Various Stuff!

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This is a quick post to keep all you non-Twitterers up to date.

1) Alan Cumming is performing the audiobook version of Leviathan! For those of you who don’t know, he’s a broadway actor who became famous starring in Cabaret. He’s also known to X-Men fans as Nightcrawler, and he was Fegan Floop (AKA the bad guy) in Spy Kids.

But I was a fan of his way back when he was unknown on these USian shores, and doing a BBC2 show called The High Life, which he co-wrote as well as starring in. It’s about two flight attendants on a somewhat miserable airline called Air Scotia, and really captures what it’s like to have a somewhat miserable job and dream of bigger things.

I knew then that Alan was destined for big things, but it never occurred to me that recording a book of mine might be one of them.

Epic win.

2) My interview with Ana Marie Cox is up on iTunes, and it’s free! So if you desire 35 minutes of me, Ana, and Lizzie Skurnick talking about YA lit and politics, you should check it out. Here’s how:
a) Search the iTunes Store for “Maddow 960”.
b) Click on the green Rachel Maddow icon.
c) Select the 06/30/09 episode.
d) Listen and be amazed (or at least amused).

3) Justine is doing another giveaway from our prodigious stack of authors’ copies. Post you favorite line of dialog from all of literature (no movies or TV) and maybe win a book! Click here to play.

That’s it. Only 87 days till Leviathan comes out!

Which is . . . a while.

Update
If you read Spanish, there’s a long interview with me in the YA journal El Templo de las Mil Puertas. Click here and flip to page 47.

Update
Winners of Justine’s dialog contest have been announced. Click here to see if you won!

84 thoughts on “Various Stuff!”

  6. GOSH, PEOPLE START COMMENTING, I WANT THE THIRTEENTH COMMENT!!! I’ve never gotten a thirteenth comment before 🙂

  7. Yes… only eighty-seven days… -sigh-
    This fall is really huge in terms of popular books being released. o__O

  8. I can’t wait I’m gonna count down on my calender till leviathan comes out, if only I had a calender *sing* but I can’t wait! finally Scott-la! you posted to us! yay!
    ping to Amber-La haha! nice rhyme! i love to rhyme, that’s why I do it all the time! o look, i found a dime! i’m gonna go pay a mime! haha! i LOVE to rhyme!
    t

  9. hah, 87 days left? funny thing, 87 is my what i like to call my lucky number. My birthday is 8/7, my boyfriend’s football number is 87…so yay for 87 days left till leviathan comes out!

  11. I am SO excited!!!! 87 days WOOHOO!!!!!! I’m counting down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. Question… you mentioned on your Twitter that you would be posting a contest for the Leviathan postcards on your blog… would that be happening any time soon? Not that I’m impatient or anything… =P

    Also, what accent will Alan Cumming be reading the non-dialogue bits in? My vote is for British.

  18. I REALLY can’t wait for Leviathan!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
    I have a feeling time is going to drag by very slowly until it comes out. T_T

  19. Alan Cumming??? Dude, Scar from Lion King!!! I think. Oh, if Im wrong Im gonna feel really stupid, but yeah! Sorry, if I ever listen to a book on tape (which Im not really into) itll be Star Trek. Why? Zachary Quintos voice of course.

    Nerd is the Werd. 😉

  20. Laura-la, I cant believe you wasted first comment saying “first comment!” When I get first comment, I will say something profound and world changing.

    Probably not. But that would be cool. 😉

  21. Audrey – no such luck, Jeremy Irons played Scar. But, still, Alan Cumming is very cool. Very, very, very cool.

  22. ping to Amy-La hey we have the same name!!!!!! cool! how r people gonna tell us apart??????? ummm ill put a smiley at the end of all of my messages! 8)

  23. ok there is another Amy-La so at the end of all of my meesages i’ll put a smiley face and i’ll say a rhyme cuz i love to rhyme! 8)
    Hey Diddle Diddle a pig and a fiddle!
    hehe!
    8)

  25. ping to Audrey-sensei haha! i know! my favorite is:

    a pig’ll
    wiggle
    if you tiggle! hehe!

    kinda sad… i know

    8)

  26. Fawesome rhymes! here is one of mine:

    Ummm…
    Once there was a girl who said ummm…
    It seemed like a bad habit to some,
    but then, those folks were quite dumb.

