Actually, Yawhoogle This was the original title of Fade to Blue until the lawyers got involved.
When we find out that Kenny and Sophie are one and the same, it’s a huge surprise. At the same time, we realize that Sophie could have embodied anyone at all. Why did you specifically decide to make him a popular basketball star? And a he?
Doesn’t everyone want to be a popular basketball star? Doesn’t everyone want to see what it’s like to be the opposite gender for a while? And isn’t it clear that if it ever did happen, it would take place exactly in the way I describe it in the book?
Many sequences have a dreamlike quality. Sophie ends up in different places than she’d planned; violent events never quite come to fruition. Trish, in particular, seems like she’s walking around in a dream. Do you think it’s possible that dreams represent different realities, like they do in this book? Or do you think they’re just mashed-up leftovers from our daily lives?
I do not believe there is any moral or rational infrastructure to the universe. I think we randomly assign meaning to the random circumstances we inhabit, and anyone who is certain of anything is a dangerous cretin.
There is a Sleeping Beauty quality to this novel, though—beautiful girl gets pricked by a needle on her sixteenth [seventeenth] birthday and falls into a deep sleep [drug-induced shift in reality]. But of course, Sophie realizes her Prince Charming, Aaron Agar, wasn’t her savior like she had hoped. What do you think Sleeping Beauty dreamed about?
I think she spent long, lonely nights dreaming about huge vats of cool creamery butter. Just like the rest of us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FRONT COVER IMAGE
WELCOME
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A PREVIEW OF YOU KILLED WESLEY PAYNE
CHAPTER NONE: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER ONE: SOPHIE AND MR. PUGLISI
CHAPTER TWO: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER THREE: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER FOUR: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER FIVE: OLD SPICE BLUE
CHAPTER SIX: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER SEVEN: POPSICLE MAN 1.0
CHAPTER EIGHT: SOPHIE AND MR. PUGLISI
CHAPTER NINE: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER TEN: SOPHIE AND LAKE
CHAPTER ELEVEN: OLD SPICE BLUE
CHAPTER TWELVE: SOPHIE AND LAKE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MR. PUGLISI
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SOPHIE “GOTHIKA” BLUE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE NURSE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: KENNY FADE
CHAPTER NINETEEN: KENNY’S DEAD
CHAPTER TWENTY: SOPHIE IN THE LIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY: LAKE MCLEAN
CHAPTER NINETEEN: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: AARON “FRECKLE” AGAR
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: LAKE MCLEAN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: SOPHIE BLUE AND LARRY
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SOPHIE AND AARON
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: O.S. “KENNY” BLUE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SOPHIE AND AARON
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE RELUCTANT LEADER
CHAPTER ELEVEN: KENNY “O.S.” BLUE
CHAPTER TEN: SOPHIE AND TRISH REDUX
CHAPTER NINE: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER EIGHT: ROSE FADE
CHAPTER SEVEN: NIGHT RIDERS AND TOE CUTTERS
CHAPTER SIX: KENNY BLUE BLAND
CHAPTER FIVE: SOPHIE BLUE
CHAPTER FOUR: KENNY BLUE
CHAPTER THREE: SOPHIE, LAKE, TRISH, KENNY, HERB
CHAPTER TWO: LA NUTRIKA
CHAPTER ONE: SCOOTER BECHTEL, JR., CEO
CHAPTER NONE: THE POPSICLE CHICK
GLOSSARY
Q&A WITH AUTHOR SEAN BEAUDOIN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
Sean Beaudoin is the author of Going Nowhere Faster, which was nominated as one of YALSA’s “Best Books for Young Adults,” and You Killed Wesley Payne. His short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, and a new novel of adult literary fiction is on its way. Sean’s website is www.seanbeaudoin.com.
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Copyright © 2009 by Sean Beaudoin
Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Wilfred Santiago
Q&A copyright © 2011 by Hachette Book Group, Inc., and Sean Beaudoin
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