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Rusty Fischer Former high school teacher Rusty Fischer has worked for the best-selling educational magazines The Mailbox, Learning, and Bookbag. As a full-time freelance writer, he has had his work for teens and young adults published in Seventeen, Stories for a Teen Heart, and Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul. A proud native Floridian, Rusty resides in Cape Canaveral.


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A Town Called Snowflake

olly Swift had a choice to make that fateful Christmas Eve: break her boyfriend’s heart or become a famous country music star. She chose stardom and, for awhile, all was a picture book fairy tale for Molly. She cut her debut album, made the rounds on the concert tour and then… nothing.

When Molly’s agent dumps her just before Thanksgiving a few years later, Molly has nowhere left to go but her hometown of Snowflake, South Carolina. There she struggles to find work. That is, until she happens in one a little year-round Christmas restaurant called Café Kringle and finds her ex-flame, Nate Night, tickling the ivories behind the piano.

Can Nate forgive Molly for running out on him? What’s more, can Molly forgive herself? And can the two team up to bring customers into the Café Kringle before its owner decides to close the doors before the holidays?


Vamplayers

At the Afterlife Academy of Exceptionally Dark Arts, Lily Fielding is a measly trainee who dreams of one day becoming a Savior?those who visit vampire-infested high schools and put down the undead with their deadly crossbows. When Lily and her classmates Alice and Cara begin their latest assignment, it seems like just another run-of-the-mill gig: they're to simply spot the Vamplayer?part vampire, part player?identify the popular girl he's set his sights on, and befriend her before the Vamplayer can turn her to do his bidding. Before long, however, the Vamplayer sets his sights on Lily's friends, and she is left to face the threat alone while protecting her friends from the dark forces she has sworn to resist.

Reviewer: Inkeddreams
Review: Feb 27, 2012
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Comedy / Humor, Horror, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires
Being a teenager is never easy. Being a teenager forever and having to save the world from vampire infestations is infinitely harder. Lily Fielding happens to know this first hand. After being attacked by vampires, she is inducted into the sisterhood at The Afterlife Academy of Exceptionally Dark Arts. The academy trains its girls to go to schools that have the possibility of being infiltrated by a Vamplayer.

Panty Raid at Zombie High

Toby’s best friend, and unrequited love, Molly Harper has gone missing. Molly’s boyfriend, “Spud,” thinks he knows where she’s been taken: the mysterious Zombie High, where Spud’s father just happens to be in charge of the top-secret medical facility famous for its work rehabilitating teenage zombies.

Armed with blueprints, passwords, keys and codes, Spud and Toby are ready to make an all-out assault on Zombie High and rescue their fair Molly. There’s just one problem: Toby and Spud are the biggest wimps at Cypress Cove High and need some muscle along for the ride in case any of the zombies get loose.

That’s where Boner and Zack come in. Two of the football team’s biggest players, the jocks are easily conned into joining Spud and Toby on their fictional “panty raid” the minute Spud calls them “chicken” for not accepting his challenge to spend the night at Zombie High.

When Zack and Boner show up to accept the challenge, however, they don’t come alone; they bring their two girlfriends, Lilac and Haley, along for the ride. With events spiraling out of control and zombies lurking around every corner, will Toby and Spud even survive their night at Zombie High, let alone rescue Molly?

Reviewer: Inkeddreams
Review: Mar 16, 2012
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Paranormal / Supernatural, Thriller, Zombies
Tinfoil Tennessee is just about as unremarkable as its name, but it does have one claim to fame. It is home to Zombie High, a super secure holding facility for zombies. When Molly disappears, Toby and Spud are positive she is at Zombie High and come hell or high water they plan to get Molly back. There is one big problem. Toby and Spud are major wimps and in order to pull off their plan, they are going to nee

Becca Bloom and the Drumsticks of Doom

Your drumsticks . . . or your life!

