I am really glad to have Joy Preble back on the blog today talking about being a Geek Girl (yay!) and, thanks to Joy and the people at Sourcebooks, I am giving away a full set of the Dreaming Anastasia series. Enjoy the post and enter to win below!
People often ask what my inspiration was for the DREAMING ANASTASIA series. And part of the answer, of course, is my fascination with the tragedy writ large that is the Romanovs. Like so many people, I have always wanted to believe that there was more to it than political assassination and a girl who died before she could be what she could be.
But then there’s the other part of the answer. The part of me that wrote Anne because I’d grown up with a love of genre fiction and then cut my writerly teeth on the work of Joss Whedon. That girl is an unrepentant geek. A nerd. And so of course I’d end up writing a book with witches and mermaids and soul jar trope dudes who can’t be killed and a romantic hero who’s handsome and blue-eyed but really kind of a doofus at heart. We geek girls write stuff like that. It’s in our DNA or something.
We memorize the titles of Buffy episodes and we go with our friends to the opening day of Serenity and when Adam Baldwin guest stars on Castle with Captain Mal himself, Nathan Fillion, we squeal with geeker joy. And we Tweet that our husband just quipped, “Hey. I hope they run into the Rievers.” And the other million geeks who follow us on Twitter tweet back that this is the greatest line they ever heard.
And stuff like that.
So I present to you: You Know You’re A Geek Girl When. With geeky bullet points and everything. And yeah, it’s all true. Get over it, folks. This is the real me.
You Know You’re a Geek Girl When:
• You agree to appear at Comic Con in Austin with your fellow geek authors. In a mermaid costume. For two days.
• Your favorite moment of the above is meeting James Marsters who played Spike on Buffy. And getting a picture. Signed. (Which you babble about for two days, at least when you can get a word in over Tricia (PJ) Hoover’s rambling about her photo op with Kevin Sorbo.
• Did I mention the seaweed boa?
• You put physics and economics jokes in your manuscript and your agent tells you that maybe this is not as funny as you think it is. But you believe that giving a character a t-shirt that reads ‘Fission Chips’ is hysterical. And that the joke “Two protons walk into a black hole… that’s the joke” is also the funniest thing ever. Really.
• You Google ‘nerd t shirts’ while you’re eating your lunch. More than one day a week.
• You still know the titles of every BTVS episode. And can still quote lines. And if someone says anything close to ‘dance of joy’ your first thought is of Season 2 of Angel when the gang went to Pylea.
• When you realized that you now knew and worked with the blogger who used to blog as Moonrat, you were happy for like a million days. Maybe more.
• You saw The Avengers on opening weekend. And you knew that you had to stay seated when the final credits rolled because it wasn’t really over.
• You also saw The Cabin the Woods. And chatted with your fellow geeks about how it was a meta-horror genre movie. Possibly too meta. But whatever.
• You played viola in the high school orchestra. And were first chair. And dated the 1st chair bassoon player.
• You own a full collection of the paperback novelizations of the original Star Trek series.
• You used to write Star Trek fan fiction. Before there was the Internet. Yes, you and your geek friends exchanged yellow legal pads of manuscripts. Mostly about Mr. Spock’s love life. You now believe that if only you had titled it Fifty Shades of Spock, you would be on easy street now.
• You continue to believe that there is such a thing as a tesseract.
• You wish there were more people who would get excited about the Baba Yaga episode on Lost Girl. • You screamed in horrified delight at the end of this season’s Vampire Diaries.
• You have worn socks with Birkenstocks. In public. But maybe only once.
• You could continue this list for another thousand pages.
You must be 13+to enter. This contest is open to residents of the US and Canada. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this! I’ve read AWESOME things about this series, and I love the Russian elements in it but I’m so happy the guy is geeky!!
I’m a geek girl – love the list Joy put together and I totally agree:) “We geek girls write stuff like that. It’s in our DNA or something.”