    Okay, now I sound quite dumb, but that was the only thing I could com up with off the top of my head. At least it is better than just writng “ummm…” ( at least I think so… ummm… )

  27. ping to Alice-Wa haha! nice! it’s 1 of my gruesome (or at least i think that’s a word but umm o well!) habbits! well actually it’s like my only other habbit beside saying “like” and biting my nails! ummmmmmm but that’s all i have to say!

  28. you know Scott-La… I’m starting to think that you don’t read all of our posts (well….. ummmm….. it would be kinda hard to read all of them cuz like you get 100s everyday!) ok nvr mind. now i fell bad 4 even saying that! OH I KNOW!!!!!!! a rhyme will cheer me up!!! hmmm let’s think… ok i got one!:

    there’s was a goose
    who’s babies got loose
    mamma goose decided to catch her babies with some juice
    they all came running hear and there
    trying to get some juice
    so mamma swooped them up all nice and close
    this is the end of my little rhyme
    but make sure to come back next time!

    haha! some didn’t really rhyme but they were really close! 8)
    bye!! 8) 😉 🙂 😮

  29. just to let u know all of my rhymes I made them… i didn’t steal them… except 4 the pig one……

  30. hmm i can’t rhyme very well… haiku’s r more my style (cuz they don’t have to rhyme!) ;-D

  31. oh and btw Scott-La Leviathan doesn’t come out until 86 days 5 hours 14 min. and 3…2….1…. (and so on) seconds!

  35. i feel sad….we nontwitterers dont get as much info =/

    but watev! cause im so exited for leviathon!
    and yes that is along time =/

    and lol Michika-Chan nice exactness

    =P

    =D

  36. Amy-la: And you wonder why scott doesnt read our posts…

    Oh, and an update, I was thinking of Jim Cummings. Alan Ive never heard of. Glad we got that all sorted out.

    Oh, and my favorite rhymes are limericks. Here is one I wrote all by myself! Like, four years ago, but I memorized it.

    There once was a lady from Beal
    Whose shoes had a very high heel.
    She tripped off a dock
    and was lunch for a croc.
    Who said “What a very nice meal!”

    Not bad for a 6th grader if I say so myself… 😉

  37. ping to Audrey-Sensei … umm yeah… 8( hehe! nice poem! i like it! wait if u wrote that 4 years ago when u were in the six grade that means that ur in 10nt grade, rite?

  38. OmG!!! Love the poems!!!

    There was once a man
    Whose name was Dan
    He lived in Iran
    And ate soup out of a can
    “I’m hungry,” says Dan
    So he took out a pan
    And lifted the ban
    On eating spam

    I just randomly made that up! I’m not even sure if u cook spam in a pan!

  39. Alan Cumming is so amazing and talented! Scott, I wish you posted here more. I just don’t twitter.

  42. forgot the 🙂 .

    Wow this IS some various stuff. I have a poem about twilight. I’m a lover not a hater:

    Harry Potter is a rotter
    because Edward Cullen’s hotter
    Edward’s a vampire
    and Harry’s been fired.
    →→→→→→→→→→→→→→→
    like it ? my song over in Update on the Uglies Movie is better though… Cya!

  44. Amy-la: I just finished 10th grade, so Ill be a junior next year. Sorry for making you do math during summer!

    Laura-wa: Your poem was atrocious. I loved it!!! I was literally laughing out loud. You are my hero for the day.

    The OTHER Tally Youngblood: Spam is spray cheese. Like shaving cream. But cheese. Thats my best description of it. gross, right? And sorry, but Im a hater. I even have a geometric proof that will settle the Harry Potter/Twilight debate forever.

    Voldemort > Cedric Diggory
    Cedric Diggory = Edward Cullen
    Harry Potter > Voldemort
    Therefore, Harry Potter > Edward Cullen.

    You cant argue with math!

