Author John Corey Whaley.
(Read my thoughts on Where Things Come Back HERE.)
John Corey Whaley wrote Where Things Come Back, which is the winner of the 2012 Printz Award and the winner of the 2012 William C. Morris YA Debut Award.
Congratulations! Way to go, Corey Whaley!
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A while ago, I read and loved Where Things Come Back. So much.
AND
It’s YA Contemporary Month here at Into the Hall of Books.
I figured the best way to celebrate was to throw the two together, right? YES.
So…I grabbed a couple of my blogging buddies and managed to get this fabulous author to sit down and do a fabulous interview. Supplying the questions along with yours truly is the spectacular Ginger from GReads! and our favorite nerd Lisa from Lisa is Busy Nerding.
Here’s the deal:
- There are three of us asking the questions. We submitted our questions to Corey Whaley ahead of time. These are WAY FUN QUESTIONS with WAY FUN ANSWERS, so you want to check this out.
- He has no idea which of us asked which question. And really, it doesn’t matter, because they’re all super fun and awesome.
- There is talk of movies, music, zombies, and hipster culture. A superhero or two may also make an appearance.
- Video interview time!
This is so much fun!
ALSO:
This author is super interactive!
He wants to hear from you – so tweet him!
Tell him hello! @corey_whaley
And visit his super cool website to find out
what the paperback of Where Things Come Back
will look like: johncoreywhaley.com
There is a really cool-looking tree on that website, you guys.
Because I love Where Things Come Back so much,
I’m giving away my extra copy!
(International)
About Asheley
Asheley is a Southern girl. She loves Carolina blue skies, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and NC craft beer. She loves all things history but prefers books over everything.
You can find her somewhere in North Carolina, daydreaming about the ocean.
Find Asheley on Litsy @intothehallofbooks!
I love it when authors cast their characters! It helps us to visualize the characters the way John does.
How cool he's good at all these accents:) Nice to know about the places he'd like to visit:)
Thanks so much for the giveaway:)
Wasn't he a great sport with those accents? I wasn't expecting that level of skill. 🙂
Corey is awesome.
Super 8 was one of my favorite movies in the last 10 or so years! I can see why you would want Joel Courtney to star in Where Things Come Back (if and when). He was so good in Super 8!
as soon as Super 8 was over, i immediately watched it again. SO GOOD.
Oh goodness, am I the last person on earth that hasn't seen this movie. YES, I probably am. Which means I'll need to see it soon I suppose. I didn't realize it was that good.
Love Corey's actor-choices too.
Holy cow! Thanks for this super-awesome giveaway. Also, I love the video interview format, I wish more blogs did interviews this way 🙂
Oh, I also loved the accents…and his attempt at French 🙂
This worked out really well, didn't it? Corey is a great sport and has such a great attitude and is easy to work with and talk to. That's why I tell people to tweet him!
That French! Love it. Also I can't speak it, so he could've been saying anything + corpse and I wouldn't know!
Awww… I love the video interview, Asheley! 🙂 Corey is absolutely adorable *though that's probably not something I should be saying about an award-winning author, right? ^^'*
I love all the answers, especially the one about continuing to travel – I love travelling, too, although after moving from one place to another for the past 10 years, all I want right now is to settle down 😛
And I love Corey's British accent! WOW, he pulled it off so well! And the French one! 😀 Color me impressed! Great post and fantastic giveaway! Thank you for sharing this with us!!!
Hey Evie! I think Corey is probably okay with being called adorable because he likes attention – he said so himself.
Those accents – cracked me up. Such a great sport for this interview, Evie! He HAD to be on the first day for me. No other choice, hands down, period.
So happy with this!
I like the retro references. Pee Wee Herman, Bird is the Word, Back to the Beach, Night of the Living Dead. I enjoy hearing about the weird and quirky things that go on in author's heads.
Definitely quirky. I loved that I knew what he was talking about!
He was definitely sharing the things in his head. That's why I love the video format and anytime he does his videos. He's so funny.
Corey rules.
This interview rules.
Dude, Corey is super duper awesome!
Best interview ever? YES.
Best joint interview ever? YES
Best video interview ever? YES
Best three interviewers ever? OH YES.
Ginger was right, he does do a lot of facial expressions! Ha!
This book doesn't sound like anything I'd be interested in, but Corey is hilarious! His accents are awesome. Great interview! It was adorable! I'll definitely check more into this book to see if I should give it a go.
Thanks for sharing!
Corey is great and hilarious! That British accent made me laugh til I cried.
I really loved the book – it had a lot in it and was really well-written. I hope you'll consider it. It's really so so good!
Awwww, I loved Corey doing British accent! And speaking French!! Thanks a lot for this amazing interview, and answering all the questions!
The British accent was definitely my favorite, although I loved the French too + corpse. HAHA!
He did a great job with his questions! Such a great sport!
Haha. "*FrenchFrenchFrench* corpse?" I love it. 🙂 Excellent interview – loved the questions.
I KNOW Randi!! Thanks. It was so much fun!
Bwhahaha! This is OFFICIALLY my favorite author interview EVER. Great job ladies and Corey! 😛
I was laughing out loud at the awkwardness of the accent portion, but THEN I laughed SO loud during the hipster part that I woke up my bf who was sleeping in the next room. (Don't pity him, it's 12:30 pm and he's been in bed for 12 hours).
