Blog the Fog

Posted on by scott

Just got back from a signing at Copperfield’s Books that was unbelievably awesome. After our 7AM wake up call and three school appearances this morning, I thought I would be zombified by tonight. But the lovely, energetic crowd carried me through a really fun appearance.

Actually, all the signings have been so energy-making. Thanks for that.

And on the way out to Petaluma . . . the fog!

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Another lovely thing: at one of my school visits, these four students had made a giant, hand-drawn Uglies cover.

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It reminds me of the days before cheap oversized printers, when record stores would hire artists to paint giant album covers for their windows.

Thanks to the artists: Emily, Olivia, Victoria, and Namitha!

Tomorrow (Tuesday) night’s appearance is a very special one. For the only time on this tour, Justine is making a special command appearance alongside me:

Books Inc.
Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Hope to see you there.

And for more amusing reflections on the Extras tour, check out Justine’s blog.

157 thoughts on “Blog the Fog”

  1. That cover is so cool! I drew a graphic novel-style cover of the Australian Peeps, but I can’t send it because my scanner isn’t working. I will eventually send it though.

  2. Now that is a freakin awesome book cover, but I still wish I could own the UK cover….I think they turn out better

  3. That is phschotically COOL

    It gives me an idea to draw the cover humongo-sized and put it on the wall by my comp.

  4. WHOA! that is such a coolio cover! why didnt i thnk of that? glad ur having fun scott. and im glad ur not zombified. that would suck.

  6. he he i actually tried drawing that cover a few days ago out of boredom… that is pretty good

    and with everyone making there own blogs how are you doing that?

  9. my link got messed up. Let’s see…

    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extras_(novel) click here]. That’s the format I’m used to.

  11. Sure, Scott.
    Comment about the beautifully well-done cover of Uglies by four students…
    But not the slave work of one fan, hours over a steaming pencil and melting mind, drawing her idea of Shay…
    ^_~

  12. This sucks nobodys posting ’cause they’re at school. oh, well.

    [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extras_(novel)]]

  15. Man, i wish i had art skills…last night i butchered my whole project because i can’t draw. =[[
    and im sick still =[[

  16. awesome cover! reminds me of my in-process epic tithe/ironside fanart. i’m drawing one of those GREETINGS FROM _____ things, but for ironside and i’m doing all these little drawings.

    oh wow, author actually reading comments!!!
    PLZ FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS WITH DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!! IT WOULD BE SO MANY KINDS OF KICK!!!!

    and i don’t update wikipedia. because my judge of things is if they have wiki pages, and it messes with it if i add things myself.

    awesome fog. it’s foggy outside right now. gonna rain maybe. hope it does. with lightning….

  17. omg Haley Rae you should totally put that pic of shay up … man im so jealous and u got pic of it??? why isnt it up yet he he

  18. oh and ppl that didnt see haley Rae’s pic of shay yet it is awesome!!! i saw it when sott came to wisconsin she has mad skills … haley you should feel majorly important now

  20. ohh, i tried drawing some of the characters, but it turned out.. well. it was not pretty. so i stuck to what i do best–reading the books and obsessing over them at the author’s fawesome blog. that is one hott foggy bridge scott..

  21. OOOooooooooohhhhhhhhhh I wanna see hailey rays pic. That cover is fawesome. by the way, Allie-wa, why aren’t you at school?
    Amelia-wa

  24. ooooh, luv that poster!!!

    hmmm… it would be really fun to try to draw a cover of a book! i should try that! hmmm… Extras or Specials!!! of course, it probaly won’t turn out well at ALL… i can only draw Japanese anime! lol. u do NOT want to see me attempt a normal person… lol.

  25. awesome cover!!

    i finally got Extras today! 🙂 but my mom won’t let me read it until i finish the book East of Eden for school. *sighs* o well im still so happy that its finally in my possession. and i got the 1st Midnighters and So Yesterday as well.

  27. Haaa guys, now I’m all embarrassed for bringing it up…

    Nghhh…
    Okay…Hold on, I’ll find the link…

    (This is before Mr. Westerfeld signed it…and it had some touch ups, but the scanner isn’t working, so I can’t show you the updated version…)

    (I’m just going to post the picture of Shay, not the one of Mr. Westerfeld holding it, as it is on my friend’s camera >_

  28. Whoops…Haaa…
    The whole comment didn’t even print…

    *(I’m just going to post the picture of Shay, not the one of Mr. Westerfeld holding it, as it is on my friend’s camera >_

  30. And Kheidi, you’re too flattering and nervous-making! Buahhhh!
    I’m SO sorry for posting four times in a row. But my posts kept getting cut off…:(

  31. Can’t wait till those pics, Haley.
    By the way, those girls have mad skills in drawing. Especially since it’s like ten times bigger than the actual book cover.

