Weekly Zombies for Sep 30, 2009

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A weekly post to share my latest zombie reviews and blogosphere finds.

Join me weekly or whenever you have a zombie post by sending me your links in the comments of any of my zombie posts.

Zombie bits:

Zombies in San Francisco

Zombie book(s):

Tokyo Zombie by Yusaku Hanakuma

Rot by Michele Lee

The Enemy by Charlie Higgins (waiting on)

Zombie movie(s):

Woke Up Dead webisodes (waiting on)

Future zombie author to watch out for:

L.H. Parker of Travails of a Budding Author
- she's also interested in vampires ;-D

My Zombie giveaways:

Velvet - The New Zed Order: Survive book (waiting on)
- with a discount coupon

Velvet - Last Zombie Bag o'goodies
- if you read and reviewed Never Slow Dance With A Zombie, you should enter this giveaway!
- offer ends October 31, 2009

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It book
- offer ends December 31, 2009

Blogosphere Zombie giveaways:

Park Avenue Princess - E. Van Lowe's Zombie Twitter contest
-offer ends October 7, 2009

Tales of a Ravenous Reader - Zombie Book Prize Pack!
-offer ends October 31, 2009

Check back every week for a list of fresh zombies.

Weekly Zombies for Sep 23, 2009

zombie cupcake necklace at etsy
A weekly post to share my latest zombie reviews and blogosphere finds.

Join me weekly or whenever you have a zombie post by sending me your links in the comments of any of my zombie posts.

New YA Zombie book coming our way next year!

No Pain, No Brain
by Carrie Harris


Zombie bits:

Velvet - Cluck book review

Velvet - American Zombie movie review

Velvet - State of Decay by James Knapp (waiting on)

My Zombie giveaways:

Velvet - The New Zed Order: Survive book (waiting on)
- with a discount coupon

Velvet - Last Zombie Bag o'goodies
- if you read and reviewed Never Slow Dance With A Zombie, you should enter this giveaway!
- offer ends October 31, 2009

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It book
- offer ends December 31, 2009

Zombie Blogosphere Comics:

Polite Dissent presents:

The Zombie Vaccination pt1 (prevention)

The Zombie Vaccination pt2 (zombification)

Tales from Redesignland presents:

The Zombie Home Page Chronicles
- Part 1: Rise of the Zombie Home Page

The Zombie Home Page Chronicles
- Part 2: Attack of the Zombie Home Page

Zombie Blogosphere articles:

Fast vs Slow Zombies on Kung Fu Quip

80s Zombie Prom in Minneapolis, MN

Zombie: Panic in Wonderland on Infinity's End

Zombie Blogosphere giveaway:

Z.O.M.B.I.E. Toys
from Freddy in Space
offer ends September 30, 2009

Undead Much? ARC contest
Stacey Jay is calling on artists to try their hand at a You Are So Undead To Me inspired picture. Lucky winners get an ARC of Undead Much?
offer ends next week

Check back every week for a list of fresh zombies.

Weekly Zombies for Sep 16, 2009

This week's offerings:

The book above is a zombie blogosphere giveaway - Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead by David P. Murphy. Offer ends: October 9, 2009. Looks like a fun one.

Velvet - Zombie Pirates - stop animation movie

Velvet - White Zombie movie review

Velvet - The New Zed Order: Survive book (waiting on) - with a discount coupon

Misty - Brains advertisement

Terra - Never Slow Dance With A Zombie review

Lexie - Zombie Appreciation Links

Zombies in the blogosphere:

Rhiannon - found an icanhascheezburger cat zombie themed photo here

Tales from Redesignland
Zombie Home Page Chronicles comic strip

Velvet - I found this great zombie comment that really tickled me on Donna of Bites from a commentor who took the Zombie Bite Calculator test...

Mary Ann DeBorde said...

Hi Donna :) Alas - according to the calculator, I only have 56 minutes! Imagine the lousy time if I'd actually told the TRUTH about how much I weigh LOL

Well, if I do get infected I'll have to stay at home and watch all the zombie soap operas like: The Young and the Ravenous, All My Decaying Children, and General Mortuary :P

Zombie giveaways:

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It book
- offer ends December 31, 2009

Velvet - Last Zombie Bag o'goodies
- offer ends October 31, 2009

Check back every week for a list of fresh zombies.

