* Many, many people have asked whether I’ve started on GG5 yet. The answer is yes! And no. Yes because I’m working, trying to figure the plot out (or “breaking the story” as they say in the TV business). No because I’m not actually writing. Yet. The storyboarding and story-breaking comes first. Then I’ll start putting words to paper.
* It’s been about a year since we redesigned this website, so it’s time for a tune-up. In the next month or so I’ll put together a wish list for my web designer. If you have comments or questions or suggestions of things you’d like to see changed here, please leave those thoughts in the comments section. I’d love for this site to be the most user-friendly and fun site possible!
* Some people have been asking about tour/appearances for 2011. I try to keep this portion of the site updated with the latest. The short version is that I’ll be at the RT Booklover’s Convention in April, the Rochester Teen Book Festival in May and LeakyCon in July in Florida. I may also our for Heist Society 2, UNCOMMON CRIMINALS, along the way (but we don’t have tour dates or cities yet, I’m afraid.)
* Saundra Mitchel has an excellent post on exactly why downloading books illegally online hurts writers and book lovers. I highly recommend everyone go read it. (And please, when talking to an author, don’t try to justify downloading ebooks illegally. Either a person has permission to take something or they don’t. And taking something without permission always equals stealing. And it ALWAYS hurts authors. And bookstores. And libraries. And communities.)
* Also, a lot of people seem to be interested in the countdown widget design contest. No news yet (as it will probably depend on the Uncommon Criminals cover), but I can say that I will post a few brief rules, suggestions, and guidelines when the time comes.
* Speaking of the new cover… I’ve seen what they’re working on, and it’s beautiful. There are tweaks to be made, though, so I’ve got to keep my lips sealed about it for a while longer.
And that’s it, everybody! I’ve got to get to work!
Ally
Sarah R. says
January 13, 2011 at 12:27 amHey Ally! You should visit North Carolina (Just saying) 😉 Anyways I wanted to let you know that i told the class about the GG series and all the girls (and one guy) are practically fighting over GG1!
Keep up the AWESOME work!
~Sarah R
Bella says
January 13, 2011 at 12:46 amwhat would i change…hmmm well the site has pretty easy to find what your looking for but maybe you could put all your excerpts and mini excerpts in one tab or place, that would be pretty cool if we cant read your books but really feel like reading them. everything else is awesome!
Bella (and no i did NOT change my name because i like twilight)
Samah says
January 13, 2011 at 1:44 amIf you added things like bookmarks and a Great Books list and things, and if you have graphics, I think you wold have an amazing site 😉 but that’s just my opinion 🙂
Hannah says
January 13, 2011 at 3:26 amDear Ally,
Your website and books are AMAZING!! Thanks for all of the hard work you have put in for your fans. We love you! Thanks also for the updates on GG5 🙂
-Hannah
Anonymous says
January 13, 2011 at 3:34 amAlly
This site is great, very easy to find things. If I could change or add a suggestion could you put a list of favorite books or food or something so we could know more about you, because personality you are one of my favorite authors who got me intersecting in reading and now I love reading, before I would pick up a book when I need to for school and that was about it. Rick Riordan and you showed me that reading can be so much fun. I glad you are an author I enjoy your books and love that you post delated scenes, just to see how the books changed. Your books are great in any direction you go I read the delated scene over and over but the way you have the books the way they are, are great. Gook Luck on finishing GG5, can wait to read it and H2!
-Alex 🙂
kat says
January 13, 2011 at 1:54 pmHey Ally!!!! I LOVE your books and so do my friends! So, about the website, I would really love to see a story behind the story for all of your books! I love that you share that with your readers, it’s really cool! However, it would be nice to have an easier way to get to the story behind the story section because I can’t ever seem to find it these days! Thanks for hearing me out! YOU ROCK ALLY!:)
BookSnob says
January 13, 2011 at 5:30 pmHa! I love this website. The only thing is some of the older blog posts (aka, Ten men who are sadly fictional) don’t exist anymore.
Coco says
January 13, 2011 at 8:41 pmi think the site should have some games or quizzes but i think the section for writers is really good and navigation is fine too
stacey says
January 13, 2011 at 8:43 pmhey ally 🙂
i love your story’s and have read each and everyone multiple times :)i got to meet you in columbus a little over a year ago and you were such a nice person. i was new to the series and you were perfectly ok with that 🙂
thanks <3
a very dedicated reader
stacey
WannaBeGallagherGirl says
January 13, 2011 at 9:00 pmwhat is the whole countdown widget thing?
