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Dead: Steve's Story
This is a compilation of the first three books in the DEAD series: DEAD: The Ugly Beginning, DEAD: Revelations, andDEAD: Fortunes & Failures. Each book also contains close to 10,000 words of additional material requested by YOU...the readers! This special edition allows you to sink into a DEAD world with your favorite people and not be "distracted" by those long absences as other stories intrude and get in the way.
358 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 9, 2012
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About the author
T.W. Brown
96 books303 followersTucked away in the Pacific Northwest with my wife Denise, a Border Collie named Aoife, a guitar collection, and an increasing number of aquariums sporting a variety of fish (cichlids are my new favorites), I live for football season when I can cheer on the Oregon Ducks and be disappointed by my Seattle Seahawks once again. I am a fan of Cookie Monster, KISS, and Dr. Who (along with most things British).
As a person who always dreamed of writing as well as one completely enthralled by all things zombie, it is hard to believe that I never once considered writing in the genre. It is true. I wanted to be more “mainstream”. The first novel I actually wrote is titled Dakota (as Todd Brown). It is about a pair of DEA types tossed back in time to just prior to the start of the Civil War. They are in Charleston, South Carolina, and one of them is an African-American.
The zombie thing really started when I wrote a short for a college Creative Writing class. The teacher, Ms. Bose, pulled me up and told me I had an obvious love for the subject and a real talent for the style. I decided to give it a shot.
The first thing I cobbled together was Zomblog. I wrote it as a warm up for the project I had brewing in the back of my mind. It is a journal account of the apocalypse. The funny thing is that it was never intended to be published. A few things happened and it ended up being presented to me as a gift in book format by my wife for a Christmas present. There was something I will never forget about holding the copy of that book in my hand the first time.
Because it gained a readership, and those readers asked for more, I made it a trilogy (Zomblog, Zomblog II, and Zomblog: The Final Entry). It is also because of those fans that I have returned to the Zomblog universe and just released the sixth (and FINAL) book in the series on Halloween of 2013: Zomblog: Snoe's Journey. I freely admit that I will sellout my plans to write what the fans ask for.
I really want my DEAD series to be what I am known for, and in the last year, it has really taken off. However, I will say that with the release of the fourth book in the DEAD series (DEAD: Winter), the numbers started to pick up beyond my wildest dreams.
The DEAD series (DEAD: The Ugly Beginning, DEAD: Revelations, and DEAD: Fortunes & Failures, DEAD: Winter, DEAD: Siege & Survival, DEAD: Confrontation, DEAD: Reborn) is scheduled to be a 12 part epic series.
It is told in three rotating chapters. One is from the first person perspective of Steve Hobart, a man thrust into the role of leader for a group of survivors struggling to keep alive. One chapter follows a group of four self-professed zombie “geeks” who initially believe that the zombie apocalypse would be fun and soon discover that it is nothing like the movies. The third of the rotating chapters is called “Vignettes” and is a series of snapshots from all around the world. Some of the vignettes are single chapter episodes, others are continuing threads that carry on for several chapters. A few are merged into the Steve story or the Geek story line.
Last year,I began my horror/comedy series, "That Ghoul Ava" and have found it to be my new guilty pleasure.
My blog can be found at:
http://twbrown.blogspot.com/
You can contact him at:
twbrown.maydecpub@gmail.com
You can follow him on twitter @maydecpub and on Facebook under Todd Brown, Author TW Brown, and also under May December Publications.
Book Links:
DEAD
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-The-Ugly-B...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Revelation...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Fortunes-F...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Winter-ebo...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Winter-TW-...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Siege-Surv...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Confrontat...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Reborn-TW-...
As a person who always dreamed of writing as well as one completely enthralled by all things zombie, it is hard to believe that I never once considered writing in the genre. It is true. I wanted to be more “mainstream”. The first novel I actually wrote is titled Dakota (as Todd Brown). It is about a pair of DEA types tossed back in time to just prior to the start of the Civil War. They are in Charleston, South Carolina, and one of them is an African-American.
The zombie thing really started when I wrote a short for a college Creative Writing class. The teacher, Ms. Bose, pulled me up and told me I had an obvious love for the subject and a real talent for the style. I decided to give it a shot.
The first thing I cobbled together was Zomblog. I wrote it as a warm up for the project I had brewing in the back of my mind. It is a journal account of the apocalypse. The funny thing is that it was never intended to be published. A few things happened and it ended up being presented to me as a gift in book format by my wife for a Christmas present. There was something I will never forget about holding the copy of that book in my hand the first time.
Because it gained a readership, and those readers asked for more, I made it a trilogy (Zomblog, Zomblog II, and Zomblog: The Final Entry). It is also because of those fans that I have returned to the Zomblog universe and just released the sixth (and FINAL) book in the series on Halloween of 2013: Zomblog: Snoe's Journey. I freely admit that I will sellout my plans to write what the fans ask for.
