Christine Verstraete's Blog: Chris Verstraete's Blog - Posts Tagged "zombie"

I have a terrible habit of starting stories, then letting them sit. And sit.

But when I go back, I realize I have started something I like, and would like to see how it turns out.

So, I'm back working on a zombie story, a kind of prequel about a girl zombie, the main character in the YA book I've been sending out. Posting about it seems like a good way to commit to finishing it.

Sometimes a character doesn't let you go. Nor do you want her to. This time, I'm putting a different little wrinkle in the love story between my girl zombie, Becca, and her boyfriend, Gabe.

Oh, and forget your usual notion of zombies.

Becca is nothing like them. Nothing at all.

In fact, she thinks life can be near normal again. At least she did until her guy went out and moved hundreds of miles away without telling her.

So, she came up with a plan. Kind of.

But like most plans, it doesn't go the way she expected. Instead, she finds herself facing a most unexpected, and most unusual, new love.

Will Becca and Gabe learn what life post-Z is like - together? Or will she find a new love under a big, bright, beautiful full moon?

Stay tuned...

My new YA - Zombie book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie by C.A. Verstraete, will be published in 2013 by Intrigue Publishing.

Synopsis:

Life can suck when you're sixteen. It can suck even worse when you're not- quite-dead.

Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Herrera Hayes faces every teenager's biggest nightmares: bad skin, bad hair, and worse . . . turning into one of the living dead.

Becca's life changes forever when her cousin Spence comes back to their small Wisconsin town carrying a deadly secret—he's becoming a zombie, a fate he shares with her through an accidental scratch.

The Z infection, however, has mutated, affecting younger persons like her, or those treated early enough, differently. Now she must cope with weird physical changes and habits no girl wants to be noticed for. Then she meets Gabe, a good-looking part-Z like her, and fears falling for him. After all, how can he, who shows hardly any Z symptoms, be interested in someone like her?

But time is running out... Becca needs his help as she and her cousin Carm search for their missing mothers and fight off hungry Zs.

Most of all, she needs to find something, anything, to stop this deadly transformation before it is forever too late...

Cover to come!
Details: http://cverstraete.com
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My annual blog event, the Halloween in Miniature party has begun! Unique Halloween creations plus a spooky book recommendation each day to Halloween. http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/2012...

Made a banner until I get a cover. Can't wait! Stay tuned for cover reveal...

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Several of us girl zombie authors started a new blog - talking zombies, horror and whatever else strikes our fancies...

Stop by! GirlZombieAuthors

Now that I've got that crazy song in your head,(ha!) stop by the blog and comment on what keeps you hooked on zombies?

Zombie style

Great new blurb:
"GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie brings teenaged angst to an entirely new level when 16-year-old Becca is infected with a zombie virus and becomes one of the living dead. ...

"Still sentient and able to control the whole flesh-eating cravings, Becca struggles to find her place in a world where some of the dead eat the living while others try to fit into their old lives, only to be met by hostility and fear from former friends and family.

"Written from Becca's point of view, we get a narrow and very realistic view of this chaotic new world from a self-absorbed teenager's tunnel vision. A very fun and readable introduction to a new series!"
--Dana Fredsti, author of Plague Town & Plague Nation, swordfighter, and actress in Army of Darkness.

New review coming from Kings River Life Magazine - sample:

“...You can actually look at this story as a parable about the teenage condition. An orderly life is upended by forces and urges that are difficult to control. People you trust can turn on you, and sometimes you feel like you’re going to die. Yep, that’s being a teenager.

“...Verstraete, whose background runs from journalism to designing one-twelfth scale dollhouse rooms, has come up with a clever way of telling her story from a zombie point of view without sinking to the “Hungry…eat…BRAIINNSSS!” level.... With Girl Z, Verstraete has shuffled to the head of the zombie-lit horde...” – Terrance Mc Arthur, Kings River Life Magazine, www.kingsriverlife.com

Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie



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Now out on Kindle!

Becca's life is changed forever the day her cousin comes home.

Print release: Aug. 1

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Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie

Yay! It's Z Day! GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie is now out in print and Kindle!

Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie

Yay! It's Z Day! GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie is now out in print and Kindle!

Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie