An Abundance of Katherines

work · in 39 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 15 · 2008: 5 · 2009: 6 · 2010: 4 · 2011: 5 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 1

Threads

John's An Abundance of Katherines receives a Printz Honor (2007) — story, update, 2007–2007
John's Hollywood meetings in Los Angeles (2007) — story, tell, 2007–2007
An Abundance of Katherines film adaptation (2007) — stage, milestone, 2007–2007
John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007) — story, update, 2007–2007
John asks viewers to improve the Wikipedia entries for John and his novels (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
John and Sarah's trip to the Netherlands for An Abundance of Katherines (2007) — story, update, 2007–2007
John rereads An Abundance of Katherines for a secret reason (2007) — story, tell, 2007–2007
John: tell Hank whether he still likes An Abundance of Katherines after rereading it (2007) — promise, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
Hank's Anagramming Guide to the presidential elections (2007) — stage, retro, 2007–2013
An Abundance of Katherines paperback release (2008) — stage, milestone, 2008–2008
A line from John's An Abundance of Katherines goes viral on Twitter out of context (2010) — story, tell, 2010–2010
An Abundance of Katherines fan cover contest (2012) — stage, milestone, 2011–2012
John asks Nerdfighters to submit cover designs for An Abundance of Katherines (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
John points viewers to his earlier novels to read while waiting for The Fault in Our Stars (December 2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011

What the videos say

2007

2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — John says the Printz Committee called him the previous night to say An Abundance of Katherines had been awarded a 2007 Printz Honor, which was nice and really unexpected. (00:00:12)
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — On the phone John shares the news: the book is one of the runners-up for the Printz Award, a silver medal; the committee called but wouldn't tell him who won. (00:01:33)
2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank congratulates John on his Printz ('prince nomination' in ASR) and toasts the award, An Abundance of Katherines and 'silver medals', teasing that it falls short of last time. (00:00:03)
2007-04-27 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings — John's most important meeting of the day is with people who might want to make An Abundance of Katherines into a movie. (00:00:59)
2007-04-27 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings — Despite the prediction, John reports that the meeting went really well. (00:02:38)
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John says he and the Yeti leave today for the Netherlands to support his new novel (its Dutch edition, title garbled in the transcript). (00:00:00)
2007-06-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator — At the conference John will accept the Printz Honor for An Abundance of Katherines and speak on a panel with Judy Blume. (00:00:31)
2007-07-31 · July 31: HP, Secret Siblings, and Books — For a top-secret reason John must read the finished An Abundance of Katherines, breaking his vow never to read his books once published; he has read Looking for Alaska only in snippets at bookstores. (00:01:52)
2007-07-31 · July 31: HP, Secret Siblings, and Books — John gives two reasons he doesn't reread his books: he read them many times before publication, and once published they can't be changed, so every flaw he finds is painful. (00:01:52)
2007-08-10 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank announces he will choose whom to vote for by anagramming the candidates' names, with John's An Abundance of Katherines in mind. (00:00:58)
2007-11-14 · November 13: You Can't Scare Me. I'm Stickin' to the Union. — To producers who say unknown internet revenue rules out a residual rate, John replies that his audiobook publisher can't know its MP3 sales either; a percentage works whether four or four million sell. (00:02:36)
2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John announces that, after a long time in the works, the deal was agreed over the weekend: the production company East of Doheny has optioned An Abundance of Katherines to make a movie. (00:01:12)
…and 9 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

2008-01-09 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — Asked whether his two narrators combined would make his adolescent self, John says 'kinda', but notes differences: for one, he wasn't a good student in high school. (00:02:04)
2008-07-01 · Live from LAX — Signing Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, John met one sweet-looking old lady who loved the first half of Looking for Alaska but said the second half fell apart. (00:01:42)
2008-07-09 · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John asks whether viewers like the paperback cover of An Abundance of Katherines, out August 8 for $3.99. (00:03:51)
2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — Asked why the new An Abundance of Katherines paperback costs only $3.99, John says books are generally too expensive, he would rather have readers than money, and it thanks readers in advance for buying Paper Towns. (00:00:45)
2008-10-25 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John recalls that on the day An Abundance of Katherines came out, he and the Yeti found no copies at a bookstore, then went home, had soup and watched CSI. (00:01:50)

2009

2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes — Hank says John, bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, is writing another book, This Is Not Tom, released through weekly riddles. (00:02:38)
2009-11-02 · NaNoWriMo!!! — John's examples from revision: Miles' obsession with famous last words in Looking for Alaska, the feral-hog hunt in An Abundance of Katherines, and the cartography in Paper Towns. (00:01:29)
2009-12-28 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says John is an award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns who has won awards including the Edgar and the Printz. (00:00:49)

2010

2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — Googling himself, John found that a line he wrote years ago in An Abundance of Katherines has gone viral on Twitter, tweeted more than 10,000 times. (00:01:03)
2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John says the line ('what is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable') was meant as a joke: it is what Colin Singleton believes at the start and spends the book learning is bull. (00:01:17)
2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — Downstairs shelves include author copies of his own books, desert island books, lexicography, child prodigies, Mark Twain, books about death, poetry, religion and conjoined twins. (00:01:56)
2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John reasoned relationships have few outcomes, so a formula predicting who ends one should be possible; he wrote a novel about someone who could, with the formula by Daniel Biss. (00:01:12)
2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — Someone has permanently tattooed that formula on her arm, John reports: 'Is this real life?' (00:01:39)

2011

2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — Readers must also promise to read one of John's actual books so they don't think he is as bad a writer as the novella suggests. (00:02:10)
2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — Without Julie, An Abundance of Katherines would have had a 75-page guide to tanning a roadkill raccoon's hide instead of Colin and Hassan hunting feral hogs; in 2005 he was into hide tanning. (00:03:02)
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)
2011-10-19 · Question Wed--THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — John asks viewers to submit covers via abundanceofcovers.com (linked in the doobly-doo), joking that the future of An Abundance of Katherines depends on it. (00:01:02)
2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank says the fan-cover project convinced a publishing company, for the first time in history, to put a book in bookstores with a cover designed by its fans. (00:01:27)
2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — The Fault in Our Stars is still available for pre-order, and meanwhile viewers can read John's other books (the description names Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns). (00:02:50)

2012

2012-06-06 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — Asked what happened to the An Abundance of Katherines cover contest, John says it is part of why he is going to New York: on Thursday he announces the winner and reveals the cover. (00:00:31)
2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — John was at BEA for interviews and signings and to reveal the new An Abundance of Katherines cover, designed by a 17-year-old longtime nerdfighter who then left for her prom. (00:00:29)
2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — John shows the new box set, designed by Karen Kavett, with hardcovers of Looking for Alaska without the candle, the new Paper Towns design and Nerdfighter a private person's Katherines design. (00:00:29)

2013

2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says after years of bad stories about a chaplain like himself, he wrote Looking for Alaska, about grief, and An Abundance of Katherines, about not being special. (00:51:58)