Christine Verstraete's Blog: Chris Verstraete's Blog, page 3

Zombies Helping Vets...

Author Karina Fabian's zombie serial for helping wounded veterans...
see http://girlzombieauthors.blogspot.com/2013/01/fun-zombie-story-and-chance-to-help.html

New Blog - like zombies and horror?

Several of us girl zombie authors started a new blog - talking zombies, horror and whatever else strikes our fancies...

Stop by! GirlZombieAuthors

New Banner for GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie

Made a banner until I get a cover. Can't wait! Stay tuned for cover reveal...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6nT8448kG9w...

Halloween in Miniature blog event + spooky reads

My annual blog event, the Halloween in Miniature party has begun! Unique Halloween creations plus a spooky book recommendation each day to Halloween. http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/2012...

New Zombie YA Book Coming in 2013

My new YA - Zombie book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie by C.A. Verstraete, will be published in 2013 by Intrigue Publishing.

Synopsis:

Life can suck when you're sixteen. It can suck even worse when you're not- quite-dead.

Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Herrera Hayes faces every teenager's biggest nightmares: bad skin, bad hair, and worse . . . turning into one of the living dead.

Becca's life changes forever when her cousin Spence comes back to their small Wisconsin town carrying a deadly secret—he's becoming a zombie, a fate he shares with her through an accidental scratch.

The Z infection, however, has mutated, affecting younger persons like her, or those treated early enough, differently. Now she must cope with weird physical changes and habits no girl wants to be noticed for. Then she meets Gabe, a good-looking part-Z like her, and fears falling for him. After all, how can he, who shows hardly any Z symptoms, be interested in someone like her?

But time is running out... Becca needs his help as she and her cousin Carm search for their missing mothers and fight off hungry Zs.

Most of all, she needs to find something, anything, to stop this deadly transformation before it is forever too late...

Cover to come!
Details: http://cverstraete.com
Blog: http://candidcanine.blogspot.com

New stop at The Corner Cafe tour, read a sample!

** Today, at the CORNER CAFE: A TASTY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, it's time to meet more of the authors. Stop by Pat Bean's blog and see what contributor Helen Ginger has to say about her stories, her new book and-- being a mermaid? ** Visit blog.

** BONUS! Read her dark little flash story "One Last Run" that's in the collection!


THE CORNER CAFE: A Tasty Collection of Short Stories is the local place where 15 authors offer their takes on the guests and visitors who come in. The menu includes stories by Marian Allen, Shonell Bacon, Karen Casey Fitzjerrell, W.S. Gager, Helen Ginger, Dani Greer, S.B. Lerner, Audrey Lintner, Morgan Mandel, Maryann Miller, Bodie Parkhurst, Bob Sanchez, Mary Montague Sikes, Red Tash, and Christine Verstraete. (And it's better than a cup of joe - and only 99 cents!!)

* In my story "Perfect Timing" by Christine Verstraete, a rescued pup helps cafe owner Gina Mason find love and thwart a would-be robber.

New story collection, The Corner Cafe: A Tasty Collection of Short Stories

The Corner Cafe offers "A Tasty Collection of Short Stories" centered in or at "The Corner Cafe."

In my story, "Perfect Timing" by Christine Verstraete, a rescued pup helps cafe owner Gina Mason find love and thwart a would-be robber.

Sweet, dreamy, steamy, sometimes slightly seamy, a multi-genre short story collection for every taste. (Kindle; coming in other formats)

Prepared by 15 BBT Cafe authors: Marian Allen, Shonell Bacon, Karen Casey Fitzjerrell, W.S. Gager, Helen Ginger, Dani Greer, S.B. Lerner, Audrey Lintner, Morgan Mandel, Maryann Miller, Bodie Parkhurst, Bob Sanchez, Mary Montague Sikes, Red Tash, and Christine Verstraete. BBT Cafe Authors

A to Z Challenge - Review Dog Book, Charlie, A Love Story

Today I'm reviewing a new dog book, Charlie, A Love Story at my Candid Canine blog. More about the author and the book will be posted tomorrow.

http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/2012...

New Loves, Old Loves, and the Zombie Kind...

I have a terrible habit of starting stories, then letting them sit. And sit.

But when I go back, I realize I have started something I like, and would like to see how it turns out.

So, I'm back working on a zombie story, a kind of prequel about a girl zombie, the main character in the YA book I've been sending out. Posting about it seems like a good way to commit to finishing it.

Sometimes a character doesn't let you go. Nor do you want her to. This time, I'm putting a different little wrinkle in the love story between my girl zombie, Becca, and her boyfriend, Gabe.

Oh, and forget your usual notion of zombies.

Becca is nothing like them. Nothing at all.

In fact, she thinks life can be near normal again. At least she did until her guy went out and moved hundreds of miles away without telling her.

So, she came up with a plan. Kind of.

But like most plans, it doesn't go the way she expected. Instead, she finds herself facing a most unexpected, and most unusual, new love.

Will Becca and Gabe learn what life post-Z is like - together? Or will she find a new love under a big, bright, beautiful full moon?

Stay tuned...

Are you crafty? New Profiles, pix and how-to's, IN MINIATURE STYLE II

Now available in print, ebook (pdf) and various e-formats including Kindle.

In Miniature Style II by Christine Verstraete features profiles of miniaturists, great photos, and over 40 how-to projects, many new for this version.


http://www.writers-exchange.com/Chris... Author pg, Vol 1 and II

** Download other formats: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/... Smashwords

** See project info and photos: http://cverstraete.com/dollhousebook_...