That’s right!! We are already making plans for Halloween, because we are super mondo excited about it!
Which leads us to this…
You have been cordially invited to…
Howdy Girls and Ghouls! That's right it is that time of year again to let those zombies loose! So welcome my cannibal friends to the annual Zompacolypse at Paranormal Wastelands!!
Are you hankering for some Halloween fun? Is your inner Mummy and FrankenDaddy ready to come out and play? Well then mosey on down to the Wastelands for Halloweenies and Black Cat Cocktails. Cuz we are throwing a spooktacular shindig that will go down in Zompacolypse history!
Gotcha a scary story to share?
Ever read a book that made you go BOO?
Then we want to hear about it!!
Drop us a moan from your local bone yard and tell us all about it!
So why are we telling you all this now?
And what exactly are we even talking about?
Ok here is the deal…we are looking for you! Yes YOU, to share your favorite scary story with us. Throughout the entire month of October we will be hosting author guest posts, and interviews, for all things that goes bump in the night. Yes of course there is will be all kinds of fun and prizes along the way…what kind of party wouldn’t have door prizes?
How cool is that!?
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Bloggers/Reviewers:
For all bloggers/reviewers interested in joining in on the fun it’s easy peasy!
All bloggers that would like to participate, we are hosting a “Trick or Treat” blog hop. Each blogger taking part in the hop portion will host a “Trick or Treat” giveaway (each blogger is responsible for their own giveaway. There are no requirements as for the monitary value of the giveaway, or how you have people enter.) Each blog will be provided with a Zombie Hop badge, to be displayed in their sidebar to help spread the word about the zombie shuffle. Remember the more blogs we infect the more giveaways there will be! To sign up your blog for the hop please fill out the linky at the bottom of this post and grab the badge below.
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Authors:
Calling all authors! Is your writing on the dark side? Do you find comfort in the arms of the creatures that scare most people? Well then you have come to the right place! Paranormal Wastelands will be hosting guest posts, giveaways, interviews, and much, much more throughout the month of October. We would love to have you join in on the fun and promote your book during a month Trick or Treating! And what better way to do that than participate in a month long event that will end with a multi-blogger hop? So if you would be interested in participating, either by having us host a giveaway of your favorite/latest book, doing a guest post or interview, please let us know by contacting us at paranormalwasteland@gmail.com Some ideas for a guest post might be telling your favorite scary story and or sharing a pic of your favorite Halloween costume! If you would like us to host a giveaway with your post that would be greatJ You can send books out directly to the winners or you can post them to us at your convenience, and we will take care of it for you. The deadline for authors’ response is September 15th 2012. Anytime between now and then will be great, that way we can set up the posts and plan the month. ***Update*** We don't want anyone to miss out on this event. So if you are an author, and you want to participate but you found our past the deadline...never fear. We are very easy going people;) Just drop us a line at the email above and we will go from there!
Thank You and we look forward to seeing you at Zompacolypse 2012!
That’s right be a good little zombie and eat your din din.
Throw on your Halloween best, and zombie shuffle on over for some good old fashion Trick-Or-Treating!
Before we get on with the giveaway I just wanna give a few survival tips for all of the non-zombie infected humans left out there. So if you find yourself in this situation…
You’ll know what to do!
And who better to tell us what to do in the event of a zombie infestation than the CDC?
Nope that is NOT a joke. The Center for Disease Control really does have a
When life gives you lemons, kill zombies -- turns out lemon juice neutralizes the undead.
After a failed attempt at running away, best friends Nathan and Misty return home expecting to face angry parents. Instead, they discover the military has destroyed the bridges out of their rural town and everyone's fled--except a small horde of the living dead. The stress of flesh-eating zombies may be more than their already strained relationship can handle.
Even with the help of the town geek and lemonade-powered Super-Soakers, there's not enough time to squeeze their way out of this sticky mess. Unless the trio eradicates the zombie infestation, while avoiding the deadly zombie snot, the military will blow the town, and them, to pulp.
Their only shot is something with a lot more punch. Something like the Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb. But even if their friendship survives, there's another problem: Someone has to lure the undead into the trap.
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BUT WAIT!!!!
There’s more…
You have stumbled on one of the 15 extra bonus stops!!!
