Matt Richland
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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.
David Wong
I have no plans to retire from novel writing, unless something terrible happens with my health or something. But the schedule I've been on (work 70 hour weeks at Cracked and write a novel every two years) isn't doable any more. I've got family I haven't seen in many months, friends I see twice a year at holidays. I'm having back problems from sitting too long ... I just need a little time off. Also I won't sign a new deal until I actually have the ideas for the books. I'm not going to take the publisher's advance money with the idea that I'll just come up with something later. That's how you get bad books. The money isn't worth it.
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A Goodreads user
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David Wong:
I am a huge fan of your. Thanks for friending me, I know it's meaningless in the long run, but cool of you nonetheless. Do you ever do book signings? I have all your books including the Permuted Press of John Dies. It would be cool to meet you and say thanks in person.
Matt Johnson
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David Wong:
I just recently got around to reading the JDATE series and I finished all 3 in a few days. Do you know how many books you plan in the series? If it could go on indefinitely I wouldn't be upset. Also on a sidenote, you have greatly annoyed my wife because after reading What the Hell Did I Just Read, I now constantly tell her "It's dildos all the way down, baby" whenever she asks me any kind of question.
Riley
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David Wong:
When exactly did you relize that hard work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it? Did someone teach you that or did you come to your own conclusion? Reading those words were a final push in a series of really wierd apiphanies that made me understand integrity and lazyness completely differently. Also, I made them and the sentence prior my senior quote this year.
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