North by Northwest
October 3rd, 2006 00:52
Seattle, Seattle, Seattle, Seattle. There. Scott, your fans are calling. (And they’re saying SEATTLE! And Oklahoma and Canada. Whatever.)
Hmmmm, a movie? I don’t really watch movies that are hip. Or cool. Or So Yesterday-like. But So Yesterday is my favorite book and I’ll watch any movie that is like it (except The Maltese Falcon because that is Evil in its purest form).
October 3rd, 2006 02:46
Canada would be cool, I’m sort of close to Canada…
October 3rd, 2006 05:04
CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!
you can go surfin now
every body surfin now…
anyways
but yeah
you should come to cali…
meet some stars…
or at least abunch of crazy fans who WOULD dress up like stars for you!
tehe
i love the finding nemo comparision.
October 3rd, 2006 05:42
man, i wish i could think of something. you know what movie i think of, american psycho. even though it was totally -awful-. only because they had to somehow work in the random chapters where bateman was talking about bands and stuffs. but also because it was first person, which is hard to move to film.
October 3rd, 2006 08:12
dude, scott, if you dont come to colorado i swear i will cry. seriously. that is sooo not fair! i love you and john green!! no one ever comes here…. *tear*
October 3rd, 2006 08:14
YA FLORENCE! Come to Canada! If oyu have time ot be travelling that is. We want you to be writing books.
Movie… thinking but so far I have zip.
October 3rd, 2006 09:16
omigosh! Scott Westerfeld (which would be you wouldn’t it!? haha) has a blog!! Well duh I’m commenting on it right now. How come authors never come to St. Louis or Missouri in general?! NEVER! Is it just too centerally located for everyone?! Movie…well there was a CSI: NY episode on last season about trendsetters and all that jazz. OH!!!! And Josie and the Pussy Cats!!! Please, tell me if I’m crazy but when I read So yesterday I had to like watch that movie again just to make sure I’m wasn’t going crazy! okay, so the role of Jen and Hunter are turned around but it’s got the romance dealio, the bringing down of the system…or the wish to bring it down and just the existance of a system to set trends. Okay so maybe Josie is a little more…excentric then So Yesterday but it fits! At least I think.
October 3rd, 2006 09:50
http://www.nanowrimo.org
just wanted to let everyone know that this is now open for registration!!!
for those of you who don’t know what it is, its a write-a-novel in one month website. Its really cool, a bunch of people sign up and all through November people race to complete a novel in 30 days. So check it out!
^-^
October 3rd, 2006 10:16
I agree with Maggie. If you can travel half way around the world twice a year, surely you can come half way across the nation.
October 3rd, 2006 11:38
Seattle. My mom works at a hospital here and says that she hopes that Scott gets in an accident and then comes to her hospital and then she will meet him/you. I laughed, then told her not to think such evil thoughts!
October 3rd, 2006 13:57
I count two for Oklahoma.
C’mon. You’ve written books placed in Oklahoma. I’m SURE that Uglies takes place here. There are roller-coasters. And rivers! So… HA!
October 4th, 2006 06:03
scott, you really should come to Washington D.C.! I live in northern virginia (really close to washington) and i have seen lots of people reading your books. They’re always checked out at the library! please come to D.C.!
October 4th, 2006 12:36
Elizabeth Town?? I don’t think so…
October 4th, 2006 13:08
Okay, Scott, I GET that you updated your appearences and everything but HELLO? WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SEATTLE! It says you have a convention, but nothing about if you are signing books!
US SEATTLE-ITES ARE CALLING! ALL THREE OF US (plus others I don’t know)
So yeah.
OH! And So Yesterday reminded me of Zoolander, for some weird reason. Whatever. Hope it helped.
-Topaz
October 4th, 2006 13:14
According to the appearances page, Scott is going to a school librarians-type convention. Hmm.
Not only are the Seattle-ites calling, but people-who-would-drive-to-seattle-to-go-to-a-book-signing-ites are out there too :p
October 4th, 2006 13:40
Yes! Join us, Lauren-la! Scott, when you come to Seattle you may get our famous Seattle rain, which really isn’t that amazing. We are in what I have dubbed the “rainy season”, but if you really wanted our beautiful Washington rain you would probably have to travel to Forks (which is sorta Stephenie Meyer’s territoty, if anyone knows what I mean). But please, tell us all you can! School Library conventions sound like fun to me, if they involve good authors. TELL US!!
