Feb 8 2012
Dear Ms. Bridges, I first encountered your debut novel on NetGalley. I admit I’ve always been fond of historical YA, especially if there’s a paranormal flavor. Your book sounded like the ticket. It was a nice change of pace from the urban fantasies and dystopians overwhelming the genre right now. The unique setting was just [...]
Oct 31 2011
I am not a big fan of Halloween, except for the seeing the small fry in costume, of course, but I do enjoy a zombie, ghost, or other creature-centric story around this time of year. When I saw that Josh Lanyon had just released a novella called Mummy Dearest, I couldn’t resist, and I thought [...]
Sep 12 2011
Dear Ms. Lario: I requested this book from NetGalley based on the blurb over at BookPushers by MinnChica. This is an Entangled Pub book and the first that I’ve read from this Press. It looked like a very professional product. The epub was nicely formatted (with chapters and everything!) and didn’t have any glaring editing errors. My [...]
Sep 30 2010
Dear authors, I actually remember the various blog posts that inspired this anthology. Which was better: the zombie or the unicorn? It was a hilarious debate that suited the blog format. What I wasn’t sure about was how well this idea would translate to book form. I thought a lot of it depended on the [...]
Sep 30 2010
Dear Ms. Briggs, I got drawn into your Alpha and Omega series after reading the first story, a short story by the same name, in the anthology On the Prowl. I actually read the story at the urging of Janine; on my own I would likely not have picked up a werewolf romance. But Janine [...]
Feb 3 2010
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not read Angel’s Blood, the cover and this entire review will be a spoiler. LOOK AWAY! LOOK AWAY!! Dear Ms. Singh: I’m not certain that I’ll be able to adequately articulate why I enjoyed this book so much but I did. Since the time that I received the book up [...]
Jan 11 2010
Dear Ms. Archer and Ms. D’Arc: When Zoe Archer offered ARC copies of your new two-novella book, Half Past Dead on Twitter, I enthusiastically requested one, with more than a little curiosity about how zombies would work in Romance. I would have to read substantially more books to fully quench that curiosity, but your novellas [...]
Oct 30 2009
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Genre: Romantic zombie comedy Grade: Effing hilarious When I looked ahead on the October calendar and saw that this last Friday would be the day before Halloween, I realized I needed some kind of horror film or monster film or, well you get the picture, to tie in with it. [...]
Jun 2 2009
Dear Ms. St. Crow, I’m familiar the urban fantasy novels you write under the similar name, Lilith Saintcrow. I enjoyed your Dante Valentine series but wasn’t as keen on your next venture, the Jill Kismet books. But I’m always on the hunt for new young adult novels to read so when I heard you had [...]
May 14 2009
It’s not romance fare But if you like zombies, well This rec is for you Small indie press book Think it started out as blog? Now is a cult hit. Ignore the cover (I think it is hideous) Book is engrossing. Written diary Soldier’s viewpoint of zombie Apocalypse. Yay! Jaiku loves zombies. But not cutesy, [...]
Apr 30 2009
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Auto-buy for me Jane Austen and zombies? This is my dream come true. At first, I’m puzzled. Why is Jane Austen sharing copyright with Seth? Public domain book But I read and it is [...]
Mar 26 2009
The following is a spoiler filled tale in the spirit of Green Eggs and Ham. I am a zombie fan! Zombie fan I am That zombie-fan-I-am That zombie-fan-I-am! I do not like that Forest of Hand (and Teeth)! Do you like The village and Mary? I am not being contrary. This story is not believable [...]
Mar 16 2009
Dear Ms. Ryan, We’ve joked about zombies becoming the new vampire here at Dear Author. For a while, it seemed like zombies were replacing faeries as the hot paranormal trend. In fact, I first heard about your debut novel from a publishing deal announcement during one of those waves. The reason why it stood out [...]
Dec 17 2008
I see alot of books featuring zombies of late and I just don’t find zombies sexy or interesting. The word zombie conjures up hollowed out eyes, drooping skin, and mindless. What say you?
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