Zombie Crawl Blog & Giveaway

I've got plans for a new book, due out some time next year. Read on to learn about it, enter the giveaway and find out about the awesome Zombie Crawl Blogfest!!

The Survival Pact

     Four friends. Four different states. One pact of survival.
A promise was made one night while Kris, Angela, Lynn and Cheree had their first vacation together in Washington. At the time it was just a drunken joke after too much wine. The girls promised that if anything bad ‘went down’ they’d all find each other and meet in the Olympic National Park. They promised that they would survive; together.

       Six months later, the dead rose from their graves. Climbing from the dirt and breaking through tombs hungry for human flesh. It wasn’t a virus and no one became infected; they just died. There were more dead bodies than living and they outnumbered everyone. The four women remembered their promise, because it was that exact pact that kept them alive when the beautiful world they once lived in fell apart.
Traveling across the country to find each other they learn that they all hold their own unique skills to help them survive while they travelled, fighting the dead or anything else that threatened them. Can they endure together in the broken land or will it tear them apart? 

Meet the ladies of The Survival Pact

 Lynn-

 She’s the high-maintenance friend whose make-up is always perfect and her hair is never out of place. Lynn is the beauteous one aka the Southern Belle. But, don’t cross her or you’ll see Lynn’s tough girl side. She’d fight to the death and protect her friends until the end.  She may be a bit bossy, but she means well. She’s the planner who wants things to be orderly, even if the dead are climbing out of the ground. 

Kris-

Kris is a novelist who spent most of her days dreaming up new books to write before the world went to hell. She loved to cook, craft and read. So there is no doubt that she has read and studied everything the girls will need to know. As far as getting her hands dirty, she’ll do it. She isn’t scared to shoot a gun, fish, hunt or fight. She’s just never had to live like this before. She’s used to her comfortable house and cozy clothes.  So when things went bad; she knew she’d have to learn to say goodbye to all the comforts of home. The girls will lean on Kris for their sanity as she’s the one with the ideas and good advice.

Cheree-

Not only has she studied prepping hardcore but she was on a survival show on T.V. She calls it her ‘proudest moment’ being stuck in the middle of nowhere forced to survive. So it’s second nature to her when they’re thrust into the same situation without cameras. She has plenty of guns, ammo, fighting skills and can help kill food. The only thing this survivor isn’t good at is being a sensitive girly girl. She may lose her patience with some of the girls, but you can bet your ass that she’ll be there to protect them no matter what!

Angie-

The truthful friend who tells it like it is and is always right; that’s Angie. She’s from the south like Lynn, yet she’s no southern belle. Angie will do whatever it takes to keep these girls moving. She’s resident ‘Mama’ of the group. If anyone gets sick or hurt, she’ll have some remedy to help them. She’ll sit back and watch the other girls hunt and fish then make up a nice meal. But don’t push this Mama Bear or you’ll be sorry. 

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Zombie Crawl Blog Party Schedule

Party Host & Schedule; Grand Prize: Band of Dystopian

October 22

Hope To Read | Author Jamie Canosa

October 23

Author E.R. Arroyo

October 24

Author Christy Sloat | Author N.W. Harris

October 25

Author David Moon

October 26

Two Girls & A Book

October 27

Secret Life of a Townie | The Writer’s Roadtrip

Author Michael Halliday | Author Aria Michaels

Imagine, Create, Share, Repeat!

October 29

Precious Monsters | Author Kate L. Mary

Z Plan - Zombie Book Series | Author Michelle Muckley

October 30

Author Rhiannon Frater | Author Cameo Renae

Author Angela Cavanaugh

October 31

Author Jessica Meigs

I Feel the Need, the Need to Read

Will you survive and thrive in the Key Keepers Kingdom?

