Like delicious yeasty bread dough sitting in the sun, I too am in the process of rising.
But, like…as an author. Instead of as a loaf of bread. (Although if I was bread I would 100% be sourdough; this is just fact.) I’d like to think I’ve been slowly rising as an author over the last 7 years, since I decided this is what I wanted to do with my life. This has basically involved writing a lot, crying, writing more, and stacking up boxes to stand on because I can’t rise alone. I am very smol.
And look while we’re talking about height, I want to point out that if you’re over 5’1, you are a monster of the skies. What’s it like to actually reach cupboards???? Can you get things without climbing shelves??? DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THE TREES UP THERE???
The real questions have been asked.
I’m stealing (politely!! and lovingly!!!) The Rising Author tag off Louise who is fantastic and currently rising like bread dough too!! Go us!! So basically here I go to talk about WRITING. And my books! And me! All of our favourite topics in one post.
And it’s handy if I actually blog about writing since…you know…I have THAT BOOK coming out and all that. In 82 days in case you aren’t counting down as you should be.
WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING SOMEONE HAS SAID ABOUT YOUR WRITING?
I have had many many weird things happen that centre around other humans + my writing. I think this is partially because I somehow have a poster stuck on my back that says “HEYYYY!! STRANGE THINGS COME @ ME!!” which is great. (Except not really.) (Also why did no one hire me for Stranger Things smh.) So here’s a sampling:
- I once entered a contest to get a query critique and the author hosting told me not to query this book it wouldn’t work. (8 months later that book and that query got me an agent.)
- I won another contest for a 10K critique and had the judge email back: “So I didn’t like a single thing about your book and let me tell you about it.” WHICH IS NOT HOW A CRITIQUE WORKS AND THANKS FOR SCARRING A 17-YEAR-OLD WRITER SO THEY DIDN’T WANT TO WRITE FOR A LONG TIME.
- But happier things!!
- Someone once said my writing reminded them of Maggie Stiefvater (!!!) which is the freaking best compliment ever, but weird because I’m definitely not that good ah ha hahahha. But still. Thank ye. (INSERT HEART EYES)
- My book, A Thousand Perfect Notes, has been pitched as Jandy Nelson meets Rainbow Rowell before and holy heck. More heart eyes.
- It feels as weird to be complimented as insulted. WHY IS THIS.
WHAT WAS THE WORST THING YOU’VE EVER WRITTEN?
If we move past the book I tried illustrating when I was, like, 12 about a dog named Chops, it’s a toss up between:
A) this time I wrote a zombie book that was just. so. boring. I let everyone get eaten early because I couldn’t even bear continuing writing.
B) I tried writing a middle-grade and couldn’t figure out how to amp the tension up so I LET THE LITTLE GIRL GET HIT BY A CAR….I just…I mean this was years ago but cAIt.
C) When I was a very very smol teen I had a boy fall into a magical world where he met a talking rabbit to infodump about the universe. Once I finished info-dumping (FOR 3 CHAPTERS) I just looked at the fact I had a giant talking rabbit and decided: no.
Honestly have you all lost faith in me yet???? PLEASE DON’T. I SWEAR I’VE IMPROVED.
CAN YOU DO OTHER THINGS WHILE WRITING?
I can breathe, but that’s pretty much pushing it. Look I even suck at just acting like a genuine human when I’m writing!! I get hyper-focused and only take breaks for walks/food/general human maintenance…but I’ll literally write every waking minute. I can’t read + write. I can’t listen to music + write. I can’t talk to people + write.
Although I confess I’m actually planning to see if I can draft a novel, while NOT super-speed writing. It’s a goal for this year! Can I be a normal human?? Let’s see.
IF YOUR BOOK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE?
I actually love the way this is worded! Because usually questions are like “fancast your characters” and holy HECK do people actually imagine their characters with faces???! Wild. Mine have hair and general blobs where their bodies are and that’s about it. #ImaginationLevel: Pro
So if my book (A Thousand Perfect Notes) was a movie it would…
- In honour of being about music, it’d centred around the soundtrack, like Baby Driver!
- So all the scenes/beats/dialogue/movement would be in time to music. I would be so onboard with this.
- It’s a book that contrasts happiness vs sadness a lot, so I’d have the scene colours reflecting the moods.
- The teens would be played BY TEENS (wild again)
DO YOU INCLUDE FOOD IN YOUR BOOKS?
Oh do I ever. Honestly the book I’m writing now (shh secret project) has about half the important scenes take place in the kitchen. And A Thousand Perfect Notes itself has an entire chapter dedicated to a quest to find cake. What do you expect, ok?! I pretend to be a book blogger BUT AM I REALLY JUST A FOOD BLOGGER IN BOOK CLOTHING.
REASONS I LIKE TO INCLUDE FOOD:
- because I get hungry
- food is relatable so we like reading about it
- it gives characters something to do while talking
- can help with world building/culture for fantasy
- also establish whether your character is rich/poor
- because I get hungry
WHICH ONE OF YOUR CHARACTERS ARE YOU MOST SIMILAR TO?
Considering how frighteningly dysfunctional all my characters are…please let me say NONE. Ahem.
But ok I do end up building them around relatable things, like anxiety and a love of cheese and the ability to walk into a crowd, spend 4 seconds, and then leave again.
ACTUAL EXAMPLE OF HOW I CREATE CHARACTERS
ME: I want you to be nothing like me because that’s weird.
CHARACTER: ok
ME: now when you go–
CHARACTER: anXIetY
ME: [whispering] dammit
WHICH OF YOUR CHARACTERS DO YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER CREATED?
Hmm, I don’t think any actually. Although there are some I threaten with being smacked off the page if they don’t listen up. But since when has any character ever listened to their author? Ha.
DO YOU LET OTHER PEOPLE READ YOUR WRITING?
WELL THEY’RE JOLLY WELL ABOUT TO. In 82 days all my secrets are going to be revealed. And I’m wholly chill about this whole thing and not fleeing to Antartica at all.
I’m excited and terrified to be a published author, OK?! Bloggers and authors have a history of needing to stay separate…so how do I be both?! And after all my years of talking about writing, giving advice, critique books, reviewing books, and misusing the human language because I use libraried as a verb…expectations might be a little high around here. But you know what?! That’s okay! I hope you all love my stories, but obviously some of you won’t and that’s fine! (Just don’t tag me in negative reviews lmao.)
