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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few
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US - September 16, 2014<br />
UK - November 3, 2014<br />
Canada - September 16, 2014<br />
Germany - October 10, 2014<br />
Australia - November 12, 2014<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08400688415965107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811390003145916052.post-69125593783680939262014-06-26T01:41:00.000-07:002014-10-14T23:27:58.364-07:00John Green will be at this year's LeakyCon 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
John Green will be at this year's LeakyCon, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">being held July 30-Aug. 3 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">There will of course be panels with the authors (among which is not only John but also </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Laurie HalseAnderson, Holly Black, Gayle Forman, Lev Grossman, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Scott Westerfeld, Malinda Lo, Varian Johnson, Lauren Myracle, Stephanie Perkins and Rainbow Rowel)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> and lots of awesome stuff, like:</span></div>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Top young adult authors read some of their early work from when they were teenagers.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The attendees will also get to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando and check out the soon-to-open Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Express. During that time the attraction will be closed to the general public and only open to Leaky Con attendees.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08400688415965107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811390003145916052.post-35792219717647077052014-06-19T05:09:00.000-07:002014-10-17T09:08:52.386-07:00Ava Boney From Harpeth Hall Talked To Shai, Ansel, Nat and John<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ava Boney from Harpeth Hall talked to Shai, Ansel, Nat and John during their tour stop in Nashville. Check out her interviews below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They talk about having John on set and filming tough scenes (such as the gas station scene) and they describe each other in 3 words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John talks about starting and ending his novels and Nat talks about playing a (half-)blind character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>On crying during TFIOS:</b><br /> "Yeah, of course," he shoots. "Big time. The first time I cried was I think ..." He chews a cookie while he thinks. And then: "Well, I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like I remember being there, I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Shailene," he says, "is a very different person to most people. She's very unique. She has, some would say, odd ways of living." Like what? "Like she eats only certain types of food, she cooks a certain way. But the nice thing was that she was able to speak about life spiritually and I think at that point in my life – I was 19 – I'd never thought about any of that kind of stuff. So I was like: wow that's interesting. I'd never talked to anybody like that but I guess Shailene talks to her friends like that all the time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">"Shailene and I share a certain love," he says, "but it's a friendship love." This, he thinks, is also what their characters in this new film enjoy. "I think it's more than a love story, it's like the opposite of Romeo and Juliet – it's not lust; it's real love. And, y'know, they have sex just because they're in Amsterdam and are probably never going to have sex otherwise – so let's do it, I guess. But really, they're there just because they love each other. That's why it's refreshing because it's not, like, cheesy </span><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">luurve</i><span style="text-align: start;">."</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"It's important power, because there are some celebrities who have millions and millions of people following them and they don't lead by example. I think one of the best people on Twitter is John Green [author of The Fault in Our Stars]. He leads by example and he encourages millions of people to do good things. And there are people who don't, and it's a waste, y'know? I look to John as a role model and whenever I'm unsure of something I'm like: 'Would John tweet this?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I'm happy to be a role model because I think I can do it over other people. I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge. Like we go out and I'm not really drinking. But they understand why – I'm doing really well, I'm really focused always on the prize. I want to keep creating and making important things and that's what I want Ansel Elgort to be about."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>On being ready for the kind of attention Robert Pattinson gets:</b><br />"I don't compare myself to anyone, but yeah, in certain ways it's really nice because a lot of people like Robert Pattinson. I think I'm a lot more ready than a lot of people. I'm willing to hopefully encourage people to do good things." Fame at this pitch holds no fears for a man apparently allergic to anxious introspection. Or, perhaps, just a 20-year-old self-aware enough to know he's on top of the world. And making the movie did change his perspective, he says. Sometimes, luck runs out. "I think one of the biggest things is that … it just happens." "It", of course, being cancer. He quotes the film – "The world is not a wish-granting factory" – then sits back. "That's how it is. It could happen to anyone, y'know? As young people, we think we're invincible."</span></div>
