Ciao, Seattle

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Had a great time in Edmunds last night. We got up at 4:55AM to catch our plane to Lexington and I AM SO TIRED.

But before I pass out, check out Cyndy (and friend!) in her Special Circumstances tats:

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Picture by me.

And the cool shoelaces from So Yesterday actually walked in! I never got this to work, myself. And I’m so sorry I can’t remember your name, Shugrrl, but my brain is totally Swiss cheese.

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Picture by Justine Signature by moi.

And Laura sent me a picture of her shirt from the Shoreline appearance:

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The quote isn’t from the books, but from a dream she had. That’s so kewl.

Thanks to all you guys for making my signings full of surprises and vast ego boosts.

One more before we head back to NYC:

Monday, Oct 15
7:00pm
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503
Reading/Signing

94 thoughts on “Ciao, Seattle”

  2. Hey, that’s me with the tattoos! Too bad they didn’t last too long. I had a GREAT time for the signing. It was totally worth the hour drive.

  5. but i wanted to say that was an awsome tattoo thingy, love it, want it, jeleaous, for 2 reasons, she gets an awsom tattoo thing and you havent come to my city or state, now scott-la, how are we to appreciate your fabulous books if you dont come here, i have, wait let me count, 10 or more ppl i no at my school alone who are reading your books, you see, you have to come, before we forget abouit you, and i would ahte to see that happen scott-la, so plz, plz, come here! (texas)

  6. Oh, cool!! the laces from So Yesterday! I kept trying to imagine them but I couldn’t so that pic is cool.

  7. fawesome tatoos..i never remember my dreams.. otherwise id have about a million amazing quotes. i should so do that to my shoes.. and only really devoted fans will have any idea where it came from..

  8. the tatoos are awesome!!! As were the shoelaces, I never could get mine to look quite like that, no matter how much I tried, lol. Totally kick!!

  13. those face tats are so kick!!!! i love em and i love the laces. they never worked for me either. and the shirt is fawesome!

  16. OMG i attampted to do that to my shoes. Well thought about it. The shoelaces wouldnt all fit and I wouldnt even think of taking sissors to my converse.

  17. lol i just noticed that scott signed the so yesterday shoes.
    the ones i tried only worked cuz they were very odd slip-on sneakers. but i did it through some roundabout way only accessible at very early in the morning while watching CNN at newark airport. which would really not be too far from your current state, tour-author. but mine are tied very illogically, and they go to the same side on both feet, not opposite like they should. also, they’re light green laces on green shoes, so yeah. now i use them as my gym sneakers and no one has noticed the laceage yet.

  18. I’ve never seen those shoes before. And I haven’t read So Yesterday yet, is that a big part of So Yesterday?? Or am I totally missing somthing?

    Kadie-Wa

  20. LOVE the flash tatoos Cyndy-la! totally icy! and how on this crazed planet do ya do that with the shoolaces?! i wanna do that!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  22. be afraid. i was bored and searched through all the past posts and the one that mentioned uglies being optioned as a movie said it was….wait for it…..by the same people who made eragon.
    no offense to any of those people, you are surely great and talented.
    but……eragon sucked. it wasn’t exactly a great book, and the movie adaptation was even worse. on many levels. the most superficial of which (and the only ones i can remember thanks to convenient blocking of painful memories) are an avril lavigne themesong that clashes horribly and a supposed-to-be-meaningful shot of eragon and a sunset that was stolen frame for frame from star wars. also, durza’s fingernails scared me and there was very little in the way of a coherent plot.
    but no offense if you liked it. just my opinion.
    still gives me less hope of a good uglies adaptation…….though eragon bombed so bad, i doubt there’s much investing in something similar. maybe they’ll do uglies right. hopefully. please. please, god, please.

  23. Wow, I feel like I haven’t been on here in forever!
    Even though it’s only been a few days; haha.

    Those tatooes are incredibly amazing!
    And I really want to learn how to tie my shoes like that, but I’d probably end up tying a few fingers together, cutting off the circulation, and having to have them amputated.
    Shoelaces and I don’t get along very well. I tend to leave my shoes tied and just slip out of them, and I only re-tie them when it’s absolutely necessary.

    I wish I lived near one of the tour stops! It’d be so totally fool to get a picture on here.

