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October 22, 2012
Book Feature Daisuki By Hildred Billings
Happy Monday!
Today in Lizzyland we welcome author Hildred Billings with her book titled Daisuki!
Synopsis:
Aiko and Reina have been together for almost 20 years, yet one thing remains unsaid between them: “Daisuki,” or, “I love you.” As they approach their anniversary, their relationship comes to an impasse as Aiko the Japanese housewife begins demanding “I love you” with a side of marriage and romance.
But Reina doesn’t understand complex concepts like “love” or other heavy emotions. She’s spent years supporting her girlfriend via a soul-sucking salary job and tending to their mutual needs in the bedroom. Isn’t that sufficient? In a culture demanding Reina choose between the “feminine” and the “masculine” worlds, it’s bad enough she’s trying to find her role without Aiko adding extra pressure.
Author Bio:
Hildred Billings is a Japanese and Religious Studies scholar who has spent her entire life knowing she would write for a living someday. She has lived in Japan a total of three times in three different locations, from the heights of the Japanese alps to the hectic Tokyo suburbs, with a life in Shikoku somewhere in there too. When she’s not writing, however, she spends most of her time talking about Asian pop music, cats, and bad 80′s fantasy movies with anyone who will listen…or not.
Her writing centers around themes of redemption, sexuality, and death, sometimes all at once. Although she enjoys writing in the genre of fantasy the most, she strives to show as much reality as possible through her characters and situations, since she’s a furious realist herself.
Hildred’s book can be found on Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and All Romance.
To find out more about Hildred, you can go to the following places:
http://www.hildred-billings.com/
http://facebook.com/authorhildredbillings
October 19, 2012
Guest post by Stant Litore: So, zombie apocalypse. You’re ready?
Today, I’d like to welcome Stant Litore, author of the brilliant The Zombie Bible series! Stant was kind enough to write up a blog post about a subject near-and-dear to everyone’s hearts: the zombie apocalypse – and just how real it is! Stant dropped by as part of his tour for the promotion of the latest chapter in “The Zombie Bible” series: Strangers in the Land, available from Amazon, Amazon UK, iTunes (Audiobook), and BN.
Welcome, Stant!
So, zombie apocalypse. You’re Ready?
I keep a Templar sword by the bed. Just in case. Actually scared to death of the hungry dead. On one of our first dates, my future wife and I rented Dawn of the Dead and about five minutes in, I quietly got to my feet, tiptoed out, and retrieved my wood-ax from the shed. Set it right against the armchair. Felt much better through the whole movie after that. The fact that Jessica was more amused than alarmed by this likely is one reason she and I now wear wedding rings.
Actually though, you have to understand that it’s not just one big outbreak we have to watch for. Zombies have been here all along, devouring our history from the inside. In every generation, there has been a plague somewhere. That’s what The Zombie Bible is about – how generations of our ancestors wrestled with the restless dead. How they fought for survival and for sanity in the centuries before electricity or guns or the CDC. Moviemakers like to freak me out with warnings of an imminent global collapse and a world rendered wasteland inhabited by the dead gnawing on the last bones. But in fact tomorrow or the day after may only be the latest chapter in a long and grisly story.
I’ve been collecting these tales for awhile. I have a place up in Colorado where there are a few trees and you can see the dead coming from a long way off. I write each evening to scholars and archaeologists who can piece together bits of our half-eaten and half-forgotten memory. If you stop by or take a look in one of my books, I’ll tell you a few tales. How the prophet Jeremiah was left in a dry well three days with the dead tossed in after him. How Polycarp the martyr used to bring rest to dozens of the dead with a touch of his hand and his soul-searching eyes. How in the twelfth century BC, Devora, an aging prophetess, led a tribal people against great herds of dead, her blade uplifted above her like a slice of moon against the night sky.
There are tales that will fascinate you and there are tales that will break the heart. Because whether today or three thousand years ago, one’s dead are never faced without terrible cost. Our ancestors understood that better than we, and we can learn from their stories.
This is a guest post by Stant Litore, author of Strangers in the Land (47North), a new entry in The Zombie Bible.
