No release date yet. BUT THE UGLIES MOVIE IS ON THE NETFLIX APP!
To get a reminder when it’s out:
1. Log onto Netflix.
2. Search on “Uglies.” (Or just click here).
3. Select the Uglies thumbnail.
4. Click on Remind Me!
If there’s a like button in your country, click that too. Maybe we can convince them to move the release date up!
Haven’t been on here much, but I’ve got two bits of news!
1) After various delays due to the SAG/WGA strikes, the Uglies movie is back on Netflix’s schedule for 2024. No release date yet, but don’t worry, this thing is real!
Here’s a write-up about the movie if you need catching up.
2) The cover for my first children’s book, “Before You Were Here,” is finalized at last. The amazing Jessica Lanan did the artwork for the book, and it’s fantastic!
“Before You Were Here” is an I-love-you book for young children wondering where they came from, explaining how a bunch of water, energy, and minerals turned into . . . a person!
It’s cool science to help kids feel connected to the universe around them.
From @MacKidsBooks, Sep 10, 2024.
You can pre-order it here.
The US tour for SHATTER CITY, book 2 in the new Uglies series, is mostly over. See below for the last two events.
HOWEVER, I left MANY SIGNED BOOKS in my wake, both new and original Uglies. You can order from the stores below by mail—or get them in person.
ALSO, in November I’m coming to AUSTRALIA. Get ready, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane!
ORDER SIGNED BOOKS FROM:
RJ Julia
Madison CT
Boswell Books
Milwaukee MN
Anderson’s Booksellers
Naperville IL
Joseph Beth Booksellers
Cincinnati OH
Booktowne
Manasquan NJ
Here are the last two dates of the US tour:
New York Comic Con
Javits Convention Center
Tickets required!
Thu and Sat, Oct 3 & 5
See my Appearances Page for details
Naperville, IL
Anderson’s 16th Annual YA Literature Conference
Embassy Suites Naperville
1823 Abriter Ct, Naperville, IL 60563
Sat, Oct 19
I’ll be the keynote speaker here. Tickets required!
Sorry if I didn’t come to your city, hamlet, or burg. Maybe next year or the next. There will be four books in the new Uglies series, and I’ll be touring for the others as well!
Follow me on Twitter so you don’t miss the next tour!
SHATTER CITY, book 2 in the new UGLIES quartet, is out now!
Below are all the buy buttons.
(That’s the UK cover on the right.)
“Frey’s journey to self-discovery takes the forefront, and it’s hard-won, thoughtful, and complex. Readers will jones for the next installment, eager to witness their heroine take on more thrilling adventures…Page-turning action made even more engrossing by a rare emotional core.” —Kirkus
Order the new UGLIES quartet (in their new covers) here.
Hey, Uglies fans! The new book in the series, Impostors, is OUT NOW!
You can buy it in your local bookstore! Or order the new UGLIES quartet (in their new covers) here.
Want to know what Impostors is about? Here’s my Q&A from this blog.
Here’s the new release trailer:
Here’s the first trailer, introducing all four books:
I am returning to the world of Uglies with four new novels. The first three are OUT NOW.
You can buy them in physical bookstores or order them online here.
Perhaps you have some questions?
More of a comment than a question . . .
Ugh.
. . . watching that trailer, I thought it was a TV show or a movie!
Lol. Got you.
These are books. Four novels. We still like novels, right?
Sure. But will there be a movie?
Today’s news is about FOUR NEW NOVELS.
Okay. Are you writing them?
Of course!
I know, I’ve been doing collaborations to stretch myself lately—the Spill Zone graphic novels with Alex (read them online!) and the Zeroes series with Margo and Deb—but this is a solo project.
Where are these books set? Same world? Same time frame?
They take place in the Uglies future, after Tally’s revolution has changed everything. As she once said, “Freedom has a way of destroying things.” The Imposters series is about dealing with the consequences of ending the Pretty Regime. The story starts in a city where things did not work out well. Bad people are in charge.
Dystopian!
Correct. But we also will travel to other cities where things aren’t all bad. This new series is about all the expressions of human nature that’ve popped up after more than ten years of social upheaval.
More than ten years! Is Tally in these books? (Wouldn’t she be, like, super old?)
Lol. She’s, like, THIRTY.
Yes, she is a character in the world. But she’s not a point-of-view character (in the first book, anyway). She’s more like a famous person in the background.
What’s Impostors about then?
A girl named Frey, who’s been raised from birth to pretend to be someone else. She’s a body double. A bodyguard. An impostor!
It’s about the roles that our parents and society force upon us, and how we fight to create our own identities, to invent selves that really belongs to us.
Is that Frey in the trailer?
Not really. This was more of a “Remember Uglies? There’s more!” reveal. There will be another trailer this summer that goes into the plot and characters of Impostors.
Where’s the cover?
Coming soon. It’s lovely.
FORGET COVERS ARE THEIR HOVERBOARDS IN THIS BOOK?