    4:55? *dies*
    If I had to wake up that early, I’d probably kill the first person who talked to me. The only time I’ve ever been up earlier than that was when my friends convinced me that it’d be a good idea to try and go to Six Flags on some special day during Spring Break where you got in free before 9:00AM. We were in the car and everything, on our way there, and then we hear on the radio that THEY CLOSED THE FREAKING PARK.
    I was so mad.

  25. Thanks for all the tattoo praise! It’s much appreciated. Too bad I don’t remember where I got it…

    I had some converse that I did the shoelace thing with. I had to costume make the laces and remove the eyelets. I was really, really, bored….

  26. I LOVE THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WALKING AROUND WITH SHOES LACED UP LIKE THAT! PEOPLE ALWAYS GIVE ME FUNNY LOOKS! I LOVE SHUGRRL!

  27. It only took me 15 minutes. I didn’t have to remove the eyelets though, I just used really old frayed laces.

  30. i cant figure out the laces!

    but omygosh! are they seriously making the movie from the same PEEPS that mad eragon?! are you serious!? they are such bubbleheads! talk about brain-missing! they were total logic-missing! i’ll bet none of them even read the book! uuuhhhggg! horribleness.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  31. I totally agree how it is so mad-making.

    I didn’t even like Eragon the movie — Never read the book but HAS to be more exciting then that.

  35. i like movies but i dont want them to make one because then ill watch it, and if i watch it i will only picture the characters that way not the way i see them, and ill picture the town diffretn than they did, and i hate how they make zane all goth and stuff, it just doesnt seem like him to me, i mean he has a good look but i mean come one, hes not like emo like cutters, and he doesnt dress goth so wat up with that, i dont no but it annoys the crap out of me!

  36. i think zane was goth in the book, or that’s how i saw him.
    and not all people who dress goth or emo are cutters! don’t generalize!
    they never said he DIDN’T dress goth. so if they never mentioned how he dressed, it could have been goth to go with his black hair and superintense pale surge.
    do you have a problem with goths?
    they’re awesome. (hmmm….should that be a we or a they?…)
    srry to get all crazy on you. i defend my gothic bretheren.

  37. and sadly, the book was not much better. it was a sort of cliched plot, and it was so stiffly written. i liked it a lot in like fourth and fifth grade, then tried to reread it in seventh and i was like, this sentance structure is painful. (i’m talking about eragon, btw)

    i think the main problem was that the kid wrote it really young (not that young writers aren’t awesome! i count as one, and so do most of my friends) and didn’t edit it enough before he self-published and eventually got it picked up. i mean, it had good parts, but it was pretty stiff.

    but i lost sympathy when eldest came out. that book was HORRIBLE. had none of the good parts of eragon, all of the stiff dialouge. *shiver at memory*

    and the movie…….well what can i say that hasn’t been said?

  40. no i have nothing against goths, thats just not how i pictured him, i pictured him more, i dont no how to explain it,ive seen illistations of him goth and to be honest hes hot, but i didnt think of him like that, it wasnt his personality.

  42. but im not goth and i dont like goths, i dont have anything wrong with them, i mean there like me but diffrent u no, but i just felt i should point that out.

  43. Is the Uglies trilogy movie gonna have open auditions for the part of Tally? Like auditions for people without agents? Thanks soooo much you guys ar awesome! =) Also, links would be great.. For people without agents. Thanks and I already emailed Scott Westerfeld but I know he can reply better on his blog.. Totally icey =)of the book. Also, do you know websites that say if there are going to be auditions open to the public? Is there an age thing like only 14 years old or whatever? I’m not 14 but still lol. Also, is there going to be a 5th Uglies book? Or a 4rth Midnighters book? If there is a 5th midnighters book can it pretty pretty please be about tallywa??? Thanks and please answer all my questions! thanks guys.

  45. when i said i didnt like goths i meant i dont like them as in u like ppl like i like guys u no, yeah, i should just shut up!

  51. goth ppl r cool
    sometimes they scare me becaus thay r sooo negative and talk about death and other stuff

  58. It’s me! Shugrrl!

    I read So Yesterday in 7th grade {3 years ago} and thought that those laces were so fawesome. I’ve always wanted to do them. In 8th grade I used the blue laces that came with my shoes to do it…but it wasn’t the same. Just this past year I was able to get some red laces, and voila! I know they’re not fuzzy, like it says in the book, but at least they’re red. And it was hard enough getting the laces through only 2 holes {I cut myself a few times}, I can’t imagine shoving them in 1!