Weekly Zombies for Sep 9, 2009

To keep the zombie love alive, vvb32 reads presents:

Weekly Zombies

Check back every week for a list of fresh zombies.

This week's offerings:

Velvet - First Weekly Zombie post
- includes description for weekly zombie posts meme
- teaser for Rot by Michele Lee

titania86 - First Weekly Zombie post

- Zombies vs. Sheep review

Elnice of Ellz Readz
found this blogosphere bit:

Science Ponders 'Zombie attack'
by Pallab Ghosh
Science Correspondent, BBC News
full article

Excerpt:

If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the
collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and
aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by
researchers in Canada.

and

Even so, their analysis revealed that a strategy of capturing or
curing the zombies would only put off the inevitable.
In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's
only hope is to "hit them [the undead] hard and hit them often".

Zombie giveaways:

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It book

- offer ends December 31, 2009

Velvet - Last Zombie Bag o'goodies

- offer ends October 31, 2009

*image source: Blog of the Living Dead

Day 9 - September Zombies Week 2009

Today concludes the first September Zombies week - celebrating YA zombie books of the year! (and other zombie-goodness)

Thanks to all who have participated in reading and writing book reviews, creating zombie-related posts and offering giveaways.

But wait, the zombie love continues just a bit longer...

For the last giveaway and opportunity to win a
Zombie Bag o'Goodies you must:

Read and post your book review link of Never Slow Dance with a Zombie by E. Van Lowe here. Also, let me know which book you would be interested in winning.

Entries: open to all countries

Deadline: Saturday, October 3, 2009

Winner announced: Sunday, October 4, 2009
The winner will also be contacted via email and the prize will be mailed within a week of receiving mailing address.

Prize: Zombie Bag o'Goodies includes

zombie goodies and a YA zombie book of your choice (pick one):

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

Kiss of Life by Daniel Waters

Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay

Zombie Blondes by Brian James

Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby

and if you want to wait for the January release...
I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It by Adam Selzer

And special thanks to all the commentors for it is for you we offered out brainsssss - you book blogger zombies you!

To post your review links please do so here.

Day 9 - September Zombies Week 2009 upcoming

Zombie books:

Cecilia - from zombies to killer unicorns

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It (trailer and giveaway)

Zombie movies:

Nicole - I'll Take A Spin on the Zombieland Ferris Wheel (Zombieland)

Velvet - Zombie Girl: the movie (teaser)

Zombies in the blogosphere:

Might of the Dead

Zombie Author tidbits:

E. Van Lowe excerpt:

So, what's next for you?

-- I have completed a novel called Boyfriend From Hell, about a girl, her single mother, and the boyfriend from hell...literally. And I'm currently writing my first book series.

Amanda Ashby excerpt:

My New Book Deal

-- Amanda Ashby's untitled middle-grade series about a girl who accidentally gets turned into a djinn (genie) the day before starting sixth grade and has to learn to deal with her new powers without her mom finding out, to Karen Chaplin at Puffin, in a three-book deal, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world English).

The three books will be coming out between 2011 and 2012 and I also have another young adult book coming out in 2011 so it looks like I'm going to be a busy writer!!!!

Seth Grahame-Smith excerpt:

PPZ Graphic Novel Coming in March!

-- Del Rey will publish a 160-page adaption of PPZ - to be written by comic book vet Tony Lee (X-Men, Spider-Man, Doctor Who), and inked by Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - in March!

Brian James excerpt:

Constant State of Change

-- Writing about the conflictions that come with being a teenager isn't about guessing, or staying up on the latest trends or slang, it's about being honest with yourself and exploring those same feelings that we tend to ignore as adults. It's being an adult that allows you as a writer to temper those emotions with experience, turning them into something more meaningful than reality television regurgitation. Or, that's the idea anyway.

Stacey Jay excerpt:

MY SO CALLED DEATH By Stacey Jay

March 2010 From Flux Books

Now Available for Pre-order!!

Carrie Ryan excerpt:

Is there going to be a movie of The Forest of Hands and Teeth?