But I’m proud of my story. I’m downright proud of all the work I’ve done. I’m proud I didn’t give up. I’M PROUD.
I am a little less proud I spent a whole manuscript saying “backflash” instead of “flashback” because I don’t know how to word. But alrighty.
WHAT’S THE ODDEST THING YOU KNOW ABOUT ONE OF YOUR CHARACTERS?
I know Beck’s full name AND YOU DON’T and ohhhh wow it’s an odd one.
WHAT IS THE VERY FIRST STORY YOU REMEMBER WRITING/HAVE RECORD OF?
I’m sure I still have my illustrated disaster of my dog called Chops. And there’s a ton of Narnia fanfic hidden deep in my wardrobe (AS IT SHOULD BE BECAUSE #AESTHETIC).
WHAT THINGS DO YOU LIKE TO WRITE ABOUT?
I just added this one (shh excuse me) but I wanted to finish with a list. Because I love lists. And I love writing. And there are simply a million stories I want to tell in this universe. So! Here are some things that constantly come up in my work or that I want to write about someday:
- Siblings! My heart beats for sibling stories.
- runaways and hidden people
- bookstores and bakeries
- mental illness, particularly anxiety because #hi
- pirates (I haven’t yet but I WILL)
- themes of worth and being wanted and finding your people
- monsters
- dark things and violence (because I like to unpack what damage it truly does)
- mixed with the cutest fluff scenes and banter
- cake, obviously
- dragons, someday
- people falling in love with people they can’t have
- soft boys and sharp girls
- learning how to be human shaped
- small towns and dark forests
- oceans and cliffs and falling
- dark powerful magic and also everyday soft magic
- also yellow
- I write a lot of things to be yellow it’s very satisfying the hufflepuff (that I bury under my Slytherin) rises too
Also before we all run away screaming (as we do) if you want to preorder my book, A Thousand Perfect Notes…now is an excellent time.
Just remember how much you love me. You can find it on Book Depository, Amazon, Wordery, or my publisher’s website!
*squeals from excitement because I can’t wait to read your book* I looking forward to hugging my copy! Also, I share so much on your list of what you like to write about! But a few things I love to write about, that you didn’t list:
– Unusual mythological figures being gender-bent
– Breaking hearts and shattered pasts
– Well-meaning charries who do bad things
– Colours, colours, colours
– Families who stick together
Wonderful post! 🙂
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*screams softly in happiness* I’m so freaking excited that one day you’ll get to read it!! SO EXCITED. <# Also your list is FABULOUS (breaking hearts is so fun) and I love love when good characters do bad things and bad characters do good things. Perfect way to stress readers and set emotions and feels on fire. <3 Who needs happy calm when you can have BOOKS.
Alright, listen, 5’1 isn’t tall. I am 5’7, yet still the shortest of my friends. I drink soy milk every day in hopes that one day I can be the one making jokes about how short they are. Who cares that my growth spurt was long ago, leT ME DREAM.
However, short people are closer to hell and therefore Satan, so there’s that. Also, we cute.
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DID YOU FORGET TO MENTION THAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE GIANTS. LIKE ACTUAL GIANTS. OH WOW, MAI.😂 Also does soy milk make you grow?! I did not know this. I’m doubling my intake. Someday I will reach the cupboards. For now I’ll just bite ankles.
Perks of living in the Baltic States; you get to see real giants. 😂
Soy milk has calcium! That’s supposed to make you grow… I think…. I hope…!
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*drinks a million percent more soymilk in hopes*
I abandoned studying for exams to read this and I regret nothing. I have so much love for this post. I love reading about writing processes and the like, so imagine my delight when my favourite blogger does it.
Ahem, that was overly wholesome.
So yeah, I’m 5’10” and the trees up here are great, Cait. They also speak Latin and it’s glorious.
I like writing about cities. I feel like big cities = secrets hiding in plain sight and that’s my favourite sort of thing to write. I’m still learning how to do this, but every step of that is amazing. Well, maybe not the crying and setting my hair on fire, but you know how writing can be.
I also like to write about magic, lost relics, death, dragons, assassins, and queens.
I fully support your priorities. FULLY. I mean this is quality content from me for sure.😂 (And I love reading about everyone else’s writing process too! I should blog about it more instead of being an awkward whale.)
Also you are far too tall. COME BACK. DON’T SPEAK LATIN TO THE TREES WITH OUT ME!! *waves angrily like a distant speck near your ankles*
Oh I love the “get lost in a crowd” theme (I have a whole book dedicated to that😂) so cities are fun!! And I mean of coooourse we writers love screaming and setting our hair on fire too. Like what could be better.
I’m 5’3 which is kinda short? And also have you tried wearing heels? I swear they’re magical 😍
List of things I like to write about-
– fluffy scenes because I end up cooing over them
-smol actual babies and toddlers because AWWW
-magic, the basic ingredient of life
-best friends who get each other because I don’t have any hahaha
-kissing scenes which is weird because I’ve never kissed anyone(don’t judge me, it’s all that Malec fanfiction)
-ADORABLE BLUSHING BOYS
-e-mails or letters or diary entries because I stan that stuff
-reading books cause that’s what I do best 😂
I honestly can’t wear heels.😂 I absolutely hate them. I feel like one must always wear footwear they could survive the apocalypse in.😂
Your list is sooo good I love it!! FLUFF SCENES ARE FUN. I never used to write them, but now I do and ajfkdslad they’re just SO FUN.
Such an interesting post! I loved the list of ‘stuff you like to write about’, it sounds awesome. Also food in books is something I wholly approve of.
To answer your questions, I’m 163 cm, or 5’4″. I’m quite a bit shorter than most people in my country (Dutch people are said to be one of the taller folks in the world) and I often can’t reach things in higher spaces. I don’t wear shoes with high heels, My sister is I think a few centimetres shorter than me (157 cm if I’m not mistaken), which makes her 5’1″ (according to a conversion site I used), so she’s your height! I have in the past wished that I was a bit taller, but I think I’m comfortable with my height now. It’s awkward not being able to reach things on high shelves, but I’d hate to be a whole lot taller than everyone else and stand out. I don’t like to be in the centre of attention much, so I’m okay being shorter and hiding in a corner.