    I encourage everyone who can to try this out. Jammers represent! Yea-ah!

  60. Buahah!
    Its shugrrl’s bestest friend.
    Who was also there.
    YEAH you spelled something wrong on my book. and then fixed it! yayy

    anywho.
    Shugrrl’s real name is Maggie.
    Andd she can send you proof cos she has pictures with the shoes. haha.

    so yeahh 😀

  62. oh, my, gosh!!! you traveled from san fran to kt, and u rnt coming 2 new england?!?!?!?!?!? i’m ashamed of u, scott-la…….u shoud be ashamed of urself, 2….hmmph. U DONT UNDERSTAND!!!! I NEED U TO COME HERE!!!! JUST 1 BOOK SIGNING!!!! JUST ONE!!!! CAN I NOT EMPHASIZE THAT ENOUGH???? I NEED U HERE! RI, NH, MA, CT, NJ, VT, ME (is that maine??? i always get confused) NEWHERE!!!! U CHOOSE!!! NEWHERE IN NEW ENGLAND, AND YOU’LL SEE ME THERE!!!! U NAME THE STATE!!!!!
    sorry…
    totally kick tatoos!!!! i mean, that is SO bubbly!!!
    oh my gosh….i had the most happy-making idea for a shirt……”i’m not a surge monkey, i was just born this way…” now, tell me if this is totally random or not…..just an idea……
    -Riderchild-wa 😀
    ps: i hear that berlin, ma is a VERY nice place, and has an AMAZING, small library where u’d definitly have a MILLION fans (well, at least my sis’ and me) *HINT, HINT*
    ttfn!!!

  63. oh, ya….i hate the idea that the movie will be made by the people who made eragon….i never read the book but i saw the movie 1 night…my sis’ like the book, but they say the book was really icey but the movie was incredibly BRAIN-MISSING…..B-R-A-I-N–M-I-S-S-I-N-G compared 2 the book……NNNNOOOOOO!!! don’t do this to me!!! i cant have uglies ruined for me!!!!! please, say it isn’t so!!!
    -Riderchild-wa 😀
    ps: NEW ENGLAND!!!!!! (hint, hint!!!)

  64. im tired of oll these posts about scott’s trip. we get it. there are a lot of fans out there with stuff from the books. i made crash braceletts, but i didnt get to see scott, so scott didnt see them. lizzy-wa, i still think you are so0o0o0o0o0o lucky!

  65. Uhhh……Steph-la, i say crap sometimes, u have never heard me say that, its not a bad word, i use it when i need to discribe how someone or something can be, it seemed like an appopriate fitting, o ya and i am going tot he bazar at St.John V, acculy u saw me there, lol, there were alot of ppl from my school there (our school) just so u guys no the bazar is a festival at my church, St. John Vianny (or however u spell it) and alot of cute boys go (lol) but its fun, hopefully u agree steph-la, and i dont just go for the boys (or do i?).

  66. u no scott-la, u say u want to promote ur book, i guess u forgot about us Texans or further more us Houstonians (Houston,Texas). Yeah, dont be afraid, we dont have bulls and horses and stuff (well we do but we dont ride them, at least not in Houston), so u no its really ok, and u say u want to prmote ur new book, yeah i read it, yeah its fantabulous, and yeah i want to make a cool shirt so i can be on ur website, but i also want u to sign my books, and make other ppl read them because there great, and i want u to say u no me from ur comments, so plz, plz, come to my city, plz!

  67. o ya and the horses and weird stuff r in the country, im more of a city person, i mean, come on, MALLS!