  35. I’d be so creeped out going over a big bridge in that fog x.x

    Also there should be a fan-art section on this site! (if there is one then i am totally brain-missing sorry) I love looking at people’s interpretations on the characters and stuff.

    I still wish you could come to my school =(

  36. whoa!! haley rae!!! that is such a bubbly picture!!!! whatever u do, don’t ask me to draw a person!! i can sorta draw other things, but i have no talent with people!!!
    that’s sooooo bubbly that those kids drew that pic…i wonder how long it took…..?
    so scott….still in san fran?? well, try treking 3,000 miles for me, and COME TO NEW ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!! believe you me, it’s not that hard to drive all the way across the country (unless there are five kids in the car, then, believe me, it’s a bogus result, and you DO NOT WANT TO TRY IT!!!!!) so, neways…..u HAVE TO COME TO NEW ENGLAND!!!!! oh, and when (note how i didn’t say if…hint hint…) you come, please be sure to set up a homeschool thing, and don’t only go to regular schools!!!! im homeschooled, and if you don’t set up a homeshool thing, then i will break in just to see you!! consider yourself warned!!!! (again, don’t let me scare u off…i’m really a nice person, i just NEED TO MEET YOU!!! besides, weren’t you born in rhode island or something? (i may be completely wrong…i thought i read it on some biograpy or something…)
    no matter where u were born, you HAVE TO COME TO NEW ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!!! (did i emphasize that enough??)
    be sure to tell me first when u come to new england!!!!!
    -Riderchild-wa 🙂

  37. whoa!!! incredibly brain-missingly long!!!! sorry!!!!! that was incredibly random of me!!!! oops!!
    -Riderchild-wa 😀

  38. Hey it me ppls, that was a pretty cool cover i cant draw like that, o and by the way Hi Steph-la and unmolly-wa! Ok scott-la always rememer,behold, book #5!!

  42. Ahhhh! Haha.
    Sure, Sophie-la – as long as you give me my props 😉
    You guys can still click my name to see the picture I drew of Shay!
    Thanks for all the positive feedback!

    Mr. Westerfeld, you rock, yo!

  45. AHHHH, i want a 5th book so bad, Scott-la oh Scott-la dont disappoint me 🙁 make me happy 🙂 dont you love being happy, me 2, so please make, behold, book #5!

  53. fawesome pictures i luv both of them including Haley Rae, u should keep on drawing pictures of all the characters and post them
    that would be totally happy-making

    Peace

  63. faweosome fanart of shay!
    and if u do it without the spaces, they turn into the yellow ones when u post.

    and dude, eerie. just after i read this post (not in creative writing class, of course not) the teacher passed out copies of this month’s issue of Teen Ink. and check out the cover! it totally reminds me of Uglies, but peacock-y

    it’s not online yet, so i can’t show u guys it. but it’s very similar, like the half a girl’s face divided by stuff except it’s a peacock feather that looks a lot like the fern.

  66. Sent this to Westerfled vie e-mail, but does any one agree:

    To Scott Westerfeld;

    My name is Emily Gerich. I am a fifteen year old at Centaurus High School in Louisville Colorado. I sort of bought Uglies by accident one day, and fell completely in love with it.
    Pretties and Specials were equally wonderful. Tally’s world was all I talked about for weeks…no, months. I was completely obsessed with Uglies et al.
    So, when I heard that Extras was on the way, I spent half an hour writing out a count down on my calendar.

    But this is not a fan letter. )

  68. Haley Ray: That has to be the absolute best Uglies trilogy picture I have ever seen! Possibly even the best fan-art I’ve seen, outside of Elfquest. Incredibly well drawn, and it looks exactly like Shay. Great job.

  71. i know a lot of people thought extras was amazing, but im going to have to agree with Em G a little. i thought it felt rushed and everyone was so out of character. i did love the whole david thing. i just love david. and shay. even though she wasnt herself.

  72. oh and i know that might have been a little bitt spoiler-ish, but anyone who hasnt read extras yet is kidding themselves. go buy the book.

