Angela Scott's New Apocalyptic Book and Contest

Fellow author Angela Scott  (Zombie West series) is having a fantastic giveaway and cover reveal this week for her upcoming YA book, ANYONE?, coming Dec. 1.  It's an apocalypse book with a great premise... what happens when 16-year-old Tess goes in the underground shelter... and her dad tells her to stay put and not open the door... but doesn't tell her what to do if he doesn't return?

I won't spoil the surprise, so go read the full blurb and see the cool cover! And enter the rafflecopter at Angela's blog.  

And check out the amazing bracelet she's giving away too! (which I'm claiming - I wish!)

More Zombie Book and Horror News

Lots of stuff still going on in the zombie book and horror world. Let's see what some of our favorite authors are up to so far this month:

* Author Shana Festa (aka the Bookie Monster) also has her first book out now. Time of Death: Induction (Volume 1) was recently released from Permuted Press. 

About the book: The dead are coming back to life  - and they're hungry. As infection ravages the Eastern seaboard, Emma, husband Jake and their dog, Daphne, must find a way to survive. (The dog was a favorite character for me!)
 

 * Author Emily Goodwin's first book, Contagious (Contagious (The Contagium Series Book 1), of a four-book series, has just been re-released with a brand new cool cover, also from Permuted Press.

 * I fell in love with the unique idea of zombie westerns after reading Angela Scott's zombie western series, beginning with Wanted: Dead or Undead (Zombie West Book 1), continuing in Survivor: Roundup and Dead Plains (Zombie West Book 3).

 (Get all three in the The Zombie West Trilogy.)








* Now author K.A. Laity has a new zombie western novella, High Plains Lazarus: A Weird Western, with  this interesting blurb:  "Whatever's got the corpses jumping is bound to spell a bad day for anyone unlucky enough to ride into town." Read an excerpt.

* Julie Rudolph, author of The Complex: The Reanimates Book I; The Highway: The Reanimates Book II; and The Escape: The Reanimates Book III, has released a fun, new video for her first book in the series, The Complex. (Read excerpt.)

Check it out! (Different as she uses Lego peeps!)

  * Author Mark Tufo (of the Zombie Fallout series) announced a project two years in the making! Look for A Shrouded World - Whistlers, coming soon from him and fellow author John O'Brien  (of the A New World Series and the latest short story collection, A New World: Untold Stories.)

* More zombie book news coming so be sure to check back soon!

Zombie Reading Challenge 2013 at BookChickCity

For this first Monday post, I'm sure my fellow Z girls will want to join me in the 2013 Zombie Reading Challenge over at BookChickCity.

I joined last year, and was amazed at the number of zombie books out there! It's like a Z horde that keeps coming and coming and coming...

As I was writing my own zombie book, GIRL Z: MY Life as a Teenage Zombie, I didn't start reading any Z books until I was finished and began shopping the book early last year. I didn't want to get "tainted" by anyone else's ideas. But once I began reading--wow! I now have 55  books listed on my  Zombie shelf at Goodreads - and I've barely scratched the surface, nor read most of them. And I keep adding more...

Two (of the many) I enjoyed so far were:

The book that blew me away? I loved the textures in DEAD OF NIGHT by Jonathan Maberry.

Also enjoyable, with a unique Western twist and different take on zombie infection, was WANTED: DEAD OR UNDEAD by Angela Scott.

** Got any of your own favorite zombie reads? Please share!