Published: Feb. 15, 2011
Words: 60,539 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452459448

Short description

Frustrated novelist Tim Chase just thought of the best plot idea he has had in three years. The problem is he's dead. Now he's stuck in the afterlife as an unassigned soul with two goals in mind: getting his last and greatest novel published and moving on.

Extended description

Frustrated novelist Tim Chase just thought of the best plot idea he has had in three years. The problem is he's dead.

Now he's stuck in the afterlife as an unassigned soul with two goals in mind: getting his last and greatest novel published and moving on.

Why can George see me? he thought. Pulling the El Pad from his pocket, he read the answer: (Read more) Frustrated novelist Tim Chase just thought of the best plot idea he has had in three years. The problem is he's dead.

Now he's stuck in the afterlife as an unassigned soul with two goals in mind: getting his last and greatest novel published and moving on.

Why can George see me? he thought. Pulling the El Pad from his pocket, he read the answer:

Some living humans, particularly those suffering from a chemical imbalance of the brain, are able to see and interact with you. Unfortunately, this imbalance frequently leads others to label
these individuals as insane.

Great, he thought. If I want to hang out in an asylum, I can have all the company I want.

Yes, answered the El Pad.
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Tags

spirituality, afterlife, writers block

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Review by: Kristie Leigh Maguire on April 29, 2011 :
I read this book while I was at the beach. It was a perfect beach read. Very entertaining. As an author, I thought that it would be just my luck to have a marvelous idea for a story line right after I hung myself! Susan has me believing that ghosts just may exist after all.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Alex Canton-Dutari on April 07, 2011 :
The author does a wonderful job that includes social criticism -- sarcastic passages "under the sun of Tuscany," a hit at the Church's own dubious followers, the intricacies of the traditional book publishing underground, mental health issues... All handled with what I like to call "serious humour." In the end, it reads as a warning to all of us: We better believe in something... otherwise, afterlife may be tough!!! Pass on the word, this book is a must!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Arthur Levine on Feb. 20, 2011 :
An Unassigned Life by Susan Welles Bennett


This wonderfully imaginative and funny novel is about a writer named Tim Chase who commits suicide. Failing to meet the criteria to go to Heaven or Hell, he is left in limbo. His state of existence such as it is benefits from a mentoring angel who supplies him with El Pad—a computer like hand held tablet that answers his questions and provides rules for poor souls such as his caught in this state of unassigned life. El Pad allows him to go outside of his home without fear of being exorcised as an evil spirit. Physical contact with living humans causes him flu like symptoms and he can’t be seen except for those with chemical mental imbalances or when extreme emotionalism causes him to materialize. As El Pad says there are always exceptions to the rules.

Tim has two objectives, to finish his new novel and to advance to a higher state of being. Along the way he meets friendly fellow ghosts who come alive in Susan’s words from an old woman next door to a priest who offers much valuable advice such as “The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life, but look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying.” Terrific.

Even more exciting is the way Susan’s character Tim gets into the minds and hearts of living humans while they are asleep and alters their dreams—mine too I think. I won’t give you the details lest I reveal too much of the story, but if you read this well written novel the author may just have one of her characters enter your mind and help you become more than you have been. A fast paced page-turner with a great twist at the end. This one deserves your attention and five stars.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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