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This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition is available now.

Jan 13 • courtney summers

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this is not a test

Feb 5, 2025 • courtney summers

(courtney's version)

Jun 12, 2025 • courtney summers

Jul 27, 2025 • courtney summers

the camera's rolling

Mar 8, 2025 • courtney summers

more courtney

official website

books

preorder the new edition of this is not a test

now a major motion picture

buy i'm the girl in paperback

includes the epilogue to sadie

buy the project paperback

includes bonus chapter

Recent posts

this is not a test: official trailer reveal

"No one's coming to save us."

Jan 14 • courtney summers

what i want to remember about writing

17 years ago today, I became an author.

Dec 23, 2025 • courtney summers

Release the files.

Nov 18, 2025 • courtney summers

“You’re making a movie faster than it takes me to write a book,” I said to them, wrong.

Oct 21, 2025 • courtney summers

This Is Not a Test’s imminent return to bookshelves has been such a gratifying plot twist in my career.

Sep 10, 2025 • courtney summers

how i spent my summer vacation

How is it that I could love the work I’m doing, the art it’s producing, yet only measure it in terms of failure?

Aug 26, 2025 • courtney summers

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