-- Seven Star Pictures has picked up the movie rights for The Forest of Hands and Teeth but it's still too early to tell if they'll develop it into a movie. As Publishers Weekly reports, "Supposedly Seven Star is developing the project for an-as-yet-unnamed A-list starlet, and fast-tracking the project with a first draft of the screenplay already in the works."

Is there a sequel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth?

--Yes, The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the first of three books. The second, The Dead-Tossed Waves will be coming out in Spring 2010 and the third will be out Spring 2011.

Adam Selzer excerpt:

Q: Did you worry that no one would believe that a girl would not notice her boyfriend was a zombie?

--Oh, sure. I thought "that's okay for a song, but how could she not know? Is she stupid?" I really wanted her to be smart. I don't like writing books about stupid people. So the way it works is that Doug, the zombie, wasn't dead long enough to decompose much before he became a zombie. He just looks about like a regular, sincere goth guy who has some weird health issues. There are plenty of clues, but you can ignore a lot of things about someone you like. And that becomes a theme of the book - obviously you have to overlook flaws in any boyfriend or girlfriend, but where you do draw the line? At finding out they're dead? At having to die yourself?

Daniel Waters excerpt:

Will there be a third book in the Generation Dead series?

-- Yes! There will be a third book in the Generation Dead series (and a fourth and a fifth, if I have my way). The third book will be called Passing Strange. I'm working hard on it as we speak to try and get it in shape for a May release, and as usual I'm making things far harder on myself than usual. But I love the story and I hope you will, too. I don't like to show my cards early, but I will tell you that a different character takes center stage for this one...

Were you a goth in high school?

-- I can't say I was straight up goth, although one of my favorite albums at the time was the Damned's Phantasmagoria, which is cited by many as being one of the main albums that started the movement. I had all the rare Bauhaus singles, too.

But I think instead that I was an almost perfect blend of the five personality types from The Breakfast Club. Well, I was more Basket Case than Princess, and more brain than jock, and not much of a criminal although I did sport fingerless gloves and a trenchcoat and listened to Slayer. Maybe it was more 30%, 10%, 25%, 20%, 25%. Although I really didn't do anything princess-y, except I was a little spoiled.

Ah, heck with it. I was a goth.

Zombie-related reading challenges:

Misty - Spotlight on: Zombies (Helluva Halloween)

R.I.P. iv challenge has begun

- any zombie books read Sep to Oct counts towards the challenge

Zombie giveaways:

Velvet - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It book

Velvet - Last Zombie Bag o'goodies

Day 8 - September Zombies Week 2009

Book of the day:

Zombie Queen of Newbury High
by Amanda Ashby

Our review(s):
Carrie
Cecilia
Velvet




More reviews:

Book Splot
Diana
Lisette
Liyana
Sophie
Yan

Movie of the day:

28 Weeks Later

Our review(s):

Velvet

Zombie author interview(s):

Cecilia - Brian James, author of Zombie Blondes

- check out his zombie dance playlist

Zombie comics, manga, graphic novels:

news from the blogosphere:

J. Caleb Mozzocco - 28 Days Later #1

J. Caleb Mozzocco - Awakening, Vol. 1

nerdflood - Marvel vs. DC: Zombies eating your brains

Zombie books:

Cecilia - Never Slow Dance (teaser)

Cecilia - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (trailer)

Cecilia - World War Z (teaser)

Cecilia - Zombie Haiku review

Diana - Living Dead Anthology (trailer)

Blodeuedd - Dagger Star review

Blodeuedd - White Star review

titania86 - The Zen of Zombie review

Zombie movies:

titania86 - Planet Terror review

titania86 - Diary of the Dead review

Terra - Bob Hope, Democrats, and Zombies! Oh My!

Zombie music:

titania86 - Zombie music part 4

Zombie Girrrl - Zombie Tunage part 6

Zombie Girrrl - Zombie Tunes - The P.L.A.N.

Zombie creation(s):

Nicole - Zombie fic continued

Nicole - Zombie fic concluded

Zombie random:

Liyana - In Case of Zombies

Terra - Geek Survival Guide podcast

J.T. - The FB Zombie Apocalypse Discussions: Post the Second

In it you will discover how the Zombie Apocalypse results in polyamory. F’real.

