The Edgar Award: I Haz It
This evening Paper Towns was named the best young adult mystery of the year by the Mystery Writers of America. I was honored to be nominated alongside Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child, Jack Ferraiolo's The Big Splash, Susan Juby's Getting the Girl, and Margot McDonnell's Torn to Pieces. These are all excellent books, and I was totally stunned-and-thrilled to win.
Now I own a bust. A bust! Who could have ever believed such things were possible?
posted by John Green @ Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Excellentay! ^^
Is the bust very busty? Or just a normally big bust?
Is the next step up an oscar then? Seeing as it would have the legs...you'll just have to write a movie and find out!
congratulations John!
Congratulations John! I'm so happy for you, and you totally deserve it!
Congratulations!
I also own a bust, but all I did to get it as go through puberty.
"Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child"
in My Pants
"Jack Ferraiolo's The Big Splash"
in My Pants
"Susan Juby's Getting the Girl"
in My Pants
"and Margot McDonnell's Torn to Pieces"
...in My Pants.
I want a bust; I was unfortunate enough to be born sans torso. But seriously, whose bust did you win?
it's an edgar award. The bust is of Edgar Allen Poe.
Suh-weet! And so well deserved. Congratulations!
A bust is a bit like a trophy.
I'm extremely envious, though, as I have always wanted a bust of Edgar Allan Poe (to match the action figure, portrait, and framed - fake - manuscripts).
Yay, John! *does happy dance*
CONGRATULATIONS!!! you so deserve it :)
CONGRATS! I hope your bust is beautiful. =p
woo hoo!
Congratulations!!
It would be even cooler if the bust was of your own self....or Maureen Johnson
John. I have an important question. Are you Dr Trefusis, only in the future?
Congratulations, John! You definitely deserve it.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I just say, just for the record, that during the scene in Paper Towns when they're at the party and everyone keeps shouting "YES" I totally heard each and every single "YES" as the "YES" at the end of your happy dance? Because I did.
Congratulations, John. You deserve that bust!
(I had to laugh at that. Sorry.)
Congratulations!
Congratulations, John! This pleases me greatly. :)
the E. A. Poe bust, nay, a death's head, is easily as creepy and thus as cool as its namesake
Awesome! I followed you on twitter through the whole thing. It was kinda like being there. Super cool idea!
Awesome! I followed you on twitter through the whole thing. It was kinda like being there. Super cool idea!
You gotta get a piano now, just so you can put it on there. That is the sole use for busts, I think. Even if they are writers and not composers. Still.
Yay Edgar award! For the happy cover. The sad cover creeps me out. And here is a lolcat with a sentiment for you. =P Also, I was not sent by Lauren.
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=4084071
Congrats on the award! you know triumph is 10% try and 90% umph. and you have the umpf down pat!
Congratulations on winning the Edgar Award!
Im sure you can enjoy some Peace and quiet now because you must have worked so hard on your great books.
I'm glad others Love your books as much as I do.
Keep it away from Baby Ducks, I've heard they can get mighty jealous when it comes to Award winning.
Don't mind me, just another non-suspicious comment.
oh! and also. i love your book! and it deserved the award just like LAUREN said...
One last thing -
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/1168608091196.jpg
CONGRATULATIONS JOHN!!!!!!!! IM SOOOO HAPPY FOR U!!!!!!!!! U R AN ARTIST REMEMBER!!!!! "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." AND U STAYD AN ARTIST!!!!!! UR AN ARTIST JUST LIKE LAUREN MYRACLE IS AN ARTIST AND ARTISTS SEND THEIR FOLLOWERS TO GO AND CONGRATULATE OTHER ARTISTS!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations on the award!!!
Your writing has helped me through the thick and the thin (like gazpacho and cream of mushroom soup! haha get it?) and i just want you to remember always: "To the world you are one person, but to one person you could mean the world."
I hope this quote has inspired you, as it always does to me, to be the very best you can be!!!
Hugs and best of luck!!!!!!!!!!
-Lola
congrats on the edgar award...this is some pretty intense stuff then im guessing right? well my friend lauren from my home town thinks ur work is cheesey, she told me to come and not tell you that but i guess i am becasue i dont like that tye of person....CONGRATS!
Congratulations!
Captcha dictionary: seramis - pet name for ceramic items, such as busts.
Congratulations!
Always remember, whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
AND IT SEEMS THAT YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD!
Great job, John, all your crazy readers knew you could do it.