We’ve all got a little geek girl in us. Except I was a trumpet player dating the trombone player. And I’ve had this series on my TBR list for a while now, it sure would be great to win it!
I have been DYING to read this series because of the Russian elements!
And we all have a geek in us!
This sounds like an awesome series Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh, I really want this series so badly. I mean, who wouldn’t.
Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Awesome!
I just watched the Pylea episode this morning!
Also let’s not forget my fave episode of Supernatural was when Spike/James and Cordelia/Charisma guest starred as a warring couple. They were witches waay over a thousand years old!
I wore Birks w/wool socks almost everyday winter of 93/94..lolz I changed the socks daily, had to- ever smell wet wool?!
I wrote Wonder Woman stories btw. I wore my under-roos long past childhood. Thank goodness I was a late bloomer!
Great contest 🙂
Thank you.
Actually, Charisma was at Comic Con, too! And Juliet Landau, among others. But I had to meet them all while wearing the evil rusalka (mermaid) costume. hah!
Thanks for the giveaway, this series looks great!
Love the “You Know You are a Geek When…” list!! OMG I was laughing and agreeing with a lot of those bullets lol Thank you for such a fun post and the chance to win the entire series!
I would love to read these books! Thank you for the giveaway!
Haha, this post by Joy made me smile. I’m a semi-geek girl, but not fully, as I’m more nerdy than geeky!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! I have been wanting to read this series for awhile now!
Loved this list of Geek Girl stuff. Laughed out loud a few times. Great post! And thank you for the excellent giveaway. 🙂
Thanks for the amazing giveaway! I’ve had this series on my list of to-reads for a while.
One of us! One of us!
I, too, grew up Geek (dinner table conversations generally centered around String Theory and other theoretical physics topics). I think Madeline L’Engle was ahead of her time. And I have absorbed the genius that is Joss Whedon. And now I must go support a fellow Geek Gal by getting these! 😀
My father would stop dinner in the middle to go look up the answer if we disagreed. (and this was pre-internet, so it took awhile! 🙂
so geekily happy that this post is resonating! Oops. Guess, I must go do the Dance of Joy.
hahaha this is hilarious, Joy! 🙂 Clearly you haven’t rubbed off on me enough yet because there was quite a bit here that I didn’t really get. haha. #mustremedy
Yay! I need Haunted and Anastasia Forever. Can’t wait to have the whole series!
I love love love these books! Thanks for the awesome giveaway and great post : )
I realy want to read these books, thank you for the giveaway.
I want pics of said mermaid costume… :p
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I have wanted to start this series for a while now. Thanks for the giveaway!
You know that having a daughter NAMED Anastasia makes me a sure winner, right? 😉
My name is Anastasia. I need these!
My name is Anastasia. I need these!
This series hasn’t been on my radar at all. Only recently did I see the last book up for review and thats when I started seeing it around. It looks really interesting and the covers are GORGEOUS
I’m a total geek girl! but I would love to go to Comic Con! (don’t live in the states)
thanks for the giveaway!!
– juhina
I remember reading this first one as an ebook a while ago and really enjoying it. I’d love to reread and continue the series!
Okay, I need this set for my local library! There are so many geek girls out here… I might be one of them, even if I am a little older than girl. SO happy for you, Joy!
I am an out and proud geek girl 🙂 I loved the first two books and cannot wait to get my hands on the third. The covers are beautiful!
Thanks for the chance to win
Jolene A
I just Dreaming Anastasia and loved it! I bought it on impulse and once I started it I couldn’t put it down. I loved the mixture of history & fairly tales, and well, everything! I can’t wait to continue the series. Btw, your “Geek Girl” post is one of the best I’ve ever read! No wonder I loved your book (and I totally agree with you on the “Spike thing.” 🙂
Amazing giveaway!! (as Always) 😉
Love this! You Know You’re a Geek Girl When…you’re super ashamed you’ve never been to Comic Con!
Definitely need to read Preble’s books, since she’s clearly a kindred spirit!
Heehee GeekGirl….love it! =D Those points are very true, too!