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Shanyn Vitti-Avila's avatar

Congratulations! I am excited to read your new book. I value your input and your experiences and how you share this with all of us. I have purchased your previous books and follow you for your thoughts, the information you share, and the writers you support. Thank you for all that you do!!! As soon as I can I will order this new one.

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courtney summers's avatar

Thank you so much, Shanyn! Your support and your kind words mean a lot to me. Thanks for commenting and reading. I appreciate it so much :)

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J.E. Bartel's avatar

NO WAY!! I've loved this book for years--it's my favourite of yours! This is such wonderful news. The 2010s were such an iconic era for zombie stories--I still have a zombie manuscript of my own from then kicking around in my laptop somewhere! I can't wait to hear more as the adaptation develops!

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courtney summers's avatar

Aaah! THANK YOU! That means a lot to me and I hope that manuscript gets its moment if you ever return to it!! There can never be enough zombie stories!!

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Alaska's avatar

I don’t like zombies. A friend kind of forced me into watching part of the Walking Dead, but after they made it to the sanctuary that wasn’t a sanctuary, I was done. And I remember you sharing the horror movies you’d been watching, and I was like . . . I love her, but I can’t. I saved Sloane’s story for a long time because I never didn’t want to have a new CS book to read - but when I finally broke down and read it, it became of my favorites ever. The anger, the desperation, the survivors guilt - it was just so emotionally HONEST and I loved that.

Excited for this!!

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courtney summers's avatar

😭😭😭😭😭 !!!!!! Alaska!!! THANK YOU. I remember names and unless you share one with another Alaska, I appreciate you going on this journey. (And if you do share a name with another Alaska, all of this still stands!) Just that you chose my books and kept choosing them even when they were about ZOMBIES. That it earned such a high rating from you is truly an honor. Thanks for hanging in there and thanks for being here.

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Emily Slaney's avatar

So happy for you 💕 I always loved the complex juxtaposition of a survival story with a narrator who wanted the opposite 💔. It's so raw and thought-provoking and emotional. For the record I have had zombie apocalypse survival nightmares a number of times and they are not fun. People say oh cool but no! They are terrifying and stressful 🥺😱. I hope this opens the door to more adaptions (tv series too perhaps) that will honour your work the way it deserves to be. Your grandparents positivity is inspiring and beautiful 💕.

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courtney summers's avatar

zombie! apocalypse! nightmares! are! not! fun! I'm with you, lol. It might be why I loved watching them so much--trying to disempower the dream. THANK YOU, Emily! I don't know what will happen next with adaptations but appreciate those good vibes & when I say it has meant a lot to share this w/the people who have been so generous with Sloane and all my books along the way I hope you never doubt I'm definitely speaking of you. Thank you so much.

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Ronald Johnson's avatar

Btw, I love the Twin Peaks typography! I'm watching TP The Return. I'd been saving it for quite a while. It is full-tilt David!

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courtney summers's avatar

full-tilt David is the PERFECT descriptor!!

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Ronald Johnson's avatar

Thanks! It's as if he gets to do whatever the hell he wants! And, of course, it is beautiful!

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Ronald Johnson's avatar

I am soooo happy for you!!!

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courtney summers's avatar

thank you!!!

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k.a. valentine's avatar

This makes me even more unbelievably excited to reread the book and see it adapted!! Congratulations!

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courtney summers's avatar

thank you so so much, Kimberly! I hope you love it!! :D

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Melissa Sarno's avatar

This is such wonderful news! Congrats, Courtney!

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courtney summers's avatar

Thank you so much, Melissa!! 🥰

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Susan S.'s avatar

So very proud of the person you are and what you have accomplished....keep taking those risks❤️

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courtney summers's avatar

I know you are and you know I will 🥰💖🥰💖

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Maya Prasad's avatar

This sounds so good! Huge congrats, Courtney!!!

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courtney summers's avatar

Thank you so so much, Maya!!

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Kat Howard's avatar

I truly love everything about this.

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courtney summers's avatar

thank you so much, Kat 😭💖

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allyson.'s avatar

i am so excited. every ounce of your success is so well deserved, courtney. you’re wonderful!! i will be at that screening!

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courtney summers's avatar

aaah gonna make me cry!! THANK YOU, allyson!!!

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