Sarah Willmann

Sarah Willmann asked David Wong:

Hi David First I want to say, I love your books. I was first introduced to your books by my brother who gave me your book John dies at the end. Anyways I was wondering what is your inspiration for your books and what is your favourite character that you've written? From Sarah

David Wong I always worry that my answers to questions like this just leave people disappointed, like I should be citing a lot of groundbreaking literature for inspiring Zoey instead of "RoboCop" or "I wondered what would happen if the cast of Mad Men had to use crime to fight supervillains." It's the same for the favorite character question (or favorite book/scene/line), I always worry that it comes off like I'm saying the reader is wrong ("Wait, THAT'S your favorite? But that character is a jerk!")

I feel like other creators come up with really good-sounding answers they can give to questions like this but I have so far failed to

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Matt Richland

Matt Richland asked David Wong:

JDATE 3 is the end of your current book deal from what I've read. Do you plan on writing more novels after that? I'm a big fan of your work. Just so you know I'll buy any novel you put out for the rest of my life based on the quality of your first three books. Make more stuff, dude. Please make more stuff.

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Goodreads asked David Wong:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Erich w/ an h

Erich w/ an h asked 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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