October 4th, 2006 16:24
Sadness! I wish I was in NY, but I am not there until the end of this month. Sadness for me. I feel I should cry, but not enough to actually cry. I have standards!! Some anyway, etiquette-wise!!
Wow… I am rambling. Anyway I haven’t read your book yet, but I can relate anything to Barbie stories and Alice in Wonderland, or at least a screwed up version of Wonderland, whether or not Alice has to be there. So I could possibly conclude that your book would remind me of that.
If you have anything goin on in NY at the end of this month, post, post, POST!!!!!!
October 5th, 2006 03:51
I had a dream that I was un blockbuster and so yesterday came out on dvd. And by the way, since the WB in now the CW, are they still considering midnighters? Upn 45 wouldnt be bad either, they took buffy after the WB couldnt afford them anymore.
October 5th, 2006 07:33
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=38500
My jaw dropped open when I read. Just in case you didn’t know….
October 5th, 2006 08:30
Whoa. That is so cool! But wouldn’t making the characters older ruin a lot of the plot? That seems weird to me. Isn’t there, like, a point to them being in highschool? Personally, I think making them older would ruin the whole thing.
Oh, and what’s going on with SEATTLE, Scott??!!
October 5th, 2006 10:45
Scott you would be a bad author if you let them up their ages to their 20′s!!!! That would take everything we love away from midnighters. If you wanted it to be that way, thats how you would have written it. Plus I don’t have cable, and sci-fi is only used with people who do have cable. I bet less than half of midnighters readers would watch if it got changed around that drastically.
October 5th, 2006 10:45
Not a bad author I meant a bad person
October 5th, 2006 12:12
Yeah, I mean come on! MID to LATE 20s??? I can’t see Jess floating around with her boyfriend when she almost thirty! So weird. And Avant Garde, most of the time the authors don’t have a choice about what happens in their TV show or movie
But 20???
And Scott, I DAMAND you tell us if you are signing books in Seattle! My friends want to go in the lobby and stalk you (Me:???). My idea was to kidnap you and force you to sign our books but for some strange reason, the idea was veto-ed. My dad thinks I should just write you and wait for a reply before I get rash, but you havn’t written back! ARG!
Frustrated and anxious,
-Topaz
P.S. No one is really going to stalk you or kidnap you. I swear. Us Seattleites are very welcoming.
P.P.S. But if you don’t sign books, you’ll force us to leave our nice homes and move to NY.
P.P.P.S. And if I am correct, NYC doesn’t have special Washington rain.
October 5th, 2006 13:09
Topaz, you are correct. Only us Wwashingtonians have the privelege of the special rain.
October 5th, 2006 16:12
So, wait. You want me to sign in Seattle?
Hmm . . . okay.
I’m calling all my librarian friends (and yes, I have MANY librarian friends) and getting something together.
How could I say no to all of you?
October 6th, 2006 00:44
You can’t. That’s the point. We would only accept it as your delusional rantings and wait for the REAL answer (which, by the way, would be yes). YAY! We have been answered!!
October 6th, 2006 07:19
You can’t say no to us, we are your fans.
But see, you should stop in Minnesota on your way to Seattle… St. Paul specifically…. 
October 6th, 2006 08:15
Frankly, I think you should just make it a road trip to Seattle, and on the way, you could spend a day in CHICAGO!! I mean, it’s one of the largest cities in the USA, why do you aviod it like the plague???!!!
October 6th, 2006 09:40
Yay! YAY!! Thank-you!! I mean, saying no to such good logic about the rain in Washington is impossible, right?
Anyway … YAY!!!
October 6th, 2006 10:19
It reminds me a little of Blade Runner; you know, beautiful young people chasing the truth in garbage-strewn, futuristic urban landscapes.(Even though So Yesterday is not supposed to be set in the far future.) The whole theme of planned obsolescence.
I am one of your grown-up fans, a 45-year-old grad student in library school at Rutgers. I discovered your work last year in a class on materials for young adult and I’m just thrilled that you are so prolific.
I even turned my husband onto you. He’s a 50-year-old shrink and he especially liked the way you intertwined parasitology and fiction in Peeps.
Keep writing, Scott! You’re wonderful!
