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Kindle owners and fans  of the apocalypse and the bizarre. Free download of Apocalyptic Moon. March 12-16 Only! You snooze, you lose, or maybe get eaten by the zombie hordes.



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Coming soon on my blog coverage about the Natural History of Disease of the Paranormal Variety. 

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In honor of Purim I've Reviewed The Story of Esther

The Story of How Esther Saved her People.
Genre: Historical Romance/SuspensePublisher: The Megillah (See below) Word Count: Quite a bit but you read the entire scroll on Purim. Yep, one day. No kindle. Just un-roll and read together.
Author: Mordechai

Review in a nutshell:
Long ago, (4th century BCE) in a country called Persia in a walled city known as Shushan, there was a king named Achashveyrosh or his Persian name was Xerxes. He married the beautiful Vashti. The King ordered his wife the queen to appear before a party of his drunken guests, naked. She claimed acne but she still disobeyed a royal decree. Drama queen or modest? When she refused, the king was furious and banished her.

A king can't be without a queen so an order was given to bring all the lovely ladies of the land. The prettiest and the sweetest would earn the queen's crown. Kind of like TV's Bachelor but with more hangings and beheadings. I'm sure that's where the idea of the Bachelor came from or was it from Survivor?

Anyway. He chose to give the lovely Esther, a Jew the final rose, I mean the crown.


Only problem was that his key adviser, Haman is plotting against her people. Boo. Boo. Swing the grogger because he is evil and antisemitic. Oh and the king does not know she is Jewish.



They are so happy in love. Ahhh. But Esther hides her religion from hubby. Dr. Phil would not like this, but she was advised by her uncle Mordecai to keep her faith a secret.. The Jews have been exiled from Israel and live in Persia, but antisemitism is on the rise because of the evil Haman who wants to kill all the Jews.

 Haman convinces the King to authorize a royal decree to annihilate the Jews.

 Spoiler:

Esther tells the king she is a Jew and though he cannot break a royal decree, he allows the Jews to arm themselves. They fight and survive. Haman is hung and all ends well.


Now on Purim we eat hamentashen, cookies that look like Haman's hat.



The story was well plotted with a lot of sexual tension, and heart wrenching suspense. Loved the Happily Ever After Ending.  I give it 5 Stars of David.

So what do you think is your most romantic biblical story? One commenter will get my favorite recipe for Hamantashen.

Winner of Comment Post

Congratulations Yelena C.,
You won a pdf copy of Apocalyptic Moon for your comment on The Bloody Valentine's Day Blog Hop. Please send me your contact information.

Bloody Valentine's Day Blog Hop. Valentine's Day in a Post-Apocalyptic World

Bloody Valentine's Day blog hop. For one day writers and bloggers will dispense with the sappy romance and show you the bad side of love. Come be part of the fun!  On the left you will see the other blogs on today's hop. Most blogs including my own will be offering prizes. One lucky commenter I choose will get a free pdf e-copy of Apocalyptic Moon . See the question after my blog.
Valentine’s Day in a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World


The power grid is gone. Our government has lost control. A disease has ravaged humanity or a great environmental disaster or even nuclear war has turned the earth into ghost planet.  There are numerous scenarios from the biblical apocalypse to alien invasion or the current favorite, a zombie pandemic. Survivors will have to deal with starvation, finding drinkable water, the danger from whatever had caused the apocalypse (demons, aliens, radiation, robots or zombies), and the road warrior type gangs, looting raping and killing. 

Because my paranormal romance happens during a zombie apocalypse, the zombie pandemic will be my metaphor for romance in the apocalypse.





What will happen to romance and love during the apocalypse? No flower shops left for buying her Valentine’s roses, no birth control pills or condoms, no going to Victoria’s Secret to buy lingerie to get him in the mood.  Yikes, no Viagra for older gentlemen.  Okay, so you can loot pharmacies, but for how long? In a matter of days, all supplies are gone. Unless you are a ‘prepper’ (people preparing for a true apocalypse in underground bunkers), things in the romance department will get sticky, or is that messy?  Without working plumbing, how will one smell nice for the cute guy next door who just cut off a zombie’s head. 

