Giveaway

In celebration of its release, we're giving away 1 physical copy (US only) and 3 digital copies (worldwide) of Auston Habershaw's hilarious fantasy novel If WISHES WERE RETAIL.

“Irresistibly fun and funny, with a ton of heart and depth! This is the kind of book that sneaks up on you and sticks with you!”
—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

“Delightfully charming, and it continually surprised me . . . and that’s a good thing!”
—Phil Foglio, co-creator of Girl Genius

“Habershaw (The Iron Ring) offers plenty of laughs in this diverting urban fantasy. After Alexandria Delmore, 17, loses her job at a bagel shop, she sees an ad to be a cashier for a genie who calls himself Mr. Jinn and intends to sell wishes at the Wellspring Mall and applies. Mr. Jinn proves a mercurial boss who’s out of date with modern mores and often impulsively abuses his powers, but Alex hopes to get him in line. At first, people are wary of Jinn, but when a video of one of his clients’ more malicious wishes coming true goes viral, customers begin trickling in. Jinn’s miracles range from the mundane—changing hair colors, healing sunburns, and fixing someone’s limp—to grand, including setting up a client with actor Chris Hemsworth, achieving world peace, and curing cancer, but his methods are often unconventional. When the mall gets in trouble for the duo’s business of “warping reality,” Alex’s chances at economic stability and a better future are jeopardized. Even when the consequences of Jinn’s actions become dire, Habershaw keeps up the lighthearted, humorous tone. It’s a cozy, comical confection.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Habershaw’s contemporary fantasy adventure is sassy and snarky but with soul. It is 2023, and all 17-year-old Alex Delmore wants is to escape her family and go to college. Her parents are constantly fighting, mostly due to her father being obsessed with conspiracy theories—he thinks gnomes are stealing his landscaping clients—and get-rich-quick schemes. The most recent scheme had such a severe impact on their finances that Alex was told she could not remain unemployed. But finding a job in their small town is not easy, so when she sees an online posting for a sales job with a genie, she is skeptical but desperate enough to take a chance. Turns out the genie is real and recently escaped the ring he had been trapped in for millennia. Now he wants to sell wishes at the local mall, but he needs someone to help him understand the twenty-first century. How Alex learns to deal with an obnoxious being of unlimited cosmic power and gains a better understanding of her fractured family is riotously funny and surprisingly poignant.”
—Booklist

“I wish I’d thought of this.”
—Daniel Pinkwater, author of Jules, Penny & the Rooster

“My three wishes? Three more books as good as this one from Auston Habershaw.”
—Tom Holt, World Fantasy Award winning author of The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse