If I Die Blog Tour: A Day In the AfterLife of Tod & Giveaway!

HAPPY RELEASE DAY to Rachel Vincent's If I Die! I'm so excited to be the next stop in Kismet's If I Die Blog Tour. Today we've got a fabulous surprise from Rachel, who has given us a sneak peak into Tod's life for a day AND there's 2 GIVEAWAYS linked below!!

A Day in the AfterLife of Tod

8:00 AM – Another cup of coffee. Pecan caramel, this time. I’ve tried every flavor of creamer the cafeteria has. The coffee still sucks.

8:54 AM – These ER chairs were manufactured in the 70’s. I swear, cave men were more comfortable sitting on logs and rocks. That’s it. I’m filing that requisition form today. Eight months of practicing the attending physician’s signature is about to pay off…

9:47 AM – Rush hour traffic collision. Crushed sternum. Splinters of bone sticking through his skin. Two punctured lungs. Death is a mercy. Hey, is that coffee on his shirt? Smells good. Wonder what kind of creamer he uses?

10:38 AM – Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

11:54 AM – Six minutes left on my shift. I will not go to the school after work. I will not go to the school after work. I will not go to the school after—

12:22 PM – Lunch in the quad. Nash is having pizza. I don’t care if I never see another slice of pizza. Kaylee’s wearing that blue shirt again. That one that matches her eyes. She looks tired. I will not show myself to her at lunch. I will not show myself to her at lunch. I will not show—

12:24 PM – Nash’s pizza tastes as bland as it looks. But since I already took a bite, he said I should just take the rest of it. Wonder what would happen if I took a nibble on Kaylee…?

1:48 PM – Wonder what would happen if I switch the labels on some of the bottles in the chemistry lab’s storage closet? Ooh! Or I could test the acidity of the toilet bowl water with these litmus strips. I’m betting it’s acidic…

2:36 PM – Seriously, why do they still teach history in school? If it’s going to repeat itself anyway, can’t we just catch it the next time around?

3:02 PM – School’s out. Only nine more hours to kill until there will be actual people to kill. Er…reap.

4:22 PM – Large pepperoni and sausage. There in 30 minutes, or your money back. Minus the 50 second commute, and the actual delivery leaves me 25 minutes to pop over to Mom’s house for a brownie.

4:26 PM – Kaylee and Nash are trying to swallow each other whole. I suggested they eat the brownies instead. Nash threw one at me. My appetite is gone.

4:40 PM – There’s never anything good on TV. At the hospital, they only play news and cartoons. And not the good cartoons. The ones where animals dance around and some little girl with a big head counts in Spanish. Ayúdame!

4:41 PM –If Nash and Kaylee are going to make out instead of watching the movie, they should just hand over the remote.

4:42 PM – The remote slid down between them on the couch, and I am not going after it.

4:43 PM – I wonder if there’s any reasonable way to reinterpret the phrase “Get the hell out of here, Tod” to mean “Please stay and help us maintain the PG rating on this hormonal train wreck.” Maybe if I rearrange the letters…

5:58 PM – Dude. Do NOT answer the door in your underwear. No two dollar tip is worth that. Now I’m going to have to find something prettier to purge that mental image. Mangled bunny road kill should do the trick.

7:00 PM – Is it time to reap souls yet?

7:01 PM – Seriously, has time stopped moving? Is this what eternity feels like?

9:10 PM – Kaylee’s practicing conjugating irregular verbs for a French test tomorrow. I said I’d check the verb chart for her, but this stupid language has more sounds than letters, and I’m not sure I even remember how to conjugate English verbs.

9:24 PM – I have no idea what she’s saying, but it’s hot.

11:05 PM – Sabine suggests we play Guess Whose Life Sucks Worse. I can’t lose this one. I’m not even alive.

11:14 PM – New game. Guess Whose Love Life Sucks Worse. It’s a tie. A big, pathetic tie.

1:00 AM – An hour into my shift, and no one’s died yet. Is it possible to be bored to death if you’re already dead?

3:42 AM – Massive cranial and spinal trauma from head-on collision. A cause-of-death near and dear to my heart. Now we’re talkin’…

5:19 AM – The guy in room 434 looks tired. He looks done. We both know this is the last room he’ll ever see, and he’s ready to end it. He deserves a merciful, peaceful death in his sleep. But he’s not scheduled to go for another four days. Poor guy. Sometimes I wish I was the boss.

7:43 AM – Hit-and-run at an elementary school crosswalk. She can’t be more than eight years old. I hate my job.

8:00 AM – Parents crying in the waiting room. They don’t know yet. I wish I didn’t know. I wish I didn’t have to see her last moments. I wish I didn’t have to be her last moments. I’m sick of white walls and endings. The only thing that doesn’t end in this place is me. I don’t end. I just go on, and on, swinging that scythe glued to my hand. There’s no rhythm to the strokes. Few see death coming, and even those who do see death don’t see me. Because there is no me. Not anymore. Always the reaper, never the reaped. Soon that won’t bother me. Soon I won’t care. Emotional death follows physical death at a different pace for each reaper. I’ve put it off for more than two years, but it’s inevitable.

It would take a miracle to keep me alive on the inside.

When I was a kid, my mom said that everyone gets one miracle. She said the trick is recognizing your miracle from a distance, so you’re ready when it arrives. I’m watching. I’m waiting.

I’m ready for my miracle.

By: Rachel Vincent

Published by: Harlequin Teen

Released on: September 27th, 2011 TODAY

Purchase from: Harlequin| Amazon| Barnes & Noble| Indie Bound

Website: Soul Screamers on Facebook

No one wants to be this teacher's pet.......

The entire school's talking about the gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck. Everyone except Kaylee Cavanaugh. After all, Kaylee's no ordinary high-school junior. She's a banshee—she screams when someone dies.

But the next scream might be for Kaylee.

Yeah—it's a shock to her, too. So to distract herself, Kaylee's going to save every girl in school. Because that hot new teacher is really an incubus who feeds on the desire of unsuspecting students. The only girls immune to his lure are Kaylee and Sabine, her boyfriend's needy ex-girlfriend. Now the unlikely allies have to get rid of Mr. Beck…before he discovers they aren't quite human, either.

But Kaylee's borrowed lifeline is nearing its end. And those who care about her will do anything to save her life.

Anything. - quoted from Goodreads

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A resident of San Antonio, Rachel Vincent has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her workspace with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her # 1 fan. Rachel is older than she looks-seriously-and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.

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