Dead Rules (22 page)

Acknowledgments

The author thanks the following talented individuals for all sorts of hard work, and for many other things:

My editor at HarperCollins, Erica Sussman, and assistant, Tyler Infinger; my agent, Merrilee Heifetz, and assistant, Jennifer Escott, Writers House; agent Sarah Self, the Gersh Agency; my favorite movie producer, Mason Novick; and Jenna Block, creative executive, Escape Artists production company.

Lifelong writer friends Robyn Carr, Sally Goldenbaum, Judith Kelman, Lia Matera, and Nancy Pickard. Colleague authors Shawn Goodman, Marissa Guibard, Kathy McCullough, and Ruta Sepetys. First readers Janet Barnett and Cat.

And, of course, my family: Janet, Gracie, and Honey Bunny.

About the Author

RANDY RUSSELL
believes in ghosts. He conducts an annual ghost seminar for the State of North Carolina and can be found most summers sharing true ghost stories at visitor centers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He wrote
DEAD RULES
because he believes ghosts should be allowed to share their stories of encounters with humans. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Visit Randy online at www.ghostfolk.com.

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Front cover art © 2011 by Bailey Elizabeth
Jacket design by Torborg Davern

Copyright

Dead Rules

Copyright © 2011 by Randy Russell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Russell, Randy.
   Dead Rules / Randy Russell.—1st ed.
      p. cm.
   Summary: When high school junior Jana Webster dies suddenly, she finds herself in Dead School, where she faces choices that will determine when, she, a Riser, will move on, but she strives to become a Slider instead, for the chance to be with the love of her life—even if it means killing him.
   ISBN 978-0-06-198670-3

[1. Dead—Fiction. 2. Future life—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Supernatural—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.F915937De  2011
[Fic]—dc22

2010032452

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062084446

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