On Thursday, June 16 at 7:40PM, author John Green announced that he is working on another novel. John Green has previously written "Looking for Alaska," "An Abundance of Katherines," "Paper Towns" and "The Fault in Our Stars," and he co-wrote "Let It Snow" and "Will Grayson, Will Grayson." The book he mentioned writing would be his seventh book and his fifth written on his own, and based on his past novels, it will definitely be interesting to read.
In Green’s tweet announcing the news, he wrote “Lastly, I am working really hard to finish a new book, and I hope you’ll like it, and thanks for bearing with me these 4+ years since TFIOS.” In his tweet, Green refers to his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, which is a love story that was published in 2012. Green writes young adult novels and is known for writing books that are humorous, heartbreaking and inspiring all at the same time. He has a reputation for making readers laugh, cry and throw their books across the room. With the announcement of this next novel, he has already made many fans excited. As time goes by, I bet all of his many fans will be freaking out about his upcoming novel.
He has not come out with a novel since 2012 because he has been busy helping out with the making of not one, but two of his novels into movies. First, "The Fault in Our Stars" came to theaters in 2014, and then "Paper Towns" came out in 2015. There have been rumors about "Looking for Alaska" being made into a movie as well but so far, John Green has denied them.
Green has not given any information about the subject of the novel or the date on which it will be published. Based on his past works, it seems likely that he is writing another Young Adult novel. However, other authors have been known to shake up the genres in which they have written in the past. For example, after writing the best-selling "Harry Potter" series, author J.K. Rowling then went on to write books for adults such as "The Casual Vacancy." With this in mind, John Green could really be writing this novel for any genre.
Whatever he writes about, though, it is definite that he will still have many readers waiting eagerly to read his novel. John Green has acquired a massive fan base throughout his years of writing, and based on responses to his announcement, fans do not seem as though the subject of the novel would influence whether or not they read it. Instead, people are just excited to hear what he has to say.
A novel takes a long time to write, and by the sound of it, John Green still has a while to go before finishing and publishing his new novel. It would be optimistic to expect it in 2017, but he seems to have some pretty optimistic fans. No matter how long it does take him to write this novel, though, the fans will not be deterred. Green has many eager readers chomping at the bit to get ahold of his next novel.
I, for one, am among them.
