Category: Geek Girl’s Guide

Raiders of the Last ARC

This week over at the Geek Girl’s Guide, we’re giving away the very last ARC of The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading, signed by both of us–sure to be a collector’s item, an one-of-a-kind.

As part of the fun, we’re also launching our What Kind of Geek Are You quiz, based on the characters in the book.

Now, you don’t have to be a teen to:

  • Visit the Geek Girl site
  • Enter the contest
  • Help us spread the word.

Remember, part of “young adult” is adult. It’s a short list of people we don’t want reading our book. Like Stalin. Yeah, him. I think it’s safe to say we don’t want Stalin reading our book.

And at this point in the game, we’re really only looking at awareness, rather than promotion or marketing. How do you know you want to read a book if you’ve never heard of it.

And hey, over here at Writing Wrongs, you get a sneak peek at the results, too. Below is my result. Big surprise, no?

Your result for The What Kind of Geek Are You Test…

You are: BETHANY, a WORD NERD

You know the difference between a period, a comma, a colon and a semi-colon. You are on a first name basis with all of the characters in Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter and probably the Twilight books too. No one doubts your supremacy in English class, but your ability to diagram relationships or punctuate a social life can be … well, meh. Get your nose out of those books occasionally. Real life can have happy endings too.

See the other results here.


Take The What Kind of Geek Are You Test at HelloQuizzy

Note of warning: The quiz host site may ask you for demographic information. You do NOT need to provide this to get your result or the code for posting the quiz on your own blog. In fact, I recommend you skip over it.

Now, what are you waiting for? Come on, you know you want to.

April Fool’s and Mr. Darcy

Yesterday, the marvelous Miss B played the following April Fool’s Day jokes on me:

  • Mommy, I’m stuck in the toilet! (She wasn’t.)
  • There’s a mummy in your closet! (There wasn’t.)
  • There’s a salmon fish on your head! (Again, there wasn’t, but she wouldn’t say, “April Fools!” until I actually reached up and patted my head.)

Then she went and short-sheeted Andrew’s bed.

In other news, Darcy and I may end up the biggest April Fools. Over on the Geek Girl site, we’ve taken on Twilight, in the epic battle of Mr. Darcy versus Edward Cullen. In haiku. I know. We’re living on the edge.

Writing wrong yet again

So I’m taking this writing class called Masterful Sentences which is about … wait for it … sentence structure. Yeah, you didn’t see that coming.

Anyway, as part of this week’s assignment, I have a choice between “offering corrections to phrase and clauses wherever you see you can improve it” on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or diagramming several sentences from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

That’s sort of like the choice between a chocolate chip cookie and chewing on some crushed glass.

Personally, I don’t think Dickens needs “improving,” and I gave Joyce the old college try. Then I ran back to Dickens, asked for forgiveness, and was extremely proud of myself that I didn’t substitute “Dude, check it!” for “Mind!” in the second paragraph of the story.

Geek Girl Update

While Darcy slipped off the front page, you can see a few excerpts from her interview over at Geek Girl’s Guide.

Front page news

It’s all the news that you can’t see! And neither can I. But if you visit Darcy’s local paper, at least for a little while, you’ll see she’s on the front page!

The News-Sun (scroll down).

Unfortunately, unless you have a subscription, all you can see is the teaser. And yes, I am thinking about subscribing for a month, just so I can see it. Why do you ask?

This article was written by one of the teens we’ve highlighted over on the Geek Girl’s site, so it’s doubly exciting.

Spies like us

The kids, at long last, have invented a game they both enjoy. For a while, every time they played stuff animals together, epic battles ensued. Andrew wanted conflict, villains, pummeling! And it’s not that Kyra’s scenarios lacked conflict, it’s just more on an interpersonal (or inter-stuffed animal, I guess) level.

The girl-drama bored Andrew; the pummeling frustrated Kyra.

 So now they play spies. How they hit upon this, I’m not sure, but every night (right around bedtime, of course) the spy missions start.

I’m generally their object of spying. Their mission is to get by me, around me, hide from me. How good are they at this?

Not very.

Andrew gets frustrated with Kyra’s lack of subtlety, but this is the boy who thinks if he situates his slippers so they stick out from beneath a lumpy blanket, I’ll think he’s under the blanket.

So, in other words, Pot, Kettle, I’d like you two to meet. You have something in common.

In Geek Girl News, we have a new feature up on the Geek Girl website called You Don’t Have to Wait, where we feature teens who are going after their dreams. And if you know a teen who is pursuing a goal or going after a dream, let us know. We’d love to feature them.

Geek girls, meet world

Note: I’ve made this a sticky post. It will be up for the next week or so. Scroll down to see new entries.

After a fair bit of work, and one epic freak out, we’re doing it. Darcy and I are launching The Geek Girl’s Guide website. As of today, we’re open. Come on by and let us know what you think.

To celebrate, we’re offering a free YA online read and the chance to win a $10.00 Starbucks giftcard (read the story to find out why).

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Speechless, a YA short story about what happens when you stay quiet–and what happens when you don’t.

Enter the contest:

Between March 7, 2009 and Wednesday, March 18, 2009, enter to win a $10.00 Starbucks gift card.

Somewhere in one of the six segments of Speechless is a question for you to answer (don’t worry, it’s pretty obvious). Once you find the question, post the answer in our Speechless Guestbook.

We’ll draw one lucky winner from the entrants and post the results on the Speechless main page and The Geek Girl’s Guide on March 19th.

Good luck!

Raiders of the lost ARC and other book news

Look at what I have:

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I’ve been sitting on these for a while (well, not literally, that would be uncomfortable). I wanted to surprise my mom with a copy, which meant pretty much not telling anyone else I had one (or rather, two). We don’t have enough to give out right now, but soon, I’m sure. We’ll get some more, launch our Geek Girl website, and give away some ARCs.

Oh, and our other big news? Our release date has been moved up to May 19th. So that whole Geek Girl website? Yeah. We know. We need to get it out there.

In January, I’m taking M.J. Rose’s Buzz Your Book class. I’m also participating in JaNo, which is sort of like NaNo (National Novel Writing Month), only it’s not in November, or national, plus you don’t need to write a complete novel, just aim for 50,000 words.

And yes, I will be working on Dating on the Dork Side. Told you I had dibs on that. Look for updates over at the JaNo site.