Here’s some fan art to amuse you all, perhaps making up for my lack of postage.
But first a little news: Specials and Pretties have appeared on the NYT bestseller list! Specials has re-listed at #7 on the chapterbook list, and Pretties debuts at #8 on the paperback list.
The crazy thing is that Pretties has been out for more than a year. So the book’s appearance on a bestseller list means that you guys have been talking it up! And I mean that: At this point the only marketing is word of mouth. (And slipcases! Someone give me slipcases!)
So onward to the fan art . . . Here’s happy Tally celebrating the news. Dance, Tally, dance!
Animated gif by Breca H.
And here’s a vision of New pretty Town from the UK.
Picture by Joanna L., who’s working on a university design project based on Uglies.
And finally, an entry in the long-awaited Halloween costume ball, Dess with Purposelessly Hyperinflated Individuality!
Costume designed and worn by Kallie P., plus Psychokitty!
Send any more costume shots to my fan mail address. To do that, here and click “contact” in the upper right corner. Then replace the “at” with the “@”. Why is this so hard? To make spambots choke on their own bile, that’s why.
(I will keep your names secret, of course.)
And again, thanks for getting me on the list. Without you guys, I’m a crazy guy saying “bubbly” way too much.
December 16th, 2006 01:13
Congrats on the list — very bubbly and much deserved!
December 16th, 2006 04:27
awwwwww. this makes me feel special. congrats! you more than deserved it.
December 16th, 2006 04:30
Good job.
December 16th, 2006 06:15
Congrats! That’s pretty cool.
Meez.com is funnnnnn.
December 16th, 2006 07:23
Yaaaaay fan art! And congrats for sticking on the NY Times Bestseller list!!!
December 16th, 2006 08:58
Congrats! And happy first day of Chanukah!
December 16th, 2006 11:45
Yeeaahh I’m famous! Congrats, Scott!
December 16th, 2006 11:47
bubbly sweet i was read ing preties and why is every thing so bubbly what is it any way,i felt like the midnighters at a peprally it was like the anti bubbly (simular to the anticrist)
December 16th, 2006 14:09
Congrats!
Very neat art – The Tally image is in turns awesome and a little scary to see moving about.
Go Des and kitty.
December 17th, 2006 16:13
you’re not crazy! but you do say bubbly a lot…
December 18th, 2006 07:10
Oooh, fun-ness. My power has returned! And so I came here, to the wonderful world of Westerblog to spend my time.
My lights, electrical appliances and other warm-making things were rendered useless for two days! And most people still don’t have theirs back… yes, we on the East Side (of Washington State) had bad luck. Stupid Seattleites with their big city and no-tree-ness! Most of THEM didn’t lose power.
Anyway, this post is too long, so congrats!
December 19th, 2006 05:59
Oh, and what ever happened to the names thing? I have been waiting for So Yesterday for, what? Months? Weeks? I don’t even know. Though I guess it would be hard to do them while writing a book and all.
December 19th, 2006 10:26
Congrats Scott, you deserve it! Every middle-schooler where I live has read Uglies.
December 19th, 2006 12:15
Congrats Scott! That’s very happy-making! I read Specials in three hours yesterday. I’ve been hooked on your series since my little sister brought it home from her middle school book fair! Again congrats and I hope your success is perpetual!
December 19th, 2006 14:41
Congratulations! That’s really neat!
Yahhh! The power has finally been returned to my house! We still don’t have school though… Which means this day off will be coming out of my summer vacation.
December 20th, 2006 05:38
Poor summer vacation — being cut down for us without power. Less time to get in my minimum of 24 books!
December 20th, 2006 07:15
my school lost power at a dance but it was kinda bubbly
December 20th, 2006 11:04
yay scott! mucho congrats.
and of course we’ve been talking about it, i got eighteen people to buy your book didn’t i?
lol
anyway congrats…and i’ll send you pictures as soon as my math teacher hands them over
December 20th, 2006 11:25
good job! i am amazed that even tho we read the same book our imagination can go in 2 totally different direction-that is not even close to what i pictured new pretty town like. ah, well now i must go finish my report on Julius Caesar(the play), not very fun!
December 20th, 2006 16:51
i never pictured pretty twon from afare just up close where they are totaly bubbly making
December 21st, 2006 08:47
thats cool that you are on the best seller list. congrats! I asked for uglies for Christmas, and i already have the other two. Im making my little sister read uglies, but so far she has barely read any. she’s probably only at the beginning of tally’s trip to the smoke!:0 I can’t wait for Christmas!(sorry, a little off topic)
December 21st, 2006 15:09
omg! that costume is awesome! she looks so dess-ish!:)
December 21st, 2006 17:44
dess-ish that should be a word Dess-ish-(VERB)gothic,hater of phycokitty enjoyer of stianless steal and math: The girl at midnight looked so dess-ish.
December 22nd, 2006 04:50
Yay I’m so excited! More fan art please!
December 22nd, 2006 11:28
WHOA Tally moves!! That is really insane/awesome! And I’d have to say that the Midnighters costume is way better then the one I wore.
Yay for Pretties and Specials being bestsellers!
Hey, I had power out for 4 days. Stupid windstorms. But most of the people in Seattle I know lost their power …How does Seattle not have trees? It’s in Washington! Washington is made of trees! Okay, anyway …
December 22nd, 2006 11:49
ha! haddy i love your wanna-be dictionary entry. it makes me laugh!
