Nerdfighter and YA novelist John Green has unveiled the cover for his The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, $17.99), which goes on sale on January 10. Rodrigo Corral designed the jacket.
When Green first announced the title for The Fault in Our Stars on June 29, it shot to #1 on Amazon and BN.com. We believe the Nerdfighters may have something to do with that. We cite as evidence the fact that, in true Nerdfighter fashion, people began creating their own covers for the unfinished book and posting them online.
This inspired Penguin Young Readers Group to launch the "An Abundance of Covers" contest to create a new cover for the paperback edition of the Printz Honor book An Abundance of Katherines. Entrants may submit their design to anabundanceofcovers@us.penguingroup.com by November 21. The winner will be selected in January. John Green created a vlog to share the news.
Green is now in the process of signing the entire 150,000-copy first printing of The Fault in Our Stars. Our question is (and we ask it on behalf of the Nerdfighters, too), if the book is embargoed until January 10, why did Jodi Picoult get to read it already? --Jennifer M. Brown