Dying Days: Origins

by Armand Rosamilia, Lisa McKinney

Dying Days: Origins The prequel tale to Tosha Shorb, featured in Dying Days 2 zombie novella as well as short stories set in the Dying Days world. Includes two bonus stories: Dying Days: Randy Jackson, featuring the main character from the Highway To Hell zombie novella... and Dying Days: Eric White, the origins short for the character featured in the Dying Days series and written by Lisa McKinney! 36,000 words in all! With Author Notes...

137 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 23, 2013

About the author

Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life...

He's written over 150 stories that are currently available, including horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, thrillers and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.

He not only runs two successful podcasts...

Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Horror Podcast - interviewing fellow authors as well as filmmakers, musicians, etc.

The Mando Method Podcast with co-host Chuck Buda - talking about writing and publishing

But he owns the network they're on, too! Project Entertainment Network


He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool.

You can find him at http://armandrosamilia.com for not only his latest releases but interviews and guest posts with other authors he likes!

and e-mail him to talk about zombies, baseball and Metal:

armandrosamilia@gmail.com

Reviews

[Lucille Bransfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really liked this back told edition of Dying Days. Love finding out how it started out for everyone.

[Pheebz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book starts off a little gritty right from the start.Fast pace and not lacking action or storytelling.It incorporated some of Darlene Bobich's story as well.

[Roxanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read

This book was really good. Nothing like a read before. Hope whoever read this book enjoy it as much as a did. Just remember once you start you won't be able to put it down

[Rebecca Besser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tosha finds herself alone in the world ravished by the zombie apocalypse when her twin sister is attacked, bitten, and put down by a neighbor. She joins forces with the neighbor, but things don’t go as planned.

Her depression makes her survival hard. She eventually ventures out and comes in contact with other living people…but they aren’t friendly.

Will she survive it all and be able to move on?

(There are a couple of short stories following other characters at the end of the book.)

I enjoyed the characterization in Dying Days: Origins, which I think is Author Armand Rosamilia’s strongest asset. However, I was disappointed with some grammar and inconsistencies in the story. For example: Tosha was outside in the cold, wearing multiple layers of clothes and then, just a short time later when she comes inside, is doing a strip tease with only one pair of jeans on.

[Shon French · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this as an Audio Book. Holy Cow what an Experience. The man character Tosha Shorb has such a spit fire personality. She really makes this story a great read. It is a very intense story being held up in an apartment building when the zombie apocalypse happens. Rotting bodies and devious neighbors set the scene. People stealing and robbing and killing. The intensity of this book was amplified by the wittyness of Tosha. I think the best part of the book was Jack Wallen being the narrator. He brought so much life to this story. And I cannot praise Armand Rosamilia enough. This author has put a fresh spin on everything. Nothing is boring about his work. If this story would have been made into a movie or television series it would have blown Walking Dead out of the water. Kudos.

[Christy Thornbrugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great zombie story. Tosha was not someone you want to mess with. Doing all she can to try and stay alive, and might be going a tad crazy. She did what she had to do. And those that were trying to hurt her well it did not go well for them.
The story keep me on the edge always needed to know what was going to happen to Tosha. The other bonus story's were great as well i enjoyed them.