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Summer Of Zombie horror anthology!

30/5/2015

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The SUMMER OF ZOMBIE event is nearly upon
us, and to help open it with a bang 13 of
todays bestselling and current zombie authors have put together a great deal for you.

12 full length books, all combined into one
jam-packed anthology!
If there's one zombie book you should buy this
summer, it's this one!

Read on and find out exactly what's inside, and why you will be missing out on an amazing deal if you don't one-click this bad-boy!


For a limited time only!
Get your Zombie Apocalypse fix here: 13 of todays Bestselling Zombie authors bring to you this ebook box set of 12 books to start off the Summer of Zombie tour. 818,631 words 356 chapters to fill your summer!

 The Summer Of Zombies Content


A Shrouded World: Whistlers
Mark Tufo & John O'Brien

When two worlds collide...
Jack Walker and Michael Talbot come from two worlds; the same, yet different. They both find themselves transported into an alien one, where things aren't as they seem.



Bob The Spy
Jaime Johnesee

Bob is back, join him and his pal Face as they do their bumbling best to try and stop a plot to overthrow the world's governments.


Loose Ends
Jay Wilburn

Loose Ends is the story of three cooks and a mute boy (the narrator) who are the only survivors of a raider attack after the zombie apocalypse. They proceed to look for a new home, but in the process uncover the darkness in each other's pasts.



Undead Drive-Thru
Rebecca Besser

When Kyndra, Colleen, and Jose apply for jobs at a diner that has seen better days and is undergoing renovations, they have no idea what they're in for.
Aunt-B and John have a horrible secret, and when it's unleashed on the unsuspecting employees of the diner, things get . . . complicated.


Trudge: Surviving the Apocalypse
Shawn Chesser

For Cade Grayson, husband, father, and former Delta Force operator, that one warm sunny Saturday in July--later to be labeled Z-Day by some anonymous person probably long dead--began like all the others before, and none since.


T-Minus Zero
Jack Wallen

"Lights! Camera! Zombies!
In this prequel to the I Zombie series, the Zero Day Collective hires an award-winning director and Hollywood film crew to document the first-ever release of the Mengele Virus. Death is ready for its close up... are you?"


Humanity's Hope: Camp H

Greg P. Ferrell

Mankind has always worried about the end of its days and that time has come in the form of a Zombie plague. A group of friends have banded together to create a safe haven they call Camp H, for hope. They are unaware of approaching danger on two horizons that will take them to their limits to survive. One among them may hold the key to humanity's salvation.



Benton: A Zombie Novel
Jolie du Pre'

The First Zombie Book of Jennifer Benton's Adventures
Zombies have killed everyone in the Benton household--all except twenty-something Jennifer. She's escaped her bedroom, but what now? Waterbank, Illinois is overrun. Where can she go?



The Orphans: Origins
Mike Evans

When one man pushes science past it's breaking point, an unimaginable hell is unleashed on society. The Orphans: Origins Vol I is a zompoc tale like no other before it. Biochemist Frank Fox lost his wife to cancer eight years ago. He'd been recruited by the military to work on a classified mission for a cure that could save tens of thousands soldiers.


Dead Hunger II

Eric A. Shelman

As Flex, his niece Trina, Gem, Hemp and Charlie brave the wild world teeming with the walking dead, they make up the rules as they go along.



Dying Days: Origins
Armand Rosamilia

The prequel tale to Tosha Shorb, featured in Dying Days 2 zombie novella as well as short stories set in the Dying Days world.

Includes two bonus stories



Odium: The Dead Saga
Claire C. Riley

'It's better to die by the gun than die by the dead.'
Nina's life was irrevocably changed when humanity's dead began to rise.
Now, she lives behind the walls. Nina finds out that the deaders aren't the only thing
to fear beyond the wall. And that fear will not be ignored, or Forgotten.

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Tracey Ward new release!

28/5/2015

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I'm SO SOOOOO excited for this release. It feels like I've been waiting since forever for it!
I love Tracy's work, and her 'Writing on the Wall' series is one of my favourites.
'God's of the Dead' released today, and I already have my copy and have started reading, and hot damn it's freaking awesome! Set in the same world as 'Writing on the Wall' and featuring some of your favourite characters, this book has all the ingredients to be a #1.
Enough gushing, let me hand you over to Tracy and you can get to know her and this awesome series some more!


