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January 15, 2018
Change yourself! Cartoon & #Zombie!
Hey it's Monday. So have some fun!
Mindless stuff you can do online -
Family Guy Yourself
Now I should take that and turn it zombie right? haa! Ok couldn't resist....
Make Me Zombie - and here's me: haa!
Zombify Yourself on PicMonkey - ZombieMe.com
Dead Yourself - Walking Dead App, ITunes - and on Google Play
Mindless stuff you can do online -
Family Guy Yourself
Now I should take that and turn it zombie right? haa! Ok couldn't resist....
Make Me Zombie - and here's me: haa!
Zombify Yourself on PicMonkey - ZombieMe.com
Dead Yourself - Walking Dead App, ITunes - and on Google Play
January 12, 2018
Great #Sci Fi - #Fantasy Reads! #KU
On Kindle Unlimited?
Check out this great selection of Sci Fi and Fantasy reads! (With some gorgeous book covers!)
January 8, 2018
Paris and... #Zombies?
One goal this year: I want to try featuring other blogs and things I come across and find interesting. Today's topic: Paris
Source: free vintage travel posters
Love Paris?
It was interesting reading about and seeing the wonderful photos fellow author and Facebook friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley took during her recent trip to Paris. Here she puts up an amazing list of books about Paris on her Meandering & Muses blog.
Her book, Whimsey is "a novel of southern fiction with a splash of magic and a touch of fantasy, topped with a sprinkling of humor. The magic was already there when cigar-smoking matriarch Elizabeth Calhoun established an artist’s colony on an island off the coast of Georgia and named it Whimsey."
Sounds like a great afternoon read snuggled up with some tea and a comforter!
Now I like to read all kinds of things... And if you think the topic of Paris doesn't fit on this blog? haa! Guess what? Zombies are everywhere! I got a big kick out of looking this up!!
Yes, there are some books with Paris - and zombies!! Have fun looking up others!
An Alphabet of Paris Zombies
, Amy Plum - Gruesome deaths in Paris written in couplets for each letter. Definitely different.
The Plague in Paris
, Tyler Omichinski - Mr. Hildebrand and his valet flee the British Isles for Paris amid scandal. Will they survive the chaos there? Dry humor, pulp, 19th century.
The Undying , Undying Series, Ethan Reid - A young American in Paris must lead her friends to safety and escape the hungry undying in this apocalyptic thriller. (Great cover!) Book 2: The Undying: Shades: An Apocalyptic Thriller
Source: free vintage travel posters
Love Paris?
It was interesting reading about and seeing the wonderful photos fellow author and Facebook friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley took during her recent trip to Paris. Here she puts up an amazing list of books about Paris on her Meandering & Muses blog.
Her book, Whimsey is "a novel of southern fiction with a splash of magic and a touch of fantasy, topped with a sprinkling of humor. The magic was already there when cigar-smoking matriarch Elizabeth Calhoun established an artist’s colony on an island off the coast of Georgia and named it Whimsey." Sounds like a great afternoon read snuggled up with some tea and a comforter!
Now I like to read all kinds of things... And if you think the topic of Paris doesn't fit on this blog? haa! Guess what? Zombies are everywhere! I got a big kick out of looking this up!!
Yes, there are some books with Paris - and zombies!! Have fun looking up others!
An Alphabet of Paris Zombies
, Amy Plum - Gruesome deaths in Paris written in couplets for each letter. Definitely different.
The Plague in Paris
, Tyler Omichinski - Mr. Hildebrand and his valet flee the British Isles for Paris amid scandal. Will they survive the chaos there? Dry humor, pulp, 19th century. The Undying , Undying Series, Ethan Reid - A young American in Paris must lead her friends to safety and escape the hungry undying in this apocalyptic thriller. (Great cover!) Book 2: The Undying: Shades: An Apocalyptic Thriller
January 5, 2018
New Review of Lizzie Borden's Doctor #Paranormal #Mystery
Hope you had a great start to 2018!
I started out the new year right with a great new review of my companion book, The Haunting of Dr. Bowen in the Jan. issue of Uncaged Book Reviews 4 stars!
