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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Timothy Knutson
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David Wong:
You have written three of my all time favorite books, and I think a huge part of why I love them so much is the characters, both main and secondary. Even just the characters who tend to wander in for a chapter seem fleshed out and funny. I was wondering how much backstory you personally imagine for your characters that doesn't make it into the book? Do you know their whole lives as you write them?
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