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    Sad Monsters

    Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside

    Author Frank Lesser
    Illustrated by Willie Real
    Paperback
    $24.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Plume
    5.1"W x 7.7"H x 0.4"D   | 5 oz | 92 per carton
    On sale Sep 27, 2011 | 192 Pages | 9780452297395
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    An Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report follows in the (big) footsteps of Bigfoot: I Not Dead.

    Monsters have it tough. Besides being deeply misunderstood, they suffer from very real problems: Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Quirkily illustrated, Sad Monsters hilariously documents the trials and tribulations of all the undead creatures monster-mad readers have grown to love, from vampires and werewolves, to chupacabras and sphinxes, and even claw-footed bathtubs.

    "Thanks to this hilarious book, I'm no longer scared of monsters. However, I am still terrified of books." — Stephen Colbert

    "Delightful and definitive proof that the undead are just as unhappy as the rest of us." — Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    "Sad Monsters is utterly hilarious. Then scary. Then hilarious again." — Scott Kenemore, author of The Zen of Zombie

    "Hilarious. Frank Lesser has done a great service to human-monster relations." -Bob Powers, co-author, The Werewolf's Guide To Life: A Manual For The Newly Bitten

    "With <I>Sad Monsters</I>...the joke keeps getting reinvented in creative and wonderful ways. So yes, it's funny — but it's also smart and creative. It begs for public readings." — Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender’s Game
    © Emma Niwa
    Frank Lesser has been fascinated by monsters since he was a child growing up in a very non-monstrous suburb of Columbus, Ohio (though Goosebumps author R. L. Stine once lived just down the street, so maybe it wasn’t entirely ordinary). As a kid, he dreamed of spotting Bigfoot delivering the mail or snapping a photo of Nessie in the local pool. Most people grow out of these fantasies, but as a writer, he got to imagine them for a living.

    One day he discovered something more remarkable than a mermaid: how to make people laugh. So he moved to New York and wrote Emmy-winning late-night comedy for The Colbert Report. He later returned to his love of monsters, creating Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside and the animated series You’re Not a Monster, and even spending time with Bigfoot-hunters in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

    These days, he can often be found in a Brooklyn coffee shop, searching for the magic words to bring a golem to life—or at least make a reader laugh. View titles by Frank Lesser
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    An Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report follows in the (big) footsteps of Bigfoot: I Not Dead.

    Monsters have it tough. Besides being deeply misunderstood, they suffer from very real problems: Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Quirkily illustrated, Sad Monsters hilariously documents the trials and tribulations of all the undead creatures monster-mad readers have grown to love, from vampires and werewolves, to chupacabras and sphinxes, and even claw-footed bathtubs.

    Praise

    "Thanks to this hilarious book, I'm no longer scared of monsters. However, I am still terrified of books." — Stephen Colbert

    "Delightful and definitive proof that the undead are just as unhappy as the rest of us." — Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    "Sad Monsters is utterly hilarious. Then scary. Then hilarious again." — Scott Kenemore, author of The Zen of Zombie

    "Hilarious. Frank Lesser has done a great service to human-monster relations." -Bob Powers, co-author, The Werewolf's Guide To Life: A Manual For The Newly Bitten

    "With <I>Sad Monsters</I>...the joke keeps getting reinvented in creative and wonderful ways. So yes, it's funny — but it's also smart and creative. It begs for public readings." — Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender’s Game

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    © Emma Niwa
    Frank Lesser has been fascinated by monsters since he was a child growing up in a very non-monstrous suburb of Columbus, Ohio (though Goosebumps author R. L. Stine once lived just down the street, so maybe it wasn’t entirely ordinary). As a kid, he dreamed of spotting Bigfoot delivering the mail or snapping a photo of Nessie in the local pool. Most people grow out of these fantasies, but as a writer, he got to imagine them for a living.

    One day he discovered something more remarkable than a mermaid: how to make people laugh. So he moved to New York and wrote Emmy-winning late-night comedy for The Colbert Report. He later returned to his love of monsters, creating Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside and the animated series You’re Not a Monster, and even spending time with Bigfoot-hunters in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

    These days, he can often be found in a Brooklyn coffee shop, searching for the magic words to bring a golem to life—or at least make a reader laugh. View titles by Frank Lesser
    Willie Real View titles by Willie Real

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