  74. GUYS GIRLS w\e, what is wrong with you? scott-la did a great job on the book i thouht there was a great amount of twist and turns that kept you thinking and you always had to change your idea because it would turn out to be false! i thught it was great! Your wonderful Scott-la, dont listen to them they only diss you because there jeleaus of you AWESOME writeing skills!!

  77. no..i still think the book was absolutelly ahhh-mazing but i still think tally could be better written. and the extras caught me completly off guard, and it was a little obvious sort of if you think about it adn the other books. but dont get me wrong- it was still totally happy-making scott-la.

  81. emmm hello.. i would be commenting, but i m *supposed* to be writing a paragraph on why i would like to research egypt for my english teacher. so i guess im ..not comenting..

  87. like i say all the time i dont mind david i think hes really nice and sweet and kind but i deffinitaly like zane better

  88. i dont no y i just love the way his personality is set there are both really romantic and i love that and sensitive which is cool to but i seem to be more attrackted to Zane

  91. i have a rule for the endings:
    La-hav read uglies or midnighters series
    wa-have read uglies or midnighters series
    chan-have read both uglies and midnightters series
    sensei-have read all scotts books

  95. Okay guys girls w\e im getttin kinda bored so im gonna go make a powerpoint about why i love scott westerfeld and his books

  97. Haley: sorry for being all teh nervous-making flattery but u kno what i think you got tons more flattery from others now then just me so buah to you too 😛

  108. GUESS WHAT PPLS! I update my blog and it is now pack even more full of Westerfeld-y goodness. so check it out!! (by clicking on my name) (u 2 scott-la, theres a fawesome pic of u on there)

  116. ok i soooooooooooooooooo love scott-la
    his books rock
    ok i have only read the uglies “trilogy”
    but still it toadly rocks
    I LOVE U ZANE

  119. i have to say i disagree with you, extras-haters.
    first i have to disclaim. the uglies trilogy have never been my favorites of the books, but i think they’re still great.
    but i think extras is totally different than the uglies trilogy. it’s like how a lot of people waiting for a second peeps didn’t like the last days.
    you have take extras as extras and the last days as the last days. they’re their own books.
    i was sort of iffy about the “aliens” concept, but u pulled it off, scott-la.
    and of course aya was shallow. but she was obviously intendend to be. and even she knew it. i have to say i liked aya, but that doesn’t mean she’s in any way a good person.
    i think books like that can never live up to your expectations when you build them up that much. but personally, i think extras was a fawesome, but seperate, addition to the uglies world.
    as a story with different protags about a darkling werewolf would be to the midnighters world…..

  120. and no, i do not like david better. zane is just infinitly fawesomer. he just IS. live with it. don’t prolong the argument.

  121. also, as i pointed out. IT’S BEEN MULTIPLE YEARS SINCE ZANE! tally is allowed to move on. it’s not really “rushed” in my opinion. and it wasn’t even like her and david were suddenly making out. they like, walked around next to each other. that’s called gently moving on. not rushing.

    and u have to admit, look at any of tally’s actions when not in her head. that’s just how she comes off to the world. because she’s crazing. srry, but…it’s true.

  122. haha yea i guess. thats usually why i dont like when authors make their series longer than it should be- cus the next book just isnt as good as the others and it really lets you down. but i do still like david better. hes just so perfect for tally. and i dont think its just because tallys crzy, i think shes different in these books than the others..

  123. well i think that’s a big part just because it’s not narrated by her.
    and i have no problem with david as long as u david people don’t start insulting zane’s memory. he’s awesome.
    nice name, shausto.
    FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES.

  129. I don’t care whether it’s (don’t ask me what the ‘it’ is – I honestly don’t know) They both totally rock.

    Now, after being inspired by Haley Rae’s awesome picture, I must go draw. 🙂

  130. Oops…I just realised I never finished my sentence. here: I don’t care whether it’s (don’t ask me what the ‘it’ is – I honestly don’t know) Zane or David. They both totally rock.

  131. Hey, guys!
    Thanks for the great comments on my Shay picture 🙂
    I’d like to draw another one soon…but…who knows?
    (You can still see the picture if you scroll up and click my name when it’s orange)

  133. that is really kool i love to draw and write so i personally think that is really awsome if i was to draw the cover of one of your books it would be the specials or extras i just like those covers the best idk why but all your books are good.

  134. ooops. i’m bad with spoilers like that. well, actually, i wasn’t too bad. but still. i just avoid comments here whenever i’m behind on books.
    now i will slunk to the spoiler thread in shame.