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Ansel talked to<a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ansel-elgort-1/#_"> Interview Magazine</a> about dancing, acting and singing/producing music and his wishes and aspirations for the future.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ansel-elgort/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ansel Elgort</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> is what is traditionally called a triple-threat-he acts, dances, and sings. The 20-year-old New York native and theater-camp vet who started performing in ballet class at age 9 and crafts bass-thumping electronic dance tracks under the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">nom de musique</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> Ansolo made his screen debut as pretty-boy high school jock Tommy Ross in last year's remake of</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/kimberly-peirce-carrie/" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Carrie</a>.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> He recently appeared in this spring's young-adult dystopian juggernaut </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/search/divergent" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Divergent</a>,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> and in June gets leading-man status as Augustus Waters, one half of a pair of star-crossed, terminally ill teenage lovers in </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Fault in Our Stars</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> alongside fellow </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Divergent</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> alum </span><a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/shailene-woodley-1/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shailene Woodley</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">. His fourth movie, Jason Reitman's dramedy about modern love, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Men, Women & Children,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> due out later this year, has him sharing the screen with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner. It's been a packed two years for Elgort, but he doesn't seem to be letting up soon.</span></span><span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>COLLEEN KELSEY: You went to LaGuardia High School, the <i>Fame</i> school. Did you always want to act?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ANSEL ELGORT: When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. Eventually I came into acting and LaGuardia and straight play-acting turned into movies. I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs. Then I was doing shows in school. It was nonstop. I was never <i>not</i> in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: What was the movie or play that made you want to be an actor?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: <i>Les Miz</i> and <i>Oklahoma!</i> I was a big musical guy. Then I got into movies, watching old films my dad had, the old Elia Kazan movies, like <i>On the Water</i><i>front</i> [1954]. It was those old movies, actually, that really got me started. Marlon Brando, Paul Newman—straight-up legends.</blockquote>
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KELSEY: What was your first role?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: The first show I did was <i>The Nutcracker </i>ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning. In fifth grade, I did<i> Oklahoma!</i>, but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, "The sixth-grader has to get the lead." I was really discouraged. Then I went to the Professional Performing Arts School. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: Have you had any auditioning experiences that bring you back to that first rejection in <i>Oklahoma!</i>?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: I guess so. I did seven auditions for <i>Carrie</i>. I just kept coming back and doing the same thing over and over again. I guess they just wanted to see if I was consistent. I was a total nobody. I wouldn't have hired me to be the lead in that movie either. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: Really?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: Not at first. Not off a couple auditions. I would want to see proof that I could do it. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: You were in <i>Carrie,</i> a horror movie; <i>Divergent,</i> a sci-fi-action movie; and now you have <i>The Fault in Our Stars,</i> a fairly unusual love story. Have you diversified your acting skill set fairly quickly in your career?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: It's not like I'm pulling a Christian Bale and getting really fuckin' skinny. I'm not playing a woman. Doing those kinds of things—that's diversity. I want to do that. I think that I could pull it off. I think that a theater background really helps with that. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: Do you have actor role models?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: Paul Newman. He could play a lot of different roles, even people who were villains, and no matter what, you love him. He was always such a relatable character—the smile, the blue eyes. Brando was just really real. James Dean was always a tortured soul. It's cool to look at the old guys. But when I'm looking at someone's career, I'm not trying to be, "Oh, whose do I want?" I don't really want anyone else's. I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. Right now I'm really into music. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: Who do you want to work with the most? <span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good. I like the movie <i>Warrior</i> [2011] a lot and Gavin O'Connor, who directed it. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: Have you ever been starstruck?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: Less and less recently. It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal. I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck. So silly, right? </blockquote>
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KELSEY: With <i>The Fault in Our Stars,</i> the book has such a cult following. Have you been aware of what people's expectations are for the movie? <span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: Definitely. Especially since I'm really big on social media stuff. I get it firsthand, which I think is important. It's important to be there. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: How close are you with your followers?<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: I've been Skyping with them, one on one, with people who have been winning a competition for my new EDM [electronic dance music] track "Unite." I have this raffle you can enter to promote the song. It's cool. They actually ask me a lot of questions about music. They really do care. And that's why social media is so important, because these kids, a lot of them had never known what electronic music was. </blockquote>
