I simply can’t afford to quit on the idea that human life can change for the better.
ALTI have made a helpful guide so that you can know approximately when your signed preorder of Everything Is Tuberculosis was signed. Copies 1-10,000 were signed in green, 20,000-30,000 in blue, and so on. You can preorder your signed copy at everythingistb.com.
Tell me the truth: Can you tell which of these signatures is good, and which is terrible? (Two are fine.)
Like, if you get one of these signatures bound into a copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis, will you be disappointed? Or do they all look approximately the same and I’ve just spent way way way too much time looking at my own signature?
(You can preorder a potentially terrible signature at http://everythingistb.com.)
turtleduckdate asked:
Hi John, congratulations on the book! Feel free to ignore this dumb ask, but my partner and I have been debating over dinner about this - how long does it take you to sign 100,000 books?
It will take about 220 hours in total.
I can sign about 600 times an hour, but I need to take breaks for my elbow and shoulder at this point, which slows me down a little. It also takes some time to straighten and pack up all the pages and open new boxes and reach for more sheets and all that stuff.
220 hours is a long time, but also what the hell else am I going to do with my time? I like signing. I like the idea that a page I touched will be in your copy of the book. I know what signed books meant to me when I was younger. So it is a little way that I can hopefully make someone’s book and reading experience more valuable. And hopefully it also shows gratitude to those who believe in my work enough to preorder something.
In short, it is not the worst way I’ve ever spent 220 hours. You can preorder a signed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis wherever books are sold.
My new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out March 18th.
This has been the most fulfilling (and heartbreaking) writing experience of my life so far. I really hope you enjoy the little book that resulted from it.
The punchline of it all is that your fave was, in fact, problematic–not least because we are all bumbling fools navigating being alive in an ever-new world we’re experiencing for the first and only time.
And the thing is, Your Fave was given a giant megaphone for some reason, which means when Your Fave bumbles foolishly through the world, they do so VERY LOUDLY and their inevitable mistakes are EAR-SPLITTING.
evermorepeyton asked:
i like you very much john and that makes me super cool
You look like my friend Dan.
halloweengirlm0b1l3 asked:
OK apparently ur famous cause books and stuff- should i feel worried ive never heard of you??
No one should feel bad for not knowing about a fourth-tier celebrity. Not knowing who I am is like not knowing the name of the sixth man on the 2011 Orlando Magic.
I am totally, and proudly, optional.
i have no one to share this with and its actually mind fucking me. i just learned JOHN GREEN wrote "The Fault in Our Stars"....... THE john green?? HUH? i literally read like my life depends on it, how have i missed this?
it’s weird for me too.
on fame, chappell roan, and my least favorite photograph of my myself.
“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember comes what happened.”
— John Green
this is a banger of a quote from an abundance of katherines. I am in my I Celebrate Myself And Sing Myself era, and while I have missed the mark many times in that book and elsewhere, this particular couplet is a banger.
