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!!!
i LOVE your competitions, dont you ever stop them because they are amazing!!!!
Cathy you must never ever stop doing comps because the ones you set up are very very good pretty much life changing in a way. Its not often you get the chance to be on tv and especially an actual show. I generally think that they are a chance for us all to have a go at something, a chance to do something fun. Please do the my best friend rocks competition this year because it is such a great competition and you can tell people like it because of the amazing entrys. Also if you didn’t do it then millions of your fans would be upset, especially me because I am wanting to do it this year. But obviously you would not stop the comp because your cathy cassidy the most amazing author ever. I would have entered fir the one about being on tv but I couldnt ever do that im afraid. Though I will watch it . I love all of your books. If some one asked me which of your books I liked best I would say all of them because there all so great. I even read daizy star there really good too if I had a lil sis then id force her to read it. Please carry on with your comps because I could not see the day for them to be gone . Cant wait for Coco Caramel to come out even though its in june ill have to reread your other books which will be very fun.CATHY CASSIDY UR JUST AMAZING XXX
By Tia
I hope I’m coco!!! FYI, your books rule, an my favourites are cherry crush, ginger snaps, and Scarlett.
Cathy,
I think you should keep doing your comps because i love that feeling of a new comp!!!!!!!! Please keep doing the comps!
You are amazing!!!!!
Personally, I think your comps are a lovely idea – and as you mentioned, Cathy, are a great way of promoting people to give stuff a shot and make their dreams come true. As in life, there is always seen to be a ‘winner’ and a ‘loser’ in comps. However (and this is a really BIG however!), it I strongly disagree that it is about the outcome, but rather an experience should be judged by the journey. All my encouragement to all of you : )
I would also like to congratulate all the awesome people that entered the Coco Competition! I guarantee it will be uber epic to meet Cathy (yes, she totes rocks!) and be in a proper film production. Just don’t let the fame go to your head and forget us other fans when you reach the top!!! : D
I love Cathy Cassidy!! I was very cpnfused when i heard about this person but do whats best for YOU!! right? coz that is what you have been doing and we all love it! I entered the Coco comp and yeh, i hope i get an audition but i am VERY happy to the girls who did!!! Good luck everyone and all keep in touch with Cathy!!! xxx
competitions are usually disappointing to those who lose or cant take part. but one should see them as a learning experience. when my team lost a debate i was sad but then i realized i still had many more debates to take part in and hopefully win. so one should learn to see things in a different way… it makes losing less painful and victory more humbling.
Why would someone say that? Don’t get it. It’s no fun without any comps. You need something +it attracts more readers
To cathy 😉
You HAVE to keep on doing comps and (no offence to the person who wrote that to you) what the point in entering if you’re disapointed when you don’t win?? don’t stop
xxx a fan
Helloooooooooo! Oh my!! I am like soooooo extited for the next Chocolate Box Girl’s book to come out. You are like the BEST author in the woooorld! Wooooooooooooooo! Go Cathy!