Only 1 in 10 Modern Love Columns Become Books

There’s 50-something Modern Love columns in the New York Times a year, and Modern Love has been full-time each week since 2006, so you only have a (very roughly!) 10% chance of having your Modern Love column turned into a book. GET ON IT.

According to Daniel Jones, the editing man behind the magic, there are (minimum!) 42 Modern Love book deals to date. That’s basically an entire year of Modern Love columns that graduated to book form.

@dansaltzstein yes — i’ve kept a list over the nearly 11 years that is probably incomplete, and it stands at 42.

— Daniel Jones (@danjonesnyt) July 25, 2015

So yes. Send him your tale of love now.

And also make that number 43 by now, I bet, after this weekend’s Modern Love column about kissing a boy on a plane after a Birth Right trip to Israel, which contains the immortal sentence “My generation treats every liaison as if it is happening on an airplane, as if we have only that one night and there is no tomorrow.” OMG WE ARE ON THAT PLANE. Unfortunately it may be this plane.

If you listen closely to the echoes in the subway tunnels of Manhattan you can literally hear the publishing industry throwing money at this young author. TAKE IT, YOUNG EMMA COURT. TAKE THEIR MONEY.

Fun fact: did you know you could see every Modern Love from the last decade on one page? This is a great thing to read all at once if you recently got dumped. #MONDAYS