Dead Girl: A Romantic Zombie Tale of
Revenge
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/ictTDRLWx9c
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!
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
“Just wanted you to know…I was
about to wrap Dead Girl in festive Christmas paper but decided to
read the first page...now I'm on page 88 and I'm keeping the
book...and I'm not going to bed anytime soon.” -Sabrina Buckman, a
Facebook Post on Dec 21, 2011
“WOW! Holy shit…Thank you for
this. Thank you for bringing forth a story that more than restores
my faith in a type that has gnawed at my entrails for over a decade.
It was different, it was refreshing, it was a damn awesome break from
the “same old, same old” crap this genre is filled with. It’s
so hard to find an original zombie tale any more. And even harder to
find someone who can make an old story their own in some personal
way. But this? Definitely not the same old crap.”
-C. Dulaney, author of the Roads Less
Traveled series
“OMZG! (Oh My Zombie Goodness) I
absolutely Loved this book. Dead Girl is not the conventional zombie
book, but a great one! It’s a book of mystery and revenge with
Egyptian influence felt within the pages. Plus the actual attention
to detail of rigor mortis and decomposition of the body is spot on
and a great additive to the book. I love this book and highly
recommend it to anyone who loves a good revenge tale. Plus I
couldn't put the book down!”
-Sunshine Rose, Chicago, ILL. April
2013
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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