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Sixteen-year-old Austin is always messing up and then joking his way out of tough spots. The sudden appearance of his allegedly dead father, who happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler, stops him cold. Austin - a talented musician himself - is sucked into his newfound father's alluring music-biz orbit, pulling his true love, Josephine, along with him. None of Austin's previous bad decisions, resulting in broken instruments, broken hearts, and broken dreams, can top this one. Witty, audacious, and taking adolescence to the max, Austin is dragged kicking and screaming toward adulthood in this hilarious, heart-wrenching YA novel.



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Michael Rubens

My 2012 novel Sons of the 613 was selected by Kirkus Reviews, YALSA, and Tablet Magazine as one of the best books of the year, and received a rare perfect 10 from VOYA. Stephen Colbert called my first novel, The Sheriff of Yrnameer, "A science fiction book your grandmother will love -- if she's a lustful, violent lady." My third novel, The Bad Decisions Playlist, will be published by Clarion in August of 2016, and I have a fourth novel slated for publication in 2017. My work has also appeared in The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, HuffPost Comedy and Salon. I'm currently a producer with Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, and have also been a producer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. For a brief period I was also the world's least effective bouncer.



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