Well all, I discovered something very disturbing this morning. There is a person on Twitter, using the username @CaylaKluver, who is impersonating me. This person has cultivated 1300 followers and I wasn't even aware that it was happening.
To follow ME on Twitter, plug in the username @CaylaKL.
There are a number of things I'd like to say about this issue, but I'm going to try to keep it short and sweet. First, I feel violated and abused. Thankfully pretending to be me on Twitter has not allowed this person access to my personal life, but the idea that someone had the gall to use my name, my face, and my accomplishments to benefit him or herself is abhorrent and disgusting.
Second, I would like to apologize to my fans, especially the 1300 people who are currently following the fake Cayla Kluver. Whoever this person is has been responding to you, giving you updates, and misleading you. I adore every single one of my fans. I have the utmost respect for you, and I am monumentally grateful for your support. This person has taken advantage of you, and abused and violated your trust.
I have contacted Twitter about this problem. My publisher is looking at potential action to take. My agent is furious, and all of us are trying to spread the word and shut this account down.
What you can do to help:
1) If you are following @CaylaKluver, un-follow this user immediately and instead follow me at @CaylaKL.
2) Report the user @CaylaKluver for spam and inappropriate conduct to protect other users and encourage Twitter to examine this account.
3) If you know anyone who is following @CaylaKluver, inform them about this scam at once, and direct them to the @CaylaKL Twitter page.
4) Tweet about this, and re-tweet. Share anywhere and everywhere.
Thank you so much for your support, and hopefully together we can fix this situation.
Love and apologies,
Cayla
Monday, March 7, 2011
Guest Post at The Hate-Mongering Tart
Check out my guest post at E. Kristin Anderson's blog "The Hate-Mongering Tart":
Writing "That Woman" by Cayla Kluver
The post is in honor of International Women's Week -- tweet, comment, share, and become a follower of E. Kristin Anderson's blog!
<3
Cayla
Writing "That Woman" by Cayla Kluver
The post is in honor of International Women's Week -- tweet, comment, share, and become a follower of E. Kristin Anderson's blog!
<3
Cayla
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Celebrity Saturday: Meet Andrea
She is a good friend of mine, who sometimes hijacks my Facebook fan page (don't worry, she always says when its her!). She started the page a couple of years back, encouraged me to get on Twitter, and has always been supportive of my writing. She runs her own interview blog called "Grammar Keels." I'm happy to introduce you all -- everyone, meet Andrea!
Cayla: Hi Andrea! Why don't you tell readers a little about yourself?
Andrea: Well Cayla, I am a cosmetology student at The Salon Professional Academy in Ames, Iowa. Where I will also be taking aesthetics and massage therapy. I absolutely LOVE cats. They are my greatest weakness. If you have a cat you win me over automatically. I have a very odd personality per se. Depending on who I am with my personality is different. Say, one group of friends my dirty minded personality shows, but with another, a sweet more conservative personality shows. I also have a few nicknames: Bob, Andi, Jack (also spelled Jagk), and now, thanks to Cayla, Tink.
Cayla: What would you say you are most passionate about?
Andrea: I am very passionate about music. It is the one thing that I have to be around constantly in order to be kept sane. Unless it is mainstream radio where you hear the same Ke$ha and Rhianna song 5 times in one hour. I dislike repetitive. I love going to shows and seeing a band perform live. There is just something about feeling the vibrations of the sound waves and the adrenaline rush that you and everyone around you has that feels so darn amazing!
Cayla: What's the best thing that has ever happened to you?
Andrea: I'm going to say my friends. The people I surround myself with made me who I am today. They formed the crazy, spunky, stubborn, sweet, compassionate girl that I am today.
Cayla: What's the worst thing?
Andrea: I would have to say my near death experience back in December. I had just left school and pulled out from a stop sign thinking it was clear to go. The next thing I knew there was another car in the drivers side of mine. The way my car turned out I am lucky to have walked away from that accident, let alone made it out alive. The sound of metal crunching on metal and glass shattering still rings in my ears.
Cayla: Do you like string beans?
Andrea: Well Cayla, the "Have friends in highly low places" is from a song "Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)" by Forever The Sickest Kids. Which actually goes "I've got friends in highly low places" I had that song stuck in my head while I was filling out the info section. I do plan on interviewing smaller bands, I have a few friends that are in bands that are willing to participate, authors, and whoever you throw at me. I really do appreciate the help! Especially the editing! My grammar and punctuation has never been the best.
Cayla: What inspired you to start your interview blog?
Andrea: Since August when a band I listen to, Hey Monday, released their EP(extended play for those who don't know) 'Beneath It All' I kind of wanted to write CD reviews. The more I sat on it the more I just didn't want to do the CD reviews. I then decided that interviews would be much better for me since I am a more Q&A sort of person. I love to ask questions! It's like I'm a very curious 5 year old.
Cayla: We're friends - the first time I remember seeing you, you came into Mr. L's classroom and argued with him about a hall pass. Do you remember the first time you saw/encountered me?
