Dark-Thirty

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The tour, she has begun!

Hey, did you guys know they have a six AM now? No one ever tells me anything. This is what it looks like:

Kind of spooky.

In case you can’t tell, I’m not a morning person. (This reason, and no other, is why I became a writer.) But while this tour was being scheduled, I read all these articles about how flights that are early in the day are delayed much less often. So rather than deal with that, many early flights were locked in.

So. Much. Early.

But after a post-flight nap, Justine and I are at a hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois, about to head off toward a banquet at the Great Lakes Booksellers Association. They’re feeding the authors at a special early dinner, so that we don’t even have to eat during the banquet.

Our job is but to charm.

Okay, I’ll try to blog every day or so, just to give you guys a sense of what book tours are like from the author’s perspective. This is my first real multi-city tour, so I’m looking forward to learning all the tricks.

Also, a few copies of Extras have been leaking out into the wild. That’s cool with me, but please no spoilers on this blog yet!

I’ll be setting up a spoiler zone this weekend.

Ciao for now!

71 thoughts on “Dark-Thirty”

  1. woo first comment (maybe)

    i have some pictures like that from an early flight to ireland.

    and is this obsessive extras blogging?????
    CAN’T WAIT TO GET A COPY!!!!
    it seems so fawesome…….
    why can’t my bookstore be one of the cool leaking ones??

  2. Sweet!! I wish i could go to Illinois…*sigh* But have fun!! Take LOTS of pictures!! It will be cool to see the places where you speak!!

    ohhh second comment, possibly. that’s cool!

    Hey, we have 6am here too, lol. And I have to wake up before that!! I think the sunset and sunrise it pretty.

    Kadie-Wa

  3. lol Yes there will be tons of spoliers I wish I had my Extras right now but alas I must wait for the 2nd. *sigh*

  8. Hey, there! Welcome to our neck of the woods! (I’m in Barrington and I live in Palatine, which probably means nothing to you, but I’m within spitting distance of Schaumburg… trust me.) I LOVE your books! I LOVE Justine’s books, too–should you care to pass that along. :)I can’t wait to read Extras! Hope you enjoy Illinois!

  10. and by the way…UUUHHHGGG!!!!!!!! why couldnt won of those few copies have leaked onto MY bedside table?! i would have been totally fine if some stalker from australia accidentally left one there. yepyepyep. but NOOOO. it had to go two GIL! UUUUHHHGGG! owell. ill get it on the THIRD! yeah not the second. i have dance! the THIRD!!!!! UUUHHHGGG!!!!
    ok im done with my tyrade.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT!

  12. A six AM??? NO WAY! Actually, I think that’s about the time I go to sleep lol. I’d become a writer too (I have a few half-finished novels in the works) but I don’t have the patience to put hours of work into them. But maybe someday I’ll finish one and get it published, then I wouldn’t have to get up in the morning to fix cars lol. Anyway, have fun on tour. You know, I think I heard a rumour that they even have a FIVE AM in some places. Would you believe it?

  13. FIVE AM! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! i woke up at exactly 11:22 this morning. i had spigetti for breakfast! but serioiusly. theres no such thing as five am. i hope. *gulp*
    *theres no such thing. theres no such thing*

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  17. I vow not to post spoilers since the first few chapters showed up at my house today.
    I kind of freaked out.
    But only a little. >.>
    I’m so excited about this tour! I am counting the days until the 11th!

  18. Hmm… I guess it makes sense that early flights are less likely to be delayed, because there’s less chance of [the airport] being behind schedule.

    Sounds like a ton of fun though, despite the early monrings 🙂

    Ahh, less than a week to go!!!!

  19. i have to get up at six a.m. every morning. well, six thirty. that is why a 7:53 first period bell sucks.

    and for sometime between monday and when i get my copy of extras, i may have to unplug my modem so i don’t look anywhere on the internet and read spoilers.

  21. Wow, you’re so real! I understand the work upping about the last HP book leaking because that was HUGE, but then there was all this spaztic drama about a mini Eclipse book of Stephenie Meyer’s, which IMO are getting worse as they go along, being shipped early.

    *sigh* I wish everyone could be, or even seem, as mellow as you. I’m so excited for my copy!

  22. I’m not a morning person either. In fact, I’m about the most opposite you can get from a morning person. I WILL hurt you, no joke, if you do anything to anger me before 10:00.
    Mornings always suck, seeing as I have to get up at 6:45 every morning to be at school on time.
    Whoop-de-freaking-doo.
    Why can’t everything start later? I’d much rather go to school later in the afternoon than early in the morning.
    I thrive off of darkness.
    *creepy sound effects*
    Haha, not really. But I do prefer nighttime.

    I can’t wait until Extras! I wish I could get to a bookstore to see if it’s one of the ones that are selling copies early, but sadly, I’ll have to wait. Unless I can someone convince my mom to take me tomorrow…

  23. Ah, six AM. 6 AM haunts me, every single morning. Well, anyway, welcome to Illinois (isn’t it boring?). I’m so excited to see you on the second!
    Happy almost Extras day!

