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Courtney Summers

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COURTNEY SUMMERS is an uncompromising writer¹ known for a history of risky artistic choices² and pushing boundaries³ with novels that are not for the faint of heart.⁴ She has received over 20 starred reviews and numerous awards and honors, including the Edgar and ITW Thriller Awards.

¹ Quill & Quire ² Kirkus Reviews
³ Shelf Awareness ⁴ The New York Times

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Courtney Summers Thank you for all your kind words and sorry for the delay in response!!! I'm currently working on my next book and as soon as I've got news to share a…moreThank you for all your kind words and sorry for the delay in response!!! I'm currently working on my next book and as soon as I've got news to share about it, I absolutely will. As for a sequel to Please Remain Calm, I'm getting the sense from the questions I get about it I should start seriously considering it... :) (less)
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Thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear it worked for you. :)

Something that always struck me in a lot of zombie apocalypse stories was that many of their protagonists possess this incredible will to survive. They might have moments of self-doubt and despair, but they work past it and fight their way through. But what if you didn't? What if that's just not how you were built? I started thinking about what it would be like to explore an apocalypse through the eyes of someone who didn't want to survive anymore and with that, Sloane's story started coming into place.

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“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”
Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.”
Courtney Summers, Sadie

“How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?”
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