Fan of Christy Sloat’s? Want to receive special announcements, books, prizes and chats directly from her? Then look no further! Christy Sloat has decided it’s time to reward her super awesome fans by starting the Key Keeper Kingdom; an exclusive group of fans dedicated to helping spread the word about her books. What’s in it for you? Exclusive content only released to you, discussions about future works, giving your input for books in the works and prizes for the most hard core fan. Does this sound like something you’d love to do? Can you share posts from Christy on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? Have you read her books and fallen in love with her characters? Then this group is for you. Join below and her Assistant, Lynn, will let you know the details.
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Cover Reveal for Liz Long's newest book, A Reaper Made

I am so excited to share the cover of A REAPER MADE with you today! In case you haven't read the synopsis, you can learn more about what to expect from the upcoming NA Paranormal title (see below). The book will be released on October 30th (just in time for Halloween, yippee!) on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and KOBO.

Want to join in on the online release party? You could win all kinds of ebooks, swag, and maybe even a gift card or two. JOIN HERE!

Huge thanks to all the amazing bloggers and authors who volunteered to help with the cover reveal! Without further ado, here is the cover for A REAPER MADE.

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Synopsis:

Grace had finally gotten used to her new afterlife as a “Made” – a Reaper who used to be human. When Made Reapers and souls begin disappearing, however, Grace and her mentor Tully suspect demons. Grace’s worst fears are confirmed when her living family is threatened.

She’ll have to break every rule in the Reaper book to save them, including using a little magic to become temporarily human. With the help of Tully and her witchy friend Tessa, Grace goes undercover to save the fates of kidnapped souls – only to discover that demons aren’t working alone. Betrayal and distrust runs deep and Grace discovers that sometimes even Reapers are prone to humanity.

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And just in case you'd like to see the full wrap for paperback, I'm more than happy to share that too because I LOVE the back! All cover art done by my brilliant BFF, Erica Dickson.

About the Author:

Liz Long is a ridiculously proud graduate of Longwood University with a BA in English. Her inspiration comes from action and thriller genres and she spends entirely too much time watching superhero movies. Her fabulous day job as a social media editor includes writing for a publishing company in Roanoke, VA.

Her first book, Gifted, is the first book in the Donovan Circus series, where superpowers meets the circus. Burned is the second adventure. Her standalone book Witch Hearts, is a story about a serial killer hunting witches for their powers. All titles are available at Amazon on Kindle and paperback, Barnes & Noble for Nook, and iBooks.

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Cover Reveal of The Oath by Apryl Baker

The Oath
Book 2 of The Coven Series
By Apryl Baker
Release Date:  10/07/2014

Summary from Goodreads:

She killed herself.

Everyone asked why, but when I got my hands on my sister's diary, I understood exactly why.

I stared at the girl in the mirror as I removed my nose ring. Gone was the black hair, replaced by golden blonde locks that made my sapphire blue eyes shine and my California sun-kissed skin glow. The Goth chic clothes had been put away and I wore a pink tank top and a pair of khaki colored Capri’s. Stylish sandals completed the outfit. I wanted to barf.

The snotty little would-be witches would pay for what they'd done. By the end of the week, they’d all be praying to whatever god they worshiped to hide them from the hell coming for them.

May the Fates have mercy upon them, because they would pay the same price they’d demanded of her.

Their lives.

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Read book 1of The Coven Series, The Promise!

Summary from Goodreads:Armed with kick-ass shoes, can CJ stop a maniacal coven leader, save the town, and still get Mr. Melt In Your Mouth Gorgeous while surviving the darkness coming for her?

The smoke from the fire burned her eyes, its heat caressed her skin and the taste of fear choked her. She was going to burn just as her ancestor did all those centuries ago in New Salem Village. How could she have been so wrong about everything?

Cassie Jayne Bishop grew up the only non-believer in town of Coven. When a stranger comes to the sleepy town of New Salem, everything she thought was true unraveled around her. Ethan made her question everything, even her sister’s death. Clues start to pile up and Cassie is determined to find out if the Coven was the real reason her sister died.

What she uncovers terrifies her to the very depths of her soul....