About Stant
Born a farmer’s son in the Pacific Northwest, Stant Litore took the college road and eventually earned his PhD in English, but remains passionate for things that grow. He spent several years in a dim corner of a library, repairing bruised and battered books, before heading overseas to backpack through Europe. Haunted by the hunger and poverty he witnessed at home and abroad, he began spinning stories about the hungers that devour us and the hopes that preserve us. Today he lives in Colorado with his wife and their two daughters, writing about the restless dead and the restless living. He avoids certain parts of the mountains during the dark of the moon.
Contact Stant via his Twitter, website, Facebook or email (zombiebible@gmail.com)
Book Feature: Fear Itself by Steven Siddall
Hello Everyone!
Please welcome to Lizzyland author Steven Sidall.
Steven is here today to share his book, Fear Itself which is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo.
Synopsis:
Judiah never figured himself for a good guy, but the day he was going to hang he got a job offer from the Church. Kill evil, and earn redemption in the eyes of God. It might sound like an easy choice, but to have any chance to survive his encounters with evil Judiah would need to use the powers he gained by selling his soul to a demon. And that alone terrifies him even more than any evil he could face.
His first job seems easy enough: exorcize the ghost of a serial killer which has continued the man’s murder spree even after death. But Judiah finds there is no ghost, only a demon, and the implication that someone is controlling it. Now a simple exorcism has turned into a cult conspiracy, one that aims to destroy any chance at peace with the Vampire Lords.
Maybe the noose would’ve been better.
Author Bio:
In the sixth grade, a teacher asked Steven Siddall to write on what he did over the summer. Given little direction, and realizing that handing in a single sentence description of playing video games all summer would earn a bad grade, he instead wrote a short fictional story detailing what his character did in those video games. Ever since then, he’s written numerous things that are probably buried somewhere in the Mojave Desert to avoid the humiliation and shame that would come if someone ever read them. Eventually, however, he wrote something worth letting others see, and thinks continuing that trend might be a good thing. Fear Itself is his first novel, but he has plans to make it into a series, including supplemental short stories. He also has plans for a much more ambitious second series for sometime in the future.
Author links:
http://www.stevensiddall.com/
http://twitter.com/StevenSiddall
October 18, 2012
Book Feature: “Zombies in My Basement” by Katrina Holmes
Welcome back to Lizzyland, Katrina!
Zombies have moved into Todd’s house and taken over the basement. His friend Brad is very brave and decides to go see what they are doing down there, unaware that he’s going to learn more than they ever thought possible.
“Zombies in My Basement” is a children’s tale that follows Todd and Brad as they learn what Zombies like to eat and do. They discover that even though most people are afraid of zombies and wouldn’t like them to move in, sometimes you can be surprised with what you will find when you take the time to get to know someone.
Available from: Amazon and Amazon UK.
About Katrina
From her website:
“I think when I get old and grey I’ll be sitting on my porch. The mean ol lady that all the kids are afraid of. Telling horror stories about how I eat children and the such. Only a select few brave souls will find out that I’m actually really nice. I FINISHED MY FIRST HALF MARATHON 10/30/2010 I love my Husband Drew, my 8yr old Merrick and my 3yr old MacKenna. My husband also has a son Spencer that lives in NC. We live in Clarksville, TN. I have lived in VA., ME., FL., TN., and I have been to Japan, and Cali. I love Apple, Life Is Good stuff,Roller Derby, Bowling, and most of all Godiva. I am now starting my journey into the land of Children Books. Wish me Luck…”
Contact her via her website or Twitter!
October 10, 2012
Book Feature: “Gnit-Wit Gnipper Short Story Series” by T.J. Lantz
Please welcome to Lizzyland young adult fantasy author T.J. Lantz. T.J. is sharing his new short story series about Gnit-Wit Gnipper, an eight year old gnome, and his adventures.
Gnit-Wit Gnipper and the Perilous Plague
(book 1 in the short story series)
No matter how hard she tries life never seems to go quite right for Gnipper Tallhat, an eight-year-old Gnome determined to receive the recognition her intelligence deserves. This time, however, she’s got it all figured out. Finally, her father will have to be proud of her accomplishments…provided he manages to live through them.
