So, what would you give for the chance to see a dead loved one again? How about seeing them at the significant times in their lives, times you couldn’t possibly have known about? What about the chance to talk with them in their afterworld? Sixteen-year-old Zoe discovers that the price may be far more than she believed possible.

Zoe’s father died unexpectedly.  Not only has she lost her beloved dad, his life insurance company has declared that he never existed (at least in their files). She and her mom are forced to move from their familiar home to a cramped urban apartment while Zoe’s mom searches for work. Zoe has a history of cutting and drug use, so her mom is always on her back.

Her sole consolation is a young man she regularly sees in her dreams. Valentine is like a brother to her, and the tree fort they hang…

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Nobody Wants My Resume

by Donald L. Mancha

Price: $14.95

Donald L. Mancha’s “Nobody Wants My Resume.” As a hilarious parody of life inside the corporation, Donald maintains his sanity against the stultifying onslaughts of corporate bureaucracy and emerges as a triumph of individual resourcefulness over corporate authority. It is sacrilegious, entertaining, very human – and very funny.

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So I finished Dragons and Dirigibles last week, which I enjoyed, though some of the plot seemed a bit rushed and more told than shown.  It had a MASSIVE twist at the end for another pair I’ve been shipping since book 4, so that left me flailing and Facebook stalking Cindy Spencer Pape to confirm that, yes, that pair are the subject of book 8, coming out in September.

I also kind of gave up on Beautiful Chaos.  I got about half through it in audio.  The narrator is great.  I’ve enjoyed him in the earlier books in the series.  I just…kind of don’t care anymore.  I wasn’t invested in the characters, and there are only so many ways you can essentially say that the shero broke the world.  Maybe it’s because I waited so long between finishing the first two and coming back, but I just…couldn’t…

Beginnings are exciting, and I’ve already mentioned that I have a lot of them ahead of me. Beginning of postgrad life, beginning of work, beginning of moving out on my own… but the most important of them all is that for me, tonight is the beginning of a new book.  My new project is something I’m more excited about than I’ve ever been for a project before – partly because I love the idea, and partly because I know so much more about writing, about crafting stories, than I ever have before.  That’s what happens when you spend time working at something, you get better.

I’ve written about beginnings before.  I’ve talked about how they’re sometimes the hardest part, how getting up and starting something, getting into a routine, can be difficult.  But beginnings can be exciting too.

Sometimes beginnings can be easier than anything else – we’re free, we can start from…