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I just don’t get zombies…

I understand vampires, but I just can’t figure out the zombie craze. Not that I am a huge vampire fan, although I did enjoy Brandon Hale’s Day Soldier Series—which is not really a genre I typically read.

We spent last week with our daughter and her family in the Sacramento California area. Our daughter was thrilled when the season premier of Walking Dead came on. I started watching it. After all, the grandkids were tucked in for the night and it was the only show playing on the living room TV.

When the cannibals started slitting throats I left the room and retreated upstairs with my laptop. My husband was braver than me and watched the entire episode with our daughter and son-in-law, although it left him shaking his head, wondering why there is such fevered fascination with dystopian horror films, specifically: zombies.

I may write a vampire book someday, but for now I’ll stick to ghost stories. Book 2 of Haunting Danielle will be out in a few weeks, and I am working on Book 3—which is slated for a January 1 release. But there are no zombie stories in my future.

As for those ghost stories—here’s a sneak preview of the first three covers of the series—designed by that Walking Dead loving, cover artist—our daughter Elizabeth Mackey.

Selecting a book by its cover…

Shelfbuz

When surfing this morning I came across the Shelf Buzz website. To my delight I found my Sundered Hearts book cover (by cover artist Elizabeth Mackey) as one of its picks for : Handpicked Kindle Books for Jul 16 Judged by Their Covers.

After looking around the website I found another Elizabeth Mackey cover, that one for a book by author George Wier. For those who don’t know, Elizabeth is my daughter, as well as my cover designer. But she doesn’t just design book covers for her mom – she has some pretty impressive clients on her list. To check out a sampling of Elizabeth’s work, visit her website.