Yes, it’s time to reveal the cover of the sequel to Shay’s Story!
But first, I’m doing two appearances in the near future, one in the real world and one online.
The first will be a chat on Figment.com. I’ll be chatting with Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan, co-authors of the upcoming book, Team Human. We’ll be discussing collaborations in general, and what it’s like for experienced novelists to work with other writers.
I don’t have a link yet, but it will happen at 8PM US Eastern Time on Sunday, July 8.
My second set of appearances will be at Comic Con. The panels aren’t set yet, but I will have a signing on Sunday:
San Diego Comic Con
1:30-2:30pm
Sunday July 15th
Autograph area AA09 in the Sails Pavilion
Lots of other writers will be at this signing, but I’ll reveal those details later. Also, I will probably have another signing on a different day. Stay tuned.
So, without further ado, here’s the cover to Uglies: Cutters . . .
Hope you like it.
June 14th, 2012 09:59
Ahh first comment. I LOVE te new cover art. Can’t wait for it to come out! I wish I lived even remotely close to San Diego to go to Comic Con though ):
June 14th, 2012 10:15
This looks incredible! I can’t wait to read it! I just checked out comic con cause I live a few hours away. It’s sold out.
So sad! You should make a stop in Las Vegas to meet your fans here! Like me!
June 14th, 2012 10:23
I think that 8pm US EST is late morning the next day for me… I will probably be at work. Damn.
June 14th, 2012 10:31
The cover looks so cool! I love how intense they look
June 14th, 2012 10:33
I had no idea you were going to be at Comic Con! I had to choose between Comic Con and Anime Expo for a trip this summer and I would have totally picked Comic Con if I knew you were going.
June 14th, 2012 16:14
I LOVE that cover!! I so wish I could go to Comic Con.
June 14th, 2012 19:02
That cover’s totes icy, Scott-la. But is that Zane and Shay? Or Zane and Tally? I’m not very into the title, though.
June 14th, 2012 20:36
I LOVE IT! Btw Shay looks like a total bubblehead
June 14th, 2012 20:40
That’s an awesome cover, but I can’t tell who’s on it exactly.
I do live remotely-ish close to San Diego, but it’s still pretty far away. I probably won’t be able to go to Comic-Con. @2: Sold out? Then definitely not.
June 14th, 2012 20:42
@8: Agreed!! …If that is Shay. I’m pretty sure it is, though.
June 14th, 2012 23:06
EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH THAT COVER!!!!!!! she’s not even scary at all… she looks like a little girl dressed up for halloween. and i thought that the cutters had black eyes???!!!! her cheeckbones arent nearly high enouh either… but i suppose i have the general idea of manga to blame for that. also: who’s the dude? looks like Pretty Zane to me!
we get art reveals from this one too right? i’m super excited!!!!
June 14th, 2012 23:11
@11 Well this is them as Pretties, not Specials.
I’m guessing it’s Shay and Zane? They both look like bubbleheads, it’s perfect! Although aren’t Shay’s eyes gray/silver? Still, beautiful cover Scott-la.
June 14th, 2012 23:44
@12 i just realized, you’re totally right. boy, i feel like an idiot. and yeah: you’re right again, shay’s eyes are green and silver WITH EYE CLOCKS!!!! WHERE ARE THE EYES CLOCKS??? i guess this is pre-surge.
The cover looks kinda intimate… anyone think there’ll be some sort of shay/zane romance? we already seen that with shay and david…
June 15th, 2012 00:38
You need to come to Kansas City sometime! XD
I like the cover too.
June 15th, 2012 02:14
Is that Zane? If so why is their hair the same color, Zane’s should be darker.
June 15th, 2012 03:01
whose point of view will this be in?
cant wait to see it!!!
June 15th, 2012 03:51
Yay!! Finally I have a use for my figment account!
The cover’s pretty awesome too…
June 15th, 2012 04:29
OH MY BLOODY BARKING SPIDERS OOOOOOOOOH MY!!!!!!!! SQUEAAALLLLLL!!!!! I LOOOOOVE THAT COVER!!!!!!! I LOOOOOOVE ZANE!!!!!!! AAAAAAND SCOTT IS GONNA BE IN SAN DIEGO!!!!!! I KNOOOOOW IM LIKE TOTALLY SCREAMING BUT AAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHH I LOOOOOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!
June 15th, 2012 04:34
*clears throat* Ahem. Sorry about that last comment. I really need to calm down. EXEPT I TOTALLY CAN’T!!!!! AUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!! OH MY OH MY OHMYGOSH!!!!!!!
…yeah. Sorry again.
June 15th, 2012 04:35
Can you come to Redwood City Scott-la? Pretty please? IT WOULD BE SOOOO BOGUS IF YOU DIDN’T! Pleeaase?
June 15th, 2012 05:33
Ah!!!!!!!!!!!! ME SOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!
June 15th, 2012 08:04
Oh, my figment account has come into use! Yes! AHAHAHAHA AND I live in San Diego! AHAHAHAHA But Comic Con is always a jumble :/
Oh wells! I still have the power of Figment!
June 15th, 2012 09:36
I love figment! But I might be out of town for a journalism camp
June 15th, 2012 12:50
Now I really want to go to Comic Con…
To get a Fall of Cybertron Bruticus too…
June 15th, 2012 19:02
How very pretty-making!!!