I don’t know what kind of bread I’d be.. I know what kind of bread I like to read, but that’s not the same thing. I’m quite different from most people so I suppose it’d be a rare kind of bread.
I just went to the Dutch website I often order stuff from (I live in the Netherlands), and they have your book up for pre-order now finally so I have pre-ordered your book immediately and I am so excited to read it :D. I would’ve pre-ordered it from a foreign country if I couldn’t get it in the Netherlands closer to the pre-order date, but it’s awesome I can get it from a Dutch shop (that means for example, that it won’t take as long to arrive in the post and it’s more reliable). I am so excited :D. And I love supporting authors so I’m happy I can pre-order it 2 1/2 months in advance since I know it will help you and the publisher :).
I wish you an awesome rest of the weekend. Big hugs.
Aww thank you, Gaia!! You always say the nicest things!! Even if you are taller than me and I’d have to look up a lot to see you.😂 ahem. And honestly I was really annoyed at my height as a teen, but now I don’t mind it.😂 I can meld with the darkness or whatnot. *waves hello to your smol sister too* My sister just outright 5ft, so I’m glad about that at least.😂 I get to be taller! By just a tiny bit!!
(Bread is good though. ALL BREAD IS GOOD.)
Omg thank you fore preordering. *sobs happily* Honestly I don’t even know how to thank everyone. <3 It's just surreal to know you'll all be able to read my book someday so so soon!!
I’m 5’2″ and can’t reach shit for the life of me. Can climb the counters in the kitchen like a monkey tho… 🐒
This was such a great list, and you never fail to make me laugh 😀. I love reading about food in books… and about the characters too, of course but i love they do normal people things and eat too
Honestly we smol people are just destined to become really good climbers. For sheer SURVIVAL REASONS.😂
Hahah I’m around 160cm (no idea how many feet) and I wish I was taller. When I was at high school I swear the younger grades were so much taller than I was!! It was awful!
If I was bread I’d like to be tiger bread or Turkish bread 😁😁
I’m 158cm so you’re pretty close to me.😂And ugh everyone younger than me is taller!! It’s really awkward because people assume you’re young and it’s like…no I am just SHORT. Not young.😂
Cait how actually smol are you? Like I’m 5’2 and I’ve been on the recieving end of a fair few small comments.
If I was a bread, I’d be a sweet brioche, which is about the closest thing to a cake-bread.
I love writing people with passions, and not just the sort of thing their parents think they should learn or something they do for school (although these can cross over) but those genuine things where people know every little nerdy detail over one specific subject.
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I’m sure I said in the post right?! Or else that’s embarrassing.😂I’m 5’1. I’m everyone’s elbow rest. (Also cake/bread is actually the best answer. You’re winning here.)
And yes passions!! I actually really hate reading books when the characters have no ambitions/passions!! It’s something we all need right?!
HOORAY FOR MY 5’1 FRIEND. *highfive* We shall both we wildly short together and find other shortlings so that we can grow into a wild herd of bread together xD
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A love the idea of a wild herd of bread. THIS IS GOLDEN. 😂
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggghhhh 82 days I can’t WAIT to get my grubby mitts on your book! It’s so inspiring that you’ve been going for this dream for so many years and you MADE IT. Poo poo to that authour who clearly couldn’t spot a genius query when it hit them. Also, Narnia fanfic in the closet… made me giggle. I am really curious to see how you will balance book blogger/authour life because I feel like this is definitely something that should not be such a big tabboo.
I’m 5’5 and I wish my legs had another two inches to them because….stubby leg life. Currently I am at the exact right height for my boyfriend to use my head and a chin rest and this NOT FUN.
If I was bread I would be *panics* fresh out the oven ciabatta with olives in it! NO wait banana bread. Argh too many decision.
I love your list of things to write about! Here’s some of mine:
– urban spaces in nitty gritty detail (I’m obsessed with big cities)
– but also forests and mountains????
– warm, sunny countries AKA, not Britain (#RIP).
– dark scary fantasy
– spaaaaaace!
– morally ambiguous heroines. like murderous… but also hot?
– re-reading my old teenaged story ideas and gender bending all of the heroes into women so that EVERYONE IS GAY.
– POIRAAAAAHTS!!!!! (I promise I didn’t just copy you). Basically just wooden ships in general.
😀 x
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AFJSDKLAD THANK YOU, MADDY. Honestly it’s been a LONG time and a lot of angst and work.😂 I’m so glad I finally get to show you all what I’ve been flapping about for so long though!! *squee*
And I agree, right?! I think it should be okay to be an author/blogger (although I’ll probably chill out on negative reviews now) but I definitely don’t want to stop blogging! What even would I do with myself.😂
But you’re tall to me.😂 Everyone could use me as an elbow rest which is a problem.
i LOVE YOUR LIST SO MUCH THOUGH. PLEASE WRITE 9 BOOKS AND PUBLISH THEM SO I CAN BUY THEM IMMEDIATELY. (And yes pirates rule. Why aren’t there a gazillion more pirate books in the world?! We’ll fix this.)
No those of us who are above 5’1 do not talk to trees but we can control the weather to some extent. Some things I like writing about are
-actual stories.
-people seeing things from different points of view.
-betrayal by friends and trusted people (can’t you wait till I get something published?! BWAHAHAHA!!!)
-new spins on mythical creatures.
-mythology.
-sassy masters
-and words, those are probably the most important but whatever.
And you could be like a superhero. By day you’re the author CG Drews, but by night you’re the book blogger Paperfury.
You control the weather TOO?!??!?? See tall people are having all the fun up there and I’m just here still struggling to reach a glass out of the cupboard. What is this world.
Omg your list is fantastic. Especially the betrayal one.😂 So we’ll go into your books preparing TO BE RUINED. Excellent.
(I can have multiple identities!! Do I get a cape?! Do I get a mask!?!)
Yeah OK you can have a cape and mask, maybe even like a bookmobile or something too
Um, what even were those critique contests??? That sounds horrible and not at all how they should go!