  24. i want a leaky one NOW! I think I like the idea of obsessive Extras bloging. Have a good tour, even though you won’t be coming to New England. 🙁

  25. omg 6 AM that must be horrible … i had to do that once… fell right back to sleep once in the car to go to airport… only like 3 days and some hours excitement is building… then i get to Mequon and hav security take me away!!!! well hopefully not right away 🙂

  26. Ugh, six am? I have to catch my bus at six thirty…I feel your pain!

    Morning is a bad time, definitly. Try to talk to me before eight you will die. Yea, I think nine is a nice time to start…anything.

  27. im a total night owl. can stay up til like 3 before i get tired. its wierd. in the morning at school, whenever im kinda tired, im just silent and yawning. but when im so tired i feel like im gonna die, i just cant stop talking. its wierd. im just like blablablablabla! blablablablablabla! yepyepyep!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  28. I’m sorry that 6am was revealed to you. I have known that it existed for a while. I wake up before its even light out to go to school! Which would be 5:30.. yuck

  30. i have to wake up a 7:15 every morning, but i didnt know that there was anything less than 6:30 am. wow! wait, that means there are hmm…, a lot of hours in a day!

  31. WHO WANTS TO READ SOMETHING CREEPY? (IF YOU HAVENT READ MIDNIGHTERS, THIS WON’T MAKE SENCE) every night, at midnight, the light flicker. that is the only time the lights ever flicker in my house. maybe it is a sign that the secret hour is comming to columbus, georgia.

  35. really Amy-la?! wow!

    wanna no somethin else creepy? i sleep with my door and window open every night. (my room gets really hot) and every night at midnight…THE DOOR SLAMS SHUT! AND THEN I BOLT UPRITE! WIDE AWAKE! AND IT TAKES LIKE HALF A SECOND BEFORE I FALL ASLEEP AGAIN!!!!!! creeeeepyyy. Melissa, Jonathan, and Jessica must be getting nearer…*shivers*

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  39. yep. im two late. *sigh* i never get two talk. *sigh again*

    🙁 🙂 :O
    :*( 😀 😛
    :{ :[ B)
    :I

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  43. I hope that it will be such an early flight for me when I go to New Zealand for a twinning programme with my school. 😀

  44. i’m sooo excited… i live in central illinois and i’m driving up to do some stalking! um, i mean, cheering. possibly some hyperventilating. yay! highlight of my next week. 🙂

  45. So close. Im one state away… I WANT MY DRIVERS LICENSE! scott I hope youre still touring in three years. I have to get up at five every morning to go to school and it sucks. I feel your pain.

  46. OMG Scott is coming to my town on the PREMIER AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Ok scott if you ever read these I live in Naperville so this is like Mega exciting I am totally gonna be their. And ok 6 ‘o clock is bad but I have to be at church at 6 every school day so I wouldn’t complain if I were you about one morning at 6. Im out of the house at about 5:45 when my ride picks me up its the worst in the winter and even now when it’s completely dark but whatever YOU’RE COMING TO NAPERVILLE AAAAAHHHHHH!

  48. haha you didnt know about a 6am? silly,

    wOOt i am going to this one:

    Thursday, Oct 4
    7:00pm
    Harry Schwartz Books
    10976 North Port Washington Road
    Mequon, WI 53092
    In-store reading and signing

    im excitted =)

  49. a couple weeks ago i emaild 10 people to announce extras comming out. and a friend of mine said “i dont even read those books” i told her all about them, and she said “fine ill read one”. she might of been just geting me off her back, but im gonna make her read one of scotts books. now, which one should i make her read first?

  50. WOOT!!!! SCHAUMBURG!!!! MY FRIEND LIVES THERE!!!! Did u see the Ikea?! and the woodfield mall?? O my word!! That is so awesome!! I mean i could just go to ur hotel in a few mins and show up at ur room… not that i would. im not THAT obsessed.

    Hey Julie and Kirstie i’ll be seeing u there then!!! 😀 GO ILLINIOS!!!! u know its so crazy, most ppl dont even know where illinois is. i like tell someone (from another state) “I live in Illinois” and there like “what?” and im like “u know CHICAGO?” and then they’re like “OOOHHH! CHICAGO!” so im really glad ur coming Scott!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY 4 DAYS!!!!!!!!

    Hey Amy-la tell ur friend to read Uglies first. Its my personal favorite. personally i thought midnighter was kinda creep if its gonna be ur first Scott Weterfeld book. BUT I STILL LUV IT TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!! i still gotta read peeps tho.

    o and all u other awesome Illinois ppls, did u guys get signing line numbers??? wat are they???? (if u dont want to tell me thats ok). my # is 8. I CANT WAIT!!!!!

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