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…
Well I see it this way – if you don’t enter a comp then you’ll never know if you might have won or not. Sure , everyone can be a little disappointed if they don’t win and that’s okay but if you get over that disappointment and enter more comps – who knows? Maybe you’ll win something next time? :).
I think u should keep doing the comps. The writing comps really help me with my writing and I find it fun to have a subject assigned to me. your right: It’s not about winning, it’s about taking part and having fun.
Yes Cathy you should still do your amazing comps. Just wondering can I enter seeing as I am Australian
Bye Cathy
I’ve recently started participating in comps and i love them! don’t listen…. we love comps 🙂
Keep doing the comps!!! I love taking part and I’m sure everyone else does too!!! Don’t let what one person says affect you. There will always be somebody swimming against the tide xx
I think competitions are the enjoyment of being a fan of you and it feels like the books are coming to live thru the competitions!
At the end of the day you enter the competition for fun and if you win that’s luck and if you didn’t win you should be happy that you took part!
The competitions are my favourite part of being a fan of you because we get to meet you and have a good time with you thru them and the best friends competition is one of my favourite competitions are there but if there is no competition I will be boring I think you should keep them 🙂
Keep doing comps…. i want to enter ‘my best friend rocks’ competition!! 🙂 xx
Don’t stop doing comps there amazing do more of them everybody loves them even some adults and teachers so strange keep doing comps and books have fun the best bit about the comps are the prizes or what the comp is so don’t stop believe in yourself make more loads more your amazing please don’t stop just keep adding more comps I know this is so long because I love you and your books and the comps keep going enjoy your life
Love from Mercedesxxx
Hi!
Definitely keep the comps! I love just feeling I could win! There were 12 prizes in my school raffle that I won none of but it doesn’t matter! It’s the thrill of taking part that is 2nd-best to winning!
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Omg I got highly commended in up the cococomp! What does that mean???
Anynymous reader