Just click the picture above to enter to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card! (and keep hoping...there are 15 bonus stops on this hop. Which means 15 more chances to win!)
And don't forget to check out the rest of the stops on the list!
We would like to give a special thanks to Vanessa Morgan for this most awesome Trick-or-Treat!
But before we move on to the giveaways let's learn a little something about this fantasitic author!
Vanessa Morgan is a screenwriter and novelist and hasbeen called the 'female version of Stephen King'. She's also the creator of the popular Avalon Cat Cartoon.
She lives in Belgium and iscurrently writing a vampire movie for Radowski Films. You can find outmore about her at her blog here.
Oh Yeah....and both of her books are currently being turned into movies. How cool is that!
And speaking of her books, let's get on to the giveaway shall we?!
Megan Blackwood has just lost her son in a terrible accident. Now she has come to Moonlight Creek with her teenage daughter Jenna, hoping a change of scenery might help to put her life back together. But something odd is going on in Moonlight Creek. When rain falls over the village, its inhabitants commit grisly murders, leaving the place deserted with the first rays of sunshine. Beneath the lake's surface, an eerie presence watches... and waits... Waits to reveal a tragic past drowned in mystery and fear. One that doesn't bode well for visitors.
By the time Megan realizes that her daughter's life is in danger, it may be too late to escape.
Two sisters, Jennifer and Louise, return to their remote holiday cabin after a day at the seaside. But little do they know they're being surrounded. Shortly after their arrival, the girls will come face to face with THE STRANGERS OUTSIDE.
When the assailants make their intentions known, things take a shockingly terrible turn and an intense battle for survival will begin.
Happy Halloween & sweet nightmares!
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Today we have Rusty Fisher, author of books such as Zombies Don't Cry & Ushers, Inc., to tell us about what led to him writing the stories he writes today!
My Dad’s restaurant opened on a distant Halloween over 50 years ago. So, throw that and free candy together and, yeah, I guess you could say Halloween was always a pretty big deal in our house growing up.
Every year on Halloween my parents would dress up and, after taking us kids trick or treating just after sunset, they would both head off to Dad’s restaurant to celebrate the big anniversary bash with a costume party and non-stop carousing.
My little brother Rhett and I would stay home with my grandmother, “Nonny.”
Nonny was an awesome babysitter because she liked to spoil us, so Rhett and I could watch scary movies like Amityville Horror and, of course, Halloween nonstop on HBO while she knitted in the living room and, as long as we didn’t scream too loud, she never said, “Boo.” (See what I did there?)
The only department where Nonny wasn’t so great was when it came to the Halloween candy. Yes, Nonny was one of those “only one piece and only after dinner” grandmothers-slash-babysitters.
Nonny had been a dental hygienist, you see, and hadn’t had a piece of candy, a chocolate bar or so much as a glass of orange juice since roughly 1953. Still, that was easy to get around.
While my brother or I ran “interference,” usually asking for something wholesome and non-cavity producing like a glass of milk or maybe making the ultimate sacrifice and asking what Nonny’s “childhood was like,” the other would disappear into our parents’ bedroom where the trick or treat bags were stashed.
Once there, he would load up his Planet of the Apes pajama bottoms with individual sized boxes of Milk Duds or hands full of candy corn and Tootsie rolls and sneak back in front of the TV. Mission accomplished.
So, there we were, circa 1979-ish or so, deep into scary movie marathon territory when, all of a sudden, a booming knock could be heard at the front door.
I’m talking sonic boom knocking. I’m pretty sure my brother and I lost our – well, we screamed, I know that much! And Nonny? She wasn’t much better. In case the Planet of the Apes pajama bottoms haven’t dated me enough, those were back in the days when phones had chords, and ours was too far away to hold the receiver and look out the door at the same time.
So while the booming – and the screaming – continued, while Rhett and I huddled in front of the HBO box (yes, it had an actual box back then) Nonny yelled out to the intruder, “You go away now, trick or treat time is over!”
And it was! Back then no self-respecting trick or treater would be caught dead after 9 p.m. and by now it was nearly… 10. Maybe even… the horror… 11!
Soon enough the knocking stopped, and after a few minutes Nonny placated us by letting us watch another scary movie (!!) before bed. She even promised to watch with us in the living room in case we wanted her to. (Uhhh, yes please Nonny!)
