We are thrilled to be revealing the cover for Edited by acclaimed New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Barry Lyga. What starts as a tale of first love takes a surreal turn when the author enters the page and becomes part of Mike and Phil’s story.
Releasing on November 15th from Blackstone Publishing, this hilarious meta-love story is a beautiful mediation on love in all forms, including an author’s love for his characters. Edited is also publishing simultaneously with Unedited—an experimental release of the unedited version of original novel.
Read on to discover the cover and synopsis with Edited now available for pre-order.
Boy meets girl; boy loves girl; boy stupidly loses girl; boy goes to the ends of the universe in desperate attempt to get girl back. Meanwhile: author writes book.
DON’T READ THIS BOOK!
Put it down. Back away. Go read another book, one titled Unedited. Because that’s the one you want to read. It’s super-long and it’s got everything in this book, but more of it. More crazy. More pages. More words. More heft.
Or … go ahead and read this one. It probably won’t hurt you. Probably.
On its surface, this is the story of a boy—Mike—and the girl he loses. It’s the story of how he swears to do anything and everything to get her back.
It’s also the story of a world going to ruin, a world like our own, but seen through a very warped and cracked mirror.
It’s also the story of a story, a story told only in flashes and excerpts and summaries, a story that contains clues that could fix this broken world or end it once and for all.
It’s social satire and desperate longing for love and metafiction and alternate worlds … It’s about the power of love and the power of writing and—more importantly—about the limits on them both.
It’s about architecture and editing. How you build things. How you tear them down. Or tear them apart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barry Lyga is the author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy, Goth Girl Rising, and the I Hunt Killers series, among others. He lives in New York City. Or Baltimore. Or New Jersey. Or, possibly, Edinburgh. Or somewhere he hasn’t imagined yet. It all depends on when you’re reading this book. In fact, he might not live in any of those places, or he could even be dead by now.
