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Death and Other Excuses
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 something special. Then within the space of a few seconds, it was all gone.
Set adrift in an overwhelming afterlife, Jo is desperate to reclaim what she lost. When she accepts an assignment as a tutelary—a spirit guardian for the underage—it seems like her wish might even be granted. But on her return she discovers that nasty surprises await the departed who don’t stay departed. And as Jo grapples with betrayal, loss, and regret she will have to answer a most troubling question.
How do you find the meaning of life if you're already dead?
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 something special. Then within the space of a few seconds, it was all gone.
Set adrift in an overwhelming afterlife, Jo is desperate to reclaim what she lost. When she accepts an assignment as a tutelary—a spirit guardian for the underage—it seems like her wish might even be granted. But on her return she discovers that nasty surprises await the departed who don’t stay departed. And as Jo grapples with betrayal, loss, and regret she will have to answer a most troubling question.
How do you find the meaning of life if you're already dead?
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First published December 9, 2012
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December 1, 2018
The Never Ending Review - following a book through all the phases of its non-upcoming release
DEC 2, 2012. 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, 2012. It's Dec. 10 now, and the publication date has been moved forward again...24 DEC.??? SERIOUSLY??? As in, the very day before Christmas? Are they kidding? I wonder if they actually mean to publish this book...
JAN 8, 2013. It's been a month since my previous comment, and the release date has been moved forward...AGAIN...to Jan. 24th this time. I'm about to laugh my ass off.
JAN 23, 2013. We're going to get another delay tomorrow. Wanna bet? ;)
JAN 24, 2013. No delay...but no book either. So I technically won my bet. This is getting fridiculous (= friggin' ridiculous).
MAR 5, 2013. To date, no one even bothered to appoint a new date for this release. Now, I've been keeping this book on my radar for a year, more or less - far before I even became a GR member - and this means its publication was announced as early as around that time or even before. Discouraging, isn't it? Makes one ponder about the dynamics of book-publishing...
MAR 24, 2013. (Two months after). ?????
JUN 2, 2013. (More than another two months after). !!!!!
JUL 25, 2013. Duh. This isn't even funny anymore.
JAN 24, 2013. So, apparently, this book has been out for a whole year. Funny how I haven't been able to locate it anywhere. And I begin (...begin?) to think I never will.
Jamie Case, how come you're the one and only author in the whole world without an Internet presence???
NOV 8, 2015. Two more years have passed. I DEMAND to know what became of this book. You can't rob me of one of my afterlife-flavoured pleasures.
DEC 2, 2012. 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, 2012. It's Dec. 10 now, and the publication date has been moved forward again...24 DEC.??? SERIOUSLY??? As in, the very day before Christmas? Are they kidding? I wonder if they actually mean to publish this book...
JAN 8, 2013. It's been a month since my previous comment, and the release date has been moved forward...AGAIN...to Jan. 24th this time. I'm about to laugh my ass off.
JAN 23, 2013. We're going to get another delay tomorrow. Wanna bet? ;)
JAN 24, 2013. No delay...but no book either. So I technically won my bet. This is getting fridiculous (= friggin' ridiculous).
MAR 5, 2013. To date, no one even bothered to appoint a new date for this release. Now, I've been keeping this book on my radar for a year, more or less - far before I even became a GR member - and this means its publication was announced as early as around that time or even before. Discouraging, isn't it? Makes one ponder about the dynamics of book-publishing...
MAR 24, 2013. (Two months after). ?????
JUN 2, 2013. (More than another two months after). !!!!!
JUL 25, 2013. Duh. This isn't even funny anymore.
JAN 24, 2013. So, apparently, this book has been out for a whole year. Funny how I haven't been able to locate it anywhere. And I begin (...begin?) to think I never will.
Jamie Case, how come you're the one and only author in the whole world without an Internet presence???
NOV 8, 2015. Two more years have passed. I DEMAND to know what became of this book. You can't rob me of one of my afterlife-flavoured pleasures.
December 30, 2012
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 things that pop up when Googling the title and author are the Goodreads links (one of which highlights my comment about never receiving my copy). They don't even want to sell it after they published it in March. The only place I could even find it was on half.com (ebay) and it was out of stock.
There is of course the link to the publisher, that simply wants you to sign up for their newsletter (which I did a while back, hoping to find a way to contact them), but does nothing. A mention of a new imprint, which is odd since Linden Press doesn't seem to have any clients apart from Jamie Case.
On top of that are the 9 5 star ratings (without review), a 4 star saying they can't wait to read it, and a 3 and 1. I sincerely would like to know if anyone has even really read this, or if I should just give up all hope of ever getting a chance.
The publisher also had so little faith in this book that apparently there is zero marketing of it, as the only things that pop up when Googling the title and author are the Goodreads links (one of which highlights my comment about never receiving my copy). They don't even want to sell it after they published it in March. The only place I could even find it was on half.com (ebay) and it was out of stock.
There is of course the link to the publisher, that simply wants you to sign up for their newsletter (which I did a while back, hoping to find a way to contact them), but does nothing. A mention of a new imprint, which is odd since Linden Press doesn't seem to have any clients apart from Jamie Case.
On top of that are the 9 5 star ratings (without review), a 4 star saying they can't wait to read it, and a 3 and 1. I sincerely would like to know if anyone has even really read this, or if I should just give up all hope of ever getting a chance.
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June 7, 2015I 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?
UPDATE: Going through my Goodreads library and I saw this book pop up. I originally posted that little blurb above in March of 2012. It's now July 2014, and I still haven't heard a word about my Early Reviewers copy of this book. I think it's a safe bet to give up on it at this point.
UPDATE: Going through my Goodreads library and I saw this book pop up. I originally posted that little blurb above in March of 2012. It's now July 2014, and I still haven't heard a word about my Early Reviewers copy of this book. I think it's a safe bet to give up on it at this point.
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June 17, 2015Has anyone heard anything re: the LT Early Reviewers giveaway (in January '12) of this? Still haven't received anything . . .
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February 7, 2012feb 9
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February 24, 2012I enter this giveaway because I really like the author..:)
July 5, 2012
I love the cover and it sounds awesome cant wait to get my hands on it....
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