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Hi everybody!

I know I haven’t done one of these in a while, so let’s go! (Typing on my iPad, so be warned. Typos aplenty will probably follow)

-two weeks from tomorrow I leave on tour (for the US, Canada, and Cayman Islands). How is that possible? It was only the start of summer like…yesterday. Wasn’t it?

-I am very excited about tour! But also very nervous. I mean, how does one pack for both Canada and the Cayman Islands in late September? If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

-Starting to get some reports that United We Spy is out early in a few shops in the UK! I have even heard from a reader or two who have finished it. Not that that is freaking me out or anything. *crazy laugh* *rocks back and forth*

-in the US and Canada it SHOULD be out on the 17th but sometimes stores do get them early and put them out. The book doesn’t have a “hard lay down” which means it CAN come out early. Personally, I prefer it when that doesn’t happen (for various business-y reasons) but it is totally legit and the books are totally fair game! So if you see it…buy it!

-remember, if you hope to attend one of the signings it is super cool for you to buy the book (or A BOOK) from the host store to thank them for hosting me. (Events are a lot of trouble and quite expensive for the stores. Imagine going to all that trouble and having a hundred people show up at the event and having no one buy anything. It happens. And it’s sad. So if you can…please support those people and thank them for their hard work so that they will hopefully have me and other authors back in the future.)

-also remember to check with the host store to see what–if any–policies they might have about books from home, number of autographs, etc.

-oh, and don’t forget to check the events page. There have been some minor changes to times and locations.

-college football season started today. (See…I told you these posts are random.) I support my alma mater, Oklahoma State University. Go pokes! (I have season tickets and everything.)

-I just got the first catalogues of fall with awesome boots and tights and comfy dresses. I don’t want to wish the last of summer away, but dude…I love boots and tights and comfy dresses!

-who is excited for the new fall TV shows!? I need to sit down and make a list of all the things I need to add to my TiVo. And I really need to do it before I leave on tour in TWO WEEKS!

-also, before I leave on the fifteenth, I really need to remember to pay my taxes that are due on the sixteenth.

-but before any of that, I really need to finish this draft of EMBASSY ROW (my new series that is coming in 2015). So I guess I’d better go do that then.

-Ally

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    • i agree! ally has written the best books of all time!
      i went shopping today and ordered United We Spy
      WOW one or two people have already read it???????
      I WANT ONE!

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  2. I am so excited to read United We Spy!! I hope it does come out early!!! I wouldn’t know what to pack for Canada or the Caymans Islands cause I live in New Jersey! Hopefully I can go to the one event in New York! I wish you were coming to New Jersey! I like these random posts! I also can’t wait to read Embassy Row!

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  3. I’M SO EXCITED FOR UNITED WE SPY AND EMBASSY ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    GOOOOOOO NOTRE DAME!!!!!!!!!! AND FOR PROFESSIONAL GO SEATTLE SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!

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  4. So excited for United We Spy! I know it’s going to be great! And Ally, I totally agree with you on the fall fashions. I basically live in boots when its cold.

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  6. I’m so excited for United We Spy. I’ve always thought it was funny how all the titles are kinda puns. Even after the series is over, I will ALWAYS be a Gallagher Girl. <3 -Lyse

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  7. Bring tights, boots, and comfy dresses to Canada. I don’t know what the climate is like in the Cayman Islands, but I would guess that you might want to pack something lighter. To fit a ton of clothes into a single suitcase (possibly your whole wardrobe, depending), there is this super neat folding technique that the US Military uses. I forget what it’s called, but after a little bit of researching, I’m sure you’ll find it. 😉

    I go to Barnes and Noble whenever I have enough money for books. That’s all I ever do with my money. ^_^

    Have fun on tour!

    ~Mickayla

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  8. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!! Hey Ally my brother is thinking of going to Oklahoma state. We went on a road trip to see colleges and we visited Oklahoma state. I love Eskimo Joes! I love the campus too. Any ways go professional football Broncos woo!

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    • He totally should. It’s a great school, and your right, Eskimo Joes is uh-mazing! I could seriously write a love poem about the cheesefries!!! but if he does go there he should really eat at Joseppies and Mexico Joes too! I love them. AND to ANYONE who ever visits or goes through Oklahoma, I have to say Hideaway Pizza is the best you’ll ever have! Okay, I’m going to stop now because I doubt anybody cares/will ever read this.

