It’s a completely different genre, but it still has the perspective of youth. “This book is such an evolution for Chbosky as a writer. Meeting a childhood hero was one thing, Miller says, but working on Imaginary Friend was even more thrilling. “It was as amazing for me as it was for a whole generation. “I’m 33 and read The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a teenager,” he says. Turns out Miller is almost an acolyte of Chbosky. Publisher Ben Sevier acquired the book with senior editor Wes Miller, who moved to Grand Central from Little, Brown’s Mulholland Books in 2016 to focus on mystery and thriller titles and big franchise authors. The excitement around Imaginary Friend-including the rumored $3 million it fetched in a heated auction after Simonoff batted away preempts-is intense, and even the coming together of author and editor has a touch of the supernatural. The book runs 700 pages, and when I talk with Chbosky, who is nothing if not animated, he says, “When you read the last line, there’s only one question: where’s the sequel?”
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