Blood,Sweat and Books

Welcome to my stop on the Untold Tales Blog Tour.  To follow along with the rest of the tour click the banner above. THE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead. Deep in the Texas Hill Country, a man and his little dog takes refuge in a bed and breakfast located in the hills above a doomed town where an infested rescue center might unleash the hungry undead… On a deserted highway slicing through the desolation of West Texas, a woman struggles to survive as she faces the horrifying aftermath of the rise of the zombies… And finally, discover what happens on the first day to Katie’s beloved wife, Lydia, as the world dies… The Birth of the Unto...

Author: Rhiannon Frater Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Zombies Series: As The World Dies Untold Tales Vol.3 Expected Publication: Coming Soon! In the third volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead. Returning to Texas after celebrating his divorce in Vegas, Rune, a biker cursed with the ability to see ghosts, discovers that the world is being taken over by the hungry undead. Soon he realizes he will have to depend on all his abilities to survive not only the ravenous zombies, but the dangerous men lurking on the back roads of Texas. Senator Paige Brightman abandoned the Madison Mall and its inhabitants to the hungry hordes, but her journey did not end there. Her attempt to reach the president’s safe haven called Central has far reaching ramifications for her and the people she abandoned. The final in the three stories reveals the aftermath of the grea...

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme where participants are asked a series of questions about their reading habits. To join this or future Booking Through Thursdays Click Here. This Week BTT Asks:  What book(s) do you find yourself going back to? Beloved children’s classics? Favorites from college? Something that touched you and just makes you long to visit? The only series I ever seem to go back to on a regular basis is the Harry Potter books. I still get immense joy from reading the series and always am surprised when I find something new to fan girl over. I find myself flicking the books open at regular intervals and reading passages. Which is why I own the series in both E-Book and Physical form.  I also like to scour the books for new quotes. I eventually really want to make either a headboard or maybe just have a small wall covered in quotes from my favorite books. Now I do have some books that I revisit but usually with large breaks in...

Buy It Now: Amazon * Barnes & Nobles Author: Rhiannon Frater Series: As The World Dies #3 Genre: Horror, Zombies, Post Apocalyptic Publisher: Tor Books Publication Date: April 30, 2013 Siege is the conclusion to Rhiannon Frater’s As the World Dies trilogy, which should appeal to fans of The Walking Dead . Both The First Days and Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award from Mail Order Zombie. The First Days was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner.  The zombie illness has shattered civilization. The survivors who have found tenuous safety in Texas defend their fort against the walking dead and living bandits. Katie has made peace with the death of her wife and is pregnant and married to Travis, who has been elected Mayor. Jenni, her stepson, Jason; and Juan—Travis’s righthand man—are a happy family, though Jenni suffers from PTSD. Both women are deadly zombie killers. In Siege , the people of Ashley ...

Expected Release Date: April 24,2012 (original release 08/14/09) ISBN: 0765331284 (ISBN13: 9780765331281) Author: Rhiannon Frater Publisher: Tor Books Page Count: 368 Pages Goodreads Page: Click Here Pre-Order: Barnes&Noble Amazon The zombie illness has shattered civilization. The survivors who have found tenuous safety in Texas defend their fort against the walking dead and living bandits. Katie has made peace with the death of her wife and is pregnant and married to Travis, who has been elected Mayor. Jenni, her stepson, Jason; and Juan—Travis’s righthand man—are a happy family, though Jenni suffers from PTSD. Both women are deadly zombie killers. In Siege, the people of Ashley Oaks are stunned to discover that the vice president of the United States is alive and commanding the remnants of the US military. What’s left of the US government has plans for this group of determined survivors. I was sent a copy of this book to review from Tor. All opinions are my own a...

Horror Writers – Are We Really That Scary? By Rhiannon Frater Two of the most famous modern day writers are Stephen King and Anne Rice. Both are iconic writers of many bestselling novels. They’re two of the rare authors that people actually recognize on the street. They’re rich, famous, well-respected, and adored. And they’re both horror writers. Because Anne Rice and Stephen King are well-known for their unusual habits, people do make a lot of assumptions about horror writers in general. Anne Rice has been known to dress up in extravagant costumes and mostly wear black. Stephen King has played in a rock band, acted in the films based on his books, and is generally considered an eclectic guy. Stephen King lives in a beautiful Victorian in Maine while Anne Rice resided in the French Quarter of New Orleans for most of her life. Reporters love to mention Anne Rice’s skeleton earrings or Stephen King’s penchant for saying some truly creepy stuff. One of his most famous quo...

ISBN: 0765331276 (ISBN13: 9780765331274) Author: Rhiannon Frater Publisher: Tor Books Published: November 8,2011 (first published February 17th 2009) Page Count: 368 Pages Goodreads Page: Click Here Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins—finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them. I borrowed a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in any way for them. Review: Fighting to Survive continues the story first established in The First Days. Unfortunately for the survivors in Ashley Oaks t...

ISBN: 0765331268 (ISBN13: 9780765331267) Author: Rhiannon Frater Published: July 5,2011 (first published August 14th 2008) Publisher: Tor Books Page Count: 336 Pages Goodreads Page: Click Here The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground. They find sanctuary in a tiny, roughly fortified Texas town. There Jenni and Katie find they are both attracted to Travis, leader of the survivors; and the refugees must slaughter people they know, who have returned in zombie form. I borrowed a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in any way for them. Review: “Tiny fingers. So small. So very, very small. The...

Today is Blood,Sweat and Books Stop for Rhiannon Frater’s Untold Tales book tour. Rhiannon was gracious enough to give me an Interview and I am so excited to finally share it with all of you. 1. Which character speaks the loudest, to you? Do any of them clamor to be heard over the others? In UNTOLD TALES VOLUME 2 there are three stories from different points of view. I think the story that spoke most strongly in this collection was Katarina’s. Her story Revelation just pulled at my heart and I wept for her in the end. It was such a dark and intense story. In Ken and Lenore’s story Friendship in the Time of Zombies, both of their voices were equal in my mind. I think it’s because they’re so close and really complement each other. They don’t work against each other like sometimes characters can do. The Unknown’s story was really fascinating because we start with one point of view then it switches. At first you think the story is going in one direction, then it completel...