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June 26, 2015
Teaser: Melanie Karsak #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Melanie Karsak’s The Shadow Aspect! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
The Shadow Aspect: Book II of The Harvesting Series
“This way,” Kellimore yelled, running down a running path that lead in the direction of the school. “Come on!”
“Fuck,” Elle grumbled. Surprising me, she unzipped her coat and pulled out two machetes. “Ready for some fun?” she asked with a sardonic grin.
Cricket gave Tristan a nervous look then turned toward me. “Here we go,” Cricket said, twirling her enormous pipe wrench, and we all took off behind Kellimore. Chase brought up the rear.
“Stay quiet,” Tristan called. “Maybe they’ll get lost in the mist.”
We rushed down the path behind the bleachers. “This way!” Kellimore called, rushing to gate that surrounded the football field. He opened the gate with a clatter. “Go, go! Let’s lure them in!”
“But can we get out?” I asked breathlessly as I rushed in behind him.
Kellimore nodded. “The rest of you scale the…
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Teaser: Samantha Gregory #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Samantha Gregory’s After! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Book Teaser – After
What would the world be like after a zombie apocalypse? When the zombies have been destroyed and what’s left of humanity tries to pick up the pieces? What happens After…
Jenna Deluise grew up in that world. A world under the thumb of a new military police called the New Alliance which is funded by Gene Pharm, a powerful pharmaceutical company. Her father worked for them as a top scientist before he committed suicide.
When his boss kidnaps Jenna to lure her allegedly dead father out, Jenna realizes that she didn’t know her father at all and that his work on the zombie virus was more sinister than he made out.
Jenna is taken to an underground lab where she finds her father’s ex lab assistant Wesley. He is being forced to finish her father’s work. Jenna and Wesley have to work together to escape the…
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Teaser: Stevie Kopas #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Stevie Kopas’ All Good Things! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
All Good Things, Book Three in The Breadwinner Trilogy
by Stevie Kopas
Excerpt
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Gary tore through the hole in the fence like a bat out of hell. He could hear his fellow survivors’ footfalls behind him. In the midst of the firefight, he had been unable to retrieve his weapons and up ahead he spied a few straggling eaters headed his way. He darted right, taking yet another detour. His chest burned and his head swam.
How could things have gone so wrong?
Gary looked back only once to see Clyde and Andrew in hot pursuit; he waved an arm, motioning for them to follow him into one of the abandoned homes.
He rushed the door of a 1980’s-style brick home and prayed that it was unlocked. With a flick of his wrist, he turned the knob and let himself in, the strong scent of rot and decay hitting…
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Now Available for Kindle – Undead Regeneration
(The sequel to Undead Drive-Thru)
Available on Kindle
The zombie is gone…finally and truly dead.
John and Ky try to get on with their lives, but they can’t. They are haunted by the past and it’s tearing apart their future.
With no other options, they go undercover where Sam had worked before he came home…undead: ReGen.
They struggle with their circumstances, their fears, and their relationship as they fight to tame their nightmares and create a happy and healthy future together.
©Rebecca Besser, 2015. All rights reserved.
June 25, 2015
Teaser: Jaime Johnesee #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Jaime Johnesee’s Bob Meets Sam! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Here is a sneak peek inside my upcoming novella Bob Meets Sam. I hope you enjoy:
The zombie sang along as he danced and soon he was head-bobbing like an agitated rooster and pointing his finger disco-style. The other patrons watched him with smiles on their faces. Anytime he pointed his finger someone’s way they ducked a little. Bob was well known in Martin’s Bar and folks knew that parts of him had a habit of disengaging from the others.
As Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Fortunate Son’ replaced AC/DC Bob’s dancing slowed. He still made patrons smile as he did the sprinkler to the CCR hit. Griffin chuckled as he turned his attention back to doing inventory. He kept on counting the liquor bottles, stopping occasionally to watch the zombie get down.
It was during an unintentionally aggressive disco point to the door that Bob’s hand flew off and toward the…
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Teaser: Luke Ahearn #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt of Luke Ahearn’s Transformation! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Transformation Excerpts
1.
