Kimberly Sabatini
Kimberly Sabatini is a former Special Education Teacher who is an author and busy Domestic Engineer. Kimberly grew up in Beacon, NY and after college, traveled to Germany, Arizona and North Carolina as a military spouse. Now back in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, three teen boys and a slightly naughty German Shepherd, she is surrounded by a never-ending amount of story ideas. Kimberly is best known for her Young Adult fiction (TOUCHING THE SURFACE- Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster) and is the winner of the 2016 Alice Curtis Desmond Award. Additionally, Kimberly is the NY: Eastern Upstate Assistant Regional Advisor for the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators). She is represented by Michelle Wolfson of Wolfson Literary Agency. Additional information about Kimberly is available on her website: kimberlysabatini.com
ISBN 978-1442440036
Experience the afterlife in this lyrical, paranormal novel that will send your heart soaring. When Elliot finds herself dead for the third time, she knows she must have messed up, big-time. She doesn’t remember how she landed in the afterlife again, but she knows this is her last chance to get things right. Elliot just wants to move on, but first, she will be forced to face her past and delve into the painful memories she’d rather keep buried. Memories of people she’s hurt, people she’s betrayed…and people she’s killed. As she pieces together the secrets and mistakes of her past, Elliot must find a way to earn the forgiveness of the person she’s hurt most, and reveal the truth about herself to the two boys she loves…even if it means losing them both forever. "Sabatini creates an exquisitely tangible alternate reality, ordering the cosmos with impressive authorial derring-do, crafting answers to ontological questions with grace, disarming simplicity, and nary a trace of dogma. All while believable teens--teen souls, that is--tangle with affection, selfishness, and doubt. Thought-provoking and romantic, Touching the Surface takes risks with narrative and form, and succeeds on multiple levels." --RBW (Chronogram)