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KELSEY: What's the event in history you wished you witnessed? <span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span>ELGORT: The '50s; the whole greaser time in Hollywood. I would have liked to have been there when they were like, [<i>in an old-timey accent</i>] "Oh, we're making pictures now that have sound and color!" </blockquote>
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Fans of John Green’s beloved bestseller <a href="http://time.com/2800823/the-fault-in-our-stars-film/">The Fault in Our Stars</a> have been waiting just two years for the film adaptation on June 6 — but for devout followers of the book, it’s felt like much longer. Thanks to the author’s on-set social media teasers and extensive marketing from FOX, the amped-up-anticipation turned into a fan frenzy, which all weighed heavier on the imminent question: Will the film live up to the book? </blockquote>
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After all, it’s difficult to trust Hollywood, and it’s not just fans who are often disappointed. Bestselling writer Jodi Picoult has <a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2107503,00.html">voiced frustration</a> over her books being made into movies, telling TIME: “It’s really hard to have people in Hollywood lie to you. What’s really upsetting is when a fan says, ‘Why did you let them change the ending?’ As if we have any say in the matter.” Stephen King, similarly, was vocal about disliking Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation ofThe Shining. </blockquote>
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The lucky job of pleasing Green’s fans went to Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the dominant screenwriting duo behind 500 Days of Summer; next, they’re set to tackle book-club favorite Me Before You. The story for The Fault in Our Stars follows Hazel and Gus, terminally ill teens who fall in love after meeting in a cancer support group. Though some changes did have to be made, Neustadter and Weber stumbled on the book as fans and wanted to preserve the heart of the story as much as possible.<br />
“Our attitude resembled the fans who thought this might get screwed up,” Weber says. “We were, like, someone is going to do this the wrong way.” The task at hand wasn’t easy, Neustadter explained. “Your job is to figure out how to take something that people read over a week and do it in 100 minutes.”<br />
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John did a <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/26s7bj/iam_john_green_bestselling_author_of_the_fault_in/">reddit</a> AMA Q&A this morning, answering a lot of fan questions about his videos, nerdfighteria, his books and of course the TFIOS movie.</div>
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<b>Maxillz23</b>: John, how did you go about deciding the names for your main characters? How much math did you have to learn/relearn in order to write An Abundance of Katherines?</div>
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<b>John</b>: I had to learn a lot about math to write Katherines, even though Daniel Biss did all the actual math in the book. But I needed to understand the ideas in order to write about them.</div>
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As for names: One of the benefits of naming characters that you don't have when, say, naming a baby is that you actually know the person when you name them. So you can use the name to reflect stuff about them.</div>
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Like, take Hazel: Hazel is an in-between color, and she's in between a lot of things: In between healthy and sick, in between adulthood and childhood, in between breathing air and breathing water, etc. So that seemed like a small way of communicating the instability and fear (but also excitement) of that time of life.</div>
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With Augustus: Augustus is the name of Roman emperors, right? It's a grand name associated with traditional notions of greatness. But Gus is a kid's name. It's short and cute. In the novel, he makes the journey from strength to weakness, which is the opposite of the usual hero's journey. He starts out this confident, pretentious kid who's extremely performative in his every action. And then he becomes vulnerable. He becomes cracked open. For Gus, this is a brutal process. (Remember that moment toward the end when he says to Hazel, "You used to call me Augustus?") But his ability to be in it with her, and to allow himself to love and be loved despite the loss of the self he so carefully cultivated, is to my mind way more heroic than those traditional notions of Great Men Doing Great Things.</div>
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In the case of Katherines, I called them Katherine because it's a good name for anagramming. There are a lot of anagrams in Katherines, and I suck at anagramming, so I cheated by picking a name that has the right mix of consonants and vowels.</div>
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<b>vivanya</b>: Why is "Looking for Alaska" not a movie yet? I mean, "The Fault in Our Stars" is good, and "Paper Towns", too. But imo, your best work by far, is Looking for Alaska...</div>
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<b>John</b>: I sold the movie rights to Paramount in 2005 when we desperately needed money, because we were moving to New York and Sarah (my wife) was starting graduate school. It was life-changing for us, and I'll always be grateful to everyone involved in that deal for making it happen.</div>
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But it did not lead to a movie. (At least not yet.) The reasons for this are complicated, but it boils down to this: It is really, really hard to get people to say "I want to spend $15,000,000 to make a movie out of a book not that many people have read."</div>