    Scott: (I guess he does read our posts, Amy-la) I check up on your twitter feed every once in a while, its just so much effort to type the address into the address bar. Oh well, it works though cause I need to keep track of thelindsayellis and zacharyquinto as well! (of course). Dang Comicon being the day before my lacrosse camp.
    Wow, I sound like a total nerd now. Maybe I secretly am. 😉

  48. Alright !
    I’ll listen to the interview. 🙂

    (I see a lot of people want Nicole Kidman to be the Dr. Cable… And I don’t like this idea a lot. ._. Yes, she has a cold face, and blablabla, but… But I don’t know, I didn’t imagine the Dr. Cable like her. :0)

  50. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! scotty (his new nickname from the 1 and only mwa! haha!) posted back!
    ping to Audrey-sensei it’s fine… i can do math without straining my brain! haha! i’m only going into 7th grade! *tear tear* haha!
    ping to Laura-wa, tOty, and Audrey-sensei are you sure? i thought spam was like fat stuff! ummm, like… well are you sure?!?! cuz i’m pretty sure that it’s canned meat or pork or something! haha!

  52. I just started reading Mind-Rain and OMFG I HAVE A WHOLE SENTANCE!!!!! A whole entire sentance. *is estatic* I just thought you all should know that i just realised it. And i got one of those free copies from Teen Lebris isn’t that crazy. If you are curious about what I’m talking about and care (which i doubt you do) its on the bottem of page 14 of Mind-Rain

    and Audrey-sensei:law of syllogism(i think that is the right law) win

  54. Audrey-sensei: Is that the lady that plays Fiona on Burn Notice? I really don’t like her character on that show, and I think she’s a little scary. Hmm, maybe she would be a good Dr. Cable. 😆
    And Spam is canned meat, not spray cheese (just thought I’d clear that up). 🙂

  56. ping to Audrey-sensei: spray cheese? gag me. I watched HP#4 last night & have read the book so I can see what u mean by saying that He-Who- Must- Not-Be-Named is superior 2 CD or RP whatev since (SPOILER ALERT 4 SOME !) The “Dark Lord” killed him. I’m not nearrly as obb. W/ Twilight as I used 2 b anyway. Once again, Spray cheese sounds NASTY.

    Ping to The All Important Scott-la: Yay! you’re not dead! (see comment # 679 on Update on the Uglies movie if you want to know why I’m assuming such things. Hopefully you won’t be deeply offended.) Yay I’m special! Why? Because you posted right after me!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m one lucky duckie! I’ll probably have to like, ask my mom to go on twitter cause she’ll be all like, ” Why did you go on twitter? It’s a bad website!” and I’ll be like…”Mom I wanted to look @ Scott-la’s page!” Though I won’t use the “-la” part since even though I opened up Bogus to Bubbly and showed it to her I doubt she understands. Bottom line, I’ll get grounded. Glad to see you still luv mee! Random, yes. I LIKE random! Hasta Levista Scott-la! 🙂

  57. YAY!!! I loved him as the nightcrawler!!!! And YAY less than 87 days. this made my day!

  58. @The OTHER Tally Youngblood – you know you can delete your web history, right? If you use Mozilla Firefox it’s in the options tab…”clear all private data.” In Internet Explorer it’s also under options – “Delete browsing history.” Pretty straight forward, yes?

    I’m probably a bad person for suggesting that you hide stuff from your mother, but whatever. It’s not like reading Scott’s Twitter page is a horrible thing that’s going to get you kidnapped and killed.

    …Then again, it might be. Random middle-aged guys are just waiting for you to click on that page because, using magic, they learn everything about you whilst you happily read Scott’s death trap tweets.

    Because anything fun is bad for you.

  59. I adore Alan Cumming! I’ll have to listen to the audio book now! I’m really picky about my audio books but Alan Cumming and Scott Westerfeld! I’m sure it’ll be worth it.

  60. hey everybody!
    i just got a little grey kitty
    (awww)
    and i was thinking of naming her after Minerva’s Cat
    (from the Last Days)
    anyone remember it’s name?
    I don’t have my copy of the book in my new place yet.
    : /

  62. Ping to Allie-wa: I’m well aware that you CAN delete your browsing history. Fun stuff IS bad for you 🙁 life isn’t fair is it? Stalky old dudes? Creepy… x(

    Ping to Liset: HA! Lucky for you that I’m reading 5 books @ a time and that one of them is The Last Days. (I’m also reading Gone With the Wind, Midnighters, Fever 17…..something and rereading the entire Harry Potter series! HBP movie anyone? I know I am! 🙂 ) Anyway, Minerva’s cat’s name is Zombie. Post a pic of your new feline here if you can.. I’m a cat person! If not Zombie, good luck with the name! 🙂

  63. aww i wanted a copy!

    hey i no who ahould play tally! (at least special taly)
    Summer Glau from Sarah Connor Chronicles!
    i thot of her when i was readin specials becuz she looks like the girl from the cover

  64. the OTHER Tally Youngblood: i really want to see the new Harry Potter movie…my sister’s actually seeing it right now..uggg i’m so jealous!

