COMPS ARE COOL!
Tuesday 26th March 2013
It’s all go at Puffin HQ this week as the team sift through the FANTABULOUS entries for the Could You Be Coco competition… drawing up a shortlist of ten is NOT going to be easy! Once the finalists have been selected and informed, I’ll be getting involved too, helping the team to pick our wonderful winner. SOOOO excited!
That winner will be starring as Coco in her very own episodes of CathyCassidyTV very soon… how cool? I love that you are all enjoying CCTV so much, btw… have you seen the brand new v-log from Summer this week? It tells you just what happened behind the scenes at Summer & Skye’s joint 13th birthday party, when Skye got lost in the snow. You can watch it here – and remember to comment to be in with a chance of winning this week’s £10 New Look voucher.
I love doing lots of comps, freebies and giveaways both on the website and on my Facebook Fanpage… but not everyone approves. Last week I had an upsetting message from a reader who feels I should stop doing comps because ‘people would only be disappointed,’ and advising me to find a professional actress for Coco. I couldn’t reply, as the reader didn’t give me her name or email. :o(
If she is reading, I’d like her to know I genuinely think one of my cool and talented readers will be perfect for the role of Coco. If none of us took risks, entered comps or went all-out to try to make our dreams happen, surely the world would be a sadder, duller, less hopeful place? If I hadn’t tried to make MY dream happen, there’d be no CC books, f’r’instance. And sure, not everybody can win every comp, but the way I see it is that you can have fun trying and learn along the way that it’s the TAKING PART that counts, not the end result.
I guess the answer is that nobody HAS to enter a comp if they don’t want to, but what do YOU reckon? Should I keep on doing comps? (I need to know because the annual My Best Friend Rocks comp is looming in the summer!) Tell me what you think…
Hi Cathy!x
I really enjoy doing comps and I don’t think you should stop doing comps because lots of other people loving doing them !x I’d be really disappointed if you did 🙁 I didn’t enter the coco competition cuz I don’t live near London.
Anyways I can’t wait for the MBFR competition (please still have it)
Hey… ANYONE who has read it FANTABULIOUS books would know that we enter for the fun and joy of it! As Holly said I WOULD be disappointed if you cancelled the comps! We LIKE them and no-one can say or do anything to change our minds!
I love your competitions, and really enjoy taking part in them! 😀 Please keep on having them!
I have entered the Coco competition, and can’t wait for the results. Good luck to everyone who has entered!! xxxx
hi cathy 🙂 , i logged into the website and saw this post , since i started reading the chocolate box girls books i have really wanted to be coco , i had tried to find out about any way i could audition or something 🙂 , everyone i know who has read the books thinks im exactly like coco in looks and personality , thank you so much for writting this series , i love them so much , they are my favourite books ! 🙂 x
Please keep doing competitions! The way I see it, they can only make people HAPPY, not sad. Happy if they won, happy that someone else is lucky enough to win! 🙂
Hi Cathy!
I think the comps are a wonderful thing! Although I don’t live anywhere near the UK so I can’t enter a lot of them, I have continuously entered the Writing Comps and they have been so beneficial!!! Its not about winning, and I believe it challenges all who enter to do their best! Which, to be frank, is the greatest thing you could do! So keep going 🙂
Xx Lauren
I love all your books sooo much cathy, and i definatley think the competitions going!!!! They give all your readers a chance to do somethimg fun amd interesting that they might not usually do, like the video for the Could You Be Coco comp!! I have entered that, but even if i dont win i had a great time making the video! All of your competitions are cool and creative nd like u said its the taking part that counts!!! Xxxx
@ Cathy. The person who told U was me. I think U SHOULD STILL DO COMPS BECAUSE THEY R FABULISTIC I JUST THOUGHT THAT this is an opportunity of a life time its just if people in different countries want to enter and they can’t they will be a bit upset. I asked if I could enter and I could its just if I did and I happened to win there would be no possible way to get there considering there R 2 adults and loads of kids in the house. 😀 😀 😀 don’t be upset Cathy U rock!!! I think it was just my confusing thoughts of if I did win speaking. 😀 😀 😀 😀
CATHY ROCKS!!! CATHY ROCKS!!! CATHY ROCKS!!!
WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! KEEP WRITING UR BRILL. WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
CATHY ROCKS!!! P.S. I WOULD RATHER WATCH THE CHOCOLATE BOX GIRLS THAN PLAY THEM MYSELF COZ THERE SO COOL!!!!
P.S COULD U POST A SNEEK PEEK AT HONEYS BOOK LIKE AN EXTRACT.
CAN’T WAIT. EEEEEEEKK!
You absolutely HAVE to keep doing competitions. there have been TONS of competitions I’ve entered that I’ve lost but that never stirred me!!! I even entered on that was going to be put on TV and made a complete fool of myself when I forgot a few verses of Proverbs 148. I still enter any competition I feel I can win and hardly ever care if someone else takes the prize home!!! It just doesn’t bother me!!!
Do what YOU want, Cathy!
Many people LOVE the competitions and ask for more. They are always fun and entertaining, and a lot of people who win are happy. Even those who haven’t won anything have still gained a ‘like’ on there comment from you! Even talking to you is a prize in itself 🙂 And anyway, it’s the taking part that counts. I think all your competitions are amazing and I enjoy them all.