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About the AuthorSo who am I? Well, I'm the crazy girl with an imagination that never shuts up. I LOVE scary movies. My friends laugh at me when I scare myself watching them and tell me to stop watching them, but who doesn't love to get scared? I grew up in a small town nestled in the southern mountains of West Virginia where I spent days roaming around in the woods, climbing trees, and causing general mayhem. Nights I would stay up reading Nancy Drew by flashlight under the covers until my parents yelled at me to go to sleep.

Growing up in a small town, I learned a lot of values and morals, I also learned parents have spies everywhere and there's always someone to tell your mama on you. So when you get grounded, what is there left to do? Read! My Aunt Jo gave me my first real romance novel. It was a romance titled "Lord Margrave's Deception." I remember it fondly. But I also learned I had a deep and abiding love of mysteries and anything paranormal. As I grew up, I started to write just that and would entertain my friends with stories featuring them as main characters.

Now, I live Huntersville, NC where I entertain my family and watch the cats get teased by the birds and laugh myself silly when they swoop down and then dive back up just out of reach. The cats start yelling something fierce...lol.

I love books, I love writing books, and I love entertaining people with my silly stories.

You can reach me at any of these places:

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PS: DO NOT GET IN MY WAY IF THERE IS A SALE ON AT TARGET - my home away from home!

Fun Friday with YA Storytellers

Welcome to Fun Friday by The Society of YA Storytellers.  This week the members share tidbits from some of their novels. Happy reading!


Looking for Lucy Jo (The Morgan Sisters #3) by Suzy Turner






Bait

(Order of the Spirit Realm #1) by Kasi Blake


Book of the Lost (Midnight Guardian #5) by Bryna Butler


Who We Were by Christy Sloat


Learning to Swim (Hearts Out of Water #1) by Annie Cosby

Chapter One from Who We Were

Summer

One

The school parking lot was a complete mess. I pulled in hoping it would be organized like my school’s lot was. We each knew where to park our cars: the geeks got the far lot, the preps had the center, and the popular kids, or status monsters, got the upper lot closest to the school. Since the sixth grade, I had called them status monsters as it referred to their needy desire to get noticed in school. They would do anything to become popular, even turning themselves into status hungry demons, therefore the name stuck.

There was no designated space for my kind because well, I didn’t have a category. I wasn’t a geek. I was definitely not preppy. I sure as hell was not a status monster either. I was one of a kind. My spot was usually where the last possible space was. Usually late to class, my best friend, Lily, and I would hit the doughnut shop for our usual coffee and sour cream doughnut. When we rolled up to school after scarfing our breakfast and rocking out to the newest song by our favorite band of the month, we’d find a parking spot wherever it was available. We’d walk as slow as we could to our first period class and just barely make it before the tardy bell rang. To put it simply, we were not excited about getting to class, ever!

But this school was totally different. I sat in my Honda with the air conditioning on full blast watching the mad chaos ensue in front of me. Most of the kids were waiting for other people to park their cars while they were stuck behind them. The cars blocking the entrance were there because the drivers were merely chatting it up with friends, planning out their summer on the first exciting day of summer school. I sighed heavily when I noticed my chance. Far off in the distance a lone spot was open. I jammed the gear shift into drive and took off swerving around students and cars until I smoothly slid into the tight spot.

I killed the engine and grabbed my new bag. I refused to go to summer classes with my junior year backpack. No way! I had purchased all new items for the next four weeks. This was a new school and a new chance to actually become someone different. A clean slate. No one here knew me, so my past history was erased. I would be Sadie Peters, popular and outgoing, instead of Sadie Peters, a shy nobody that no one pays any attention to.

I looked up at Alcott High’s newly rebuilt entrance. It was the town’s oldest school, but it held the most history. It was the very first school built in Laurel Lakes when it was a small town. Now that the town has grown immensely, they needed a new school built, and that’s how Ridgeline High, my school, was built. While I liked my school for various reasons, I loved the history of Alcott. To me it held hope and immense change. After a complete and utterly disastrous junior year, I could only see promise staring me in the face.