Becca Bloom never knew she had a father, let alone a rock star god who’d sold his soul to the devil for success! Now, with her Dad dead, it’s up to Becca to keep her father’s Drumsticks of Doom from the bloodthirsty demon who wants them back!

Reviewer: Aquaflame64
Review: Nov 4, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, YA / Teen
I'll admit that it was the title that caught my eye with this book. Once I read the title I had to give it a try, and I'm glad I did. This book is a fun, quirky, and sometimes hilarious story. I consider this a short story or what people might call a novella. It was quick read and that worked in this book's favor. The story isn't the most original thing, but what really stood out was the author's writing st

Ushers, Inc.

When the streets are full of bloodsuckers, werewolves, zombies and ghouls, where will you turn? The cops don’t know how to stop them, the Army’s pretty much given up and even the Marines are stumped when their bullets and grenades fail to stop the onslaught.

Have no fear, Ushers, Inc. is here! Four high school movie ushers, who collectively have seen over 42,000 hours of B- and C-horror movies know just what to do.

Did you know copper pennies can stop a zombie in its tracks? Abby Cooper, Head Usher, does.

Did you know garlic paste is twice as effective on vampires as garlic cloves? Abby Cooper does.

Did you know werewolves are absolutely petrified of seeing a Hershey’s kiss? Abby Cooper does.

The girls at Cypress Cove High school—especially Rich Witch Mia Hopwood—call Abby an uber-geek; the victims she rescues from zombies, werewolves and vampires just call her one thing: Hero!

But Abby and her fearless crew of movie ushers-slash-superheroes face more than just bloodsuckers and brain-biters. There’s Wyatt Winters, for one; he’s the hot new PR guru Ushers, Inc. has had to hire to handle all their press – and with his smoldering good looks and air of confidence, he’s causing more than just tension between Abby and her old boy-crush—and fellow usher—Zach Nash.

And let’s not forget the monsters, who aren’t too happy about four geeky ushers beating their butts all over creation. Now the League of Associated Undead (LAD) is converging on Cypress Cove, determined to stop Ushers, Inc. once and for all.

When it’s the monsters versus the monster hunters, who you gonna call?

Ushers, Inc., that’s who!

Reviewer: Inkeddreams
Review: Feb 3, 2012
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies
Vampires, werewolves, and Zombies have always been at the top of the proverbial B-movie food chain so to speak, but in Ushers, Inc. a group of teenagers give Hells finest a reason to be afraid of the dark. Abby, Zach, Tracy, and Cliff go to the same high school, work at the same movie theater, and even live together at the same home. All Abby wants is for Zach to ask her to go to the Fall Formal, but he can’t

Zombies Don't Forget

FREE READ - Dill Perry thought "outing" Carla Hurst as a "zombie" would be a big joke. Too bad real zombies don't joke – OR forget. But he’s about to find out why when Carla turns the tables on him in this FREE living dead revenge story! 


Zombies Don't Cry

In the sleepy small town of Barracuda Bay, Maddy Swift leads the life of a fairly typical teenager, but while attending a party one night, Maddy is struck by lightning and awakens to realize she has been reanimated and turned into a zombie. While becoming acquainted with her new "lifestyle," Maddy stumbles upon two unexpected undead chaperones, fellow students Dane and Chloe, who begin to teach her the ways of zombie life, including defending the populace from Zerkers—the bad zombies. Together, on prom night, the three teens must ultimately defend Barracuda Bay High from an all-out zombie Armageddon.

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: Mar 18, 2011
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Paranormal / Supernatural, Zombies
Maddy Swift has always been an average teen, smart and popular but nothing special to set her apart. That is until she is struck by lightning, and wakes up as a zombie. Maddy, as a zombie, must now decide what side to choose. Will she become a Zerker-bad zombie or be a good zombie, staying as normal as possible? Gone from preppy to goth in just reanimated night, what will Maddy's friends say about her new sty

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