Seventeen-year-old Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall. If Wishes Were Retail (Tachyon Publications, 2025), a new book by Boston College graduate Auston Habershaw, tells the story Alex and a genie (Jinn, formerly of the Ring of Khorad) who set up a wishing kiosk at the mall. What could go wrong? Publishers Weekly calls If Wishes were Retail a “cozy, comical confection.” Habershaw is also the author of the fantasy book series The Saga of the Redeemed. Learn more in this Q&A with the author.