(see what I did there? Now that I read the series I can do that. Score)
June 15th, 2012 19:06
GUESSS WHAT SCOTT!!!!
I was telling my friend that you were my favorite author and she said that she had MET YOU!!! Because you had WENT TO HER SCHOOL when she lived in Virginia on your BEHEMOTH TOUR!
IM SO JEALOUS RIGHT
But then I realized that I know someone that met you and then that made me feel good.
June 15th, 2012 23:59
@26-I was jealous of my mom cause she met Scott-la TWICE.
June 16th, 2012 00:57
I love that cover. I pictured the cutters’ hair just like that!
I cant wait to read the book!
June 16th, 2012 01:54
Hold on. I see what you did there!
The cover for Uglies has a girl (Tally?) looking from behind some plant. The cover for Shay’s Story has Shay looking from behinds some sort of cloth. The cover for Pretties has a pretty boy and girl (Tally and Zane?). The cover for Cutters has a pretty boy and girl (Shay and Zane).
or maybe i’m just being too observant…
June 16th, 2012 02:43
Wait a minute…
By reading Mia’s comment, I’m beginning to feel like there are THREE mangas: Shay’s story, Pretties, AND Cutters. But at first I thought there were only two: Shay’s story and Cutters. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE????
June 16th, 2012 02:45
Oh, never mind, I get what Mia means.
Tally looking from behind plant=Shay looking from behing cloth
Pretty Tally&Zane=Pretty Shay&Zane
So there are only two mangas, like I first thought.
Yeah, I know, epic fail.
June 16th, 2012 06:18
alright guys. i need some help.
so i drew this picture of Deryn in my sketchbook, and i really really want to send it to scott as a Fan art!! but i have no idea how!
like i said, its in my sketchbook, so what is the best way to take a picture of it to send????
thanks so much to anyone who can help!
June 16th, 2012 06:19
@ 27, YOLO
WHAT!!! lucky bum!
its always the people who arent huge fans that get to meet him
June 16th, 2012 06:19
@YOLO I think there will be three mangas. Shay starts the Cutters when she’s pretty, so this one (Cutters) might just be about the Cutters back in their pretty days. I got confused with the title too
June 16th, 2012 07:27
@32-Why don’t you scan the picture? It’s less blurry than a picture, and it will go right to your computer.
June 16th, 2012 07:27
@33-IKR
June 16th, 2012 07:46
This is my impression of Tally and David texting each other:
Tally: Hey David! What are u havin 4 dinner?
David: Spagbol
Tally: EEW
David: LOL JK
Tally: U r so mean!!!
June 18th, 2012 16:34
Yay, it is on Sunday again. One of the two days I got tickets for (Thursday and Sunday, for the second year in a row).
I shall have to get Goliath autographed to complete the set.
June 18th, 2012 18:53
Oh my God! I totally loved the first manga and we’re already seeing the next one! Do we get to see Shay as a cutter than! I’m totally ready to see that! I’ve always pictured them with flash tattoos all over their face and their teeth filled with fangs and their irises completely black! OMG
June 19th, 2012 01:19
@32: scan the picture or put the camera and the picture both on level surfaces (Like a tripod, If you have one) and there should be way less blur
June 19th, 2012 01:20
i’m at writer’s block… on here ’cause i can’t finish the chapter
June 19th, 2012 01:23
Blisters! I don’t even live within 500 miles of San Diego! Oh well, Scott would have to sign my Nook, ’cause that’s where I have the whole Leviathan trilogy…
June 19th, 2012 03:36
ok, i haven’t been online in ages, but when does Cutters come out??? and i think the reason it’s called Cutters is becayse Shay started the Cutters in Pretties.
June 22nd, 2012 20:51
Yeah, Scott-la, when is this being released in stores? Hopefully soon!
June 23rd, 2012 00:55
LOVE THIS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN’T WAIT TILL THE 3RD! and the 2nd! Specials is my all time favorite
June 26th, 2012 19:37
Will there be an Extras manga even if it’s a companion novel?
July 9th, 2012 00:48
@46 And instead of Shay’s Story, it’s Moggle’s Story!!!
July 10th, 2012 00:32
Cutters is such a perfect name. Love the cover. Can’t wait!!!
July 14th, 2012 21:42
Okay so i don’t get it… Is it Shay-la and Zane or Tally and Zane or what?
Plus Shay-la has Red hair i thought…
There on ebay seriously is a packet of SpagBol sooo funny
July 20th, 2012 00:14
I can’t wait! I’m so excited!!!
August 8th, 2012 05:30
@Jac-la Shay-la has brown/black hair and Tally-wa has red hair
August 18th, 2012 21:55
Does anyone know when it’s coming out, cant wait to get it! Love the front cover Scott-la, just hope its as good as Shay’s Story
January 12th, 2013 20:58
May someone please let me know when the; Uglies: Cutters will be coming out? Thank-you.
I’ve enjoyed all the previous novels in this series, and extremely enjoy the grapic novel of; Uglies: Shay’s Story. Scott Westerfeld is an wonderful author, and I enjoyed is other’s books he have written.
e-mail address:
southamptonwoman@gmail.com
February 24th, 2013 07:43
Oh my goodness I’m so excited for this story!! I’m very excited to see Shay’s side and what Tally looks like as a Special. A friend and I made a video on Special’s for a class we had, so I’m super obsessed with Specials! Hoping to be able to pre-order the book soon!