Regular readers familiar with my darker stories such as Reanimated Love and Bed of the Dead know I enjoy a bit of the macabre. Stavros' Dead Girl, and the fantastic illustrations by Charles Hearn look like a winner. And talk about winner, check out the prize packages being offered tour-wide.
Dead Girl: A
Romantic Zombie Tale of Revenge
Written by
Stavros
Illustrated
by Charles Hearn
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Publisher: Crazy Duck Press (CDP)
Date of Publication: August 2011
ISBN: 9780982812198
Number of pages: 266
Cover Artist and Illustrator: Charles Hearn
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/KThnGvCrijU
Book
Description:
“…Death was a dream of sleep
where the eternally dying dream the sleep of death. The undeniable
evidence in the stillness of her being, the stark paleness of her complexion,
and the lack of blood pooling from her cuts after climbing through the window
whispered dark truths in her ears. Rigor Mortis. There was nothing
familiar to Jamie about her skin. Time and time again, she found herself
asking what had happened, only to arrive at the hard won conclusion that she,
Jamie Lund, wasn’t alive anymore. Somehow in the foolhardy night, she’d
been a dumb girl. She’d gotten herself killed…”
From the mind of Stavros, the
critically acclaimed author of Blood Junky, comes a new twisted tale of horror
and adventure. An average girl, living in the city is murdered.
Nothing new, right? It happens every day. Just another statistic.
That is…until she woke up dead.
Trapped within her own decaying
shell, the dead girl struggles to piece together the awful events of her
untimely death and hunt down the man responsible. Armed only with a kiss
from an ancient Egyptian God, a pockmarked memory, her ex-boyfriend, and a
murder of crows Jamie Lund comes face to face with something more terrifying
and real than mere death…she suffers the agony of being undead!
With twelve black & white
illustrations and a full colored cover from tattoo artist, Charles Hearn, this
sardonic tale comes alive like no other zombie story, popping from the page
with stunning, unnatural brilliance. Dead Girl: A Romantic Zombie Tale of
Revenge will keep the reader on the edge of their seat suspended in this unique
supernatural thriller.
Praise for Dead Girl: A Romantic Zombie
Tale of Revenge…
“A
Bittersweet punch with a suspenseful plot and somber romance, showing us the
vulnerable perspective of death from the other side. Definitely, not to be missed!” -Tara Lindsey
Hall; Writer/Editor
“I couldn’t put it down. I loved it. You are a great writer. Can’t wait to read the next one.” -Bethany
Tanner-Evanko, a Facebook Post
About the
Author- Stavros:
Notorious Poet. Fool. Born in Washington DC.
Stavros was a writer and editor for The
Independent Underground Magazine. Raised in Southern Maryland, he
fled the Chesapeake Bay to the wilds of the New Mexican desert. He is a
single father of two, whose poetic works have been published in several online
and print publications, including Central Avenue, The Sword That Cuts Through
Stone, Poets Against The War, Conceptions Southwest, The Mynd, Imagine:
Creative Arts Journal, and Bartleby, where he won a specialty award for his poem, Blackbird.
In 1999, he won an Official Selection into the Writer’s on the
Edge Festival for his play, The Redline. In 2001, he created
the Poetry Television Project for public cable access in
Albuquerque, NM. All eight volumes of Ptv’s ground-breaking show were
broadcast to over 100,000 viewers on a network of regional PAC channels
throughout the Southwest and Baltimore. He helped to launch Unpublished
Magazine, sponsored the monthly poetry series, The Word Café,
in the Duke city, and produced a political compilation, Poetic
Democracy. In 2007, he released the award-winning documentary film, Committing Poetry in Times of War.
In 2010, he launched the production management company, Organic Ghetto, and released its
first imprint, Crazy Duck Press, with his first
novel, Blood Junky. Blood Junky
received exceptional praise and review, even being called "one of the
best vampire novels ever written," by Living Dead Media. The
following year he helped to launch BioGamer Girl, undertook a bigger
East coast tour where he began selling his original photographic art, and
released two new novels through Crazy Duck Press. Dead Girl: A Romantic Zombie Tale of Revenge features
a stunning full-color cover and twelve black and white illustrations from
tattoo artist, Charles Hearn. Blood Junky’s
sequel, Love in Vein, cemented the One Blood series with its
continuation of the story, garnering such review as to claim that the book and
the series is "comparable with, and at times surpasses, the 'Vampire
Chronicles' by Anne Rice."
In 2012, Stavros joined forces with the Vampire Professor, Bertena Varney, M.A.M.Ed, to
co-create the nonfiction annual anthology, Vampire News, and officially became
a Fangsmith with the creation of Organic Ghetto's second imprint, Kaos Kustom Fangs. He rounded
out the year by writing and editing screenplays for the One Blood Transmedia
Project, recording Dead Girl as an audio book, and undertaking his biggest
national marketing campaign, The Book & Fang Tour.
In 2013, he and the Vampire Professor released the second volume
of Vampire News: The (not so) End Times Edition and
is currently working on writing and growing his imprints. Stavros is
also a musician who has scored commercials, film shorts, documentaries, and
television programs.
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Tour Wide Giveaway
- 1grand prize pack containing t-shirt, sticker, art print, button and book
- 1 prize pack containing a button and t-shirt
- 1 prize pack containing an art print and button
- 10 ebook copies of Dead Girl
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I have a review copy of this release, and will be posting in the future.
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