Sex will be dangerous. Imagine being pregnant while zombies roam the earth? Remember, Lori from The Walking Dead? How do you get a year supply of birth control pills? Time to start making friends with a chemical pharmacist.  (Truth is most medial types will be the first to get exposed.) Condoms you say. How long can condoms be stored for? Who will be willing to make sheepskin condoms? this is not covered in my survival book. Avoid sex? Not likely. The drive to reproduce to survive as a species is a biological priority. Who will be the new Adam and Eve? Romance of course will not go away, no matter how disastrous. And I’m not just talking about smitten teenagers like in Warm Bodies (I have not seen this movie yet.) but any person, no matter what age. We all want someone to snuggle with while zombies shuffle behind the walls of our safe room.  

Romance might even be enhanced. Studies have shown that danger may even contribute to falling in love. (2004. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. New York, NY: Henry Hold and Company, LLC.).  Probably  because of the drive to reproduce before dying Darwin thing? 
Certainly being in love uplifts your mood, which might be a good thing if there are no more ice cream parlors or fun comedies to watch.

Love may be the second time around. There will be widows, widowers and many who have lost their significant others or entire family. Maybe we will settle for companionship instead of our beloved soul mate. 
Or will we become survival practical? A man or woman who is a master archer may suddenly be more attractive than the guy/gal with the MBA. Again, I’m thinking of Daryl from the Walking Dead, not my type but during the zombie Apocalypse, a big yes. Cave man who can bring down a mammoth, I mean zombie.
In my current novel, the hero is a zombie fighting werewolf (good thing he is immune to the zombie's bite).



Vegans can hook up with botanists who know their edible plants. Or how about that brilliant mechanic who is a steampunk nerd?

Comment on the perfect Valentine’s gift you would want if you lived during the zombie apocalypse? I will choose my favorite comment to win a free copy of my paranormal romance, Apocalyptic Moon.

On Valentine's Day Join the Bloody Valentine's Day Blog Hop

Bloody Valentine's Day blog hop. For one day writers and bloggers will dispense with the sappy romance and show you the bad side of love. Come be part of the fun!



We will be celebrating heartbreak, love gone wrong, romantic mayhem and tragedy, hopefully with that little splash of humor and blood. There will also be prizes to be won, so sign up to be a participant or mark it on your calender.

My blog will be on Celebrating Valentine's Day in Post-Apocalyptic World.

In Honor of Valentines Day and The Walking Dead Premiere

Created by Mingle2.com (Dating for non-zombies)

Don't forget about The Bloody Valentines Day Blog Hop on Thursday, February 14. Come in and comment. The most amusing tagline commentator will win  a free PDF Copy of Apocalyptic Moon.

Apocalyptic Moon is pre-released on Kindle

 Howling with Joy. Apocalyptic Moon is now pre-released on Kindle: Buy for Kindle


Ravished by a global zombie pandemic, humanity’s survival depends on the secret society of shifters.

Intro to Dude, Damsels and Disease and Full Moon Interview with a Zombie

Dudes, Damsels and Disease.

In honor of my soon to be released book Apocalyptic Moon, a world where humanity must rely on a secret society of shifter to survive.   I will be dedicating my blog to a series I'm calling Dudes, Damsels and Disease, a primer for writers on historical and futuristic diseases.
Okay, so why am I starting with a zombie interview? Namely because my new After the Bane series, deals with the aftermath of the zombie pandemic. Of course, the zombie disease is not real but it combines two big universal fears, death from disease and cannibalism. Zombies are the most popular monsters and they are us! Even the Centers of Disease Control has discussed what to do in case of zombie attack.CDC and zombies  From The Walking Dead to World War Z, zombies are everywhere. During the next few weeks I will give you my humble take on why we are so facinated with zombies.
Later in my blog series I will choose a disease every two weeks and discuss its natural history.  I'm not reviewing diseases such as cancer, heart disease alcoholism or obesity but diseases caused by microbes, insects, parasites and fungi.
 This full moon,  I have decided to interview a zombie, Mr.Z  (real name is not used since the family only know he is missing). 
Where does one go to interview a flesh-eating mindless zombie? The answer is in a secret black ops underground lab somewhere in a desert. I am not allowed to give any more details than that.
How can I interview a mindless zombie? Though they can make sounds, they can no longer speak. However, with the help of Professor M. and the nanochip implanted in the zombie’s brain, Mr. Z’s answers will be interpreted by an advanced computer and sound like Mr. Z talking. Mr. Z will be secured, since he will be reacting to my living flesh and nothing more.
My Interview with Mr. Z
Professor M. gave me a private tour of the underground lab. He explained that prior to Mr. Z’s infection, he was an unemployed store manager who was bitten near the secret lab. The lab was built to support zombie research and to prevent the pestilence.