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"I don't write romances, I write relationships. One is pretty and perfect and all consuming. The other is real."

I was born in Eugene, Oregon and studied English Literature at the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!) I love writing all kinds of genres from YA Dystopian to New Adult Romance, the common themes between them all being strong character development and a good dose of humour.

My husband, son, and snuggly pitbull are my world.

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Rising Series

Rising takes place in the same world as Survival and Quarantined.
While the recommended reading order is Quarantined, Survival, then Rising, it's not required.
Each series is designed to stand on its own and any one of them can be enjoyed with or without the others

Blurb

Gods of the Dead

THE WORLD IS A FADED MEMORY

The Fever took hold of Portland first. They tried to contain it. They built barriers, brought in experts, promised cures. But the day they flew in bombers and burned Portland to the ground, the rest of the world knew: 

There was no containing it.

Soon panic spreads with The Fever, consuming everyone and everything in its path. Humanity is crumbling, the dead are rising, but out of the
remnants two men will emerge.

Strangers.
Loners.
Heroes.

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The first book in the Rise series - from the world of Survival and Quarantined.
Watch the trailer here



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Happy reading my little book whores! 


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Author Spotlight: Alex Laybourne Interview

19/5/2015

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Roll up, roll up! Time to introduce a new interview to you all! Well, he's not new, the guy has actually been writing for a long time, but he's new to the blog. Hopefully you'll read on, like the sound of his awesome work - of which it really is very awesome, and go one-click his books!      
For all you horror mad maniacs out there, this one is for you :-)


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Born and raised in Suffolk, England, I started reading at an early age. I could always be found with a book in my hands, devouring as many pages as possible. I can recall writing stories from a young age, but it wasn’t until I was fifteen that I first thought about writing a book.

At the time I was on holiday in Spain, and the resort we stayed in effectively shut down for a couple of hours every afternoon for the traditional ‘Siesta’. The problem with that was I am not the sort of person who can sit still for that long, and so I grabbed a pad of paper and decided that I was going to write a book.

I worked on it day and night, and eventually, I had done it. I had written a 50,000 word novel. It was, of course, utterly useless, never edited, and is now thankfully lost from this world. However, I had done it. I had written something. The sparks were there, and it didn’t take long for the fire to be lit.

It took another five years before I was ready to actually look at putting things out into the world, and so I signed up for a writing course, started writing short stories and submitting them to magazines. After almost one hundred rejections from various different avenues, a relocation from the UK to the Netherlands and the birth of two children, I finally managed to put together a collection of short stories that were self-published, promoted for a week and then pulled, because the editing in them was so poor, I dreaded the thought that people would pay money to read it.

In the mean time I had started working on a novel, which hovered aimlessly between several different genres, unable to decide what it actually was. It remained that way for some time, and it wasn’t until I had read, re-read and then read again, the Books of Blood by Clive Barker, that I finally understood what it was that I wanted to do with my writing.

I didn’t just want to write books, I didn’t do it because I wanted money or recognition. I did it because I wanted to create. I wanted to stretch boundaries and make people uncomfortable. My work had always had a darker tone to it, but when I actually settled down and thought horror, I realized I had found my home.

Twelve months later I had a 90,000 word novel in the hands of a professional editor. I was over the moon and after initially self-publishing (again) I was approached by a publisher and signed up for the entire trilogy I had planned.

Highway to Hell was my first novel, and its sequel, Trials and Tribulations was published little over a year later.

I have also written three short story collections, titled, The Musings of a Hideous Mind: Volumes I, II, & III. These are currently being edited and hopefully will be available by the end of the year.

The Diaries of the Damned, was my first foray into Zombie fiction. It is 100,000 words (300 pages), and I am delighted with the way it came out. With all of my work I try to create a different angle for the story. They say that every story has already been told, but I refuse to believe that. There is always a new angle, even the most overused stories can be tweaked and approached from a fresh perspective to appear as something new.

The premise behind Diaries of the Damned is that we follow a group of survivors as they are being ferried out of the UK. Talking to a journalist, people start telling him their stories, and he soon realizes that not only did they all survive, but they all learned something along the way. Putting the stories together they and uncover the truth behind the zombie outbreak.