I would be taking courses that were required for senior year now, so that when next year started, I would only have a half-day session. Then, after school I would be taking creative writing courses at the local college, preparing me for a university and hopefully an internship at a publishing firm. I had it all planned out. This was just the first step in my well thought out plan. A plan devised with Lily many years ago. We hated this town and wanted to get out as soon as our diplomas were in our hot little hands. I frowned at the thought of Lily at home sleeping in while I was here. She was spending her summer serving ice cream at Scoop’s while I was here. Scoop’s was the best place to meet guys in the hot weather, and she had been looking forward to this summer job all year. While I was jealous she was going to be surrounded by town hotties all day, I knew I had to do this. Besides we planned to meet up at the lake after school.

It will be fine. You’ll meet new people and have a fresh start. I told myself. Take that first step.

I took it with my eyes forward and head held high. But I failed to miss the hot guy walking straight into me. His books flew out of his hand, and I fell on my ass. Everyone in the quad looked directly at me and laughed. Not the start I had hoped for, at all. I looked up from the gravel into the eyes of the hottest guy I’d ever seen in Laurel Lakes.

“Are you all right?” hot guy asked me. I stared in astonishment. His blue eyes dug into mine like he was searching through my soul.

“Uh, yeah. I’m good, you?” I mumbled.

“I’m actually doing great. I’ve never seen you before,” he said as he pulled me from the ground. “I would remember a face like that.”

I smiled from ear to ear as I brushed myself off. Maybe it was too soon to say I failed my fresh beginning.

“I’m Sadie,” I told him even though he didn’t ask my name. He threw me off by noticing my face. “I go to Ridgeline.” He smiled and rolled his eyes upward. “That’s where they’re hiding you, huh? I hate Ridgeline, but I won’t hold it against you,” he admitted. “I’m Nash Rylan. Nice to meet you, Sadie. What are you doing here? Did you fail Economics?”

I laughed. You’d have to be an idiot to fail Economics.

“No, I’m taking English Lit now, so I don’t have to take it next year,” I confessed. His wide smile actually faltered slightly, but not slight enough that I didn’t notice. “I want to have half a day next year that way I can get extra credits.”

I looked down instantly feeling shy at telling him all of my plans. Then I wondered why he was here in summer. Did he fail a class?

“I totally get it,” he said as he rubbed his neck with his hand. “I wish I was that ahead of the game. I actually failed Economics.”

Oh my God! I just called him an idiot. Thank god I didn’t say it out loud. That was another thing I was working on with myself, thinking before I speak.

“Too bad we won’t have a class together,” I blurted. I mentally kicked myself for not thinking before saying that. Still I had to work on it obviously.

“I was gonna say the same thing,” he said with a smile.

“Really?”

“Yeah, really. I’d love to get to know you more, Sadie.”

I was not prepared for this. I wasn’t prepared for any guy interaction, let alone guys this hot. The most I had was my guy friends. I never dated, so I had zero experience when it came to guys. I just stood there dumbfounded.

“Can I get your number?” he asked finally.

“Sure!” I said eagerly. He pulled out his cell and handed it to me. I added my name and number to his contacts list. I even added a small heart next to my name. That way he’d remember me.

I handed him back his phone and realized my hands were shaking. He took it and bent down to pick up his pencil that fell, no doubt, when I ran into him.

“Can’t forget this!” he joked. “I can’t fail now, I have my trusty pencil, and I got the prettiest girl’s number. It’s gonna be a good day for me.”

The bell rang out loudly. I wouldn’t be late at this school. Another rule for myself: no more slacking when it came to class.

“I should go,” I said walking away. I didn’t want to. I wanted to stay with him and keep talking. Keep staring at his beautiful face.

“Okay. See ya!” He waved at me and then turned to join his friends. They all greeted him, and at that moment he turned to look at me again, showing me his bright smile. I waved at him and smiled back. I hardly ever smiled like that, not unless it was something extremely funny or I felt really happy.

Nash made me smile because he’d given me just what I was looking for when I signed up for summer school. He gave me optimism. I would be whoever I wanted to be without anyone or anything to hold me back.

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