  68. So, I have to questions really.
    alright. here it goes..

    1. How do you determine if someone is a “-la” or a “-wa” ? haha, it’s been driving me CRAZY. is it random or what?

    2. Is there anywhere I can find a list of the slang used? aka: Kicker, Bubblehead, Dizzy-making, Icy, etc… or do I just have to reread and jot it all down? XD

    please!!! let me know! ^_^
    spriel@msn.com
    ~Jess

  69. kick flash tattoos cyndy. and the tshirt and laces are pretty fawesome 2. im comin up with some coolio fan art of my own. like many of u no, im gonna be a special for halloween and i just finished makin my fawsome top. it was a black longsleeved shirt but i ripped off the sleeves and the i wrote “SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES” on the front and “i don’t want to hurt you, BUT I WILL IF I HAVE TO” on the back. and don’t worry i also wrote “Inspired by “Specials” by Scott Westerfeld” at the bottom. and im gonna wear my all black adidas sweats and i made these super kick crash bracelets out of magnetix and tin foil. and i got this body marker thing to draw flash tattoos on, long black fake nails (which i will be clipping to points) and black hair spray stuff. am i missing anything. plz tell me if i am! check my blog later for some pics! (but not yet becuase i havent taken the pics yet) 😛

  72. bri-la your costume sounds so FEXCELLENTLY FAWESOMELY FOOL!

    and to riderchild-wa, hey once i got lost in berlin MA! but it wasn’t really my fault my bf’s dad doesn’t trust mapquest so he tried to find his way there w/o it and it didn’t work out too well…but yeah i’ve been through there!

  76. ok Jessica, answers:
    #1 its just random wat ever fits u best
    #2 they really is no list, just memory, i mean u read uglies. pretties, specials, and extras right?
    there u go hope i was useful!

  77. Listen up, Westerfeld.
    I demand to know if there is going to be another book after this, now. I can’t take the torture. If you’re going to say that this is the last book(but how can I believe you, that’s what you said last time) then just let me know now. That way i can stop torturing myself, becuase every minute i hear no news I get more and more hopeful. Its just not cool man.

  79. Jessica-la…the la/wa thing depends on your name. if there is a “l” at the middle or end, or if theres a “y” at the end with a “l” in the beginning, its wa. everything else is la, unless it sounds better with wa. but most things sound better with la. youd be Jessica-la. as you can see.

    and Bri-la…totally icy stare in that first pic. its like woah, return of Tally Youngblood. i’m going as Dess the SPECIAL myself. i coudnt decide between Dess or Shay, so i’m doing Dess the SPECIAL. yepyepyep. its a work i progress. i’ll be sure to post photos.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  81. hi bran-la
    well i didnt mean that crap was a bad word like that i meant that i NEVER see u say that
    i say crap all the time well not all the time but whenever
    wow did not mean for that to be that long

    i have 1 question for all of yall
    WHEN DOES THE MOVIE COME OUT
    I WANT TO SEE IT SOOOOOOOOO BAD

  85. i’m still not positive the movie is even being made. and i’m hoping it isn’t.

    i will somehow post pics of my melissa costume after halloween, possibly.

    wow, i didn’t miss much being gone all day. i wish for more booky posting…….when is tourness over?

    and eragon the book wasn’t icy at all. sort of bogus, really. so the movie really accomplished something by making it worse. congrats.

  86. hey! it’s an actual book-related questioning post for our actual scott-la! marvel at the rareness! (if, that is, anyone bothers reading through this many comments)

    okay, assuming that the tale of quasi-woe previously discussed on said blog was Extras, who was the original narrator????????
    were they deleted from the finished book or are they still there? who were they? was it Ren? for some reason i suspected him? was the tale of quasi-woe even Extras? if the person wasn’t in the book, what name/relation/who were they? is this too many questions? is this long post i sign i should be going to sleep?

    (okay, the last one’s yes, i know that, and i’d prefer no one anserw the second to last one.)
    whatever it was, i think the finished extras was nine kinds of kick.

  90. Random exciting {although probably not that original} fact:

    During this appearance, someone asked Mr. Westerfeld how he came up with the names. He talked about how he made sure they weren’t too unfamiliar, etc. Then I found out that my little sister plays soccer with a girl named Tally!

    Who else knows a {real} Tally?

  91. i don’t know anyone named tally! that’s awesome! i don’t really know anyone with any of the cool names like in the books….all my friends have boring names

  92. I do the shoelace thing. So kick.
    I knew a real Tally.
    And her husband’s name was David. They moved before I read Uglies, but their niece Maddie and I keep in touch.

  93. omg i found out who the person with the cool shoes is. i found it from the seattle article about scott. the pic at the top had him signing someone’s shoe. Maggie Laush, 15, of Lynnwood. lol!!!!!!!!!!

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