‘this modern love’ is finished!
After 6 months and over 15,000 heartfelt submissions later, from a staggering 100 countries, the first crowd-sourced book of its kind, This Modern Love is complete.
A massive thank you to every single person who contributed: the talented writers, photographers and lovers. This Modern Love was a dream of mine; it’s a dream come true thanks to everyone who submitted. Words cannot describe how grateful I am to all of you who wrote a hand-written letter, sent an email, took a picture or tweeted about the book. It’s been an epic project, one of the biggest challenges of my life. But it’s also been an incredibly rewarding and enjoyable process. Thank you for trusting me with your thoughts. Your letters are this book and you are the authors.
I have collected the letters together to form what I hope is a compendium of 21st century love, structured into the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
It’s sad, it’s funny, it’s tender and it’s cathartic. It’s a portrait of individual desires, of resentments and of fears. But ultimately, I hope, it will remind anyone who reads it, whether they’re in love or out of love, that we’re not alone.
I love you all terribly and I hope you like the book as much as I liked putting it together. The book is available for pre-order now. It will be published on 11th August around the world.
p.s. One final thing, before we send the book to print. If you would like to submit a photograph and quote to be considered for the back cover of the book, please email to [email protected]. The photo (and quote – optional) should sum up love to you in 2016. Please send by Friday 10th June.