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I am really proud of The Fault in Our Stars movie, and I think it turned out unbelievably well. It's one of the most faithful movie adaptations I've ever seen, and I'm tremendously grateful to everyone who made it. But that is a rare, rare thing. Usually an author's relationship with their movie adaptations is much more....complicated. And so I have to say, I'm not bummed out that Alaska hasn't been made into a movie. (It may someday; I don't control the rights and never will.) There's something magical to a story belonging to its readers and only to its readers, and I'm very grateful that Alaska has continued to find its way in the world without the boost of a movie adaptation.</div>
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Harry Potter will forever be Daniel Radcliffe to me. I can't remember how I imagined Harry before the movies. But your Pudge and your Alaska...they still belong to you. They are still inside your head, and yours alone. There's something wonderful about that.</div>
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<b>drunkandinlove</b>: I met you a few years ago at a convention and had several drinks while spending a half hour and three glasses of wine to work up the courage to tell you how much your work and the fact that you do it with and are open about anxiety means to me. It did not come out well. Sorry about that. It was both one of my favorite conversations and most embarrassing all at once.</div>
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And I'll add a question on here about TFIOS because, you know, movie time soon! Already got my June 5th ticket :)</div>
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<b>John</b>: Don't worry about it. Those conversations are always weird and hard and I often fret about them for years after they happen, but the truth is that it's hard to express this stuff. It's hard for me to tell you how genuinely grateful I am that you've found something valuable in my work. So I'm sure I walked away from that conversation thinking that you were perfectly lovely and I was a complete grapefruit.</div>
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As for TFIOS: The cancer support group days with Mike Birbiglia and all the teens living with cancer were the coolest days for me to see come to life. But really, every day was wonderful. It really was just a dream movie experience--the opposite of what usually happens to authors--and while the movie is not mine in any way, I'm so proud of the people who made it.</div>
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<b>sophloaf247</b>: Do you think you can keep the community feeling of nerdfighteria even as your fan base explodes due to the TFIOS movie?</div>
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<b>John</b>: This is a great question, and it's something that Hank and I talk about a lot.</div>
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There were a few hundred nerdfighters in July of 2007, and then Hank's song "Accio Deathly Hallows" went viral and there were suddenly several thousand nerdfighters. That transition was very challenging for us personally and for the community, but I really think we emerged from it with a stronger sense of our shared values as nerdfighters and a better platform for doing stuff together like the Project for Awesome.</div>
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In our videos, we aren't talking that much about all the attention and scrutiny that accompanies the TFIOS movie because we mostly just want to keep the community the same. (I mean, my first video after TFIOS comes out will be about Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this summer's nerdfighter book club selection.)</div>
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I think it will be challenging for a while, but I also think nerdfighters are generally a pretty welcoming and supportive bunch. I'm very grateful to everybody for their patience with me in my time of intense crazy, though.<br />
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More details on the TFIOS national tour from <a href="http://thefaultinourstarsmovie.com/post/83614858461/the-fault-in-our-stars-national-tour-kicks-off-in">TheFaultMovie</a> tumblr:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Fault in Our Stars national tour<b> kicks off in New York City on Sunday, May 4th at 1:30pm EST</b>. John Green and members of the cast will chat about the movie and announce the winning states of the Demand Our Stars tour.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">To stream the event LIVE and watch it with nerdfighters in your area, register your own Tumblr Meet-up</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://fox.co/TFIOSmeetups" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Make sure to include “TFIOS” in the “venue” line and register by Friday 4/25 to receive a kit full of Tumblr swag. (Meet-up kits for US meet-ups only)</span></blockquote>
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Here is what the <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/61900-voting-for-john-green-tumblr-hosts-contest-for-the-fault-in-our-stars-movie-tour.html">Publishers Weekly</a> writes about the TFIOS national tour:<br />
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As per 20th Century Fox, four states with the largest amount of votes will be chosen to be part of the TFIOS "Demand Our Stars" promo tour. Shailene, Ansel, Nat and John will visit the four states between May 6 and May 10. Winning states will be announce through a press conference next week in New York.<br />
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George Dewey, SVP of domestic digital marketing for Fox, told <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/61900-voting-for-john-green-tumblr-hosts-contest-for-the-fault-in-our-stars-movie-tour.html">Publisher's Weekly</a> that the exact details of each event have not been confirmed yet.<br />
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Locations of each fan event has not been revealed and will depend on the states that win.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08400688415965107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811390003145916052.post-89922690208609488362014-04-12T23:20:00.000-07:002014-10-17T09:19:22.689-07:00Stills from Album Covers<div style="text-align: center;">
Today the soundtrack tracklist of the <a href="http://vdstreaming.com/watch/play.php?movie=222935">TFIOS Movie</a> was announced (which is already available for pre-order) and it is amazing. But the official TheFaultMovie twitter also shared 2 new stills on Birdy's and CharliXCX's album covers that we want to share. Check them out below.</div>
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