Slush Piled!

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At about 3PM yesterday, all my publishing pals pinged me to report that I had achieved true publishing geek nirvana: Tally was name-checked in Tales from the Slush Pile!

Slush Pile is a comic strip that’s part of Children’s Bookshelf, the email spin-off of Publisher’s Weekly that covers our corner of the business. I rushed to check, and there Tally was in the first panel:

She is now part of publishing culture. Rejoice!

Click here to read the strip from the beginning.

The next time I blog, I’ll be in California!

68 thoughts on “Slush Piled!”

  1. Bahaha.
    That tickled my funny bone :]
    Congratulations on that!

    P.S.
    You should come to New Hamphsire some time. Lovely foliage.

  3. ha. knowing a person like tally isn’t exactly a good thing though. no offense, but she must be hard to be around. look at shay.

  4. and i don’t write when i’m happy either. but my poetry is *not* depressing. (people who’ve read it might disagree with me) mostly i write when i’m bored. or so inspired i can’t focus on homework. or in other words procrasinating. wow, i post on here way too much. i’m gonna go get a life now.

  6. CONGRATS!!! That’s so bubbly-making!!! I agree – it’s hard to write when you’re in a really good mood.

  8. COOLIO!!!! GO TALLY!!!! but wait… I DONT GET IT! URGH! ahh so confused! o well. CONGRATS! Have fun in Cali!

  9. I feel so geeky for getting that comic completely and laughing out loud. Wow.

    Knowing someone like Tally would be fun. I wish Tally was my friend! Is Tally based on anyone you actually know, Scott?

  10. Hehehehehe!! That’s cool. 😀 The one guy looks kinda like a Klingon.

    I kinda the opposite with writing though. I need to be happy, or it helps, anyways. 😉

  14. That’s hilarious! You’ve got to be angst-making to write anything.

    The sad thing is that I’ve read both of the books mentioned in that cartoon.

    Feed was a fawesome book. It really made you think about society and what we’re doing in the world today. It had some awesome parallels with Uglies, and I’d have to put both in a growing list of amazing future world books.

    Congratulations Scott!

  23. congrats scott and who is the author of feed? and writing idk i can write whenever but i think the best for me is when i wake up after having a dream cuz well me dreams are just wierd but inspiring… (he he im like just adding myself to the convo cuz i feel like i need to input) and scott it was awesome seeing you in wisconsin !!!

  26. That’s so cool! Uglies is becoming main-stream! Soon everyone’s going to know what I’m talking about when I say stuff like happy-making or pretty-making! 🙂

  28. funny!

    today I went to the book store and there was a big display of all your books and they were talking about extras and I was like “oh yeah i’v read that, great book” it was so cool. your books are so famous.

    today’s my b-day ya i got a video ipod nano!

  29. I JUST GOT EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    congrats Amy-la!

    I JUST GOT EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀 😛 😀 😛

  30. Congrats!!! Oh and have a safe trip to cali! You really should come to the east coast *cough* south carolina *cough*. Anyways… Its sooo good to see Tally finally getting out there. What i thought was so funny was that all my friends relate to the book in order to make a clearer picture…. if that makes sence… XD

  31. thats totally bubbly-making, i mean i always luved
    scotts books, and had been trying 2 get people to read his books. i never new that he would become that famous. who im i kidding, this is scott im talkin about! my most favorite author!

    Peace

  32. they should totally have feeds for everyone in our time. the heck with JK! we could chant!

    SCOTT-LA WESTERFELD, SCOTT-LA WESTERFELD, SCOTT-LA WESTERFELD.

    he’d be A HUNDRED times more famous than her in SECONDS! what with all the LOYAL Scott-la fans an all.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  34. am i a horrible person if i say i tried to read Feed, thought it was impossibly dull, let it sit in my bathroom for two weeks, continued trying to read it and eventually just returned it to the library?
    and i’m not a person who ever doesn’t finish books. usually i read all the way through, even the horrible ones, but i just couldn’t finish feed.

    and dude, getting way offtopic is our goal here! what, are the comments supposed to be related to the blog post or something? ha!