Andrea: I feel like I vaguely remember this situation. I did argue with Mr. L quite a bit. I was a student who liked to butt heads with teachers. Though I would say my first memory of you was when you were in a play but I don't quite remember what play. I feel like it was one where there was a dead body and Monte Carlo. I could be very wrong. I also remember seeing you walking through the wall just mesmerized by how pretty you are. It was like you were a complete mystery as well. My gosh I just sounded like a love struck teenage boy.
Cayla: Is there anything else you'd like to say to the awesome beyond awesome readers of this blog?
Andrea: "Well behaved women rarely make history." -Marilyn Monroe This woman inspires me!
Also, good choice in books everyone! Cayla is a great author and friend!
If you guys have any more questions for me, feel free to go to my blog "Grammar Keels" and click on the "Ask Me Anything" tab on the right side!
Thank you so much to Andrea for doing this interview - make sure you check out her blog!
Cayla
Cayla: Hi Andrea! Why don't you tell readers a little about yourself?
Andrea: Well Cayla, I am a cosmetology student at The Salon Professional Academy in Ames, Iowa. Where I will also be taking aesthetics and massage therapy. I absolutely LOVE cats. They are my greatest weakness. If you have a cat you win me over automatically. I have a very odd personality per se. Depending on who I am with my personality is different. Say, one group of friends my dirty minded personality shows, but with another, a sweet more conservative personality shows. I also have a few nicknames: Bob, Andi, Jack (also spelled Jagk), and now, thanks to Cayla, Tink.
Cayla: What would you say you are most passionate about?
Andrea: I am very passionate about music. It is the one thing that I have to be around constantly in order to be kept sane. Unless it is mainstream radio where you hear the same Ke$ha and Rhianna song 5 times in one hour. I dislike repetitive. I love going to shows and seeing a band perform live. There is just something about feeling the vibrations of the sound waves and the adrenaline rush that you and everyone around you has that feels so darn amazing!
Cayla: What's the best thing that has ever happened to you?
Andrea: I'm going to say my friends. The people I surround myself with made me who I am today. They formed the crazy, spunky, stubborn, sweet, compassionate girl that I am today.
Cayla: What's the worst thing?
Andrea: I would have to say my near death experience back in December. I had just left school and pulled out from a stop sign thinking it was clear to go. The next thing I knew there was another car in the drivers side of mine. The way my car turned out I am lucky to have walked away from that accident, let alone made it out alive. The sound of metal crunching on metal and glass shattering still rings in my ears.
Cayla: Do you like string beans?
Andrea: Yes in fact I do! Fresh picked ones are the best.
Cayla: Since most of the people who come to my website are book-lovers, who are some of your favorite writers?
Andrea: Some of my favorite writers would probably be: Melissa de la Cruz, Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key is excellent by the way. It was the first book I read by her), JK Rowling, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, Cayla Kluver (of course), Robin Jones Gunn, and Michael Cole.
Cayla: On your interview blog, you say you have friends in "highly low" places. You've interviewed me; what kinds of other people do you plan to interview?
Andrea: Well Cayla, the "Have friends in highly low places" is from a song "Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)" by Forever The Sickest Kids. Which actually goes "I've got friends in highly low places" I had that song stuck in my head while I was filling out the info section. I do plan on interviewing smaller bands, I have a few friends that are in bands that are willing to participate, authors, and whoever you throw at me. I really do appreciate the help! Especially the editing! My grammar and punctuation has never been the best.
Cayla: What inspired you to start your interview blog?
Andrea: Since August when a band I listen to, Hey Monday, released their EP(extended play for those who don't know) 'Beneath It All' I kind of wanted to write CD reviews. The more I sat on it the more I just didn't want to do the CD reviews. I then decided that interviews would be much better for me since I am a more Q&A sort of person. I love to ask questions! It's like I'm a very curious 5 year old.
Cayla: We're friends - the first time I remember seeing you, you came into Mr. L's classroom and argued with him about a hall pass. Do you remember the first time you saw/encountered me?
Andrea: I feel like I vaguely remember this situation. I did argue with Mr. L quite a bit. I was a student who liked to butt heads with teachers. Though I would say my first memory of you was when you were in a play but I don't quite remember what play. I feel like it was one where there was a dead body and Monte Carlo. I could be very wrong. I also remember seeing you walking through the wall just mesmerized by how pretty you are. It was like you were a complete mystery as well. My gosh I just sounded like a love struck teenage boy.
Cayla: Is there anything else you'd like to say to the awesome beyond awesome readers of this blog?
Andrea: "Well behaved women rarely make history." -Marilyn Monroe This woman inspires me!
Also, good choice in books everyone! Cayla is a great author and friend!
If you guys have any more questions for me, feel free to go to my blog "Grammar Keels" and click on the "Ask Me Anything" tab on the right side!
Thank you so much to Andrea for doing this interview - make sure you check out her blog!