OMG, Rainbow Rowell + Jandy Nelson?? So we’re in for snarky writing and a lot of PAIN.
Teens played by teens – what a notion!
I’m going to have to have a ton of snacks on hand when I read A Thousand Perfect Notes, aren’t I?
With all this talk about the illustrated disaster of your dog called Chops, I think that story needs to be included in the bonus content section of a special edition of one of your books someday.
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I KNOW. The second one I think was run by teenagers, which makes sense because teenagers can be hopelessly unthoughtful😂(me saying that because I was one too) buuuut, like a legit author (I won’t say the name but I remember her haha) actually telling someone not to write their book?! Like wtf. It’s just really bad form.
You are definitely in for snark and pain.😂 I will definitely admit I don’t think I’m anywhere near a Rowell/Nelson level of writing beautifully though but it was a nice compliment!! I will take it! hhaah. (There are quite a few scenes for food in ATPN. Trust me. Expect nothing less.)
I should’ve tried to find those Chops stories and showed pictures.😂
I can’t wait to read your book! I’m 5’6, which is taller than the average American woman, so I guess I’m happy. I can reach most stuff. Except the cabinets above the refrigerator. I don’t know what genius thought it was a good idea to put cabinets way up there. If I was bread, I’d be cornbread because it’s delicious.
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Cornbread IS very delicious but I can’t even remember the last time I had it! Shame on me!! And you are very tol. You are living the wild life, not needing a ladder.😂
Well, I think I’m 5’2? And I feel short. 😂 I’m in 9th grade and have 7th graders passing me up. Why.
I’d also be sourdough, actually! My dad makes homemade sourdough bread, and it’s really good. :3
I love writing about fantasy and magic! I want to write a book someday with the dark and everyday magic thing (like 100’s of spells on how to make tea, but noooooo, not ONE on how to save yourself after you jump off a cliff) (that is literally going to have to be a line in it now 😂)
We can be hopelessly smol together, Julia.😂 We can stand on each other’s shoulders and be normal height and no one will notice. (I’m VERY lucky that my sister is 5’0 so hasn’t passed me and I don’t have to feel even shorter.)
AH! I love homemade bread!! Although it’s torture to smell while cooking.
Ohhh sO much love for magical books. I hope you do write that book someday!
We should totally do that. 😆 The only person who makes me feel tall is a girl I know (she’s 18) who’s shorter than me.
Definitely!
Yes! Haha, me too! I’ll have to figure out a plot now… 😉
A THOUSAND PERFECT NOTES SOUNDS LIKE AN AMAZING MOVIE AAAAAH It would be so beautiful, I would watch the FREAKING HECK out of that thing. It would be GORGEOUS!!!!!!!
Also I’ve always wanted to watch a movie where the entire soundtrack was piano music and everything was centered around that so it would be so amazing I”m just gonna stop now because I think my chest might explode.
IT WOULD TOTALLY MAKE AN AMAZING MOVIE. *hint hint to the movie people* 😂 And like there’s just so much potential with all the things you could do with the music, right?! Clearly I have written this for film.😂
If I were bread, I’d probably be one of those dense rye bricks that nobody likes. Hard, dark, and somewhat bitter. But good with jam. (I don’t even know what I’m talking about…)
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😂😂Oh you’re hilarious! I like rye bread!!
I too am small. I would like to be a little bit taller. At least tall enough to reach the ice cream at the back of the freezer shelf in the Supermarket. Currently I have to stand there straining and looking pathetic until someone tall takes pity on me.
If I was bread, there would be cheese on the top and also inside of me. I am aware that I have not technically named a type of bread here, but I think that can be forgiven because cheese.
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oh yes that awkward moment when you have to climb the shelves in shopping centres.😂 The smol life. *smol hi five* They should have like portable ladders out with the shopping trolleys.
Cheese! I forgive anything with cheese!
I’m 5’5, kinda wish I was 5’7 but not really sure why. I’d probably be basic white bread. I kinda want to try my hand at writing, if I do i’d want to write about mermaids. And bisexual mermaids. And some of my characters would probably be disabled because so am I, same with anxiety, depression and ptsd. I am also bisexual. I’d be that author putting bits of myself into some of my characters.
Maybe write about mermaids on another planet, so mermaids…IN SPACE. Because i’m weird too. Can you tell I love mermaids? Lol, I also love vampires. And creepy forests with creepy abandoned houses in them. Who knows if my writing would ever meet anyone else’s eyes, but if not I could still write for myself.
The found family trope because to me that’s the best trope of ever!
I guess I should put the stuff in a list
-Bisexual characters (and other LGBT+ characters as well)
-Mental health (specifically stuff i’ve dealt with: Anxiety, Depression and Ptsd)
-Vampires
-Mermaids
-Vampiric Mermaids (don’t judge me)
-Mermaids in Space
-Creepy dark forests
-Disabled characters
-Found Family Trope
-Aliens
Yes, I’ve thought about this a lot…I should probably start writing and get this stuff out of my head and onto paper, and documents
I think you should totally try writing someday if you want it!! It’s hard but a GOOD kind of hard and so rewarding!! And also the world needs more bisexual mermaid books ahhhh!!! (And mermaids are like way way under-done in books I think. WE NEED MOAR.)
😀
I’m so excited for your book! Which I… haven’t preordered yet. But I will! As soon as I corner my dad and make him help me, because I don’t know how to do it myself… (I’m so skilled 😂)
I’m 5’3 or so, which means I an reach some things, but for other things climbing on counters is still required. I want to be taller, because I’m petty and want to be taller than my parents. Otherwise I don’t really care.
If I were bread I think I would be cheese bread. Literally only because cheese bread is delicious and I’m craving it, but that’s a solid reason right?
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N’AWW DID I MENTION YOU ARE LOVELY.😍 YOU ARE SO SO LOVELY!! And also taller than me. 😂 But only just so we’ll both need ladders to get through life, yes?😂
(Also I’m really craving bread right now?! Who started talking about bread. Darn them.😂)
1. I’m exactly 5″0! And! I absolutely hate it and wish I wasn’t so small!
2. I’d be garlic bread, for sure.
3. I love writing about book-lovers, and dragons, and fantastical, quirky places, and queer romances, and trans characters, and music, and ghosts, and honestly??? i love writing about everything I have too many ideas, and the worst thing is usually that it’s not a plot ideal; just like,,, a thing that I’m super into.
