David Wong
The version you're reading today has been edited and re-edited to death, as I added to each contained story and built out the world I circled back and changed things in the earlier parts to make it all seem like one coherent story I had in mind all along. That's the advantage of publishing online vs print. But once I assembled it all into one story for print I sat down and edited the whole thing from start to finish and when I got the book deal I did it all over again. So there was a lot of retconning on the fly.
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Tom Louvat
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David Wong:
Hi, I just finished Futuristi Violence and Fancy Suits (in a few days, and it was amazing) So I have two questions. Firstly, have you ever heard the song "Domesticated Animals" by the Queens of the Stone Age ? I feel like it could be the unofficial soundtrack for the book, at least with the lyrics. Secondly, will tht book ever have a cinematic adaptation ? I'd literally kill if it helped making it !
Erich w/ an h
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David Wong:
The multiple versions of JDatE are very different. Now that you don't change anything (I think) when releasing a second edition of a book, how has that changed your thought process on writing jokes? For example, the line "Oh, Fred, you're alive!" was removed from the latest JDatE edition (it's even in the movie as "... because Fred's still alive"), despite it being pretty funny. Any thoughts?
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