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Zombies...Regency Style And Beyond

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This book is such fun. How cool that it will be a movie . Now we can get the blood and gore in 3D :) Zombies are everywhere, in every setting and situation.  A reflection of our times, perchance?  If you love zombies in unlikely places, check out my Apocalypse Babes series.  The first book features zombies in 60s garb with a penchant for disco. Who doesn't want to see a brain-eating monster in platform shoes? The series expands into a crazy universe of sci-fi soap opera horrors:  The Z Word, follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani, four besties who share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But like off-brand velour, rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds.   And the best part--the first book is FREE at Amazon and Smashwords .  ...

Jane Austen + Time Travel = Perfection

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" Lost in Austen is an ingenious reinvention of the classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, in which Jane Austen’s story is thrown off track by a very modern heroine, Amanda Price ( Jemima Rooper ). Amanda swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet ( Gemma Arterton ) and takes centre stage in the celebrated love story. Disillusioned with her life in London and disenchanted with her boyfriend, Amanda Price discovers Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom. Soon she finds herself swapping places with Lizzie, and entering the ‘real’ fictional world of Pride and Prejudice . Amanda arrives at Longbourn, the home of the Bennet family, and realises she’s joined the action at the very start of the story, she gets to know the remaining Bennet sisters, and prepares to meet Mr Darcy ( Elliot Cowan ). How will she keep the greatest love story of all time on track when Elizabeth Bennet is stuck in the modern world? " I watched this show with absolute delight and it kept me guessing until th...