I STILL CAN’T WAIT TO READ ATPN AHHH
xo, Em
It’s so hard to reach stuff from all the way down here?! WE NEED LADDERS ALL THE TIME. And everything about your #3 is perfect and good and I HAVE WISH FOR THEM TOO.
Also thank you about my book.😍😍I hope you like it!!
I have this strange feeling that you’ve either been watching/thinking about Teen Wolf recently.
Also, I totally get the whole getting compliments is as weird as getting complaints about your writing thing. I think maybe that’s why critique partners are so great. They’ll gush over how much they love everything but they will also RIP YOUR WRITING APART. Needless to say, I love mine to bits. She’s great.
I totally agree with casting teenagers to play teenagers thing! When I first watched Stranger Things I was like everyone looks SO YOUNG and then I realized oh, it’s because these twelve and thirteen year old characters are being played by TWELVE AND THIRTEEN YEAR OLDS.
I confess…I’ve actually just been rearranging my Pinterest boards.😂So I’m like sorting gifs and HELLO Teen Wolf is here again. (I really want to keep watching! I stopped about S4?!? Silly me.)
And agh it’s so weird how compliments/insults are both equally hard to handle.😂 Honestly when people gush about my book I’m JUST as paralysed as when they insult it.😂 SOMEONE HELP ME I’M A MESS.
Isn’t it wild when teens play teens?! Although I was watching a Stranger Things interview and realised Lucus is 15 IRL and I was like..my…characters… are fifteen. HELP. THEY’RE SO YOUNG. AND SMOL. HELP.😂
I enjoyed S5 and S6A (they used some of my very favorite mythology and I am INTO IT), but, uh…I have COMPLAINTS about how the ended the series. Also they should have given Malia a girlfriend.
You just need to find that perfect in between place (again, like critique partners give) so the weirdness of being told what you’re doing wrong and the weirdness of someone gushing about it cancels each other out.
Fifteen year olds ARE SO YOUNG. I spent a couple of hours with a group of fifteen year old girls a few days ago and they are CHILDREN. How were we ever that young, Cait. I don’t understand it. It also makes the whole sixteen year olds saving the world seem even more ridiculous than it already is. no. children. Go angst over an unrequited crush and listen to bad pop music stop trying to save the world in YA books. Leave this to the exhausted and bitter college students.
ALL THE YA CHARACTERS ARE CHILDREN. *sobs* I can’t even. I was looking back at an old book I read and I made a character 19 because I was like “this is so old”…oh ohhh dear young-writer-Cait.😂😂 Now I keep wanting everyone to have a travelling buddy and to get a good night’s rest. 15 year olds are babies.
(We need more bitter college students books.😂)
So I’m around 5’4″ (maybe a smidge taller but not quite a whole inch), and I hate it? I honestly feel like I’m one of the few people in the world who wishes they were shorter. As a kid I TOWERED over all my friends and I always felt like a huge, ugly, lumbering giant. Even though I’m average now I guess it stuck with me because I want nothing more than to be petite and dainty and elegant, not the giant beast I am now 🙁
ANYWAY. Some things I like to write about?
-royalty
-true love
-ballgowns and fancy parties
-falling off cliffs
-angry, adorable boys
-screaming
-blood
Basically, I’m just one huge walking cliche.
Agh, I hear your pain! I always longed to be taller as a kid (I mean opposite to you but still) because everyone always assumed I was so young?! But now I’m happy being smol. More places to disappear into. *melts into the shadows*
I LOVE YOUR LIST THOUGH. Who cares about cliches. Pfft. If we do them interestingly, we can get away with it right?! (I have SO much falling in my books. I just noticed that I nearly always end a kissing scene with one party falling off something.😂)
I’m a LITTLE taller than you, and i can reach cupboards, but not IN them. I have to climb on the counter. And small people can talk to trees easier than tall people, ’cause we can climb higher. >:) (lets just ignore that fact that most of us are afraid of heights…)
hmmmm…if i was bread, i would be something soft and really yummy…..and i’d smell soooooo good….
i like writing about friendships, that fierce platonic ‘i will protect you with my everything’ love, its so fire-y and strong. I also like dragons, and fire, and DRAAAAMAAAAA. Very much drama. And much feels! when i get readers, i wanna make them feel allllll the feels. All of ’em. *evil smile*
Most crazily, ~Olive
How dare you be taller than me, Olive. 😂😂 But hey I like your thinking about the trees! Also we can hide better, so…points for being smol!
(ALL BREAD SMELLS AND TASTES GOOD THOUGH.)
And yes I do love platonic friendships like that!! There also aren’t enough in books so more more pls. <3
XD Wow I love your character creation process, Very relatable.
I’m pretty average height, about 5’5″. But everyone I know is closer to 6′, so I feel really short?? And I’m done growing, while my sister is shooting up like a weed aND I’M WORRIED SHE’S GONNA GET TALLER THAN ME I CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!
So, because I’m *super* creative, I took a Buzzfeed quiz to find out what kind of bread am I (I couldn’t believe that was actually a thing, but hey) and got banana bread. Apparently “regardless of the confusion, people totally love me.”
And the things I love writing about?
-Platonic soulmates (Molly and Brian, my Duct-Tape Heroes)
-Heroes with bad powers and villains with good powers (Kris and Josh Gold)
-Monsters with a heart (PRECIOUS CHILD ETHAN)
-Morally gray heroes (almost all of my heroes tbh)
-Villains who don’t want to be villains, but have to be. (Poor wittle Dani)
-Fairytales that change the endings (Haven’t actually had the pleasure of writing yet, sadly)
-Women with guns (Cee, Alex, Sicilia, Dani. Need I go on?)
