It's Release Week! * Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter releases Thursday, May 10. * Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2: The Axe Will Fall releases May 14. * Release week contests & giveaways, start Mon. 5/7. See GirlZombieAuthors blog.
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A new edition of Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter is coming out - with a new cover & edits! ** The new Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2 is also coming soon. Title to Be Revealed!! Hoping pre-orders will be up by mid-late April. ** Here's a tiny sneak peek of the first line of the book blurb: After being acquitted of brutally slaying her parents, Lizzie Borden thinks her nightmare is over—but it’s only just begun! * Sign up for the newsletter (center top column on main page of this website) for contests & more! New NL coming out Mon. 3/26. A little reveal - Here's part of the new cover title! Cool, huh???? What do you think? 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, see review online. (Jan. 2018, pg. 90) What if Lizzie Borden's doctor was haunted by what he saw that morning in 1892, and by Fall River's past? My novella, The Haunting of Dr. Bowen, is on sale for Kindle - only 99 cents, Dec. 11-18. * BUY HERE. Get the details here. (Paranormal, some light horror, mystery, alternate history) Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter - What if everything you heard about the historic Borden murders wasn't true? (See details here.) Yes, I started Nanowrimo, the write-a-book-in-November project. I had written some already on Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2, so I wanted to use it as a quasi-schedule to keep going.
I slacked off a bit, but got some done yesterday. I'm at just over 19,000 words, so not bad. I'll keep going to see where it leads. I am almost thinking of a shorter, novella length, which I really like. The Haunting of Dr. Bowen turned out to be a nice, readable length and a neat little book... But we'll see... Left off at a good, exciting point... Lizzie going out late at night, alone, to meet someone who sent her a mysterious note... Whatever could go wrong?? heh-heh-heh... Wow!!!! - Today Descent Into Darkness hit #1 in anthologies/horror! How cool is that?? 700+ pages of novellas, short stories and more! On sale 99 cents to Halloween! My story, "Thirteen Horses" was a way to find perfect justice for a horrific, real-life crime... I have a new story, "Thirteen Horses," in the Descent Into Darkness anthology. In print and Kindle. Check out the cool cover! 700+ pages! What keeps you awake at night? Murder and monsters... Demons and forces of evil... Ghosts and urban legends... Dive into the darkness with twenty tales of terror that will keep you awake long after the lights go out. A horror anthology featuring featuring several best-selling and award-winning authors from around the globe, "Descent into Darkness" contains a variety of terrifying short stories and novellas. Includes: Baba by Tony Urban Blood Note by Sylvester Barzey Nail Gun Glissando by Steve Vernon The Evil in Devil’s Creek by Paul B. Kohler What’s Been Keeping Me Awake by Amanda Luzzader Mark of Perdition by R. L. Blalock The Sun Makes Me Turn Purple by Gretta Penelope Send in the Clowns by David J. Schmidt The Nine Lives of Captain Osborne by E.E. Isherwood They Want to Die, Let ‘em by L J Parker Simon Says by Rachel McClellan The Door by Delia Rai ** Thirteen Horses by C.A. Verstraete Zombie Apocalypse by Max Lockwood Fetch by Joe Jackson Knock, Knock by Cindy Carroll His Model Son by Brian J.W. Lee Ascension by G M Sherwin Through a Dark Wood by Shayne Rutherford Lock and Key by Patrick Logan I went to Milwaukee Saturday with some fellow writers to hear King and his son, Owen, who were touring for their new book release, Sleeping Beauties. As far as I know, this was their first-ever stop in this area! Read more on what the Kings said on my GirlZombieAuthors blog - part 1 and part 2.
Everyone who attended also got a copy of the book, which included 400 signed copies. And to my HUGE shock - I opened my copy of the book at home and found.... Wow!!