So there we were, five minutes later, cuddled up on the family room couch watching God knows what horror movie when a giant, yellow figure began stomping toward the French doors five feet away.
Now we all leapt off the couch and huddled in the middle of the room, watching petrified as a giant monster with rubber yellow skin and a helmet for a head walked, zombie style, toward the doors.
It walked, and stumbled, and walked and then pounded, bang, bang, bang, until the glass panes in the French door rattled. To Nonny’s credit, she protected us as well as any 90-pound grandmother could, but I’m not sure why none of us had the forethought to, you know, actually RUN AWAY!!!
With Rhett screaming, me screaming louder and Nonny rolling up her housecoat sleeves to fight off the Yellow Submarine Monster of Doom, the scene escalated until the monster finally reached for its head and… took it off!!!
Only to reveal… a human head inside. A very familiar human head: Mr. Oliver, one of my parents’ best friends. He was very apologetic, of course, and sweating bullets once Nonny opened the French doors and gave him what for.
But still, she went pretty easy on him once we all realized we weren’t going to be Gamma ray’d up to Mars or zapped into space dust! In fact, as I recall, she fixed him a drink (!) and let him use the phone to track down the rest of the costume party.
Long after Mr. Oliver left and my parents brought Nonny back home and Rhett was asleep I lay there in bed, heart still hammering, thinking of the thrill I felt while absolutely flippin’ scared out of my MIND!
More so than the rubber monsters on TV or the wooden acting, this was a real-life thrill – my first! Because there was a moment there, just before Mr. Oliver took off his space helmet head (I never did think to ask what, exactly, he was going as that year) Nonny, Rhett and I really could have been zapped into outer space or laser-beamed into rock dust.
And, trembling and wanting to puke and the whole screaming thing aside, it was pretty… cool!
I think that was the day I started enjoying the thrill of being scared, and began thinking about what it might be like to scare other people for a living. Not in any real conscious, “Hmmm, let me start saving up for my MFA in Creative Writing Degree” way, but just in a generally vague, “Yeah, I could do that!” way.
And now, well, all I can say is, “Thanks, Mr. Oliver! For scaring the crap out of me!!!”
Yours in YA,
Rusty
About the author: Rusty Fischer is the author of several YA supernatural novels, including Zombies Don’t Cry, Ushers, Inc., Vamplayers, I Heart Zombie and Panty Raid @ Zombie High.
Visit his blog, www.zombiesdontblog.blogspot.com, for news, reviews, cover leaks, writing and publishing advice, book excerpts and more!
And since Rusty is all for the Trick-or-Treating he has a ebook copy of...
When the streets are full of bloodsuckers, werewolves, zombies and ghouls, where will you turn? The cops don't know how to stop them, the Army's pretty much given up and even the Marines are stumped when their bullets and grenades fail to stop the onslaught.
Have no fear, Ushers, Inc. is here! Four high school movie ushers, who collectively have seen over 42,000 hours of B- and C-horror movies know just what to do.
Did you know copper pennies can stop a zombie in its tracks? Abby Cooper, Head Usher, does.
Did you know garlic paste is twice as effective on vampires as garlic cloves? Abby Cooper does.
Did you know werewolves are absolutely petrified of seeing a Hershey's kiss? Abby Cooper does.
The girls at Cypress Cove High school-especially Rich Witch Mia Hopwood-call Abby an uber-geek; the victims she rescues from zombies, werewolves and vampires just call her one thing: Hero!
But Abby and her fearless crew of movie ushers-slash-superheroes face more than just bloodsuckers and brain-biters. There's Wyatt Winters, for one; he's the hot new PR guru Ushers, Inc. has had to hire to handle all their press - and with his smoldering good looks and air of confidence, he's causing more than just tension between Abby and her old boy-crush-and fellow usher-Zach Nash.
And let's not forget the monsters, who aren't too happy about four geeky ushers beating their butts all over creation. Now the League of Associated Undead (LAD) is converging on Cypress Cove, determined to stop Ushers, Inc. once and for all.
When it's the monsters versus the monster hunters, who you gonna call?
Ushers, Inc., that's who!
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