-Goofball guys (Kyle, Brian, Josh)
-Slytherin/Hufflepuff friendships (Sadly haven’t written any of these, but PLANNING TO)
-Characters who act like Hufflepuffs by are actually Slytherins (my sneaky boi Kyle)
-MY FLUFFY LITTLE SHIPS THAT ARE SO PRECIOUS BUT GO THROUGH WAY TOO MUCH
-Seriously tho, my ships could be super fluffy eXCEPT THEY’RE NOT BECAUSE I HURT THEM
-they’re fluffy sometimes
-but not hardly enough
YOU’RE NOT SHORT. YOU’RE BASICALLY A TREE. 😂
(But omg there’s a buzzfeed quiz for the bread?! I should’ve known. I need to go find it and see if I’m living my sourdough dreams.)
Ohhh I LOVE your list of things. Seriously platonic soulmates makes me very happy and also Slytherin/Hufflepuffs are the BEST. I have way way too many of them.😂 I cannot stop myself. Opposites are so fun to write about?!
If it makes you feel any better, my antagonist is 5′ and absolutely terrifying.
(Here you go. Go live your sourdough dreams. https://www.buzzfeed.com/mathewguiver/which-type-of-bread-are-you?utm_term=.rq10Ky3B9#.xw66xkeLW)
I live for literally EVERY kind of soulmates. Romantic, platonic, familial, even rival. AND YEAH! Opposites are so much fun to write, especially when they find out that they’re not as different as they thought…
I got challah bread?! I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS.😂 But if it’s bread I should be fine???
Lol all bread is fabulous, just like you.
Cait, you are honestly too hilarious. I always die of laughter when i read your posts – i especially loved the part where you answered the question, “Do you allow other people to read your works?” and you just say, “They’re jolly well about to in 82 days!”
Also, about the food thing – i can totally relate. In fact, i’m inserting clues in the first book just so i can have the second book in the series completely revolved around food. Cannot WAIT to read you book!
😂😂 THANK YOU. I’m so glad I’m funny to more people than, ya know…myself.😂😂 And omg I’m only mILDly FREAkinG OUT ABOUT MY BOOKKKKKKK. *hyperventilates* 😂😂
Okay, I couldn’t wait anymore! I finally pre-ordered your book! I’ve never pre-ordered anything before I’m so excited! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
And um…ahem…..I’m 5″8. I used to not think that was that tall because growing up everyone predicted I would be like over 6ft because my dad was, but there are a LOT of people shorter than me apparently and now I feel like a freak. XD. And I NEVER can wear heels. They are way too uncomfortable anyway. 😛 But I wish a was a little bit shorter and really just smaller in size in every way really; I am not small, but I am very quiet and meek and so in my head I’m this cute little petite skinny thing but in reality I’m not and it’s just awkward. XD.
And if I were bread, I think I would be cheesy buttery garlic bread. Just full of carbs and amazingness!!! XD
And I don’t know what I like to write anymore. I mostly write contemporary because that’s the world I know obviously, but I am having trouble keeping motivated and finishing projects I start. I have too many ideas and I can’t decide which is most important to work on! D: D: D: I still don’t know what to do for Camp Nano or if I even want to do it or anything and it’s only like two weeks away! D: HALP.
HEATHER. YOU’RE SO FANTASTIC. I MAY CRY HAPPILY ON YOU OMG. <3 <3
Also you are a mountain.😂But that's okay because when the sky falls I will live longer. #PostiiveThinking
Ooh garlic bread! I haven't had that in forever and now I feel like eating it.😂
Agh too many ideas is a problem...I'm trying to combine some of my ideas, so like: if I h ave a LOT of them, sometimes they don't feel like they can make a whole book. So if they're combined, they often all help each other! I'm probably not doing camp.😂 I've done NOTHING this year but hoooping to do some lowkey rewriting soon.
I’M SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.
Important questions:
– I’m 5’6″ and I’m the SHORTEST adult woman in my family. Um, what.
– Nah, I don’t really wish to be taller or smaller. I have a hard time imagining what that would be like.
– If I were bread . . . hmmmm. I feel like I would be pumpernickel bread and go really really well with cheese and salami and mustard. XD
– Things I lurve to write about:
– WORLD WAR II. ALWAYS AND FOREVER. I will never get tired of exploring this period.
– The Wild West. Because romance and drama.
– Depression and anxiety, because writing those things.helps me understand myself better and also understand my siblings better.
– Girls who are sassy and #fierce but also like hugs from very specific individuals.
– Boys who are all soft and protective, sorta like Newfoundland dogs (I have a smol weakness for Newfoundlands okay).
OH CAIT DID I TELL YOU I HAVE A NEW IDEA FOR A FANTASY STORY. I neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr get fantasy ideas but apparently I have one now!!! It’s set in the American West in the 1870s and it involves shapeshifting mustangs who are Evil, and an Irish girl who can control them (like, sort of, not very well), and also insane asylums and marriages of convenience and a lot of other convoluted drama. I’m super excited 😀 😀
I’M SO EXCITED THAT YOU’RE EXCITED. EEEEEE.
– Your family is of giants is what you’re saying, yes?😂
– pumpernickle!! I haven’t had that in SO long!!
– I honestly admire you writing historical fiction. I get freaked out just trying to research modern day things where there’s plenty of articles online.😂
– And YES, agreed. I love writing about mental health topics because it’s very close to me and I feel it can also be cathartic?!
– Yesss to your girls and boys you like writing. LOVE.
– ALSO YOUR BOOK IDEA SOUNDS SO GREAT I AM EXCITED AND MUSTANGS WHO ARE EVIL THIS IS GREAT
Family of giants. Yup. 😉 (No really, my grandpa is 6’5″).
THANK YOU. I am SO excited, too, and I’m going to try reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy hard not to let this idea fall by the wayside BECAUSE I THINK IT COULD BE EPIC. I’m gonna write it. *nods*
HOW DOES YOUR GRANDPA FIT ANYWHERE HE MUST HIT HIS HEAD ON ALL THE CEILINGS OMGGGGGG.
I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW. THESE ARE LIFE’S BIG QUESTIONS.
Whispers *I love soft boys and sharp girls*
No but seriously that’s my aesthetic.
*whispers* You are going to loveeeee my books because that is my aesthetic too. 😂😂
I am all the way on board! 😍😍
I’m barely 5 feet tall. I can barely reach the books on the top of my bookshelf. And who doesn’t want to be sourdough? Since I’m a booknerd and love baking, everything I write ends up centering on books and bread and cake and pastries….