I really want my DEAD series to be what I am known for, and in the last year, it has really taken off. However, I will say that with the release of the fourth book in the DEAD series (DEAD: Winter), the numbers started to pick up beyond my wildest dreams.
The DEAD series (DEAD: The Ugly Beginning, DEAD: Revelations, and DEAD: Fortunes & Failures, DEAD: Winter, DEAD: Siege & Survival, DEAD: Confrontation, DEAD: Reborn) is scheduled to be a 12 part epic series.
It is told in three rotating chapters. One is from the first person perspective of Steve Hobart, a man thrust into the role of leader for a group of survivors struggling to keep alive. One chapter follows a group of four self-professed zombie “geeks” who initially believe that the zombie apocalypse would be fun and soon discover that it is nothing like the movies. The third of the rotating chapters is called “Vignettes” and is a series of snapshots from all around the world. Some of the vignettes are single chapter episodes, others are continuing threads that carry on for several chapters. A few are merged into the Steve story or the Geek story line.
Last year,I began my horror/comedy series, "That Ghoul Ava" and have found it to be my new guilty pleasure.
My blog can be found at:
http://twbrown.blogspot.com/
You can contact him at:
twbrown.maydecpub@gmail.com
You can follow him on twitter @maydecpub and on Facebook under Todd Brown, Author TW Brown, and also under May December Publications.
Book Links:
DEAD
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-The-Ugly-B...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Revelation...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Fortunes-F...
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Winter-ebo...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Winter-TW-...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Siege-Surv...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Confrontat...
http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-Reborn-TW-...
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February 4, 2017
I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. Its your typical zombie apocalypse story. Zombies show up, start eating people, people panic, lots of shooting and stabbing of zombies, lots of running, so nothing new there. But its the characters that make this book. Yes, you do have a few blink and you miss them characters, but the main characters in this book are written pretty decently for a zombie book, they add to the plot by their actions rather than just getting eaten. In the end, I was hoping the group would actually survive.
4 stars because I didn't think it was a waste of battery life on my tablet and like I wrote, pretty surprised at how much I liked the story.
4 stars because I didn't think it was a waste of battery life on my tablet and like I wrote, pretty surprised at how much I liked the story.
June 18, 2014
Don't let the covers deter you. (They did me initially. [edited to add: I thought they were comics at first, not realizing they are in fact novels.]) I came across this in a collection of other books and tore through it in one sitting. This is easily, now, one of my favourite zombie authors.
Steve is the Rick Grimes that Rick never was - or has yet to become.
The set up and story line suck you in almost instantly, and the character development is spot on. I was sorely disappointed when I realized I'd come to the end of the book.
Fortunately, for me, this is only the beginning. I've already purchased the other two special editions (Geeks and Vignettes; Geeks, so far, is equally good) and plan to devour the rest of the series.
If post-apocalyptic fiction is your 'thing,' this is definitely one to latch onto.
You'll be glad you did
Steve is the Rick Grimes that Rick never was - or has yet to become.
The set up and story line suck you in almost instantly, and the character development is spot on. I was sorely disappointed when I realized I'd come to the end of the book.
Fortunately, for me, this is only the beginning. I've already purchased the other two special editions (Geeks and Vignettes; Geeks, so far, is equally good) and plan to devour the rest of the series.
If post-apocalyptic fiction is your 'thing,' this is definitely one to latch onto.
You'll be glad you did
December 15, 2012
This was a great zombie book! I will say the only one character dying that made me tear up was Thalia but she wasn't really bitten. Woohoo! I love support writers in the Pacific Northwest. (Go Oregon) I'll be buying the rest of the DEAD Series.
I will say I really liked the character development we saw in Steve. He started out coming across as this loner/loser but found strenth inside himself to become a leader.
Favorite Quote:
"Thalia was okay. Also, Id learned some very valuable lessons. About life. Death. Leadership. And most of all, there is no room for error if somebody is infected.""
I will say I really liked the character development we saw in Steve. He started out coming across as this loner/loser but found strenth inside himself to become a leader.
Favorite Quote:
"Thalia was okay. Also, Id learned some very valuable lessons. About life. Death. Leadership. And most of all, there is no room for error if somebody is infected.""
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September 29, 2014
I read the other books so I was looking for something to entertain me until book 10 comes out. I decided to just pick this up to refresh my memory! As I started to read I realized I forgot a lot of Steve stories so I read thru this book without any problems. The one part a ok this book that makes me happy is the fact he doesn't have Steve dying it just has him happy after his wedding which put a smile on my face cuz I was sad when he died in the other books and I kinda had to put the book down for a day or 2! This book and the whole series is just awesome!!!!
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