'Damned' Gets A Release Date On Amazon.com!
Chuck's next novel, Damned, will be released by Random House on September 6, 2011! The release date just popped up on Amazon last week. There is no pre-order or cover art yet, but you can keep an eye on things at this link. For those of you who don't know anything yet about this upcoming novel, here's a quick summary from Chuck that he gave during a recent interview with Suicide Girls:
So Damned is about an eleven-year old girl who wakes up basically and finds that she is in hell and that she's dead, and that she's going to be eleven-years old and dead in hell for the rest of eternity. So she has to, number one, make friends and figure out how hell works and make the best of it. But she's also got to figure out why she's in hell and how she died, and then ultimately whether or not she wants to petition to go to heaven, to try and uncover some mistake that might have been made. So it's about an eleven-year old, a very optimistic, cheerful, pushy little girl who finds herself in hell.
Chuck had a little more to say about Damned in his Q&A with Random House, while promoting Tell-All:
My next novel, the one for 2011 -- argh, my life is so mapped out -- is a novel called Damned about an eleven-year-old girl who finds herself in Hell and learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids. Imagine if The Shawshank Redemption had a baby by The Lovely Bones and it was raised by Judy Blume, and you have my next new project. It's so frustrating when this girl, Madison, realizes that she'll never grow up and become an adult... and believe me, I know just how she feels. Each new day, I look at my chest in the bathroom mirror, sideways, and hope it's grown.
Maybe if they could invent a 3-D mirror...
Keep an eye on our section for Damned for more updates as they come in. And as always, email us if you hear anything first.
Comments
September? That's sooo far from now.
I thought all of his books are released in May? I wonder why September?
And 256 pages! Whew. That's long for a CP book.
I have a feeling that this book might garner a lot of publicity for just being the anti-Lovely Bones. Just by saying that this book is just like Lovely Bones but instead of going to Heaven the protagonist goes to Hell should spark a lot of attention and press.
And I am certain a movie option will fruition. This book, unlike everyone other one he has written, sounds like the most adaptable and marketable as a movie.
The reason it was Delayed, or so I heard, is because Chucks Publishers didn't have the last 3 or so chapters of the book. They kept bitching to Chuck that they didn't like the ending, and didn't realize for months that they were missing said chapters. Even though He kept asking them what they were talking about and asked on several occasions if they had the full thing.
Maybe they just stopped reading at page 200 and assumed that was the last page as it always is...
Where did you get your source?
The ladies at the St.Helens Book Shop passed the story along from Chuck himself.
awesome story. thanks, noah
maybe you can add this little story to the wiki page for the novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damned_%28novel%29
Sounds promising.
Hi,
Does anyone knows when the book Damned will be release in French?