ROSE COOPER is the author/illustrator of GOSSIP FROM THE GIRLS' ROOM, RUMORS FROM THE BOYS' ROOM, SECRETS FROM THE SLEEPING BAG, I TEXT DEAD PEOPLE, and THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD.

When Rose was a teenager, she moved to a tiny town where her stepdad was a mortician, her mom was a corpse cosmetician, and their house was on cemetery grounds. She lives in Sacramento, California, with her family and makes sure all her texts are to the living. Visit her at Rose-Cooper.com and follow Rose Cooper on Twitter at @RoseCooper, Facebook at @TheRoseCooper, and on Instagram and Pinterest at @sketchychics.

You can't block the dead! The first novel in the Dead Serious series, in which a middle school girl bridges the gap between the living and the dead with her phone.
Annabel Craven hopes she'll fit in-maybe even be popular-at the Academy. She's worried she'll stay friendless and phoneless (it's true). But when she finds a mysterious phone in the woods near the cemetery, one of her problems is solved . . . and another one is just beginning.
Someone won't stop texting her. And that someone seems . . . dead. How is Annabel supposed to make friends when her phone keeps blowing up with messages from the afterlife? And what will happen if she doesn't text back?
Includes morbidly-cute black-and-white illustrations!
"Scary--but not too scary." --SLJ
"Good, ghostly fun." --Kirkus Reviews