Honestly you sound like the perfect human being. JUST SAYING. (Also like why wouldn’t a book centre around cake and pastries?!? If it doesn’t, it’s probably broken.)
PSSSTTTT!!!! Guess what? I just ordered your book from Book Depository!!! I am so STOKED to check out your awesome title soon! (and you’ll be seeing plenty of pretty Instagram photos of your little lovely book on my account)!
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*SCREAMS SOFTLY IN HAPPINESS* 💖💖💖 I cannot wait for you to read it!!
Woww, I WANNA READ YOUR BOOK NOW, AAAAHHHRRRR.
Back to humanity:
I’m 5’3 and I don’t know if I want to be taller or smaller… Right now I’d like to be taller so… yep. And I believe I’d be a sandwich bc I love it and I’m always eating that. About the things I love writing about, here they are:
– hufflepuff boys and slytherin girls (similar to what you listed, soft boys and sharp girls, those are my favourite)
– dragons! yes! and also werewolves! Or just wolves
– set in a place where it’s always snowing
– monarchies and war bc why not
– hate-to-love romance
– people who can turn into animals
– multiple POVs with complex characters who don’t like each other
– soldiers
– dark backstory
– bad-to-good characters
AHHHH THANK YOU, JEANNY THAT MAKES ME H APPY THOUGH. Also you are tol to me, if that makes you feel better.😂 And sandwiches are great. They are functional and delicious and helpful so why aren’t we all sandwiches.
YASS TO YOUR LIST. (Also why are Hufflepuffs/Slytherins the best combination?! I seriously keep writing them and it’s so fun.😂)
Cool post! I am 5 feet/5 foot one, I think? Also if I were bread, I would want to be…a croissant or cinnamon roll. Those count, right?
(Also I am looking forward to your book! The cover is so pretty, too!)
((Can I do this tag on my blog?))
YAS CINNAMON ROLLS! And Croissants are so great omg, I approve of y our bread livelihood choices. And yes for sure go for it with doing it on your blog! I’d love to read your answers. 😀
I am so relating to all the ‘being small’ problems.
Funny that about a person telling you the book wouldn’t work. In the end, those are just opinions, and there can be so many opinions in the world. That’s why one opinion should never be the deciding one, I guess.
I laughed at the food question before you even answered it 😀
I wrote a book too when I was like 8. With a typewriter! I know right. It was about cat. Or two cats. I wish I knew where it was 🙁 I would so want to read it!!
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It’s very true and proof that opinions aren’t the be-all-and-end-all. BUT I still maintain you shouldn’t run contests if you’re going to be a horrible ape of a human like that.😂😂
And omg I’m so predictable with the food question right?! SO PREDICTABLE.
Aww a typewriter!! You had the whole author aesthetic down!
WHAT THE HECK??? Was the judge of that contest actually an evil being who was trying to kill off the entire species of writers??? That’s just…bizarre.
Your hypothetical movie adaptions sounds AMAZING. (And yay Baby Driver! I love how quirky and music-centered that movie is!!)
I feel like my characters start off as being different (from me and each other) and then over time they all just… turn into me. It’s an explainable phenomenon.
YESSSS. Sibling stories are my favorite. (Have you seen the Crimes of Grindelwald trailer where it shows Newt and his brother fighting side by side for 2 seconds??!! AHHHHHH!)
I tend to write a lot about:
-Lonely people
-Sandwiches. Because sandwiches.
-People who are afraid they’re going to hurt someone
-People who have no clue what the world is or how to navigate life because ME
-Death and angst because I’m such a jolly ray of sunshine
-Actual rays of sunshine who talk a lot and make jokes at the wrong times
-Also secret agents. I don’t know why.
I KNOW. IT WAS SO BAD. And plus like why would you try and crush budding authors?! One of them definitely knew I was a teen at the time. *shakes fist* I couldn’t believe the one where they said “I have nothing good to say” like wtf. *sighs*
(Baby Driver is amazing right?! The actual greatest movie!)
Omg NEWT HAS A BROTHER?! I have no idea who is who in those trailers but I do want to see the movie! Even though I haven’t seen the actual original HP movies, but I loved the first Newt one so much.
SANDWICHES YES. I write a lot of sandwiches. Also your whole list is 😍😍
I am approximately 5’3 and I am pretty much fine with that except I wouldn’t mind being shorter because I am a hobbit. If I was bread I think I would be banana bread and I don’t even know why.
Characters with faces? That’s just weird. I always imagine that my characters are fully formed but whenever I try to look at them they disappear and I am starting to think they are just vague arms and legs with hair and maybe that’s okay. I guess I am not a visual person? But if any of my stories were made into movies I would prefer that the characters gained more physical specificity.
Sibling stories are life! I love reading about siblings, and also writing about them. Some of my other favorite things to write about are misfits who see the world differently but don’t realize how weird they are, misfits who totally realize they are weird and wish they could crawl into a hole and die, sinister organizations with shiny facades, humans with major trust issues. humans who love food. humans who love singing, worlds where you never know what is “really” happening or what is happening in someone’s imagination, humans who might be the sweetest things alive or raving murderers and you just can’t quite tell, orphans, libraries, castles, secret rooms, etc.
I also struggle with making all my characters too much like me. It can be sad.
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YOU’RE TOL THOUGH. Well to me at least.😂 But also the Hobbit life is really enticing? Like a nice warm cosy hollow with a big pantry and lots of cheese…*channels inner Bilbo* I could live like that.
I’m not a visual person either which is TERRIBLE for being an author.😂 Also with reading? Like I don’t imagine scenery/characters very well at all. Oops. But siblings are GREAT. I basically always have siblings in my books. <3 Brother duos are also my favourites to write about ahhh. And also I love your whole list there too EEEEEP.
I’m 160 cm! I’m pretty happy with my height, though I guess I wouldn’t mind being a little taller. I feel short when I’m around tall people and tall around Shar. I think I’d be foccacia bread because herbs and carbohydrates (I love carbohydrates so much wow). I loved this tag too! Cait go you rising like a queen. Which reminds me, I gotta preorder A Thousand Perfect Notes…or maybe request it from the publlisher idk. and I love to write about what it means to belond to two places and the line between selfishness and self care.