Here's part of it: "... An enjoyable story to go along with Lizzie Borden (Zombie Hunter)... Though it explores a slightly different facet of the paranormal genre, it fits nicely into the world Verstraete had already built. Additionally, she added one last bittersweet surprise to the end of the book that reminded me of the story's predecessor..." - Kaitlin, Uncaged Book Reviews, (Jan. 2018, pg. 90), 4 stars
January 2, 2018
Happy 2018 Lizzie Borden Writing! #zombies #horrror
Well it's 2018!
I started January 1 on good footing - I laid off my writing of Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2 a bit. I reworked parts of Chapter 1, which now works better, and I did a couple other chapters, then felt I really needed to work on the rest of the outline.
I'm actually starting Chapter 13 (my chapters are short) and knew most of what I wanted to happen next. It's just along the way, I, at least, get bogged down in fearing I'm missing some points and trying to hook all the details together. It's always a big puzzle that needs careful assembly. Why an outline helps. I think I have most of it now and some of it also may get cemented once I write the next parts. That's why the outline is so useful.
Funny, I realize now that I overlooked one point - and I think I'll keep it that way as it would've put the story off in an unneeded direction -- and most of all I did NOT want to kill off a certain character. Not yet anyway.
Real Life?
I like how the story is going, continuing where
Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter
ended, and following up on certain points: Are the zombies really gone? What happens to Lizzie after the trial and after she is acquitted of the double murders? What happened to her sister? Does she ever marry or fall in love?
Granted, Lizzie's life was fairly quiet and "normal" after the trial. Not much goes on in real life, so I'm incorporating some real life events from different time periods and of course a lot of it is fictional. Well, zombies, right? But I am still pulling in facts from the murders the year before and the trial since it was the reason why we even know who she was.
Not many chapters to go. This one will be a bit shorter, I think. I won't say much more though I'm going to really concentrate to finish. Kind of a NanoWriMo but in January. I'm late as I wanted to finish sooner, but I'm still on track. Stay tuned for details!
I started January 1 on good footing - I laid off my writing of Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2 a bit. I reworked parts of Chapter 1, which now works better, and I did a couple other chapters, then felt I really needed to work on the rest of the outline. I'm actually starting Chapter 13 (my chapters are short) and knew most of what I wanted to happen next. It's just along the way, I, at least, get bogged down in fearing I'm missing some points and trying to hook all the details together. It's always a big puzzle that needs careful assembly. Why an outline helps. I think I have most of it now and some of it also may get cemented once I write the next parts. That's why the outline is so useful.
Funny, I realize now that I overlooked one point - and I think I'll keep it that way as it would've put the story off in an unneeded direction -- and most of all I did NOT want to kill off a certain character. Not yet anyway.
Real Life?
I like how the story is going, continuing where
Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter
ended, and following up on certain points: Are the zombies really gone? What happens to Lizzie after the trial and after she is acquitted of the double murders? What happened to her sister? Does she ever marry or fall in love?Granted, Lizzie's life was fairly quiet and "normal" after the trial. Not much goes on in real life, so I'm incorporating some real life events from different time periods and of course a lot of it is fictional. Well, zombies, right? But I am still pulling in facts from the murders the year before and the trial since it was the reason why we even know who she was.
Not many chapters to go. This one will be a bit shorter, I think. I won't say much more though I'm going to really concentrate to finish. Kind of a NanoWriMo but in January. I'm late as I wanted to finish sooner, but I'm still on track. Stay tuned for details!
January 1, 2018
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Wow, where has the year gone??? Thank you to all the visitors and readers who've come to the blog and read my/our books. Here's wishing you the best in 2018 and a wonderfully productive year!
Got any special projects in mind???
Got any special projects in mind???
December 28, 2017
Romero #Zombie Movie Remake!
Looks like a remake is coming out of George Romero's Day of the Dead: Bloodline, originally released in 1985. Firstshowing.net describes it as "a group of military personnel and survivalists living in an underground bunker while trying to survive the zombie apocalypse." The site isn't too enthusiastic about the movie being good, but ? If anything the poster is cool. See on YouTube or check the preview below.