Available at Amazon
Gnit-Wit Gnipper and the Ferocious Fire Ants
(Book 2 in the short story series)
Gnipper is an eight year old gnomish scientist trying hard to earn the community’s respect 
for her work. She just needed an idea that could benefit everyone and now she has it- she’s going to create a growth serum to fix the gnome’s height issues. Everything is great until she decides to test her product on Chloe, the queen of her fire ant farm. Now she needs to act quickly or the entire community is about to be destroyed by twenty pound, angry insects. Can she save Rosehaven from another one of her mishaps?
Available at Amazon
Author Bio:
Though new to the world of professional writing, T.J. Lantz has been a world class storyteller (A.K.A. liar) for many years. Originally forging his craft by creating backstories for each of the lawn gnomes he managed to liberate from the prisons his neighbors called their front yards, lately he has answered to a much higher calling. Namely, making up stories to entertain the small children that people refer to as his “students”. Encouraged by his ability to trick ten-year-olds into believing everything he says is true, Mr Lantz has now decided to offer his amazing manipulative abilities to the rest of the world. He plans on world domination within three months.
Author links:
Blog - http://rosehaventhehiddencity.wordpress.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RosehavenTheHiddenCity
October 5, 2012
Book Feature & Giveaway: “Hell Town” by R. Nightshade
Please welcome to Lizzyland debut author, R. Nightshade. She’s just released her debut horror ebook “Hell Town”. She’s also having a giveaway on her blog. Please visit to enter and win an autographed paperback copy of Hell Town. (oh and R. Nightshade is Lizzy’s sister. She’s very new to the publishing world so if you all could make her feel welcome and give her a few likes on her Facebook page that would be awesome!)
Armageddon Network’s Ghost Detectives are called to small town Hillsboro, Ohio to check out an abandoned opera house. As soon as they arrive, they discover that the town is suffering from a series of gruesome murders. The Sheriff suspects the murders are connected and the serial killer is still on the loose. Ghost hunters and best friends Knox, Jim, and Ray quickly find themselves over their heads in evil and devise a theory that they think will solve the town’s problem. Will the ghost hunters stop the ultimate demon from destroying the town, or will they make a fatal mistake and send everyone to Hell?
Available at: Smashwords
Author Bio:
I am Horror Author R. Nightshade, and horror is my cup of tea. First, I’d like it to be known that I believe in God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Having said that….
I also believe that The Unseen exist in a realm that intersects our Earthly world. Once in a while we may get a ghostly glimpse, hear a noise, or see an Earthly object move without explanation. Ghost hunting and paranormal investigations are of particular interest to me. With the advent of television shows and public access to ghost investigations, I believe the evidence found by paranormal investigators cannot be ignored.
On the fictional side of life, I have always enjoyed horror movies and stories and over the years I’ve developed an unquenchable thirst for ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and all the supernatural beasts of the night. I’ll admit, things that go bump in the night can scare me, but that’s the best part!
I plan to unleash several horror stories in the coming months and I’m very excited about each book. My first release is Hell Town and will be available on October 3rd, just in time to prepare for the best day of the year: Halloween!
website: http://www.nightshadehorror.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NightshadeHorror
October 3, 2012
Book Feature: “Zombies in My Basement” by Katrina Holmes
Please welcome to Lizzyland, childrens author Katrina Holmes. She’s sharing her “Zombies in My Basement”, a great read for children of all ages.
Zombies have moved into Todd’s house and taken over the basement. His friend Brad is very brave and decides to go see what they are doing down there, unaware that he’s going to learn more than they ever thought possible.
“Zombies in My Basement” is a children’s tale that follows Todd and Brad as they learn what Zombies like to eat and do. They discover that even though most people are afraid of zombies and wouldn’t like them to move in, sometimes you can be surprised with what you will find when you take the time to get to know someone.
