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Mentions by year: 2007: 2 · 2008: 1 · 2011: 10 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 2

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2007

  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 13, 2007 — For reasons John does not understand, Penguin got him the couple's Valentine's special at his Washington, D.C. hotel: two entrees, two appetizers and two desserts ('Sorry, Weight Watchers'). (00:00:13)
  • 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — John announces the next Brotherhood 2.0 book club book is his own Paper Towns, which Penguin won't publish until September of next year. (00:02:56)

2008

2011

  • 2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — Ilene and John sent the manuscript to Penguin, which agreed to publish it provided he revised extensively, more extensively than he imagined. (00:01:22)
  • 2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — When Penguin bought it, the book wasn't about a boy who memorizes famous last words; much of what readers like, from the Great Perhaps to the labyrinth, came out of the revisions. (00:01:34)
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John says he then considered Omnis Cellula e Cellula, but Penguin told him Latin doesn't smell like a bestseller, so he still has no firm title. (00:02:14)
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — A couple of years earlier, when Paper Towns came out, John was one of about eight authors, with Mortenson, at a Penguin dinner for some 200 young adult librarians at a library convention. (00:00:24)
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John announces Penguin has moved The Fault in Our Stars forward five months, from May 1 to January 10, 2012. (00:00:17)
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John says Penguin told him it had watched the comments and Nerdfighters wanted the book before May, and credits their 'hardcore pre-ordering' for the earlier date. (00:00:28)
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed--THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — Excited by the fan-designed covers for The Fault in Our Stars, Penguin will let Nerdfighteria design the new cover of An Abundance of Katherines; one submission becomes the actual cover, maybe forever. (00:01:02)
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — The project also convinced Penguin to take the cover of The Fault in Our Stars very seriously, which it did. (00:01:56)
  • 2011-11-22 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — In 2004 Penguin's lawyers decided the character Alaska quoted too much of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem; fair use allowed only two lines and John couldn't afford to pay the estate. (00:02:06)
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John reads Chapter 2 of his new book The Fault in Our Stars aloud, thanking his publisher Penguin for allowing it. (00:00:07)
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — The book is not due out for three more weeks; for the past year Penguin and John worked hard so everyone could read it at the same time. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — Everyone who has read The Fault in Our Stars, John and Hank included, signed non-disclosure agreements; Penguin paid for an embargo and skipped the usual advance copies to critics, movie people and foreign publishers. (00:00:30)

2012

2013