My fourth book, The Other Normals, is the story of a late bloomer named Perry who unexpectedly becomes an epic warrior at summer camp.
It will be published on September 25, 2012 in the US and Canada. The publisher is Balzer + Bray, esteemed YA imprint of HarperCollins. The book is available for pre-order in hardcover and Kindle!
"With a deft sense of humor and a keen ear for funny and realistic teen dialogue, Vizzini explores one teen everyman’s quest to become a hero, one roll of the six-sided die at a time… Great geeky fun."
"The Other Normals is wildly imaginative, incredibly funny, and weirdly wise. I don't know where Vizzini gets this stuff--it's like he's tapped into the collective unconscious of alienated adolescents everywhere."
--LEV GROSSMAN, New York Times bestselling author of THE MAGICIANS and THE MAGICIAN KING
"Ned Vizzini is a wonderful storyteller, a superb writer with an amazing eye for character and colorful detail. Add to that a big fat dose of hispter heart and soul and you've got his briliant new novel, THE OTHER NORMALS, his finest book yet."
--CHRIS COLUMBUS, writer of The Goonies and Gremlins and director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"Superb. Perry grows in front of your eyes, and leaves you grinning and cheering at the end! Bravo!"
--ED GREENWOOD, creator of the FORGOTTEN REALMS campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Film Tie-in) [Paperback] [Kindle]
August 31, 2010
The film tie-in edition of It's Kind of a Funny Story features a brain-map title page inspired by the art in the book and the original cover. It looks something like this, an image that Focus Features provided to Hyperion Books in summer 2010:
Be More Chill is the story of a guy in high school who gets a pill that makes him cool. The pill is called a "squip"--it's actually a quantum computer that lives in your brain and gives you real-time social advice. The kid is named Jeremy Heere.
"A fresh, spontaneous and original voice. It's fun, wacky, outrageous. I just couldn't stop reading."
-- Judy Blume
Be More Chill was the first young adult book ever selected for the Today Show Book Club:
For more about the squip campaign that ran from 2004-2005 to support the book, watch the squip video (warning: it may take a while to load).
For more about the scientific plausibility of the squip, check the squip watch.