  65. Well, it looks like I’m fixing to buy my first book on tape. Alan Cumming is my third favorite queer celebrity, after Clea Duvall and of course Ellen. I’ll probably want to read it first, though.
    I wonder whether the illustrations will be included with the audiobook?

  66. The Other Tally Youngblood
    thanks!
    I could have swore the cat’s name started with an M
    but zombie is super cute… hmmm

  68. ping to Audrey Sensai: I couldn’t agree with you more. That is the perfect agrument against Twi-hards…..I use it a lot.
    I was watching the 4th HP the other day too!…actually I watched it twice…we were having a marathon but I had a double one cause my friend couldn’t make it to part 2 of our marathon…..anywho….when cedric Died…I laughed….oooo Im horrible…but whatever.

    I saw the movie this morning….I was dissapointed….the ending was lacking

  69. ping to Scott-La I’m reading bogus to bubbly right now and I’m in the names part and it’s really cool because my name means beloved like zane’s and david’s!

  71. Kristina-la: I laughed when Zane died in specials… I’m such a bad person XD

    this was the conversation between my friend and I after I read it (I read it during class)

    Me: YESSS!!

    Friend: what? what happened?

    M: He died!!

    F: oh was he a bad guy?

    M: NO! THEY WERE IN LOVE!! YESSS! WHO’S BUBBLY NOW ZANE, WHO’S BUBBLY NOW!!???

    yes, I auctually said that…. don’t give me that look, I’m a tally/david shipper ok?! XD

  72. Your interview with the Spanish journal was great 🙂
    I enjoyed it a lot!
    I had no idea that the Uglies series was in spanish also, I’ll have to read them in spanish too!!

  73. lol I laughed at cedric only because of Twilight….before that wreched movie RPattz was kool and normal, but now(I admit he is still kool, but only because he knows the books suck)he is just kreepy and worn down by all the crazed fans.
    When I read that part in the book I was sad……well….who really cares about Cedric Diggory…no one right?….so really Voldemort put us all out of our misery by just dissposing of the “spare”

    I must say though that when Zane died I was disapointed but also relieved becauseI always thought david was better.

  74. hey question guys- my friends and I are wanting to make an uglies parody- is there anything you’d like to suggest?

  75. a parody!!….why would you ask us!
    A parody is used to make fun of……..so why would you come here and ask us fans for suggestions to make fun of a series that is dear to our hearts(oh that sounded corny…)

  80. Kristina-la: it’s just poking a bit of fun at it, it’s not that I don’t love it too

    :S

  81. scott u hav to write another midnighters! i love them sooooo much! plus if u haven’t read it all ready read comment 941, i think in update on the uglies movie!

  82. Ok, i couldn’t think of any other place to put this comment, but i think that it needs to be said:

    This past week i was at an acting camp and for it we had to go to a high ropes course. It was basicaly to get us to be closer and more supportive and to get us out of our comfort zone so we can do more things and stuff like that.
    Well, I’ve been to one before with school and was forced to do it and found that not only did I hate my teachers, but that I am ferociously scared of hights.
    But after most of the people suggesting I try, I stared to climb the gianormusly high post. After getting halfway up and looking down I climbed back down the pole.
    Then i rested and decided I should at least try again and get at least to the top. So I did. I got all the way to the top and walked across the suspended log at the top. I was so proud of myself and would’ve done it again if I could stand up.
    Well, here’s the part that is semi-important. The only way/reason I climbed that darn post was I kept thinking to myself, “Tally Youngblood, Tally Youngblood, Tally Youngblood, Tally Youngblood. Come on. Make her proud. Come on. Tally Youngblood.”
    I know it sounds really dumb, but I really want to thank Scott for writing those books for us and to give us a role modle such as Tally to look up to and follow.
    So, THANKS A LOT MR. WESTERFELD, YOU’RE THE BEST OF THE BEST. TOTTALY BUBBLY. (sorry to go all Opra on you guys, but I just wanted to put that out for anyone who cares.)

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