Today, USA Bestselling Author Jean Rabe's blog tour stops HERE! (Post is also at my GirlZombieAuthors blog.) See all blog stop links HERE. Next: 8/25: Chill and Read blog
8/27: Ken Schrader blog Check out more about the upcoming release of her book, The Dead of Night, A Piper Blackwell Mystery Book 2, the sequel to The Dead of Winter. (Get it now on pre-order. Releases Sept. 15.) About The Dead of Night: In Spencer County’s history, mysteries are numerous—and lethal… As Sheriff Piper Blackwell rushes to a clandestine meeting with an aging, paranoid veteran who believes spies are trailing his every move, she is caught in a fierce thunderstorm. Pounding rain drums against the bluff, washing away the earth and revealing a grisly secret someone tried to bury a long time ago. Putting a name to the skeleton on the bluff, and searching for the thief who robbed the old veteran of his life’s earnings, sends Piper delving into the sleepy towns that dot her rural county. Now she’s digging into pasts perhaps best left alone. Uncovering fragments of Spencer County’s history could prove more dangerous—and deadlier—than she ever expected. S.C.D.D. Same Characters, a very Different Day - by Jean Rabe Piper Blackwell, four months into her term as Spencer County Sheriff, is hot to solve a cold case. Rain, late at night, bones on the bluff…wonderfully eerie, and something to vex my favorite sheriff with. The book is The Dead of Night, the second in her series, and it is set for a September 15 release by Imajin. Her previous outing, The Dead of Winter, started with her first day on the job. Piper is twenty-three, and won the sheriff’s race by campaigning on her last name. Her father, Paul Blackwell, had been with the department thirty years and had several turns at sheriff. Some in the county think folks didn’t realize they were voting for a different Blackwell. There’s still some friction in her department—over her age and lack of experience, but there’s also growing respect for the Army veteran. She has many of her supporting characters from the previous book—Chief Deputy Oren Rosenberg; Coroner Dr. Annie Neufeld; Teegan, a quirky Goth dispatcher; and Nang, Vietnamese caterer and quick stop owner…and potential love-interest. But there are some new ones thrown into the mix. Series feel good because you can share the action with old friends. They’re like comfortable shoes that you’ve broken in just right. Though while there’s a sameness, Piper and Spencer County keep the story fresh. There are a lot of differences from the first book. What makes this book dissimilar? Piper’s had a few months to grow into her role of sheriff, has become more familiar with her deputies and local politics, and has started to hear the county’s heartbeat. Oren’s had a few months to adjust to the young sheriff; he claims he still doesn’t like her, but he tolerates her…and that’s a big step from the first book. In this tale she’s involved with some of the little things that are a big deal to the rural residents, such as drunk drivers and an unbalanced octogenarian that is hell-bent on destroying mailboxes. She also nabs that cold case—and who doesn’t love a mysterious death from decades past? There are few characters that readers should both love and hate…the drunk on a tractor that annoys the young sheriff. Drunk driving is the number one ticked offense in Spencer County; I figured I needed to address that in the book, putting a little spin on it. The Mailbox Mauler is another such soul. She was inspired by someone I know who has a vicious streak involving mis-delivered mail—downright NASTY; I had to vent by putting it in a Piper book. If the Mailbox Mauler feels real…it’s ‘cause she sort of is. The Dead of Night was inspired by lots of things…among them three Navy veterans who live in a senior apartment complex; I rolled them into one character called Mark the Shark. He opens the book, and I hope the readers love him as much as I do. It was also inspired by the woman in my neighborhood who goes postal, by the drunk on the tractor who needed to be there so I could correctly write an airbag scene, and by an old skeleton because I’d read a forensic book about bones and wanted to put some of that knowledge to fictional use. Is there someone to root for in Piper’s second outing? Absolutely…Piper, of course; she’s determined and feisty, and maybe she’s falling in love. Oren because he’s driven and proves that age in an asset, not a hindrance. Mark the Shark…because he’s Mark the Shark. There are also some folks to root against, but I don’t want to spoil the plot. ** Excerpt of The Dead of Night, A Piper Blackwell Mystery Book 2: It was a big red Case tractor, double wheels on the back, hitch, with a raised disc harrow attachment used for cultivating the ground prior to planting—all of it caked with dried mud and in need of washing. Piper was stuck behind it on 66, on her way to Hatfield, an unincorporated dinkburg where Mark the Shark lived. Piper figured this ten-mile endeavor would take her an hour away from her cold case…fourteen minutes to Mark’s, fourteen minutes b ack, and a half hour at the bank or looking through his records to show him the bookkeeping error and ease his conspiracy fears. But the tractor was fouling her time-frame. It belched fumes; her windows rolled down, the stink wafted inside and made her eyes water. It was noisy; overwhelming the oldies station she’d had on and just now clicked off. It was slow, riding in the center of the road, impossible for her to pass on either side without risking the ditch. And it wasn’t traveling straight, sometimes in the proper lane, sometimes veering into the left lane. Usually it held to roughly the middle. She honked. The driver raised his left hand and flipped his middle finger. “Really?” Piper stuck her head out the window and hollered: “Pick a lane!” Then thinking he might not be able to hear over the racket the tractor was making, she used the PA in her car. “Pull over. Spencer County Sheriff. Pull over.” The tractor wobbled farther right, then left, shuddered, and went faster still. Thirty miles an hour. “What the hell?” Then the driver tossed an empty whiskey bottle off to the side of the road. “That’s it.” See Giveaways below! *****Jean Rabe’s The Dead of Night Blog Tour runs August 21st thru September 15th. Follow tour stops below to check out the reviews, excerpts, Q&As, and to enter the giveaway! Get all the blog stop links HERE. Next stops: Next: 8/25: Chill and Read blog 8/27: Ken Schrader blog Mysteristas 8/28/2017 Imagination Captured 8/28/2017 Lori’s Reading Corner 8/29/2017 Brooke Blogs 9/1/2017 The Million Words 9/3/2017 Drey’s Library 9/12/2017 Faith Hunter 9/15/2017 Praise for The Dead of Night: Jean Rabe always manages to surprise and never fails to deliver the goods! The Dead of Night…Highly recommended! —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Dogs of War and Mars One Jean Rabe writes the perfect mystery! I was kept guessing about everything to the very last word. The girl can write! --New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter, writing as Gwen Hunter In The Dead of Night …a thoroughly satisfying and complex novel with deeply realized characters and beautifully vivid writing. --Jaden Terrell, Shamus Award nominee and internationally published author of the Jared McKean Mysteries **** GIVEAWAY There’s a tour-wide giveaway for Cracker Barrel and Starbucks gift cards or a little password book. In addition, two lucky bloggers will be chosen at random to win a Starbucks or Cracker Barrel Gift card. Open to US residents only. Also see direct link to giveaway. *** Plus see the exclusive bonus giveaway below!!! *** |
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