J.T. - The FB Zombie Apocalypse Discussions: An Interlude

- some zombie haiku

Jordan - Zombie Walk??

Zombie-related reading challenges:

Misty - Spotlight on: Zombies (Helluva Halloween)

R.I.P. iv challenge has begun

- any zombie books read Sep to Oct counts towards the challenge

Giveaways:

Check out the complete list of contests and giveaways here.

--> Winners announced for offers that end today !!!

The full schedule of events for zombie week is here.

Day 7 - September Zombies Week 2009

Book of the day:

Zombie Blondes
by Brian James

Our review(s):
Cecilia
Velvet

More review(s):

Book Splot

Movie of the day:

28 Days Later (2002)

Our review(s):

Carrie

Velvet

Zombie comics, manga, graphic novels:

E. Van Lowe - Zombiemania

Zombie books:

Cecilia - World War Z (teaser)

Cecilia - I Kissed A Zombie (trailer)

Sophie - Beautiful Dead

Zombie movies:

titania86 - Michael Myers Then and Now

The 20 Weirdest Zombie Movies Ever Made

Zombie music:

Zombie Girrrl - Zombie Tunage part 5

Zombie creation(s):

Nicole - A Bit of Zombie Fic

Zombie interview(s):

Harry - Zombie Chat with Thea

Zombie random:

Jordan - Zombie.... Weddings???

Zombie-related reading challenges:

Misty - Spotlight on: Zombies (Helluva Halloween)

R.I.P. iv challenge has begun

- any zombie books read Sep to Oct counts towards the challenge

Giveaways:

Velvet - Ultimate Zombies - YA book of your choice (can be non-zombie)

Velvet - Zombie Blondes book

Check out complete list of contests and giveaways here.

The full schedule of events for zombie week is here.

Day 6 - September Zombies Week 2009

Book of the day:

You Are So Undead to Me
by Stacey Jay

Our review(s):
Cecilia
Velvet
Drea

More reviews:

Book Splot
Lexie
RagDollVampGirl
Robin Titan
Sara
Sophie

Movie of the day:

Night of the Living Dorks (2005)

Our review(s):

Velvet

Zombie Author guest post:

Cecilia - E. Van Lowe, author of Never Slow Dance With A Zombie

- check out E's zombie survival kit

Cecilia - Amanda Ashby, author of Zombie Queen of Newbury High

- find out How to tell if your BFF has turned into a zombie

Zombie fun:

Velvet - Zombie Haiku vote

Zombie books:

Cecilia - PP&Z (teaser)

Cecilia - Zombie Blondes (trailer)
Elnice - On My Wish List - World War Z (with Survival quiz)

Zombie movies:

Colette - Night of the Living Dead review

Velvet - Tokyo Zombie review

Jordan - Dawn of the Dead (1978) review

titania86 - Grace film review (zombie baby !!!)

titania86 - Fido film review

Zombie music:

titania86 - Zombie Songs Part 3
Zombie Girrrl - Zombie Tunage part 4

Zombie random:

Jordan - My opinion on zombies!

Harry - Zombie Week: Me & Zombie, Sitting in a Tree [don't gasp, I decapitate in the end]

Cecilia - Zombie food

Zombie-related reading challenge(s):

R.I.P. iv challenge has begun

- any zombie books read Sep to Oct counts towards the challenge

Giveaways:

Jess - Generation Dead book and wrist bands

Cecilia - Zombie survival kit

Check out the complete list of contests and giveaways here.

The full schedule of events for zombie week is here.

Day 5 - September Zombies Week 2009

Book of the day:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith

Our review(s):
Cecilia
Velvet

More reviews:

austenfan

Cecelia Bedelia

Heather

Laura's Reviews

Midnight Cowgirl

Misty

Okbolover

raych

titania86

If you didn't already know there is a giveaway offer for those who have read this book details are here.

