Book cover titled "Loser" by C.S. Beaty, featuring a smiling young man with blue eyes and curly hair, with doodle-like devil horns, mustache, and asterisk, set against a blue background.

Loser*:

A survival guide to high school popularity

While a teen in small town Nebraska, Chris took purity pledges, listened to emo music, played drums in marching band, shot guns competitively, and worked at a Boy Scout camp. He had a crush on every popular girl he met, but he never told them. Some of the hot girls found out though, and that’s when things got weird.

 

Loser* is C.S. Beaty’s debut memoir about growing up as a millennial in the Midwest and realizing that even though you feel like a loser, that doesn’t mean you are one.

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Reading this killed any romanticism I had about my high school experience.

DAVID NANCE

David Nance & Mowed Sound

Grand Island Senior High Class of 2006

I Think i will start by saying. it’s a great book. it’s funny.

CHRIS’S EX-GIRLFRIEND

I read about half of what you wrote one day last week and appreciated it. I didn’t get the second half done.

MATT WHITMAN

The Ten-Minute Bible Hour

Sweatier than a teenage boy in a platypus costume at a Christian rock festival.

STEVE WHITE

Farm Director of the Rural Radio Network, former NTV News Grand Island Bureau Chief

Thank you for asking me to provide a blurb for your masterpiece. The following is that blurb:

If your aunt had testicles she would be your uncle.

HAYWOOD FUDD

King of Literary Daredevils

Reading (this) book was a fun trip down memory lane… (it) is a time-capsule for millennials.

SARAH KUTA

Journalist Who Writes for Famous Magazines

Grand Island Senior High Class of 2008

Ooooo, I’m sorry I’m just getting to this! Thinking of something now.

MEGAN SIEBE

Cellist, Cursive

Grand Island Senior High Class of 2007

I skimmed your whole book… I am officially a fan.

CHARLENE SWANKIE

Actress, Nomadland

What I have read is funny and engaging.

 RAJ LULLA

The Caring House

 

Hope to have some thoughts later this month!

 BEN LUEDERS

Escape from Terikiak

 

This makes me glad I went to an all-girls school.

TERESA PRINCE CONWAY

These United Cookies

Chris- Thank you for your order. I did not have any more autograph photos.

HANNAH HUSTON

Season 10 Finalist, The Voice

Grand Island Senior High Class of 2009

I suck at reading, this does not.

CHRIS’S CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND

Loser* Photo Bombs

Two men at a comedy show, one with long curly hair wearing a colorful tropical shirt, and the other with a beard, cap, and graphic T-shirt, holding a comedy DVD. They are in front of a space-themed backdrop with animated explosions, buildings, and comic-style shouting characters. The poster displays the names 'Weird Al' Yankovic and 'Bigger & Weirder,' date August 5th, 2025, at Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln, NE.
“Did you write this? ...well, good luck with that!”
— "Weird Al" Yankovic
Two men posing together, one holding a snack bag and backpack, the other gesturing with his hand, standing against a brick wall.
“What is this?...Can you sign it?”
— Todd Packer
Two men standing together in a bar or restaurant, smiling at the camera. The man on the left is holding up a book titled 'Loser.' The man on the right is wearing glasses and a black shirt. The background shows a well-stocked bar and other patrons.
“Hey Glen! Here take this. ”
— Penn Jillette
Two men smiling and shaking hands at an indoor event, one holding a book titled 'LOSER' with a cartoon face on the cover, surrounded by other people in the background.
“Did you write this? Awesome, congratulations.”
— B.J. Novak
A man holding a signed photograph and a book titled "LOSER" at a book signing event, standing next to a man in a vest signing the photograph, with other people in the background in a bar or restaurant setting.
“Oh, thank you.”
— Teller
“Of course.”
— Chevy Chase