  35. wouldn’t darkling werewolves rock? come on, think about it. like, they only turn into a darkling wolf at midnighter or somesuch?

  38. is there any one here that knows how to use a TI-84 PLUS? i just got mine yesterday, and i need to know how to use it. (i need it fot geometry)

  39. it would be nine kinds of awesome. see?

    kind of awesome #1—would be a fourth midnighters book

    awesome #2—would be a scott westerfeld werewolf book

    awesome #3—would probably have awesome werewolf explinations

    awesome #4—would be written by scott westerfeld

    awesome #5—would be cool with full moon/midnight/dark moon mythos

    awesome #6—would introduce new characters

    awesome #7—could have dess in it, kicking @$$ and doing math.

    awesome #8—could be a chance to erase the pain of midnighters ending!!!!!

    awesome #9—dude, DARKLING. WEREWOLVES.

  40. calculators confuse me. and oddly, i was just talking about them with my dad. i stick to adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing and sometimes fractions stuff.

  42. I FOUND A MISTAKE IN EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 237 YOU SAID:
    “Truth-slanting?”
    “Aya nodded slowly. “Like I said…
    ^^RIGHT ABOVE THE ARROWS IF YOU MISSED IT
    EVERYONE CHECK YOUR BOOKS!! I DON’T KNOW IF IT’S JUST MY BOOK OR NOT!!

  43. thats cool that it says her name and the book. Awsomeist!!! Just one thing………….please explain to me what there saying! I dont understand.

  44. I am curious if Scott has to be sad or upset to write? His books don’t strike me as the product of angst. It is probably better without distractions like new love though…

  49. hi i love your books i read all 3 over the summer and when i herd that extas cam out on the secondi freaked … lol i love your books and that is soo kool about the comic thing .. have fun in Cali bye

  50. bogus!!!
    my sister has extras, and she’s on the computer, and she ISN’T EVEN READING IT!!!!!!!!
    so i tried to sneak away with it, but it didn’t even get it off the computer desk before her hand reached out and stopped me….
    YES!! she stepped away from the desk and she made the HUGE mistake of leaving it in plain sight!!! now excuse me while i enjoy as much of it as i can in this tiny amount of bubbly, happy-making time……well, when she saw it she said that i could read it till she needed it….bubbly!!! but now my mom asked me to make bread….happy-making that we’ll get bread tonight….but still bogus that this is precious time…..oh well…..later.
    -riderchild-wa

  53. finally back….made bread….my sis is downstairs excersicing….while im waiting, i’m going to read extras….

  54. We all need to encourage Mr.Westerfeld to write more. We all no that somewere in our hearts we want this story to contiue. In a way, i want it to continue to learn about Aya more but on the oter hand i miss Tally-wa soooo much. I cant be icy every day noing he will never make one. So Mr.Westerfeld dont be a bubblehead (we all no you arent i just love useing those words) and write somemore. Anyways if you dont write anymore those questions typed buy me earlier will just be left, unanswered.

    If your haveing trouble understanding why were dying for another, let me help.
    You didnt just create a book, yeah uglies was just a book at first, but then you made more and more so then, it became a world. Sometimes we wonder wat it would be like to be in the world. Being pretty and haveing perfect bfs like Zane (R.I.P) but other times its just knowing that anytimes our world gets harsh or were haveiong a bad day we can turn to another place. You created that place, you have to continue it, were will we go if you dont. I want my mom to buy all the books even thought i read them because sometimes i like going to my favrtie parts were it mad me smaile and laugh. For example, when tally and Zane kissed. Or when Frizz loved ayas nose.So i hope you understand now. PLase tak my word to heart and think hard and long, we need you, we need your world!

