New #Zombie #Mystery #Short Story coming!

My part-zombie  girl character Becca from my young adult book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie has been turning sleuth!  I have two stories coming out:

New: 

In my story “The Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving,”  Becca solves the mystery of the missing cranberries, coming in the November edition of Mystery Weekly (http://www.mysteryweekly.com) and will be in the email version near Thanksgiving (probably Nov. 23). 

And her first short mystery:

Goes on pre-sale Nov. 1: 

  Becca faces her fear of dogs, fights some zombies, and solves the mystery of why many of the dogs are disappearing in “Puppy Love and Zombies,” coming in the anthology, Young Adventurers: Heroes, Explorers and Swashbucklers.

(A  contest will also launch then. See the Facebook page for details: https://www.facebook.com/groups/728914700547208/ or check my website, http://www.cverstraete.com.  The anthology features all kinds of adventures, including a boyhood story with the future Repairman Jack by author F. Paul Wilson.)

Young Adventurers Anthology stories - #zombies, #mystery, #sci fi

Here's a peek at the Table of Contents, with the story names and contributors for the cool upcoming Young Adventurers Anthology!!! Coming Dec. 1!!

In my story, "Puppy Love and Zombies," Becca, (from GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie,) faces her fear of dogs, fights some (bad) zombies, and solves a mystery as she searches for a cute German Shepherd puppy. 

Quite a line-up!!  (See the Young Adventurers Facebook page for updates, news on stories, etc.) 

YOUNG ADVENTURERS: Heroes, Explorers & Swashbucklers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Piney Power                                                    F. Paul Wilson 

(Author of the Repairman Jack novels) 

Sidetracked                                                     Jeffrey Westhoff

(Author of the spy novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much)

Air and Space after Dark                                Jeff Ayers & Kevin Lauderdale

(Ayers is a longtime Library Journal reviewer and author of Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination, the Star Trek Fiction Companion; Lauderdale is also known for his Star Trek short stories. The story features the characters from their YA novel, The Fourth Lion.)

The Mystery of Raven’s Hollow                    Victoria Pitts Caine

(Author of Not Bound by Time.)

The Girl Who Slipped Through the Mirror      Kevin Singer

(Author of The Last Conquistador)

Puppy Love and Zombies                               C. A. Verstraete

(Author of GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie)

Fangirl, Rip and the Alien                              David Perlmutter

(Author of The Pups)

Coming of Age                                               M. M. Rumberg

(Author of Codename: SNAKE)

Wolf Dawn                                                     A. L. Kaplan

(Short story writer and contributor to Suppose: Drabbles, Flash Fiction and Short Stories)

Sister Grass                                                     Deborah Walker

(Short story writer and contributor to (AFTER)life - Poems and Stories of the Dead)\

Toori’s Constellation                                       Anne E. Johnson

(Children's Lit columnist and author of A Kiss at Vespers)

The Hack-Jack Prospect                                  Chantal Boudreau

(Short story writer and author of The Snowy Barrens Trilogy)

The Wreck of the Blue Plover                        David Turnbull

(Writer, blogger and self-described vagabond)

Return of the Knave                                       Milo James Fowler

(Short story writer and author of Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the Space-Time Displacement Conundrum)

First Mission                                                   Jack Mulcahy

(Short story writer and contributor to Heroes and Heretics anthology)

The Power                                                       Nathan Hystad

(Short story writer - he's also a fellow contributor to the just released Baby Shoes anthology.)

The Blue Orb                                                  H.L. Pauff

(Short story writer, sci fi fan and aspiring novelist.)