Andrew Auseon – författare

There is a life after death, but only for the terminally cool. . . .

Jo-Jo Dyas doesn''t believe he has any reason to live, but then he finds the surprisingly lively dead girl in the culvert and she convinces him otherwise. She and her punk band, the Fiendish Lot, come from the Afterlife, a strange, colorless place where souls sometimes pause on the journey between this world and the next. When Jo-Jo follows her there, he gets a chance to make right all the things that have gone wrong in his life . . . but only if he can figure out how before he fades away into nothing. Maybe the answer lies in Jo-Jo''s late-breaking realization: Being alive is kind of cool.

Rude, raw, and blisteringly funny, Andrew Auseon''s new novel is like one of those insanely catchy songs that you can''t forget and won''t want to. So pay attention: The afterlife you save may be your own.

A novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends—and how sometimes you can be all of them at once.

Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They''re pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, well, she just thinks he''s like every other freak who feels compelled to talk to her, although a little better-looking than most.

While Charlie has his head in the clouds, Gloria''s got hers in a book: her Freak Folio—a record of every weirdo who''s talked to her in the last year (it''s a big book). But never before has she felt the pull to get to know one of them better. Until now.

In this he-said-she-said tale of love, loss, and lucky signs from the author of the ac-claimed Funny Little Monkey, two young strangers at a crossroads in their lives become friends by happy accident (okay, maybe some harmless stalking is involved—and not by the person you''d think!) and forever change each other.