Small Blogs, Big Giveaways!: Interview with author Bella Street

Small Blogs, Big Giveaways!: Interview with author Bella Street: Today we’re interviewing the author Bella Street, our last featured author! Enjoy! Living so close to Nashville has provoked me to take...

FREE SQUEE! The Z Word free on Kindle

Y'all, it's been free on Apple, free at B&N, free at Smashwords, I've been handing 'em out free hand over fist, but now, my first book in the Apocalypse Babes series, The Z Word, is FINALLY FREE FOR KINDLE.

*IthinkIjustwetmyselftalkamongstyourselves*

So get your KINDLE COPY here!

If you like The Z Word, enter my contest for a chance to win a Juicy Couture tracksuit, Pink perfume by Victoria's Secret, or an Amazon GC.

iRobotronic...The Apocalypse Babes Saga Continues...

Time travel, wormholes, pink velour, Unresolved Sexual Tension...it all just keeps going in book three of my Apocalypse Babes series.

The latest entry in this skiffy-rom-goth-com (don't ask) is called iRobotronic. Metaphors abound. Angst is ratcheted up. Pink velour gets torn. (See also books one and two)

And a couple of characters even make it out of the compound, but, Keanu wants to know, it is just a glitch in the Matrix? All this and more for a measly 99 cents.

Check it out at Amazon and Smashwords. And don't forget to enter the contest by October 6th!

Help Spread The Z Word!

My contest to promote my new release, The Z Word, is live! The best part, is no cost is involved. It's free, baby, free--at least on Smashwords (Amazon is charging 99 cents, so a heads up there).

The Z Word is the first book in the Apocalypse Babes series.

It's been said that a sure sign of the coming apocalypse is an 80s roller skate disco movie coming to DVD (with special features). In the science-fiction novel series Apocalypse Babes, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past. It might be because one of them purchased the taboo film in a nostalgic moment, setting off a chain of events more disturbing than a roller skating conga line. They wake up in an apocalyptic but strangely familiar landscape, complete with a hidden mountain compound and retro survivalists, hinting at hidden and retro secrets they must face if they want to survive.

Book One follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds.

If you want to help promote the book--tweet, leave a review, friend me on Face Book, etc, send an email to fireflypressbooks@gmail.com detailing the ways you promoted. Each action is worth points and you'll be sent a confirmation email with your total. The drawing will be in October by Random.org. See www.apocalypsebabes.com for all the details. Click on the contest sparkles.

First prize is a Juicy Couture tracksuit (tho the author cannot guarantee magical properties). Second prize is a bottle of Pink (Seffy's favorite, natch) perfume by Victoria's Secret, and third prize is a $25 Amazon gift card (more free books!).

So help spread The Z Word, like a zombie infecting a human--but in a good way!

The Z Word on Smashwords

My newest book, The Z Word, is the first of six books in this eponymous series.

Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating
pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by
zombies wearing dated disco duds.

The book is free at Smashwords through 10/6/11, and is also available for Kindle for 99 cents. I'm hoping Amazon will make it free for a time, and I'll let everyone know if that's the case.

I'll be having a contest starting July 6th, but any reviews, tweets, or posts about The Z Word will still be eligible to be entered. Prizes will include items from Juicy Couture, Victoria's Secret, and Amazon. Check my website for the latest.

Until then, join Seffy, who has no mad skillz, no sacred destiny--just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go...

When Zombies Become High Art

I recognize I'm a bit of a Janey-come-lately to this movie, but like any good zombie, it caught up with me eventually.

I love zombie movies and books for what zombies represent (you can't outrun death, lives lived on auto-pilot, etc) and how they reveal human nature when those humans are either bitten or chased.

Zombies can be fun, campy or terrifying, but sometimes they can become high art as in the film, 28 Days Later.

This movie languished in my Netflix queue for almost a year before my son finally lobbied for its rental. It was one of those films that absolutely rocked in cinematography, acting, writing, directing, editing and the score.

But where it really became a tour de force for me was in the story. The heart of 28 Days Later made me care deeply about the characters while at the same time commenting on what makes a society; is it mankind as a whole? Or is it the family?

New Hope in The War on Zombies

Physician and author Steven Schlozman has written the book that gives the downtrodden a ray of hope in the seemingly endless war against zombism:

The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks From the Apocalypse

 From the author's website:  

"As the walking dead rises up throughout the world, a few brave doctors attempt to find a cure by applying forensic techniques to captured zombies. Based on the research of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, performed at a remote island where a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that may lead to a cure for the epidemic, THE ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms. Twenty-five detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures, including zombie brains, hearts, lungs, skin, and the digestive system, while Dr. Blum’s notes reveal shocking insights into how they function, even as Blum and his staff themselves begin to succumb to the plague. No one knows the ultimate fate of Dr. Blum or his researchers, but now that his notebook, THE ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES, has been made available to the UN, the World Health Organization, and the general public, his scientific discoveries may provide the last hope for humans on earth!"

So run, don't shamble, to your nearest bookstore and arm yourself with the one weapon that may be more useful than a trench spike!

Because the zombies are coming.