courtney summers—author diary

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afterword
This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition is available now.
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internalize
Release the files.
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film version
“You’re making a movie faster than it takes me to write a book,” I said to them, wrong.
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my zombie novel
This Is Not a Test’s imminent return to bookshelves has been such a gratifying plot twist in my career.
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how i spent my summer vacation
How is it that I could love the work I’m doing, the art it’s producing, yet only measure it in terms of failure?
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a note
Refuse to accept the atrocities of the present.
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(courtney's version)
This is Not a Test will return to bookshelves in 2026.
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if found return to taylor swift
When I began the process of reclaiming my backlist, Taylor Swift was the artist people closest to me invoked.
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current conditions
Lately only feeling the consequence of this slow but undeniable push forward, of making choices that matter.
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the camera's rolling
I’m back from visiting the set of the movie adaptation of This is Not a Test.
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this is not a test
Before he died, my grandfather told everyone at his church my first book might be made into a movie.
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waveforms
I won’t concede to a future where the stories we tell do not matter.
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books
this is not a test: the definitive edition
now a major motion picture
i'm the girl in paperback
includes the epilogue to sadie
the project paperback
includes bonus chapter
sadie

courtney summers—author diary

currently writing her next novel. will always be writing her next novel. you're only as good as your next novel.
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