Lily says
January 13, 2011 at 9:06 pmHaha, almost the same with me. They are a “few” people that are waiting in line so they can borrow the GG books 😛 And the GG books happening to be my favorites books I kinda miss them when they borrow the books! I feel like an single mother giving her kids to her ex-husband for the weekend! O.o weird, I know 😛
Natalie says
January 13, 2011 at 9:24 pmWell, the site is amazing! Everything is easy to find.
I noticed that there’s not a “Story behind the story” in LYKY and in GG3 when you click to read an exerpt it says “Coming soon”. But then, the site is really amazing!!
Inez says
January 13, 2011 at 10:01 pmThe countdown widget is simply what it says: a countdown widget. If you ever looked at the website before OGSY came out, you most likely saw the thing with the design matching the book’s cover at the top. It was counting down the days/hours/seconds until the book finally came out. A (very talented) reader designed it and won the contest. That’s what she’s talking about. She’s doing another contest to get a countdown widget for Uncommon Criminals.
Anonymous says
January 14, 2011 at 3:46 amIt would be awesome if you made a GG5. I would totally snatch it up and read it right away.
Anonymous says
January 14, 2011 at 12:52 pmshe already does have a link for her excerpts, it’s on the left hand side under tags then click on the thing thast says “mini excerpts”
but i guess it is kind of hard to find at first, maybe
😀
Jimmy C says
January 14, 2011 at 6:23 pmI think you should have a new color scheme. Add some blue or red to the site.
Can’t wait for new books! Love u Ally!
Anonymous says
January 14, 2011 at 7:57 pmshe does have bookmarks and she has a link called ‘book club books’ or something like that
Samah says
January 15, 2011 at 12:17 amoooh thanks i didnt know!!!
Hayley says
January 14, 2011 at 11:14 pmHow about a discussion board for your fans?
To discuss your books?
I would love to talk to the other fans about theories and fun thoughts that we all have. It’d be fun!
Sarah says
January 14, 2011 at 11:34 pmFor a site suggestion, maybe putting all the deleted scenes on a page just so that we all can find them when we feel like reading them 🙂
Sydney says
January 15, 2011 at 5:29 amHey Ally!! Big time fan F&A . Well inways I agree us GG and HS fans here in north carolina need you to vistit at least once.
IF YOU LIVE IN NORTH CAROLINA PLZ BACK US UP HERE
Also for you website i think you should do it lik on the side
<<<<<
Flawda Gurl says
January 15, 2011 at 10:12 pmHey Ally! I just wanted to say thank you so much for deciding to become an author! I’m kind of a adventure book nerd, and you have the most talent I have ever seen!! The way you write the words just amazes me! I hope I can see you when you come to Florida!
FOR THE NEW WEBPAGE:
If you could make a blog all about you, it would be helpful whenever us admirers do reports on you. Also,I don’t know if it’s possible or not, but you can take the black sidebars and post the covers of your books down the sides, with a rope or something connecting them.
LIKE:(The A’s would be your books, the ~ would be the text,and the colons would be the rope.)
A ~~~ A
: ~~~ :
: ~~~ :
: ~~~ :
A ~~~ A
: ~~~ :
: ~~~ :
: ~~~ :
A ~~~ A
Thanks SO much!!!
Ann Marie
(Flawda Gurl)
Flawda Gurl says
January 15, 2011 at 10:17 pmSorry, when I say a blog all about you, I mean like foods and stuff, not personal info. So we can go to our friends who read your books and be like, ‘HA! We both love ice cream!’ or something.
Thanks for your hard effort on your books!!!
