Bio

E.G. Young (she/her) is a speculative fiction author living on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In her books, you’ll find weird-but-tender vibes, strange girls, dark humor, spookiness, and animals who all live at the end (promise!). She writes 90 percent of her drafts using voice-to-text dictation (shoutout to fellow hypermobile humans). E.G. holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from The Vermont College of Fine Arts and is represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency.

Book Information

• A (Dead) Thing Like Me

• 352 pages

• Genre: YA paranormal fantasy/horror

• Publisher: Holiday House/Peachtree (U.S.) and Walker Books (U.K.)

• Release Date: August 18, 2026 (U.S.) and August 13, 2026 (U.K.)

• ISBN (U.S.): 9780823461066

• ISBN (U.K.): 9781529536409

• Age Range: 14 and up

• Grade: 9 & Up

Audiobook Information

• Produced by Dreamscape Media

• Release date August 18, 2026

• Narrator Amy McFadden

Launch Event

• Launch party: August 18, 2026, 7 p.m.

• Location: Tombolo Books

• RSVP here

Book Description

One hot dog with banana peppers. That’s all Hot Dog wants. An invisible teenage ghost, she haunts a food cart outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until one night, she’s accidentally summoned via Ouija board to a house party in Florida . . . where finally finally finally, people can see her.

All the party guests scatter, except for Logan: the cool artist girl who doesn’t just see Hot Dog, she actually wants to talk to her. Logan, who isn’t scared of Hot Dog’s stitched mouth or chattering dress. Logan, who’s grieving her own dead BFF—and called Hot Dog by mistake.

Hot Dog wants to prove it’s not a mistake. 

She can be Logan’s new best friend. She can go to Logan’s Halloween party. She can eat snacks, have sleepovers, and hang out. She can definitely smile without scaring people. Exactly like a real, human girl. 

There’s one problem: Hog Dog’s not a real, living human girl, and something in Logan’s sprawling house knows it. It scratches like rats in the walls. It opens a secret door in Logan’s attic. It wants to drag Hot Dog into the nothingness where dead things go. And unless Hot Dog can confront the dark truth of how she died, it will unmake Logan too. 

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