What if you could change everything about one thing on the spot? What if what you thought was your life was really just someone's creation? This is not your typical love story. Mike loves Philomel. Always. Philomel loves Mike. Sometimes. After losing Phil--the love of his life--to a series of bad decisions, Mike begins to notice that the entire world appears to suffer with him. More troubling, reality becomes . changeable.

Before he fully understands how or why (or if he's even in control) he is plunged into an odyssey unlike any other, spanning multiple realities, a heroic quest to return his lost Philomel to his side. Ultimately Mike discovers that he and Phil part of a much bigger love story, one that is far deeper and potentially more tragic: the story of the love that Mike's creator, Barry Lyga, has for the universe they now all inhabit. While Mike and Phil and All the World takes place in a universe of Barry Lyga's creation, the novel omits the universe's actual construction. As with all novels, previous drafts--in whole or in part--were edited or left out. Yet Barry Lyga's profound love for his characters prompted the author to attempt something that had never been tried, to embark on his own odyssey . to share with the reader to every stage of creation in attempt to understand it better. The result is Unedited .