-Marlee
Congratulations on this award. I just had a 7th grade student of mine ask me if Paper Towns was a mystery. He hadn't read the book, but had heard me talk about it quite a bit. I had never really thought of which genre that it would fit into until then. I obviously told him that it was a mystery and am glad to have been confirmed by this.
Congrats from me and Lauren :)
Not super cheesy but kinda... the best could find "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well."
Henry W. Longfellow
Yay John!
Hello John Green, I believe congratulations are in order for winning The Edgar Award. LAUREN would probably say to spread the LOVE. Or, more accurately, lurve. I find reading to be quite PEACEful, don't you? It is a good way to get away from your BABY brother, who may or may not be impersonating a bunch of DUCKS. And since you probably already knew this was coming, here is some advice:
http://www.dailyhaggis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lolcats-tadpokey.jpg
PS: Please enjoy The Cheese Factor
PPS: The moral of the story is to always share...
Congrats on winning the Edgar Adward!
I am so pleased for you! I really enjoyed Paper Towns and hoped that it would win.
congratulations on winning the Edgar award john!! your suchan inspiration to me with your talent for writing! remember :"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." lauren says congrats too!! :)
Congratulations!!
You totally deserve this! Paper Towns is the best book I've read this year!!
Wow Congrats That awesome ,i LOVE paper towns you are such an inspiration and now I understand:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Now you can do some other things like seeing a MYRACLE, or bringing PEACE to DUCKS
anyway Amazing work!
John Green, why are you still so surprised that your books win amazing awards?
Surely you should know by now- you're completely awesome.
Congrats on your Edgar Award! Remember that winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second :) Don't you think everyone should feel that way? For example, in a contest to win a giant coffee cup?!
Congratulations, John! All your books have been an inspiration to me. You truly deserve it.
Also, talking about inspirations, I decided that instead of posting the picture of a kitten (because Lauren did NOT send me!), I'll post an inspirational, last word quote:
"So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."
You must do a video with the bust. Must, must, must with the bust.
Congratulations! Does it come with a special sticker on the paperback edition?
Congradulations! But that bust in a marvelous place where everyone can see. I loved Looking for Alaska so I know I'm going to enjoy Paper Towns. Maybe it's have some rubber duckies or a peacefull ended... but probably not. But I'll love it anyway. My friend Lauren said she couldn't agree more.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
excuse me while I go do a happy dance marathon XD
Ok, I'm back.
Wow, that's so great!!! And Paper Towns is definitely deserving, as are you (obviously). I'm going through a phase of pimping my copy of PT out to everyone I know, and every person I've lent it to so far (about 5) have phoned me up the evening of the day I gave it to them and gone 'Oh my god it's amazing!!'. So BEDODODODODODO for Margo Roth Spiegelman and John Green!!
(oh, I just Googled 'Margo Roth Spiegelman' to check I'd spelt it rigth cos my brain is all fuzzy today, and it turns out Margo has a Myspace. Who'd have thought. http://www.myspace.com/margorothspiegelman)
wow. congrats!! i loved paper towns!
Heyyy!! Congrats!!!!!!!!! You are such a great author. I love your books. I was sent by a friend Lauren to give you some luv. Soooooooo here it is!!!! I luv you almost as much as peace, love, and baby ducks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on your award! That is such a big honnor and you deserve it! Just remember "Impossible is nothing"- I can not remember the name of the boxer who said this..if i did it would be a MYRACLE
I think this calls for a John Green display in my library :). Congrats!
(wondering if I can get a fake bust for the display...)
Congrats, dude. You're awesome. Now you can tell everyone you have a bust.
<3Nisha
Congratulation John on winning the Edgar Award. That is a huge deal. I love your books and I love CHEESE! I like this quote a lot and I truly believe you have been that one person; To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
congrats! here's to winning more and more busts during your years as an author!
Bedododo!;)
Congratulations! : )
Congrats on your Edgar John! I was hoping for a Pulitzer for fiction, but they don't give you a bust, only a medal. It's not even gold, it's silver with gold plating. They call it a medal, but it looks more like a coin. Imagine accidentally spending your Pulitzer Prize? Um, you know that pack of gum I bought the other day? I think I paid for it with my Pulitzer Prize. OOPS!
Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!
Well deserved!
congrats on "haz-ing" your award...since my library doesn't have paper towns, i haven't read it yet, but i have read alaska and katherines...some of the best books i've ever read...which probably doesn't mean much to you, but i've been telling other people to read them...others who can maybe give better praise then "the best books i've read..." anyway, congratulations!