These were fantastic questions, with fantastic answers. I particularly enjoy Corey's chosen music supergroup, and would be willing to go to some lengths to hear that falsetto.
Thanks so much for this! 😛
YES to all of this!
Have you seen his Awkward Author videos? They're so funny. I miss those so much.
The hipster thing had me rolling. And I love the confidence with that supergroup – it was a good one, yes, but completely different than I would have chosen. Lots of falsetto for sure.
Best interview ever, I totally agree. I couldn't have been happier. I may have clapped my hands and gotten super excited about it.
I have NOT seen his Awkward Author videos, but obviously I need to. Because this was amazing.
LOVED this interview! It just makes me want to read WTCB so much more 🙂
I WILL look up that song Corey mentioned later! Eeee, Night of the Living Dead. I haven't seen it but I so can't handle horror movies. And I TOTALLY have a zombie face 😉
The Fantastic Five? *dies of laughter* I can totally picture this.
HEY DID SOMEONE SAY PETER PARKER? <3 Ahem.
For the record, I would totally pay to go to this "Justin Bieber" concert.
Thanks for the fantastic interview to all of you! 🙂
Sonia
He was so confident in his Fantastic Five, no? I loved it. Love his Peter Parker pick too. And the other one, OF COURSE.
Great job to Corey, for sure.
Hahaha, great interview, both great questions & great answers and he's so funny!
I like his choices for Cullen, Johnny Simmons is perfect, but his a little bit older, so Joel Courtney would be perfect, too, and yeah, I loved Super 8, too 🙂
My fav parts "Let's talk about movies for an hour, no, ok" hahaha, just like me 😉
Picturing that all have zombie faces – hahaha.
His super group choice 🙂 and the super heroes 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!!!
"Let's talk about movies for an hour, no, ok" — YES. He is so funny. And with the zombie faces. You should look up the Awkward Author videos if you haven't seen them. They're so much fun, just like this.
Funny guy. I was thrilled that he participated!
Yeah, I will definitely watch them, thanks 🙂
Hahaha, this is just AWESOME! And funny too. Great interview questions 🙂
Accents RULE!
This vlog was so much fun to watch, it's definitely made me more excited to pick up Where Things Come Back.
Thanks for the interview and the gorgeous giveaway! 😀
The accents were great! When the accent-thing was asked, I thought he'd just tell us which ones he was good at. We all really lucked out that he chose to DO THEM and at which ones he did. I die laughing every time I watch it.
The book is so great! I hope you love it so much!
That was so funny, I loved his accent made me laugh so much !
I loved the idea of an video interview it was awesome!
Thanks for the giveaway, Thanks for the chance win.
Best accents ever, no?
Thanks, the video was fun! He did a great job. All the credit goes to Corey!
+JMJ+
I laughed out loud at "Justin Bieber"! LOL!
The idea that Peter Parker is "every teenage boy in every YA book [Whaley] ever read" is intriguing. It's certainly a new angle at which to look at male protagonists in Contemporary YA from now on. =)
Thanks for the giveaway, Asheley!
Yeah, there was a lot of Bieber in this video, right? I never thought about the Peter Parker thing either, but he is absolutely right!
Thanks! Hope you love the book!
HAHA! His accent thing was amazing, and then the whole hipster part. I wish more author interviews were like this!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh the hipster thing made me laugh til I had tears running down my face. The British accent did too. Basically I had to stop the video every few seconds.
I agree, if more author interviews were as great as Corey's they'd be so much fun. He was such a great sport about the entire thing. He gets all of the credit!
Woo hoo! What an awesome giveaway, and an epic video interview! I haven't read Where Things Come Back yet, but I've seen it floating around the interwebz a lot lately, and everyone seems to like it. Therefore, I'm entering this giveaway in the hopes that I can win a copy to read for myself! 😀 Thanks for hosting!
As for the interview, wow. SO funny! This is a guy I would love to meet, haha. I LOVED his British accent, it was fantastic – so much better than I could do! – and the whole made-up-band thing cracked me up. Actually, half the interview had me snickering! That was AWESOME – thanks for the fantastic post, Asheley!
I agree, Corey did a brilliant British accent and a funny, great interview by video. Basically I cracked up throughout the entire thing. Thanks for watching it!
Hahahaha, the accents! omg yes, he definitely succeded. So yeah I'm a total dork because I didn't know anyone from his made-up band except for: you guessed it Justin Bieber! OMG. OMG.
That British accent? Best ever in life. I laughed so hard my sides hurt. LOVED it.
That supergroup was amazing. I'd LOVE to hear it. This interview was incredible.
I LOVE the Superhero question!! For serious! Batman is the bomb, and Peter Parker is legit YA Contemp! Seriously. That's awesome. BEST question/answer EVER. 😀
Thanks Ash! Corey was the best sport ever to have these questions thrown at him and answer so well. Such a fun interview!
awesome interview
tnx 4the giveaway
Thanks roro! Corey is awesome and funny. Good luck!
when and where can i now who is thw winner? xx thanks for this giveaway