Comments on: Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers

By: nova

nova — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:35:12 +0000

I have a writer’s crush on Courtney too — I loved “Cracked Up to Be,” and I love what you said about it. “Awesomesauce” — true fact.

By: MY EYES « Anthony Pacheco: Hack Writer

MY EYES « Anthony Pacheco: Hack Writer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:48:36 +0000

[...] full free book cracked up to be by courtney [...]

By: bjkeltz

bjkeltz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:08:15 +0000

Sounds like a winning recommendation to me. Will find a copy.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:30:58 +0000

I afraid you’re going to have to read it, Alex. Parker is the ultimate in sarcastic comebacks. That alone is worth the price of admission.

By: Alex Moore

Alex Moore — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:22:30 +0000

Your tangents, as always, rock –> mostly because they provide an illustration that enhances your main point.

Ugh. I’m always going to pay for that tangent comment, aren’t I?

Anyway, you’ve almost convinced me to buy the book. Even if it’s just to put in my classroom library. (Still on fantasy kick; still not reading books dealing w/ rl.)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:21:59 +0000

I thought those snippets from Dust ruled.

But we all know about my pixie fetish.

By: Kiersten

Kiersten — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:18:47 +0000

Oooh, hate mail! That’d be awesome.

If I tried to be preachy through Jordan’s voice she’d tell me to shut up.

And I’m actually reading my pixie book right now, trying to get back in that voice groove, because it’s pretty far removed from my Sight novels. Gotta have a project though, right?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:01:55 +0000

Ya, I admit to having a Writer’s Crush on poor Courtney. I can’t help it, I love good writing. But since I only have 8.3 readers, her Amazon reviews have vastly more impact than my little blog.

Ha ha Kiersten, just reading your blog I know you get it. You are a pure storyteller. There is no possible way you can write the way you described and be preachy.

Case in point: A writer actually has to work at screwing up their novel. It would have taken you twice as long to mess up your just completed book out to beta readers.

Thus, I am sure you are safe from my ire. If you should, however, fall off the wagon, I won’t post about it here, but I might send you hate mail.

I (heart) Kiersten! Especially when she writes about pixies!

By: Kiersten

Kiersten — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:54:15 +0000

I think Courtney is lucky to have you for a fan ; )

And sheesh, you make me paranoid to be a YA writer…