December 26, 2017
#Zombie Movies & Series
With Christmas now over, it's time to talk
zombie movies and series
.
So, did you get any for Christmas?
I just got season 7 of The Walking Dead . Yes, I'm behind since I don't use cable. I'd heard a lot of griping about this season being too bloody and gratuitous. Gory? Yes. I'll say the first story involving the killing of several longtime characters was pretty ghastly but also so fake that it fell into the unbelievable for me. I'm watching segment 2 with King Ezekiel and not really sure what I think. Maybe some people are right and the series has lost some of its earlier magic and gripping storylines. We'll see.
I watched part 1 of the BBC series, In the Flesh, (which I see came out in 2013) after hearing someone comment on it. It's pretty intriguing in that the infected are "cured" or at least function via a vaccine. (No ideas are too original it seems as I had the zombie teen in my book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, (which also came out in 2013) survive via taking medicine as well.)
Intriguing series and well-acted. It concentrates a lot on the zombie-characters flashbacks and how others cope with them. I got part 2 of In the Flesh for Christmas and am looking forward to watching it.
I also got the zombies movie collection which includes The Demented , The Crazies, Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead and The Terror Experiment . Anyone see any of these? Bad? Good?
Well... when the movie description starts: college friends join up for a reunion that soon turns deadly, well.. And oh, when the second movie, The Crazies, also uses the "battling for survival lines..." an't they think of anything original? But this one gets 4 stars and is a reinvention of a Romero movie.
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead involves cast members in a "real-life" version of the Romero classic. Hmm.... The Terror Experiment sounds different since it involves the release of a deadly toxin, yes, but describes it as "employees must get out before the building is destroyed to destroy the poison." Zombies? And this looks to be the best rated with 4.75 stars... Okay, I'm intrigued....
The Demented
The Crazies
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead
The Terror Experiment
So, what zombie movies/series are you going to watch?
So, did you get any for Christmas?
I just got season 7 of The Walking Dead . Yes, I'm behind since I don't use cable. I'd heard a lot of griping about this season being too bloody and gratuitous. Gory? Yes. I'll say the first story involving the killing of several longtime characters was pretty ghastly but also so fake that it fell into the unbelievable for me. I'm watching segment 2 with King Ezekiel and not really sure what I think. Maybe some people are right and the series has lost some of its earlier magic and gripping storylines. We'll see.
I watched part 1 of the BBC series, In the Flesh, (which I see came out in 2013) after hearing someone comment on it. It's pretty intriguing in that the infected are "cured" or at least function via a vaccine. (No ideas are too original it seems as I had the zombie teen in my book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, (which also came out in 2013) survive via taking medicine as well.)
Intriguing series and well-acted. It concentrates a lot on the zombie-characters flashbacks and how others cope with them. I got part 2 of In the Flesh for Christmas and am looking forward to watching it.
I also got the zombies movie collection which includes The Demented , The Crazies, Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead and The Terror Experiment . Anyone see any of these? Bad? Good?
Well... when the movie description starts: college friends join up for a reunion that soon turns deadly, well.. And oh, when the second movie, The Crazies, also uses the "battling for survival lines..." an't they think of anything original? But this one gets 4 stars and is a reinvention of a Romero movie.
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead involves cast members in a "real-life" version of the Romero classic. Hmm.... The Terror Experiment sounds different since it involves the release of a deadly toxin, yes, but describes it as "employees must get out before the building is destroyed to destroy the poison." Zombies? And this looks to be the best rated with 4.75 stars... Okay, I'm intrigued....
The Demented
The Crazies
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead
The Terror Experiment
So, what zombie movies/series are you going to watch?
December 24, 2017
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas!
Wishing all my readers and visitors the best of the holiday season and a Merry Christmas!
Come back after the holidays and share what new zombie and monster movies you got as gifts! I know I have a couple coming!
December 22, 2017
Some Lizzie Borden Q & A
I'm talking Lizzie Borden and sharing some interesting Q&A's (that's Questions and Answers!) here at Mary Cunningham's blog today. Take a peek and make a comment. Don't forget the Kindle book is still on sale for $1.99 through January.
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