Ooh TOWERING over Shar there I see.😂 I feel tall around my sister who’s only 5ft so that’s great. Let’s keep our short sisters. They’re useful for something after all! (Also foccacia bread is AMAZING and I only recently had some and now I feel like more. Bread is great. I love bread.)
And yessss preordering means I will love you EVEN MORE.😂 Isn’t it great to know me atm? So much pressure around here.😂
(I also love that you love writing about those things…those are GREAT.)
YOU’RE GOING TO BE A REAL LIVE AUTHOR! I actually really enjoyed reading this (even though I haven’t been on the blogosphere much in the last month… university is somewhat consuming. Oh well. I’m mostly enjoying it 🙂 . Anyway I understand the rising struggles! I’m like a bit over 5 foot and I literally can’t reach one of the light switches in my room. I either have to flick it on with a toothbrush or a pen or clamber on my desk and UGH my life is so hard *cries* . Luckily, your stature doesn’t determine your quality as a human beings. (I mean, why would it). It’s so funny that all your characters are slightly anxious (not like ha-ha, the other one)…. it’s interesting how there’s a psychological aspect to authordom I suppose. I legit can’t wait to meet Beck and August and THE MUSIC aspect ahhhh it’s going to be amazing. You should be proud. And I’m excited for the cake <3 <3
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YAS A REAL LIVE AUTHOR OMG NOT A MOSTLY DEAD AUTHOR OR A GHOST AUTHOR BUT A REAL LIVE ONE!! I’M SO EXCITED, SHAR!!
Also I can definitely understand how life-consuming (and different!) uni would be. But I’m also glad you are smol too. We smol people need to stand together, or better yet, on top of each other so we can reach those light switches.
I’m also really happy you’re excited about meeting Beck and August 😍😍 And I think it’s easy to naturally include things in your writing when they’re a big part of your life? So me = anxiety and cake.😂😂
You are a true inspiration for every book dragon out there Cait 😁
I love love love your posts. 😊
A smol question (probably not so smart question, you have surely answered a million times already) : is your book also going to be published as a hardcover? Because I looked on the book depository and there was only a paperback version listed 😊
Ahhh thank you, Lena! I’m glad you enjoyed this.😂
And at the moment, no it’s just a paperback in the UK! I’ll definitely let everyone know if it’s going to be published in the US at any time but for now not.
Then I’ll have to buy the paperback 😊
Firstly, as tall person born from tall people, the only issue is when you’re the shortest tall person. If you climb up on the counter to reach things, though, your head hits the ceiling….so yeah…
Also the Teen Wolf GIFs = life. Just sayin’.
I had NEVER thought about food that way before, but it makes so much sense to have it as a great introductory to a world. I mean, look at Lord of the Rings. What do Hobbits do? Eat. How do we find out about their culture? Through food. Bam. Food is also life.
The shortest tall person…*dies* I would probably just be hanging out around your family’s knees then because I am so smol.
(Also I need to get back to finish watching Teen Wolf! I stopped around S4. Regrets. Stiles is everything.)
(AND YES!! See food is actually crucial for books and 100% of the reason I want to be a Hobbit when I grow up. Or grow down.)
Probably. My mom grew up with a bunch of super short people, and her best friend’s mom basically adopted her because my mom could reach the top shelf in the kitchen for them.
Season five was so bad I couldn’t finish it. 😔
Exactly! Or live in Redwall because they throw amazing feasts.
I always love hearing about your writing! And your blog posts/tweets give me life 💕 I’m 4’11…
Aww thank you, Lissa! I really am glad you enjoyed this post! (Also YOU ARE SMOL!)
^_^ Always. And Yes, Yes I am…
I don’t write because #imagination, but I have two friends who love writing and I’m always reading their stories. I’d like to be proud of them one day, just like I am proud of you being an author now! Anyway, I would love to read your Chops story. I say yes to everything that involves food, because I just looove it. I am not short, but being taller wouldn’t bother me at all.
Aww you’re so lovely!! *sends you cake* And omg I don’t even think the Chops story got passed one chapter.😂At least I HOPE NOT.
I’m small and tinyyyy and only 5 feet. If I was bread I would be some sort of small bread like a teeny bread roll. But it should also be sweet because sugar is great.
Also I can never Cast any characters because a) I know a total of 2 actors total, and b) I always imagine characters as either fuzzy shapes or I imagine them super detailed and and no actual human would probably look like that lol
YOU SMOL THING YOU. And I get to finally be taller than someone yayyyy.😂 You could be like a cupcake though. That could be nice. :’)
Agh but imagining characters is hard right?!
LOVE THIS POST!
I’m 5’9 I guess. (How much is 176.5 cm??) Sorry, I HAD to include the 0.5 there. The view of the world from 6 ft above is quite different.
And yes! I don’t have any sorta climbing skills.
How do I survive an apocalypse?
No way I want to be a bread in any life.
I wanna be a pizza dough.
(BBQ please)
Ps. I can’t wait to read your book ♡
IT IS TALL. YOU ARE TALL. I am 158cm so very smol.😂 (I’m guessing for the apocalypse you will be so tall you’ll just be able to reach over the top of zombies though. You’ll be great.)
(eeep thank you!! I hope you end up liking my book!)
I didn’t even bother to grow up taller than 150 cm. I’m 148 cm. 🙈
I guess every writer have started with an illustrate disaster. I still have mine somewhere, I think. 😂
Learning how to be human shaped? I’m confused.
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Omg you too with the illustrations.😂 Hey at least we started somewhere right?! (And YAY I’m finally taller than someone.😂😂)
uGH I”M SO EXCITED TO READ A THOUSAND PERFECT NOTES!!! I’m highkey thinking about having my friends who are travelling to Europe (England, I’m pretty sure) get an actual copy for me . . . unless it’s possible to somehow get a paperback copy here in the US? I could get a Kindle copy, but how fun would that be?
(ALso that description of it as a movie is maKING ME FLAIL. I’m already excited for it oops)
You can get it on Book Depository for free shipping World Wide! Just so you know. 😂😂 (I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE EXCITED THOUGH THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME.)