Movie of the day:

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Our review(s):

Carrie

Cecilia (trailer and giveaway)

Zombie fun:

Velvet - Book Blogger Zombie Giveaway

Velvet - Plush of the Dead
Terra - Playing Dead (gaming)

Zombie art:

Harry - Zombie Gallery

Zombie comics, manga, graphic novels:

Lexie - Zombie Loan anime review

Harry - Walking Dead review

Zombie books:

Cecilia - My So-Called Death (waiting on)

Cecilia - You're So Undead (teaser)
Cecilia - Undead Much (trailer)

Cecilia - World War Z review

okbolover - World War Z review

Zombie Girrrl - World War Z review

Cecilia - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It (waiting on with book trailer)

Carrie - Waiting on Wedneday - I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It and Dead-Tossed Waves
Velvet - Waiting on Wednesday - Zombie mashups
Kristen - Waiting on Wednesday - Dead Tossed Waves
Dahlia - Wish List Wednesday - Zombie Queen of Newbury High

Kristen - Zombie Book trailers

- My Rotten Life,

- The Forest of Hands and Teeth

- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Zombie movies:

Lexie - Resident Evil movie reviews
titania86 - Dead Snow review

titania86 - Deadgirl trailer and Zombie Feminism

Zombie music:

Nicole - My Favorite Zombie song

titania86 - Zombie Songs Part 2

Zombie Girrrl - Zombie Tunage (part 3)

Terra - Dancing Dead

Zombie random:

Nicole - The Night I Met Zombie Spongebob

E. Van Lowe - Never Slow Dance With A Zombie: Outtake #1

Jordan - The start of the zombies!! - zombie kittehs

Jordan - More Zombies!! - zombie kittehs

Carrie - lolzombies!

Elnice - Get your zombie on!

Terra - Zombie Squad (zombie club)

Zombie interview(s):

Kristen - Zombie interview with Emma from Booking Through 365

Giveaways:

Velvet - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book

Velvet - Book Blogger Zombie Giveaway

Check out complete list of contests and giveaways here.

The full schedule of events for zombie week is here.

Day 4 - September Zombies Week 2009

Book of the day:

Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan

Our review(s):

Cecilia
Velvet
Velvet - book trailer and comic strip

More reviews:

April
Kristen

Mariah
Rebecca
Terra
Yan

Audiobook review:

Beth

Movie of the day:

Land of the Dead (2005)

Our review(s):

Velvet

Zombie author (guest post):

Cecilia - Adam Selzer (author of I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It)

read about his Advice For Girls Who Wish To Become Zombies

Cecilia - Stacey Jay (author of You Are So Undead To Me)
find out her Ultimate Zombie Butt Kicking Playlist of Most Extreme Rocking Awesomeness!!

Zombie fun:

Velvet - Zombie Word Search
titania86 - Resident Evil 4 game review

Zombie comics, manga, graphic novels:

Lexie - Zombie Loan review
Harry - Marvel Zombies, Volume 4 review

Zombie books:

Cecilia - Zombie Queen of Newbury High (teaser)

Cecilia - Undead Much (trailer)
Cecilia - Zombie PSA (trailer for I Kissed A Zombie And I Liked It)

Diana - How To Survive A Horror Movie review

Zombie movies:

Heather - White Zombie review

Popin - Fido
titania86 - Quarantine movie review

Zombie music:

titania86 - Zombie songs

Giveaways:

Cecilia - You Are So Undead To Me (cute) t-shirt

Check out contest and giveaways here.

The full schedule of events for zombie week is here.

E. Van Lowe - Past, Present and Future

The Past

When I was growing up I was good at sports. A jock. I also read a lot. An intellectual. I had the incredible good fortune of being able to run in several circles, although I could never seem to bring my various circles of friends together. In fact, my two best friends--one a jock, the other an intellectual--at times told me they hated the other. I attempt to explore the idea of bringing various cliques together in Never Slow Dance With A Zombie. Flash forward: Those two hating friends are now the BEST OF FRIENDS. I LOVE that! I also love teasing them about how much they used to hate each other.

The Present

I am very happy with my life right now. I write full time at home. I never thought I'd enjoy not going to the office but I love it. I work out in the morning, and then I write. My big daily challenge is figuring out what to do for dinner before my wife gets home. No, I don't cook. But I have become quite adept at calling restaurants for take out.

The Future

I'd love to be more conversant in French and Italian... Okay, conversant in French and Italian. My foreign language skills are the equivalent of hunt and peck. I need to find the time to master a language besides Klingon... Oh, wait! I haven't mastered that either.

*E. Van Lowe - author of Never Slow Dance With A Zombie