I don’t want to give anything else away, after all, I need people to buy the book, but just understand that even when the dead rise, the evil nature of man will still be the greatest darkness in the world.

My most recent publication is an old school vampire tale. Blood of the Tainted. I know the vampire genre is very possibly over-saturated at the moment, it was a tale I had to write. It is a throwback to the ´good old days´ when vampires were evil, blood sucking villains.

I am often asked why I chose horror, but the honest answer to that, is that I didn’t. Horror chose me. Everything I have ever written has been naturally dark, and so it was the natural place for my work to fit. I have already mentioned the Books of Blood, but I cannot understate the influence that Clive Barker has had on my writing. I have learned more about horror from reading his work than from any craft book.

That being said, I do not necessarily class myself as a horror writer, as I feel the label of a genre is a dangerous thing, as it can limit us. A writer should have no limits, no boundaries. A story should be allowed to go as far as it needs in order to tell the tale. Anything, when handled in the correct manner, can be written, and it is my goal as a writer to ensure that every piece I publish makes people think outside of the standard horror box.

To scare a reader when they have the book open is great, but to haunt them after they have closed it, is even better. Horror should be an experience, and I hope that is what I deliver with my work.

You can stalk me at any of the social haunts listed below:

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If you are feeling particularly stalkerish, then feel free to sign up for my mailing list also. (There is even a free book in it for you)

You can find all of my fiction via my Amazon page


The Interview

What do you do when you’re not writing about the end of days or things that go bump in the night?

When I am forced to enter the real world, I am either working my way towards insanity at my day job. I am a product owner for a software company in the aviation industry. It is a new role and one I am learning as I go. I worked my way into it rather than having the necessary qualifications to belong there. If you see what I mean. It is a challenge, and I love every second of it.

I also have 4 (and a half) children, with my fifth child (and fourth boy) due this September. So they certainly keep me busy, especially my youngest. He is 2 and a real monster. If there is trouble, he will find it and do it twice, just to make sure if gets done properly. Whether it is throwing something, climbing on or in something, or hiding things, like out passports at the bottom of the laundry basket.

 

Tell me about your latest book, something unusual if possible.

My most recently published novel is a classic vampire tale. An old school horror, where the blood is sucked for the fun of the kill rather than any lovesick puppy nonsense. No sparkles, not century old vampires hanging around in high school doting on the head cheerleader. My vampire is ancient, he is hungry and he is looking for the place he wants to call home.

I wanted to make my own mark on the vampire genre however, and so I wrote my own lore for the majority of it. I kept some of the traditional elements, but for the rest, I gave it all my own twist.

I can’t say what exactly, I mean, that would spoil the surprise. I can however, provide you with a link and hopefully, the curiosity to see for yourselves what it is I have created.

BLOOD OF THE TAINTED BOOK COVER, BLURB & TEASER CHAPTER
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Six gruesome murders in two days, a farm house burned to the floor, and panic on the streets. For Sheriff Ian Raskin, this is just the start of a nightmare ride that will take him to the edge of his own abilities where a monster lies in wait.

With his once quiet town being terrorized by an unseen force, Ian finds help in the strangest of places. Simon Pertwhistle, a pathologist from the city, arrives in town proclaiming the murders to be the work of a lone vampire searching for its queen.

Sceptic until proven otherwise, Ian Raskin finds his world turned upside down and when the fate of his town hangs in the balance, he finds a fighting resolve he thought to have been long gone.

Can the monster be stopped in time, or will he find his queen and the immortality that has long eluded 

Chapter 1  

The clock struck nine and the mist that had gathered on the outskirts of Dermouth began to spread, and on it sailed death. 

Erica Roberts tugged on Harvey’s lead. The golden retriever stood staring down the road in uncharacteristic stubbornness. “Come on, now. We’ll just go round the block and then back home.” She tugged again in an attempt to get the dog moving. 

It was early spring and the air was crisp and cold. Erica was happy to keep the walk short. She had survived a long day at work and the last thing she wanted was an hour-long fight with the dog just for the sake of giving it the daily quota of exercise. 

“Good boy,” she remarked as the dog sped ahead of her, tugging on the lead with an urgency that was at the other end of the character scale. “What’s gotten in to you tonight?” Erica asked as she quickened her step to keep pace with the animal. 