Congrats on winning your oh-so-special-award! :)
I am currently reading Let It Snow. It is awesome! You are an amazing author. Especially if you happen to be friends with a certain ducky queen who sent me here!
And remember:
"why try so hard to fit in, when ur born to stand out?"
This really has nothing to do with your blog (though really, congratulations :D my friend told me about you and I'm really liking your books), but do you read books that people recommend to you?
signed,
random teenager
Congratulations, John! Paper Towns is so deserving as are you (you know, for writing it and whatnot).
Unchi - what is left in your hands when your lunch has been knocked out of your hands by a bully.
Captcha Dictionary!
John-
Wow congrats! Me and my friend Lauren were just talking about how amazing it is! Everyone smiles in the same language, and I am definately smiling! Love ya!
Congrats John!!!!! i mean HOLY MANIACAL MARIACHI'S MARACA!!!! rember no short cut to acievement!! Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom!!!! i beet so many authors think so too! especially lauren myracle.
- Snowy
Hey John!
Congratulations on your Edgar Award! Brava!
Now in the words of my favorite people in the world,
"Follow your dreams like I eat a pint of ice-cream. Hungrily, determined, and not letting anything get in your way." -Isabel C
John, this has nothing to do with Edgar, and I know you're not doing BEDA anymore 'cause it would be BEDM, and nobody can pronounce that, but I have a situation that could use your advice.
You've said that one of the reasons you became a writer was to prove something to some ex-girlfriends, and also that you once wrote a gloating letter about your glorious success to an old college professor who had underestimated you.
I have a similar tendency to imagine that if I could just reach some goal or other I could throw it in the face of somebody who underestimated me once, and this would make everything worthwhile. While I admit the futility and immaturity of this, it helps me reach goals. I was composing an imaginary spite letter to my fourth grade teacher in my head while waiting in line to collect my Masters degree from Yale.
But alas, I never mailed any of my imaginary letters to my fourth grade teacher, and he died last week. Now what do I do?
Do I feel relieved, and a little sad, that the person who most underestimated me in the whole world is gone? Can I retire my imaginary letter writing habit? Or will this make me lazy and complacent now that I have no one to whom to prove my worth? And in that case, to whom do I direct my gloating now?
Please advise.
QUESTION TUESDAY!!
What would you do on prom night if you were the only one of your friends not going? (out of protest, because it's lame!!)
Ooo, congrats on the Edgar, John. Yay! I love the name of that award above all others, for some reason. But the "bust" part might freak me out a little. Does it have eyes that mysteriously watch you as you move, like a creepy painting?
Also...
Are we still doing questions? I wonder if you'd want to share your thoughts on Jellicoe Road, the recent Printz winner. Overall, I loved the book and characters -- but was somewhat confused. Other people have claimed that the first hundred pages (and alternating story lines, all the names) were confusing. But, I was more confused by the break of tone of the last fourth of it. For everything to be that neatly tied up, maybe? I'm assuming you've read it. What did you think?
Question: what would a good 'after dinner speech' topic be? its supposed to be funny and they told us to think about the audience we want to deliever the speech to (which can be anything). the audience i want consists of an empty room, so im a little stuck for ideas.
Good job winning the Edgar Award!! If you reach for the moon and miss, you still fall on the stars. You tried, and you made it to the moon!
I've heard of someone named LAUREN who wrote a book once too! What a coincidence!
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My congratulations to you comes in the unbelievably wise words which are burned into every heart that has ever read a high school graduation announcement.
"The rest of your life begins right now."
Go make the most of your life as an Edgar Award Winner!
Congratulations! :D I'm new to the world of Nerdfighting, and I'm only 100 pages into Paper Towns, but I think it's well-deserving of the award. :D I think you should totally dress the bust up and post the hilarious pictures.
*prances* CONGRAT-U-LATIONS, SIR GREEN!!! Bust, ay? Is it similar to a loverly bunch of coconuts? Can they be used as a mantelpiece, instead of a poor bambi head?
....
Would you like some salt and vinegar chips? They are absolutely fantabuli.
But do you know what would turn these uber delicious treats into an epic failure?
Cockroaches.
Congratulations JOhn! On winning the Edgar Award. You totally deserved it!...You keep the PEACE of Love AND BABY DUCKS!...ITs definetly NOT a MYRACLE that you won! You rock!
I own two busts. One for being female, and one of a Hungarian composer. The latter I bought at a thrift shop.
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