Watch out: Isis Unbound

Isis Unbound
by Allyson Bird
Release date: September 2011
Dark Regions Press is proud to announce Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird, a brand new novel. It features cover art by Daniele Serra and will be available for preorder in September!

Inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley's, Prometheus Unbound, and the works of Rider Haggard and R. E. Howard, Isis Unbound is set in an alternate history, steampunk version of 1890's Manceastre, Britanniae, ruled by a new governor general related to a descendant of Anthony and Cleopatra, who won the battle of Actium two thousand years ago, and where the ancient Egyptian gods are real.

...Only a god can kill a god.

Nepythys has killed her sister, Isis, and therefore the dead cannot pass over to the underworld--their ranks are rapidly swelling and they now roam the streets as zombies.

Chief Embalmer Ptolemy Child's two daughters, Ella and Loli, aged eighteen and ten respectively, are being instructed in the secrets of the mummification process, when the dead begin to wake and walk. And eventually lead the sisters to the greatest mystery of all: Isis, herself...

Coming in September to Dark Regions Press.

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Perfect! for those of you who are looking for zombies AND steampunk!

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Watch out: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (the sequel)

Miss Peregrinie's Home For Peculiar Children
the sequel
by Ransom Riggs
Release date: Spring 2013
Quirk Books is pleased to announce the sequel to Ransom Riggs’ bestselling YA novel MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, which as of August 21, 2011 has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 9 weeks and is #1 on the Indiebound Bestseller list for the week of August 14th. Film rights to both books have been sold to Twentieth Century Fox with Chernin Entertainment producing.

"We are thrilled that Ransom and Quirk Books will be working together again to take readers and fans deeper into the world of MISS PEREGRINE,” says David Borgenight, President and Publisher of Quirk Books. “Ransom is an incredibly talented writer and visionary, and there's a lot more to explore together. I, for one, can't wait to see where second installment leads."

To be published in Spring 2013, an untitled sequel to MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN will continue the story of the children on the remote Welsh Island, incorporating a new set of vintage photos to help guide the story. “Ransom draws inspiration from photography, and he’s already collected more than a thousand images to help illuminate the story of the sequel,” says Jason Rekulak, Creative Director at Quirk. “Based on what he’s shared so far, I think we’ll be following these characters to some very peculiar places.”

The vintage photos are just one element of MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN that has garnered the book critical acclaim and has lead the book to be chosen as an Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far list and an IndieBound Summer Pick. “The vintage photo bug bit me hard while I was writing MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN” says author Ransom Riggs, “and I've been collecting like a madman ever since. I think the photos in the second book will be even better than the first, and more exotic, too. It looks like the peculiar children have quite a journey ahead of them!” -per Quirk

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by Ransom Riggs
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Giveaway: Old School

Old School
edited by Louise Bohmer
Old School, a traditional horror collection born of seven twisted minds, invites you back to a time when vampires and werewolves were monsters who made humans quiver in terror.

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--~ eBook Giveaway courtesy of author ~--
Win a copy of this ebook!

Open to all.

Offer ends: September 10, 2011

TO DO:
Visit Louise's site, leave her a comment and tell me where you did the deed (title of blog post).

AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)

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Fireside with a Vampire

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by Vianka Van Bokkem
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Hello everyone!

My name is Vianka Van Bokkem and I am the author of ‘Mar the Pirate Vampire’ and several other young adult stories.

‘Mar’ is the lead character. Her two love interests are ‘Axel’ the elegant human accountant and ‘Kyle’ the ‘Irish Stud’ vampire. Roberto the Spanish sailor was Mar’s fathers’ right hand man. ‘Yargo’ is a waterling and a former warlock. This unique group is having a late night conversation while cleaning their weapons by a small fire.

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Roberto: Madre de Dios! I found two goats without a drop of blood in their bodies.

Yargo: Well… We all know who did it. Right Mar?

Mar: I told you guys that some of the live stock is my food. Vampires feed on blood, remember. By the way….Yargo, you need to quit making my crew disappear. I need them to take care of the ship. Otherwise I am going to have to turn you into a vampire.

Yargo: Hmm… you can try but, you will fail because I am a waterling not an earthling. I enjoy making your crew disappear because I can’t understand their pirate talk. They get on my nerves.

Kyle: Can the two of you stop fighting. We are supposed to be thinking about how to defeat other pirates.

Axel: The ‘Irish Stud’ is right for a change Mar. You are losing time and money.

Mar: Ssshhhh…..I think someone is listing our conversation.

Kyle: No one is listing Mar. Someone is ‘reading’ our conversation!

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Guest post created for August Thrills-n-Chills event by Vianka Van Bokkem, author of Mar the Pirate Vampire
© 2011. All rights reserved.

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Mar the Pirate Vampire
(teen-paranormal romance)
Vianka Van Bokkem
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* image source campfire

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Pat the Zombie by Aaron Ximm

Pat the Zombie
A Cruel (Adult) Spoof
by Aaron Ximm
illustrated by Kaveh Soofi

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Published: 2011
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Genre: Zombies
Paperback: 20 pages
Rating: 5

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A macabre mash-up of the children’s classic Pat the Bunny and the present-day zombie phenomenon, with the tactile features of the original book revoltingly re-imagined for an adult audience.

In the hemorrhagic vein of other zombie parodies, Pat the Zombie presents trusting toddler Judy playing peek-a-boo with a putrefying Paul. Grownup fans of Pat the Bunny (seven million of them) will find their favorite touch-and-feel features disturbingly re-created: Judy reaches for Zombie’s decaying jaw instead of daddy’s cheek; Paul caresses Mummy’s empty eye socket instead of her wedding ring. Ximm’s twisted wit, Soofi’s sick artistic sensibility, and clever packaging that mimics the original book will bring the undead lurchingly to life in this camp popculture romp.


My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): ewww-LOL
IF you like spoofs AND zombies, then you'll get a blast from this one.

It is just as touchy-feely at the original book that it is based on.

And, includes a mini-story of the cute-turned-zombie bunny.

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* review copy courtesy of publisher

* part of Zombie Cute event

* stay tuned: not-so-cute zombies coming in September...