Cooper felt as if his heart stopped when suddenly he tripped and fell flat on his face. His sister fell on his back. He was pinned down and the zombies were only a few feet from them. Before he could stand, Ellen was screaming and thrashing wildly as she fought for her life. Her screams intensified and he could feel her body getting jerked and pulled about. The only thought running through his mind was no, no, no, no, no. He tried to stand but was pushed back down to the ground by the violent struggle on top of him.
Then he felt his sister’s body suddenly lifted from his back. His eyes filled with tears as her bloodcurdling screams tore through him. He was desperate to save her even though he knew she was as good as gone.
Cooper planted his hands flat on the ground…
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Teaser: Shawn Chesser #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Shawn Chesser’s Ghosts! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Ghosts:
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
Shawn Chesser
Prologue
Trying to become one with the massive Douglas fir, Raven squatted and pressed her back hard against its gnarled trunk. With the unpleasant sensation of coarse bark grating her skin through the thin tee shirt she’d thrown on during her hasty retreat from the compound, she strained mightily in the dark to hear anything over her heartbeat and labored breathing.
Finally, after a few seconds spent listening and probing the dark with her eyes for any signs of movement from the direction of the footpath leading to the grass-covered clearing, she heard twigs cracking and the hollow thuds of plodding, unsteady footsteps.
Then, seemingly from all around, she heard the ubiquitous rasps—like dried cornstalks rustling in a stiff breeze—of determined first turns on the hunt.
Stay here, her mom had hissed a beat prior to melting into the night, clad only…
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Teaser: Eric A. Shelman #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Eric. A. Shelman’s Scabs! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
BOOK 1
SCABS
By
Eric A. Shelman
PROLOGUE
WARREN
My name is Warren Walsh. My twin brother is Scott. We’re twenty-seven years old last April 3rd.
We both have red hair and freckles. Our facial features are what some might call chiseled. Square chins, strong jaw lines. Dimples. Well-sized noses. Vivid green eyes. We’re both 6’5” tall.
I keep my hair long, usually wearing it in a ponytail; Scott’s hair is about down to the middle of his back. He wears a full beard and mustache, but I only have a goatee.
Based purely on our descriptions and birth dates, I suppose at this point it’s not necessary to tell you we’re identical twins.
I’ll be right back. I’ve just decided to record this stuff on paper because it appears there’s going to be some down time over the next eternity or so.
*****
Okay. I’m…
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June 24, 2015
Teaser: Rebecca Besser #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Rebecca Besser’s Undead Regeneration! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Undead Regeneration
By Rebecca Besser
The scream that echoed through the apartment was ripe with terror. It tore violently from Kyndra Thornton’s throat as she bolted upright in bed. Her eyes shot open, but she didn’t see the familiarity surrounding her. Her mind told her that she was in mortal danger and her emotions believed it – they convinced her that her cause to be frightened was real. Her jaw throbbed from an old wound, one that brought horrors with it, horrors of a zombie and a crazy woman from her past.
“It’s okay, honey,” John Daniels said, awakened by her scream. He reached out to comfort her from his side of the bed.
The hand that came toward Kyndra wasn’t human; the skin was hanging off with puss and blood dripping from the claws at the tip of each finger. She screamed again and lashed out at the hand…
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Teaser: Jay Wilburn #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Jay Wilburn’s The Dead Song Legend! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Summer of Zombie 2015
Teaser from chapter one of The Dead Song Dodecology Book 1: January from Milwaukee to Muscle Shoals
by Jay Wilburn
Donna Cash tucked her dick away from the front of her sequined dress. She adjusted the wig she had borrowed from the box of supplies left unclaimed by previous drag queens, mostly eaten by zombies in the streets of Milwaukee.
She took the stage and stumbled on her left platform shoe which threatened to fold under and snap her ankle. Donna stood tall and sexy, but Timothy Janvier was short and had a growing belly. He wore a girdle and high platforms to make the transformation.
Donna straightened her back and slid her gloved hands down past the full curve of her hips. The fingertips showed through cuts in the satin gloves to reveal the shine of bright red nails against the sequins covering her body…
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