Cayla
Friday, March 4, 2011
Grammar Keels and A Christmas Carol
Hey all,
Andrea can be credited with starting my Facebook fan page a couple of years ago, and more recently, with kicking my butt to get on Twitter. I encourage you to check out the interview, and stay posted on what she's up to - I know she's planning some really fun stuff... such as, coming here to "Offkey" soon to answer my questions (that's right, I get to do an interview for once!!!).
Also in the near future, I'll be doing a guest post for my wonderful acquaintance E. Kristin Anderson in honor of International Women's Week; the next two installments in the blog trio about Alera: Zeit der Rache will be showing up (ZdR releases on March 10th!!! Go here for an excerpt: Piper-Fantasy Leseprobe); and I'll be inaugurating Evy's "5 Questions For..." meme at L'Odyssée littéraire d'Evy (which will go up in English and French).
That said, my favorite version of this story is still The Muppet Christmas Carol. Sorry, Charles.
Stay awesome!
Cayla
First off, I did an interview the other day with my friend Andrea, at her brand new blog "Grammar Keels". Just to entice you, the interview is entitled I Met Her When She Had Pink Hair.
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| Read synopses of E. Kristin Anderson's books on her website |
All that news aside, I finished A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I'm not going to do a synopsis because if you don't know what A Christmas Carol is about, you need to fix this immediately, or at least rent a copy of The Muppet Christmas Carol. I loved the book - it was my first Dickens and once again all those years of assumptions took a beating inside my mind. Classics are not in fact books that are impossible to understand, and that therefore everyone claims to be able to understand. Charles Dickens is a fantastic writer. Simple as that.
Stay awesome!
Cayla
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Freddie Krueger at the Desk
Hey guys,
So I was browsing around the blogosphere the other day, and I checked up on Rachel Vincent's homepage (for those of you who don't know, RV is the author of the Soul Screamers series). I encourage you to read this post of hers regarding a rather rude comment she received anonymously:
In Response...
Did you read it? At least through about the rude comment I was referring to? Good. I'm not here to give comment on this particular incident (obviously Rachel handled it in a mature, classy fashion and doesn't need me to drag it out), but this all got me thinking about the major issue of internet anonymity.
Why oh why does anonymity - the ability to be nameless and faceless on someone's website - turn so many of us into jerks? I'm not innocent. I'll admit, I've been needlessly argumentative and contrary and probably even mean online before, never under my own name of course. But that was a huge mistake. It can be fun, the belief that you're insulated from the consequences of your own poor behavior. But truthfully the worst consequence is inescapable - the person on the other side of your words, who may be hurt, devastated, scared, or very, very angry about what you said.
In my lifetime, I've lived four houses down from a murderer, and more than one of my friends has attempted suicide. I've been alive for eighteen years, and had those experiences in my own backyard. There are millions and millions of people on the internet, some of whom are absolutely normal, some of whom are apt to hurt themselves, and some of whom would like to hurt you. You don't want to provoke any of them, just as I didn't want to give my neighborhood killer the finger or mock my troubled friends. Be respectful, be kind, and remember that when talking to someone on the internet, you may as well be talking to them face-to-face, for the damage words can do to you and others.
I've been chatting recently with some of the people working at Jodi's Voice, an organization started to promote awareness of stalking as a serious crime. Jodi Sanderholm was kidnapped and murdered in 2007 by her stalker. I encourage you to visit the website, read about the crime of stalking, and make sure you know the best ways to stay safe, both online and off.
Above all, just remember that you're important, and that our world is not 100% safe. Debate is healthy; online warfare is not. And unlike Rachel Vincent's anonymous commenter, please don't say anything on the internet that you wouldn't say to someone's face. It's as much a matter of protecting yourself as it is of protecting them.
Hearts and hugs,
Cayla
So I was browsing around the blogosphere the other day, and I checked up on Rachel Vincent's homepage (for those of you who don't know, RV is the author of the Soul Screamers series). I encourage you to read this post of hers regarding a rather rude comment she received anonymously:
In Response...
Did you read it? At least through about the rude comment I was referring to? Good. I'm not here to give comment on this particular incident (obviously Rachel handled it in a mature, classy fashion and doesn't need me to drag it out), but this all got me thinking about the major issue of internet anonymity.
In my lifetime, I've lived four houses down from a murderer, and more than one of my friends has attempted suicide. I've been alive for eighteen years, and had those experiences in my own backyard. There are millions and millions of people on the internet, some of whom are absolutely normal, some of whom are apt to hurt themselves, and some of whom would like to hurt you. You don't want to provoke any of them, just as I didn't want to give my neighborhood killer the finger or mock my troubled friends. Be respectful, be kind, and remember that when talking to someone on the internet, you may as well be talking to them face-to-face, for the damage words can do to you and others.
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| On the internet, you never know who you may be talking to. |
Above all, just remember that you're important, and that our world is not 100% safe. Debate is healthy; online warfare is not. And unlike Rachel Vincent's anonymous commenter, please don't say anything on the internet that you wouldn't say to someone's face. It's as much a matter of protecting yourself as it is of protecting them.
Hearts and hugs,
Cayla
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