Love,
Flawda Gurl
Razz says
January 15, 2011 at 11:40 pmI also agree with this! Even though there’s a tag for them on the left side of the website, I found a few more from searching the older blogs. But whenever I want to read them again, I can’t seem to find them. >.>
GGluvr says
January 16, 2011 at 6:06 amHey ally i have some things to suggest but they’re not all about the 1) please post more quizzes and pictures of the GG (im obbsessed cant get enough) and mabey even games
2)i want to suggest (mabey beg)puleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase dont just write 6 gg books i know you write 1 for every semester but mabey you an write about collage or cammie grown up
3)dont wanna sound pushy but if i dont read another gg book soon i will explode so mabey can it cme out in october? i can probably hold it 4 that long
4) i wanted to say i love the covers of the ggg books im an artist mabey ill try to post up a drawing i done on the cover of gg2
Anonymous says
January 16, 2011 at 11:14 pmHey,
you know those previews of the books you have on youtube? I think it would be cool if you made a “book” trailer section. And IF your books become a major picture, you can put the trailers there too. That would be awesome.
Anonymous says
January 17, 2011 at 12:09 amHey Ally!!!!!!!!!!! you rock
anyone who knos this answer please answer! in bokk 3 of the GGseries cammie said her aunt got shoat in the cheast but in GG4 she said her arm some one pleease answer:(:):(:):(:):(:):(:):(:):(:):(:)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous says
January 17, 2011 at 7:58 pmFor the website, it would be nice to be able to go to books and have an excerpts/deleted scenes subtitles with each book. Cassandra Clare’s website has that and I love it.
Leah says
January 18, 2011 at 1:37 pmShe’s making 6 books total, I think
Leah says
January 18, 2011 at 1:33 pmOk, I don’t live in NC, (weird, rite?) but I agree with you that she should come to your state. When was the last time she came to the east coast?
Anonymous says
January 19, 2011 at 2:16 am^^^^^^^ I totally, completely agree. Good idea! This would be much easier to find all of them.
Hannah says
January 22, 2011 at 4:35 amHey ally!
So after seeing the ‘Spy like you mean it’ cover, I felt inspired to make me own self-made.
FAKE. (I repeat for everyone) FAKE fanfiction cover.
I got a little help from the person that did the spy like you mean it.
But here!:
http://api.ning.com/files/PofWMvhS20fENcaAPP46ie-eyNvtQ08KiHuoukXpzsb3Abt4iSyLiKIgPMBkBoKaZs0UpW7T45qons86vf6x4UtczoNFfKBZ/Ifatfirstyoudontsucceedspyspyagain.jpg?width=435&height=600
Flawda Gurl says
January 22, 2011 at 3:49 pmI don’t wanna sound mean or anything, because I SO want the book too, but wouldn’t you rather let Ally make the book good than let it be the crappiest book you’ve ever read? She’s working, so let her do what she does best: make the books AWESOME. Also, Ally can only speed up so much, even if she wanted to speed it up. There’s the editing & publishing process, and everything else.
Sorry,
Flawda Gurl
melissa says
January 31, 2011 at 1:43 amYou have no idea how happy I am that you are comming to Rochester. I amd litterly jumping up and down! I am going to make sure I can be there.
sam b says
February 6, 2011 at 6:28 pmomg. ally i totally agree illegal ebooks r terible and there is no justification 4 getting them. pay the money or dont read the book. but reading the books a good idea so just pay.
Anonymous says
February 8, 2011 at 9:11 pmWhat deleted senes?!?! That sounds awesome!!!
Anonymous says
February 8, 2011 at 9:16 pmI heard that she’s making 7 total.
Laurel says
February 11, 2011 at 12:28 amyou should also visit louisisna we have GREAT CRAWFISH!!!:) and its really a cool place. GO SAINTS AND LSU TIGERS BABY!!!!
Laurel says
February 11, 2011 at 12:34 ami think that quizzes would be cool and whatever results a person would get it would give them a gallagher girl that they act the most like
Sarika Mathur says
March 23, 2011 at 1:38 amHi Ally! I firstly want to say that I’m a HUGE fan of all your books (to tell you the truth, my Username for everything is GallagherGirl3000). I’ve read all your books and actually, just finished Heist Society a few minutes ago. I just wanna say that You Rock! 🙂
I really like everything about this website. I think one thing you should add, though, is a few more graphics etc. I LOVE the colour scheme, though, but you can make the colours a little brighter. A little more colour can’t hurt.
Anyways Ally, you’re awesome, and the best author ever! Keep writing!
– Sarika
Age 12
Toronto (Well, actuallly, Ajax! :P), Ontario
P.S.
Ally if you could come visit Toronto or anywhere in my region, that would be great! Thanks! 🙂