  56. well put, bran-la!!
    as he/she said, you created a world for us, in which we take refuge whenever we’re felling like the entire world is bogus…..i need your world too…..AND PLEASE COME TO MASSACHUSSETTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED U TO COME TO MASSACHUSSETTS!!!!!!! YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH I NEED U 2 COME 2 MASSACHUSSETTS!!!!
    sorry…..i just got a little carried away….now for me to start complaining about my angry-making sister….
    i was reading extras, then my older sis took it away from me!!!!! talk about bogus!!! now she’s reading, and i have nothing to do…(aside from the 15 books that just came for me at the library, but, if your in the middle of such a bubbly book as extras, all of the other stuff seems totally brain-missing!!!) oh, and now she’s going upstairs to fold her humungo pile of laundry (i fold mine every morning, so i get to stay here! 🙂 happy-making!!!), and she TOOK EXTRAS WITH HER!!!!!!!!!! now, correct me if i’m wrong, but it’s not incredily easy to fold and read at the same time…..i even asked her if she’s bringing it with her and she said that she was!!! sometimes, it’s bubbly to share series with older sisters and your mother…but sometimes, its completely bogus. BOGUS, BOGUS, BOGUS, BOGUS, BOGUS, BOGUS, BBBBBBBOOOOOOOGGGGGGGUUUUUUUSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now, all i have left to do is keep on boring u guys…..
    so, tonight we’re going to…….URGH!!! i can’t get my mind off of extras!!!!!!!!! it’s so dang good!!!!!!!!!!! it’s totally brain-missing to just fold laundry and expect yourself to be able to read at the same time…..sigh…..hmmm…..dum dee dum dee dooo…….now, i bet all of you have exciting lives, but i just dont! i have to wait in line for a book I PAID FOR, while my sis isn’t even reading it, and i only have fifteen other books that are so brain-missing and random that i just can’t stand reading another page!!!!! i wish i had something incredibly icy to do, or something to do other than write a million paragraphs of stuff that’s just gonna bore u guys 2 bits!!! UUUURRRRGGGHHHH!!! i feel like i’m just a random!!!!!! i need something bubbly to do before i explode with boredom!!!! u know what? u guys will just die of boredome reading of my bogus suffrings, so why don’t i save all of u guys from this torture and leave?
    -riderchild-wa 🙂

  58. maybe ur sister’s doing it cuz it seems to be like, bothering you A LOT. but i can ttly sympathize.
    wat fifteen library books did u get?

    DARKLING. WEREWOLVES.

  59. come on. they would be soooooooo awesome. just make it happen! plz! don’t make me write fanfic on you. and i won’t sue for the idea….if i’m in the 4th midnighters aknowledgment page. just kidding.

    but think about it……on the full moon….at midnight…..return of dess/jess/jon/rex/melissa….but maybe with more new narrators…..and darkling werewolves….and more lore….and a cool werewolf symbol….and dude, it’d be a FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS. WITH WEREWOLVES.

  60. HEY! i found a mistake in EXTRAS two! it says “Was there was something hollow about the echoing blows?” on page 116! it should say “Was there something hollow about the echoing blows?” yepyepyep.

    -Lizzy-wa OU! 😮

  62. AND…the fourth book would be called CHASING MIDNIGHT! i wouldnt sew for that idea if i was in the aknowledgements ether! CHASING MIDNIGHT and DARKLING WEARWOLVES! OH YEAH!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  63. what’s the typo? i don’t get it.

    and plz plz darkling werewolves!!! darkling werewolves chase people. chasing midnight. it would be awesome.

  64. Serafina-la…its just doesnt sound rite. ya no? and hey. we should form a club. a CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES club. HEY! that makes sense! cause its like CHASING MIDNIGHT, and MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES, and MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES are just like DARKLING WEREWOLVES, only different names! FOOL! and its like revolving around the werewolves. cause were chasing them, but the titles in there two! FOOL!

    i am officially in the CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES club. wanna be co-presidents with me Serafina-la?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😮

  66. Also, when are you going to be in New York, because Books of Wonder’s site has you there on the 27th, but I’m busy that day. And I’ve yet to see any NY appearances listed here.

  67. yes! darkling werewolves chasing people forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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