Available at Amazon
October 1, 2012
Book Feature: “Once: Ask Me Anything, Not Love” by Mian Mohsin Zia
Please welcome to Lizzyland, author Mian Mohsin Zia. Today he’s sharing his novel “Once: Ask Me Anything, Not Love”. Watch the trailer at Mian’s website.
What would you do if you hurt the woman you loved beyond what is in human nature to forgive? That is the problem that Morkel has to overcome.
As the celebrated author, ‘M—, No Time for Love’, Morkel has vowed to never write a love story, or a story with a female protagonist. A staunch bachelor, Morkel is set in his ways; he has vowed to never fall in love. However, during a holiday in Kiev Morkel meets a ‘person of interest’; someone who will change his life forever. Though, as his name suggests, he still has ‘no time for love’.
Unfortunately, as he is about to learn, love has time for him and it has come knocking at the door of his heart. Will he open the door or ignore the knocking? Will he abandon the title he has worked so hard to create, and, by so doing, forge for himself a new title and destiny?
How long can love wait for Morkel?
How long will Morkel wait for love?
Available at: Amazon, Smashwords, and Paperback
Author bio:
Mian Mohsin Zia aka “M I A N—No Time for Love” is a brilliant, humble and dedicated author obsessed with writing great books.
He is an Internationally acclaimed Pakistani author and his books have been rated 4 and 5 stars on Amazon and other sales channels. He has set new trends worldwide in novel writing with his books.
New York Times bestseller & Edgar Award winner author Mr. Burl Barer refers to Mian Mohsin Zia as “the brightest light on Pakistan’s new literary horizon.”
For more visit: http://www.mianmohsinzia.com
September 28, 2012
Book Feature: “Ballo Di Anima” by Samantha Jeffrey
Please welcome to Lizzyland, author Samantha Jeffrey. She’s sharing her debut novel. If you can, stop by her Facebook page and give her a few likes. She’s a new young author and it’d be wonderful if we could give her some support as she starts out her writing career.
A teenage girl falls victim to peer pressure and suffers the consequence’s of drinking to much. Due to her shenanigans her mother forces her to move to a small town in Italy where Italian is the lost language only remembered by a select fanged group. After a life changing year Elizabeth is faced with a life or death situation when her ‘friends’ turn out to be more dangerous then she original thought. Elizabeth would feature in the vampires spirit dance as the sacrifice. But would Vladimir’s love for her save her or is Elizabeth destined to become yet another unsolved lost girl case sitting on an offices desk?
Available at Xlibris
Author bio:
After reading Twilight I was unable to find a look that I was able to enjoy, so instead I decided to create my own. As a 16 year old in 2009 I started writing a love story I’d really enjoy. Three years later, I’ve graduated high school, started by bachelor at university, got married and had a beautiful baby boy, and I’ve finally published a love story with a twist no one saw coming. Its a book I truly love to read, and I hope others will too.
September 24, 2012
Book Feature: “Keeper of the People” by Karah Quinney
Today’s book feature is by historical fiction author Karah Quinney, “Keeper of the People”. Book One in the Keeper series.
Keeper of the People (Book One)
In a strikingly real work of prehistoric fiction comes Keeper of the People. As a young woman of great power Taikiuu must choose for herself whether to remain with her village or to trust a foreign traveler with her life and the lives of those she loves.
Jon’lan, a trader, falls in love with Taikiuu when they are thrust together by forces beyond their control. They are joined by a former captive who will find the courage to dream of freedom and a wild boy, outcast from his first band, who will choose to no longer walk alone. They are relentlessly pursued by vicious warriors with a thirst for power.
Jon’lan and Taikiuu unite with Roark, a jaded warrior, and his wife Star Feather who seek a better future for their newborn son along with the two orphaned children in their care.
Yaa, a brave little girl with dreams in her eyes, will follow her brother into an unknown future and do the unthinkable by taking up a weapon in defense of her people. Fearing for their lives, they seek to escape those who would pursue them to the end of the world.
This is the sweeping saga of a young woman who would defy tradition and follow her heart while seeking a better life for her people. Driven by the promise of freedom, Taikiuu will sacrifice all that she holds dear in an effort to secure the future of her band.
Available at Amazon