At the same moment, a blast of Arctic wind ran down the street, ushering with it a wailing cry and an even further drop in temperature. Erica felt the cold wrap around her, chilling her to the bone. It cut through her clothes making her feel as though she was nude. 

As the gust died away, Erica was sure she heard someone calling her name; a whisper on the wind. Erica spun around, her skin two sizes too small. The street was empty. Beside her, Harvey sat and gave a whine; a lonely sound that echoed through the street. Movement in the corner of her eye caught Erica’s attention. Squinting, she stared into the distance. The mist floated over the ground like a ghost, consuming everything in its knee-deep path. It flooded down the street, tendrils rising and licking at the air like albino flames. 

“Erica.” 

Erica heard her name whispered once again. It rolled with the mist and caressed her ears, making her shiver. 

“Come on, Harvey, let’s get home.” Erica turned back to her dog, but he refused to move. “I said come on, Harvey.” Erica felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. Another cold whisper traced her spine.  

Erica froze. The feeling that she was being watched consumed her. Out of nothing Harvey gave a deep growl, his hackles rising. His lips pulled back as he bared his teeth. 

“Harvey, quiet boy,” Erica called. The dog paid her no mind and continued to growl. “It’s ok. It’s just the wind.” She bent down towards the dog, reaching out to pet its golden fur.

With a deep snarl and a savagery that she had never seen before in the animal, it snapped its jaws shut around her arm, puncturing her flesh. Blood flowed from the wounds, staining the dog’s white teeth red. Shocked, Erica jumped to her feet, the pain yet to fully register in her mind. Grabbing her arm, she looked at the wound. It was hard to see in the darkness. The night air made the blood look black like oil. “Shit!” She growled, turning around hoping to get a better look under the street light she had just passed. 

Erica gave another scream, for behind her, close enough for their bodies to touch, stood a man. He wore a long coat, and although he stared at her, the darkness somehow hid his face from view. She could see that he was middle aged, the skin of his face still tight, but beginning to crease as life took its toll. “Christ fuck, you scared me.” Erica gripped her throbbing arm tight while her heart thundered in her chest. 

“Forgive me. It was not my intention.” The man spoke with a gracious tone; his voice was gentle with a strange, sexless quality. The pitch was too high for most men, but too deep for it to belong to a woman. He was taller than Erica, standing at least six feet. When he spoke, the only thing Erica noticed was his teeth. They seemed too white, too straight in his mouth. 

What are you working on next and when can we expect it?

My latest novel is something a little different to the things I have done before. I wrote the novel by hand, for a start, and it started off as a little fun short, and soon twisted into something much larger, which resembled very little of the original story.

It is a twisted tale of parallel dimensions, monsters, conspiracies and cover ups, mad scientists and human experimentation. It is dark and disturbing and truly delightful.

I am hoping to have it ready in the next few weeks, and then I will be sending it over to a publisher that I have been watching for a while now. Please cross your fingers for me.


Are you a prepper with an apocalypse plan in place, or are you just going to wing it?

I am and I am not. I have planned most of my novels, at least in part, before sitting down to write them, but along the way I get swept up in the thrill of the experience and soon leave my plan for dust. I find myself writing things and thinking, that makes no sense at all and make plans to edit it out, only to get to a point near the end that perfectly pulls that earlier piece into play.

I’m not sure what that makes me, but that is something I saw about myself in a lot of walks of life ha!

What’s your apocalypse/horror song?

It’s gotta be Hellraiser by Motorhead

https://youtu.be/1M4FG1UXH5w 
 

What aspects of writing do you find the hardest?

The parts of writing that I find the hardest are often the parts I also find the most rewarding. Editing is a perfect example. I hate editing, and I am sure every writer does. Not only does it means we have to be attentive to the finer points of the craft, understanding the rules that we can break, but only at certain times, but we must also come face to face with the first draft. See our writing in its pure, raw form. It is a tough prospect but once you have it finished, once it is edited and starting to take shape, you feel a great sense of reward and relief.

Similarly, as soon as I begin to think I understand a certain component of the craft, two new things come along to push me back down. It is a crazy game, it is addictive and I am but a whore to its call. 


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