Natalie Standiford

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Hi, I'm from Brazil and I found your book to buy in here... I already loved, because the character have my name, Bea!!! I can't wait to read this and the other books. =D XOXO
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Thank you, Bea! I hope you'll like the book. I love your name.
-Natalie

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Wow-- I went on vacation and came back to so many wonderful comments. Thank you, Drew, Emilie, Mimi, and Anonymouses! I really love everything you have to say. Drew, your comment is especially nice because I agree with you that boys can appreciate my books in spite of pink covers and other discouragements. Thank you for listening to your girlfriend! I am so honored that you dissed Halo Night to read my book.

Mimi, I'm sorry that your picture link didn't work--my web site software is temperamental. But I looked at it and you're right--that's a very ghostly-looking anime boy who could be Jonah.

My next book is called THE SECRET TREE. It's for younger readers, 8-12ish, but I hope all ages will enjoy it. It's coming out next summer. After that I'm working on a YA novel set in the Soviet Union in the 1980s--for a change of pace.

Thanks again, all of you, for your insights.
xo Natalie
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Oh my god.
This book is definitely one of my favorites.
Everything was so easy to digest and realistic - I felt like I was in a movie with them, haha.
I absolutely loved the ending. I keep telling myself that they reunite after 5 years and they fall in love.. Lol
And as much as I would LOVE a sequel, I know it can't be possible. It would ruin this book entirely and so on (but man I am so obsessed, I wouldn't care if it messed everything up up as long as the get together! Lol). As for a movie, I think I would watch it, but it would ruin the characters as I see them in my head, and the fandom would be horribly.. horrible? Haha I guess I just love this book so much that I only want it for myself. Fanfictions would be cool though..0

I am gonna be honest. My girlfriend made me read How To Say Goodbye In Robot. I did of course.(any guy knows that you do not say no to her) So I read it to please her. And it was a awesome book.
So I went to chapters and bought Confessions of The Sullivan Sisters and I was blown away.
I dissed my friends and Halo night to read it.
So was worth it. My friends mostly suck at Halo so we end up playing Modern Warfare.
But that's not the point.
Any how just saying guys/guy like your books too.

Drew

ROBOT was quite possibly the most beautiful book I've ever read. I chose it from the library thinking it was just another teenage love story, but it was so much more than that. I fell in love with the complexity of the realtionship, and how the struggle to free Matthew worked in rhythm with Jonah and Bea's lives. The way the story began particularly resonated with me, because I didn't feel as if I was reading Bea's story, I felt as if I was in it all along. Your book surprised me, and although throughout the entire story I waited for the relationship to become romantic, I think that by keeping them undefined, you added an entire new dimension. By always being undefined to each other, they could show affection and honesty in equal doses. The end, I must say, was heartbreaking. The phone call when Jonah says he wants to run away with Bea has the best emotion to it, especially when he says 'It hurts Bea, it really hurts.' Your writing made me fall in love with all the characters, but mostly Jonah. You've created a fresh character that actually has a reason to run away, even to run away from the girl he loves, And I love that. Although your writing is breathtaking, and a sequel would be much appreciated, I think the story ended perfectly, and you shouldn't dive further into their lives. Yes, I like to believe that Jonah and Bea end up together in the end, but I think what makes the book great is the fact that he leaves. The last chapter, which is only 2 pages long, and the last paragraph in particular were the most striking to me. But I don't believe Bea will every know Catso as just a toy, or not flinch at white hair. Only one thing's for sure, Ghost boy will never be forgotten.

- Emilie

Dear Natalie,
"Goodbye In Robot" was of the best, most honest, beautiful books I've read in a long time. Jonah and Bea's friendship was a delicate, wondrous thing that cannot be defined, or severed easily. The story really hit a personal note for me from Bea imagining her death, to Jonah's self inflicted isolation. I'm glad he had Bea, if only for a short time. She showed him what it feels like to be cared about, he needed to be reminded, and I hope he can remember that feeling and be happy. The originality and raw emotion of this novel made me smile, and it made me cry, several times.
In fact, the ending induced the same feeling in me when I read "The Princes Tale", Chapter 33 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Although the ending was sad and made me cry, I feel it was necessary. Jonah needed to escape and pull his life together. I really hope you write a sequal because I believe that neither Jonah nor Beatrice have finished with each other. I always imagine that Jonah escaped to Iceland for some reason, perhaps the sequal could be set there for a time? I dunno...(shrugs)
Or if you didn't feel like a sequal, maybe you would consider writing a short fanfiction? I always thought it would be cool if the actual author of the story wrote what they thought would happen.Just a thought.
Anyways I just want to say thank you for such a great experiance, because thats truly what "How to Say Goodbye in Robot" was. I love your writing style, and I plan on reading "Confessions od the Sullivan Sisters" soon.

Thank you so much, Yours truly,
Mimi the Napkin Queen

P.S This is how I imagine Jonah to look, y'know if he wasn't an anime character. Its funny becasue this guy's character (Zero Kiryu) is a lot like Jonah.


I love all your books!
If you have any future books.
What will they be?