WHAT A QUESTION OF COURSE THERE ARE HOVERBOARDS
Also lots of other cool new tech, never seen before in the Uglies universe.
Like?
Spy dust, suborbitals, lupine surgery, cyranos.
What do those words mean???
Read the book.
Why did you go back to the Uglies world after all this time?
The real world was, like, “Dude. Even stable-seeming democracies are built on seriously rickety underpinnings. Do you really think a bunch of recently awoken bubbleheads are going to make good choices?”
And I was, like, “Dude . . . ”
Dude.
Yeah. Also I had a bunch of science fictional ideas kicking around in my head, and once I came up with Frey’s story, they all started to click.
But you said four books. What are the other three about?
This series mostly follow the adventures of Frey. But later on in the series, Tally (and some other familiar characters) will play a bigger role. The new Uglies world will get bigger and bigger.
There will be one book a year. A book every September till 2021!
Important question here: Is there any romance in Impostors?
There is! But the Love Interest doesn’t know who Frey really is, of course, because she’s an impostor—like in the title! So everything is very tricky, and also our pair are from different sides politically.
Hang on. A guy doesn’t really know who the heroine really is, and they’re on opposite sides? Isn’t that kind of like Leviathan?
Um, Frey isn’t pretending to be a boy. But yes, I do like to play with hidden identities and complicated politics and secrets. Romeo and Juliet is a Thing for a Reason!
Also, unlike with Alek and Deryn, this guy won’t take three frickin’ books to figure it out.
Lol.
Lol.
Wait. You’re writing both sides of this dialog. So this is just you laughing at your own joke.
I slay me.
Any other questions about Impostors?
Why isn’t it call Cakes?
It’s true. “Pretty” is the last word in Uglies, “special” is the last word in Pretties, “ugly” is the last word in Specials, and “cake” is the last word in Extras. So it should be called Cakes.
But the cake is a lie.
Why do you keep spelling it “Impostors” instead of “Imposters”?
Because an “imposter” is someone who works in an impost office. DO YOU WANT TO READ YA BOOKS ABOUT CUSTOMS OFFICIALS? (If you do, there’s probably fan fic.)
Okay. One last question . . . um, IS there ever going to an Uglies movie or TV show?
¯\_(?)_/¯
I mean, who knows with Hollywood? But maybe if Impostors is a HUGE bestseller . . .
If you have any more questions, put them in the comments below.
I love this window at the Library Center in Springfield, Missouri:
Also, you should go take this twitter poll:
Should I write another couple of Uglies books?
— Scott Westerfeld (@ScottWesterfeld) May 4, 2016
The Uglies series has a new set of audiobooks out, with a new reader, Emily Tremaine. (Wolf of Wall Street)
Here’s a sample from Uglies:
And here’s a sample from Pretties. It’s the scene in which Tally and Zane first kiss!
Download your copies here:
Readers of the Uglies series may remember Aya’s pal Moggle in Extras, a semi-intelligent hovercam that tracks her around, providing footage of her exploits for her feed.
It seems that someone has invented something similar, but called it Lily.
Lily, of course, uses rotors instead of magnetic lifters, and only has 20 minutes battery life. It costs $500 if preordered now before anyone has reviewed a real one, and will be twice that when it ships next February. (Buyer beware.)
Here’s the camera’s official site, and you can find tons of other articles around the web.
It’s not quite Moggle, but it’s proof of concept. And why wouldn’t we all want our own hovercam following us around?
(Thanks to everyone who sent me this!)
BONUS: My latest novel, Afterworlds, is only $1.99 in the Kindle store this month. Click here to check it out.
UPDATE
From now till January 4, the UK e-book of Afterworlds will be available for £1.49.
Click here to buy it from Amazon.
Or here to but it from Sainsbury’s.
END OF UPDATE
Greetings from Sydney. I’ve been here for a month now, recovering from the Afterworlds tour and putting the finishing touches on my next novel. (The title, etc. of this book is secret now, but much will be revealed early next year.)
In the meantime, and with due deference to the season, here are a couple of cool items to compliment your Hanukwanzamas haul:
Barnes & Noble has a signed and bonus content edition of Afterworlds on its shelves now. The extra material is one of the chapters that Darcy discarded after receiving her editorial letter. (So it’s part of Darcy’s book, pre-rewrites!)
This edition has two stickers on it, one for the extra content and one because it’s signed by me:
Alas, you can’t order the signed version online. But you can order the bonus content edition (without signature) right here.
For Uglies fans, I earlier this year wrote a short story called “How David Got His Scar.” The story is set in the time before David has met Tally, but after Shay’s runaway friends, Croy and Astrix, have reached the Smoke. It tells the secret story of David’s eyebrow scar.
To find this B&N hardback exclusive edition of Uglies, look for this black sticker in B&N stores:
You can also order this edition online right here.
Okay, there are some other holiday deals out there, but I can’t remember them. Will update this post when I do.
And happy Hanukwanzamas!