Death and Other Excuses

Death and Other Excuses

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Plan A
1. Make out with Beau
2. College
3. Happily Ever After?

Plan Never-Saw-It-Coming
1. Die, but not "die-die".
2. Return to your hometown, but not to your family and friends.
3. Notice, but pretend not to, how little impact your demise has had on the known world.

Almostseventeen-year-old Josephine Jack had it all: great parents, cool friends, and a crush on the cusp of somethi...more
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Published January 24th 2013 by Picayune (first published December 9th 2012)
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Roberta R. (Offbeat YA)
The Never Ending Review - following a book through all the phases of its not-upcoming release

DEC. 2. Where the heck is this book?!?!
Dec. 2 and still no news. Though the blurb has been slightly expanded. But still http://www.lindenpressbooks.com/ is a dead end, and Amazon doesn't acknowledge it...Also, the author is apparently a ghost - no website, no contact page whatsoever...

DEC. 10. It's Dec. 10 now, and the publication date has been moved forward again...24 DEC.??? SERIOUSLY??? As in, t...more
Angela Fristoe
Apparently this book sucks so much the publisher doesn't even want to hold up its promise to send the review copies to the winners of the LibraryThing giveaway. Not only that, but the publisher also didn't even want to respond to the 5 emails I sent to them over the course of 6 months asking where the promised copy was, or at least a confirmation that they were not going to send it.

The publisher also had so little faith in this book that apparently there is zero marketing of it, as the only thi...more
Angela Fristoe
Won a copy of this from Librarything back in January but have yet to receive my copy. Hopefully the publisher will send it because I was really looking forward to reading it. :(

Entered the Goodreads giveaway for this, but considering the lack of my copy from the LibraryThing giveaway, and lack of response to my inquiring emails I'm not going to hold out hope that I'd get this copy if I won.
Black Queen
Feb 24, 2012 Black Queen marked it as to-read
I enter this giveaway because I really like the author..:)
Jillian
I won this in the LibraryThing January 2012 Early Reviewers batch, but I still haven't received a copy. Maybe the delay in publication is holding it up?
Book Sp(l)ot
Has anyone heard anything re: the LT Early Reviewers giveaway (in January '12) of this? Still haven't received anything . . .
Patty
I love the cover and it sounds awesome cant wait to get my hands on it....
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