December 22nd, 2006 14:12
so, whatever happened to the explanation of names from the “Uglies” I was really looking forward to it.
December 23rd, 2006 04:01
Seattle is all “We’re a big, urban, silver-colored city. Make way for buildings, get rid of those treeeees!” That’s how most of Seattle doesn’t have trees. I mean, it’s not a baren wasteland or anything, but it’s not forests, either. It’s a city. And the buildings are not carved out of trees. Or something like that. So, yeah. And Washington is not made of trees. But we do have them…
December 23rd, 2006 04:36
“Buildings carved out of trees”
I think I’d actually like to see someone try that! But good point about cities not having trees. The fact that big trees can’t just grow out of the sidewalk kinda slipped out of my mind for a second. Oops …
December 23rd, 2006 10:34
Thanks Amy! ok ist it just me or does it seem like everyone lives in WA
December 23rd, 2006 11:13
Everyone cool lives in Washington. No offense, all of you who aren’t Washingtonians. But Washington is just where the cool people are. I mean, we started Starbucks, and Microsoft and Pearl Jam. We’re cool. Plus, us Seattlites know how to convince authors to do signings (see comments from October, hee hee).
December 23rd, 2006 14:21
to bad i hadnt read so yesterday yet when he came to seatle im sad now
i like starbucks and microsoft though 
December 23rd, 2006 15:38
Hey, not just Seattlites. The people who live in the capital of Washington are pretty darn cool, as well as aouthor-convincing. And the capital is -not- Seattle, just in case anyone had any doubts :]
YUM starbucks is good. I love their vanilla lattes!
December 23rd, 2006 17:27
i love olmpia its where most of my dads family lives and vancouver sucks but its in WA i like vanilla cream
December 24th, 2006 06:07
I have never been to Starbucks. And I live in Seattle. Does that have some secret meaning? Most likely. I have only been to Olympia once, and it was not for very long. Just this random trip we all took without my mom.
December 24th, 2006 09:59
so you dont like starbucks i mean i dont like coffe(it makes me realy hypier)but i still like starbucks
December 25th, 2006 06:06
I don’t get hyper. I’m a calm person. So whenever I start eating chocolate or something at night my friends are all “Nooo! You’ll go insane and ccrazy and HYPER!” But I eat the chocolate. And nothing happens.
And what would be the point of going to Starbucks if I did not get something coffee-oriented? There wouldn’t be one.
December 25th, 2006 14:32
i dont get coffee and thats the only thing that makes me hyper, wait a second are we fighting about starbucks or not?
December 26th, 2006 15:52
Were we ever fighting about Starbucks? I remember no fighting.
December 27th, 2006 11:31
I pictured hoverboards looking diffenert!
December 27th, 2006 15:09
Same with me. Nut we can’t all think the same. (ah! Big Brother returns with his silver-plated nail clippers!)
December 27th, 2006 15:10
*Nut* I meant ‘but’. The ‘n’ and ‘b’ are right next to each other, so don’t look at me that way!
December 30th, 2006 06:35
me to it seems like we all picture things different
December 31st, 2006 08:33
I thought that was kind of a given, you know?
December 31st, 2006 18:20
You mean the “picture” of the city, i thought it was more like a realy nice and “shiney” city with pimped out future stuff
January 1st, 2007 10:50
Me too. But we cannot overthrow minds to make everything what we want, can we now? Though that would be nice… and a little Big Brother-ish at the same time.
January 2nd, 2007 11:57
no pimped out future stuff:( well never know how it realy looks like so well just have to wonder
January 2nd, 2007 14:31
Well, it doesn’t really look like anything, right? It’s not real. It’s our imaginations taking the description and turning it into a picture. In our heads. Not… on the earth.
January 5th, 2007 13:05
not yet atleast well never realy know
January 28th, 2007 13:01
ooh, i love starbucks!!! mmmm. anywhere, where can you get a thirteen pointed star?
February 3rd, 2007 06:46
im getting my dad who is a contracter to let me use the soder-er to make one. i know how to use it but hes all like ummmmmmm no. im not letting a 14 year old use the soder thinger. only he didnt use the word thinger. i just dont know what its called. soder-er doesnt sound like a real word
February 19th, 2007 05:47
Boogie down, Tally! She’s so cute busting moves in midair.
February 27th, 2007 09:01
I had a much much much different picture of a hoverboard.like. sleek black and its sqaure and comes in like a hexogon in the front .mmmm..oh well! l.o.l!! and a much different version of New Pretty Town.i pictured it like sliver everything and cool.idk futeristic stuffy..i have a C R A Z Y imagination. and Tally didnt look exactly like that..anyway i’m getting way too criticle..its cute!.anyway CONGRATS!! and i like the word “bubbly”!! i use bogus and bubbly all the time now! dont be ashamed!! lol! also..personally..not too crazy bout the New Pretty Town look..and y r we talking about Starbucks?!? i totally dont get that! LOSt! oh well…congrats!
February 27th, 2007 15:41
Hi,
), okay that’s all. Oh, by the way capt. cockatiel is such a catchy name -no offense to everyone else you have nice names too-, I don’t know how you ever thought of it. Also, for the record I’m related to Kenzie
I’m new to the blog (not the site & books)
I’m not sure how often I can post (if I ever post, I probably will but just in case
April 5th, 2007 13:40
That is excellent fanart! Yay for fans!
July 6th, 2007 04:45
Hey, Riley, thanks. I have a pet cockatiel so… I don’t know. Some train of thoughts led to it from there, I guess.