I sat across from the mid-forties man. He was wheeled in, like The Silence of the Lamb’s Hannibal Lecter, complete with heavy duty straight jacket , mask and strapped in. His eyes widened and he moaned. I felt a rash of goose flesh in that crawling fear of being eaten alive. His brain was exposed and was wired and soon connected to the computer. Professor M. : “Go on ask him anything.” He removed his mask and immediately he snapped hungrily at him. Drooling and stuttering a moan, anxious to feed.  Me: “What are you feeling right now?” The computer buzzed and the zombie spoke in a stiff contrived manner, like a puppet. His skin was corpse-gray, and he was bald with thin hair in patches. His body smelled of decaying flesh. Somewhere between the stench of a rotting road kill and a landfill.Z: “Hunger. Hunger for your brain and guts.” He then snapped his jaw at me.Me:  “So you won’t be satisfied by animal flesh?”Z: “Only human flesh.”Me: “Do you remember your past, who you were?”Z: “No.” He shot out a stuttering moan and turned to me. “I am hunger.”Professor M: “The zombie’s hippocampus was damaged, but ask him about Jessica and Luther.”Me: “Do you know a Jessica or a Luther.”Z: “No. I only want to eat your flesh.” He sniffed and fought his restraints.Professor: “You asked him if he knows his wife of fifteen years and his twelve year old son.”Me: “Mr. Z, do you feel pain or sorrow?” Z: “Only hunger for living flesh.”Me: “So if you were released, you would attack and do what?”Z: “Bite the first human I could reach and feed, then find another and another. Feed.”Me: “Do you feel any emotions?”
Z: “Only rage when I attack to feed.”Me: “I take it you don’t remember how you ended up a zombie?” Z: “No.”Professor:  “He took a back road in the desert. One of our escaped zombies got to him. We shot the zombie in the head and brought Mr. Z in and kept him in isolation. On the third day he died and quickly reanimated.”Me: “So your lab created this zombie virus?”Professor: “The perfect doomsday biological weapon, but we never created it. One night we found a man near our base as if planted here for us to find.”Me: “Why keep this lab, why not destroy the zombies you experiment on?”Professor: “We are determined to find a cure. Besides, other labs around the world have similar zombie labs.”Me: “And nobody knows.”Professor: “Best to keep it a secret, otherwise panic would lead to chaos. Like nukes, this a weapon that we hope to never use.”Me: "Yeah right," I muttered.
Z: He moaned and shook in his straight jacket. 
Professor: “Put him pack in his pen.”  Black uniformed armed men came in and took him away.Me: “What can we do if some terrorist releases the virus or another zombie escapes?”Professor: “Have a vehicle loaded with enough food and water for a month and get as far away from populated areas as possible.  Pack guns and rifles, but when you run out of ammo, make sure you have a sharp machete, sword or ax. Keep in mind that the next siren you hear, might not be for an impending tsunami, hurricane or tornado but for zombie attack.

I thanked him for allowing me to see and speak to a real horror movie zombie and happy to return to the Bestiary Parlor.  What is stranger than fiction is that there are real cases of zombie disease found in nature. The dreaded zombie-ant fungus.Blurbs taken from the Guardian about zombie-ant fungus http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/02/fungi-zombie-ants-amazon?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

I'm back and sharing my next book cover

Hi,
I just wanted to share my new book cover for Apocalyptic Moon. The release date is May 10, 2013. In the meantime I'm waiting for my editor to return Lycan Gladiator edits and my beta readers to finish my  Victorian romance, The Gamekeeper's Daughter.

I also hope (depending on my crazy schedule) to start my disease for writers series. That is, once I recover from my bout with bronchitis. Hmm. Write what you know, eth?

Okay, here is my new book cover and blurb. 


Dr. Dora Adler’s life has been in disarray since the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, but when she gets bitten by one of the undead her whole world is turned upside down. Held captive in a secret underground lab, the tall, muscular hunk in the next cell is her only hope for salvation. Unfortunately, he claims to be a werewolf. Yeah, and she’s supposedly a witch.

Dirk Gunderson is an alpha Arbor pack werewolf. Captured and collared, he’s sold to the zombie lab in hopes his blood serum can create a vaccine. He needs to escape, but not without the hot little brunette witch.

In the midst of enemy werewolves and the hordes of undead, Dirk and Dora’s sexual tension ignites a blaze hotter than the desert highway. Along their journey, they battle the inevitable: a werewolf must never take a witch as a mate.