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  9. That is a lot of stuff you have to do! I recomend bringing both clothes for warm and cold weather! In Canada it varies from where your going, and what Mother Nature brings! Where I live, (Kenora, Ontario), we just had a big thunderstorm, and brought a cold front on! Brrrr! We went from 30 degrees and over, to 11 degrees. I have no clue about anywhere else! Wish you the best with your travels!!!!!-Windy

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  10. Hey 😀 united we spy ain’t out in water stones yet haha and I made my mum drive an hour and they didn’t have it 😛 sounds like a lots of stuff but have fun ally and thank you for the amazing books !!! They have made me laugh and made me cry and I would have that any other way so thank you so much xxx

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  11. You graduated from OSU?! (I feel like I should’ve known that but) THAT’S AWESOME!! OSU is #1 or 2 on my college list right now. How cool would it be to walk where the great Ally walked, to eat in the same cafeteria the great Ally ate, to be late to the same classes the great Ally probably wasn’t late to? This is making me excited 😀

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  12. Dear Ally, I am soooo excited about United We Spy coming out!! However i have already purchased the book on Amazon and I don’t think it has the extra chapter!!! 🙁 Do you think you will post it on this website? Thanks

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  13. Just wanted to say you’re awesome! I have plans to come see you when you’re in DC (it will be my early birthday present) and I can’t wait! 😀 I’ve been a fan of your books for the past two years and I’ll be sad to see GG end, but I’m very excited for your future books!

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  14. OMG, United We Spy came out early in the UK and its the most amazing book ever and is so gripping I pulled an all nighter and read it within 24 hours… Seriously its the best book ever!!!

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  16. Since you’re coming to Vancouver, the weather here is actually still quite warm. You may want to bring a raincoat or boots just in case, but the temperature here doesn’t drop much ’til later in the season.

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    • United We Spy comes out on the 5th of September (that’s on Thursday) in the UK at Waterstones, while in the USA they have to wait until the 17th of September (that’s Monday two weeks away). So we get it earlier!!!

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  20. Oh and Pretty Little Liars is getting epic, you should DVR that! Idk if thats Ally’s style or whatever but it’s awesome!

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  21. Im going to cry when it comes out!!!! I cried when i saw this little quote thing on the Uk fansite!!! Seriously im gonna die! I love fall clothes its my favorite season and its so comfy!!! Also I love these little random posts!!!

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  22. Dear Ally, sadly I cannot come to any of the book events because I do not live close enough to any of the places to go and I have school. Good luck with the tour:). I hope one day I will be able to see you at one of these events and get my all-time favorite series signed. Until that day comes, I will continue reading and re-reading gallagher girls.
    Your greatest fan,
    Gillian

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  23. Glad to hear all of that, I’m very excited for United We Spy! I believe you’re going to Vancouver, but from what I hear the weather’s pretty similar to Toronto, where I live. September can range from reasonably warm- 30 degrees or so- to ridiculously cold- below 10 degrees (this is all celsius, of course). Aaand of course Cayman Islands are probably going to be hot, so…layers? That probably wasn’t very helpful, lol.

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  24. Hi ally!
    I have a quick question… If you go to austin on the 16th but the book comes out on the 17th how will I get it signed?
    :0(that’s my panic face). You are so amazing I really want to convince my parents to drive up from San Antonio after school on Monday but I have piano and I’m seriously like crying right now ilysm and I have Reagan all the gg 3 times (at least) and read out of sight out of time at least 10. I am sad to hear they will come to an end but I know that you will write more wonderful books and continue on with your awesomeness. You are by far my favorite author, more than Rick riordan( who lives in my city!:)) and Suzanne Collins and Julia Golding (who lives in England and wrote the companions quartet…if you haven’t read them you should;) and JK ROWLING combined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My password is the embassy’s password in out of sight out of time and I got my BFF hooked on gg also! Sorry this turned out longer than I thought it would be but I just love your books so much and I wish they would never end… But I know all good things come to an end so good bye cammie…

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  25. I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee United We Spy so much I considered to keep renewing the book in our library. And then I was like “dude, I might as well buy my own copy”. Anyway, awesome awesome awesome; best author ever, best series ever, best ending, United We Spy couldn’t be better. I got shocked, then happy then disbelieving then engrossed. After that I was just so happy with the book and then I cried :'( because it’s the end.
    But IT’S SO GOOD. So good Ally, so good, better than good. Sensational. It was sensational.
    And one day- you should totally come to the UK- because we love you. Plus, the weathers not too bad contrary to the stereotype! And Ally- ikr, you must have been so freaked out to hear about people who have already read United We Spy and here I am, telling you how much I loved it. And how awesome it was.
    Awesome awesome awesome. (Bex rocks so bad 😉 )

    :p

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  26. Ally,
    I just finished the Gallagher Girls series and they’re brilliant. I love them. I just finished Untied We Spy and it left me wanting more. Is there even the slightest possibility that you would ever write a spin-off series about life outside of Gallagher Academy? Like what missions Cammie and Zach go on together as they work for the CIA? I think many people would enjoy it and people, like me, would still just want to read and read about it for days. I love the series and I don’t want it to end, well not completely. I really want to just know what happens next. What does Cammie do on her missions and are they anything like the ones she had at school? I’ll understand if you decide not to, but is there even a chance that you’ll bring it back for a spin-off series?

    -Riley
    A Big Fan

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