Ariel
October 6th, 2006 10:26
Any word on the signing in Seattle yet, Scott? We’re just drooling over here, waiting to know.
October 6th, 2006 10:55
Yes, yes, yes. Drooooolllliiinngggg…
How could you NOT obay us? Me and a TON of friends are coming! You’re here from the 12-15th, right?
PLEASE SIGN BOOKS! WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU!
-Topaz (now very, very happy!)
October 6th, 2006 11:32
WHAT? I mean yay for all the Seattle but you can’t come to Canada? Toronto is WAY closer to New York than Seattle.
October 6th, 2006 12:46
Yes, Toronto may be closer but:
1) Scott is on Seattle for a convention-thing anyways. And
2) Seattle has special Seattle rain, and Toronto does not. But Canada is way cooler than the U.S. I must admit. Though not cooler than the Seattle rain (…or the 1984 silver-plated nail clippers…)
October 6th, 2006 13:08
GAH! replying to the Midnighter’s show thing: THEY NEED TO BE TEENAGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, Scott, can you talk about your new Airship trilogy?
October 6th, 2006 20:04
Ariel Cooke,
Blade Runner! I love that movie, and your right, it does have certain sembalences to So Yesterday. It’s more like a mix of So Yesterday and Peeps combined, maybe a little bit of the Uglies trilogy, too.
Hmmm…I need to get that movie again.
October 7th, 2006 08:04
OH God…..i found out about your book reading just now and now i’m three days too late, Scott. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!!
The worst part is that even if i had found out about it earlier, i might not have been able too go:( after school volleyball practice wouldn’t let me!!!!!!!!!!!
please keep posting up appeareances. One of these days, i will be able to go……..
October 7th, 2006 08:09
Well, you know we’re doing two more in NYC soon:
Monday, October 16, 6:30PM,
Signing at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble
Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld
267 Seventh Avenue,
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Wednesday, October 18, 7:00PM
Siginging at Kips Bay Borders
Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld
576 2nd Ave (at 32nd Street)
Manhattan
October 7th, 2006 11:29
Oh yeah. The only movie that I know of that is So Yesterday-like is this crazy book-promtion on YouTube for So Yesterday. It cracks me up.
October 7th, 2006 13:06
oh i want to come and me topaz and capt.cockatielwill try to recruit some others.
October 10th, 2006 09:39
I just read your book called So Yesterday.
I can honestly say it’s the most interesting book I’ve ever read. I love how it’s just different from other books and makes you think.
I’m doing a big huge project on this for school [I'm a freshman at Spooner High School], it’s for literature class, and I need to do a section on you, so that’s why I’m emailing you, to tell you about this and that I loved your book and I’m planning on reading more of them.
October 15th, 2006 07:33
So Yesterday reminds me a lot of the 1995 film Hackers. Both invole running around NYC from a sort of unknown enemy. Many consider Hackers to be Angelina Jolie’s breakout film. Seriously Scott, check it out. They are very similar.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/trailers-screenplay-E10206-10-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
October 16th, 2006 08:42
Hey I don’t know of any movies like So Yesterday. There is probably a Kevin Bacon film with that plot though. lol
October 17th, 2006 10:58
This week is ALA’s Teen Read Week, and Peeps has been nominated in the Teen Top Ten. Everyone go and vote! NOW.
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2006/trw06.htm
November 6th, 2006 12:03
You should come to Canada!(Specifically B.C.)Like Florence said, We do not live in igloos(it barely even snows here!It’s so warm!) or keep beavers as pets.(I for one, have never even seen a beaver)BUt anyays, I really love your Uglies trilogy. I just finished specials,(Which was the best book I have read) and I am reading it once more. I even made my sister read uglies, and I made her read so yesterday. Come to Canada!!!!!!
November 27th, 2006 03:50
Just finished reading So Yestersday and was considering using it as a class novel (I teach reading to sophomores). Googled Westerfeld and wound up here…cool. When I thought about what movie the plot reminded me of my mind darted to Time Square. I haven’t seen the movie in over 25 years, but it definitely left a lasting impression. There is no doubt that this was a hip, urban adventure, and the protagonists easily compare to ’80s innovator/jammers.
March 31st, 2007 12:10
Yes, listen to Molly. Come to BC. North Vancouver. My school library, where only my friends and I go.
Please?
*Gives puppy-dog eyes*