  136. I love your Midnighters series. I miss the series though. Could you please write
    a fourth Midnighters? Jessica can’t just be stuck in the blue time! she needs to get
    back to her family and friends. Rex and Maddy need to get back to their old
    selves. Dess needs to find some one to hang with- so she will not be a fith
    wheel. Cassie and Beth need to do something with there new info. The
    darklings need to come back more viscous.The blue time needs to
    become just Bixby again! Please consider this!! Dess needs to get a new project.
    Melissa needs to be with Rex and Flyboy needs to be with Jessica!!! The Grayfoots
    need to come back!!!!!! Please don’t make it end like this!!!!

  138. Okay, it’s official. I need one of those, and I have to attach it to my house in some way. Preferably in my room, but hey, if putting it in the bathroom means I can have a humungo version of an uglies book, I’m up for anything. The hard part is making it, because I can’t draw. Humph. I’ll find a way. I WILL BE VICTORIOUS! (because I’m just cool like that)

  139. Hi! I’m an Italian girl… I’m 15… I finished today “perfetti”… It’s FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 I’ve already read “brutti” and I liked it so much!
    I’ve a question: there were other books similar to “brutti” and “perfetti”???
    Thanks 😉

  141. PLZ! Make more books! I beg of u! Why not an Extras part 2? PLZ MAKE MORE BOOKS!! I WILL DIE IF U DONT (sarcasm)! I LOVE YOUR BOOKS!!!!!!!! make a new book or SOMETHING!

  144. I LIKE YOUR BOOKS, I READ “UGLIES”, “PRETTIES”! NOW I READ “SPECIALS”. THESE BOOKS ARE VEEEEEERY INTERESTING!!! CHARACTERS IN DETAIL VERY PRESCRIBED!!! THANKS!!!

  146. I really love your books: UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS, EXTRAS and the last one SECRETS. But… Is SECRETS the last one? It was very interesting and I want to know more adventures about Tally, Aya or the world of UGLIES! It’s fantastic to have the Tally’s different points of view.
    Please excuse-me for my English what is not very good because I left England when I was a little girl so I don’t remember every words and I don’t know adults’ words.
    I will also thank you for the fantastic moments I had reading your books! By!

  147. Are there some differences between the pretties of Tally’s city? Are they black, or with, Indian, Asiatic…?

  148. Why did you write Jessica day being trapped in the midnight plz make more midnighters andlmake her friends find a way to free while on a new mission when she helps the new world midnighter and then have them free her. MAKE MORE MIDNIGHTER BOOKS THE ARE REALLY GOOD BETTER THEN HUNGER GAMES.

  150. Hey Scott AWESOME PIC!
    Idk if u remember me but i got a dozen signings from u at B&N in Round Rock
    Just finished Midnighters It was great
    The ending sort of was um dissapointing
    im begging u to make another midnighters book!
    If u dont know wat to write another midnighters book would be great u could make Jess get unstuck from the blue time! They could defeat the darkling king and wen they did that Jess would be freed
    Its just an idea
    U have made some of the best books ive ever read
    my fav is of course Midnighters
    But plz consider the idea of another Midnighters book!
    PLZ!
    From
    Sophia

  151. U made a companion novel to the Uglies series
    Extras right?
    U dont neccesarily have to make another midnighters but maybe a companin novel 😀

  155. I loved the whole series!!!!! Love the blog and I will definately will coming back to the website to see more blog posts!
    I love the Uglies book cover as well, they did a great job!!! And it’s amazing how accurate the books are for the future, and I didn’t know how factual they are too, until I read Bogus to Bubbly.
    BUT NO WAY!!!!! Is there really another book after Extras!?!? If so, SWEET!!! I am like completely hooked on the series! I’ve finished all of them up to Shays Story. I really want to get that. I now need that and Secrets. Right now I am almost done with Bogus to Bubbly. Not sure why, but I am reading the entire Bogus to Bubbly book, because usually I just skim through those types of books. But yeah… I am just totally in love with the series. It’s so bubbly-making 😀
    Anyways… Cya!!! And I hope Scott comes to Fairfield,CA sometime soon!!! 🙂

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  157. I have a copy of “Killing of Worlds” in front of me. Sadly, I can’t find my copy of “Risen Empire”. I am curious what the five types of gravity were?

    I think an sequel to “Killing of Worlds” would be interesting given how different the Empire and the Rix are.

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