Monday 8 December 2014

THE WARRING DEAD TOUR/GIVEAWAY


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Virtual Book Tour Dates: 12/2/14 – 12/30/14




Genres: Horror, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopian




Tour Promo: Available free with Kindle Unlimited!






















Blurb:




The zombie holocaust has come, and there is no place that is truly safe.




Four intrepid survivors, Sasha, Terrance, Virgil, and the little

girl, Max, have escaped their island stronghold, only to find themselves

in the arms of what is left of the worlds military forces just when a

showdown is imminent between the armies of undead and the combined might

of the human race.





From the mountains of Northern New York, to the shores of the

Potomac, the battle is joined. Trapped in its net, the island survivors

must learn more of their enemies, their allies… and the strange nature

of one of their own.












Excerpt:




The

breeze whistled softly through the broken window. In a lonesome,

uncaring way, it played along the edges of papers and leaves that its

more violent cousins had swept into corners or under the rows of school

desks that filled the classroom. Rambunctious in its innocence, it

tousled through the room’s scattered hopes and the dreams they had

ensnared, and went off down the gray hallway and into other vacant rooms

as though racing the footsteps of morning’s light.





At

the entrance to the building, the zephyr gathered strength, drove

itself, defiant and free, through the unclosed double doors, and out,

out, out, over a schoolyard choked with weeds, with grass no mower would

ever touch, with rusting swing-sets, with unused toys… and with the

undead.





For they were there.




Shambling

about in their thoughtless way, their eyes vacant pools containing a

mystery no sane person could ever plumb, these human shells moved

through the debris of their former lives like sleepwalkers that would

never wake. They were all ages, all sexes, and of all different body

sizes. The smallest, a petite redheaded girl of around two years of age,

staggered aimlessly along with the rest, her chin hanging slack and

useless over the torn stem of her neck. Beneath this, covering the cold

flesh of her torso, were the rags of a bloodstained summer dress that

roughly one year ago, before the rising of the dead, had been new.





Had

she been living, she would have been a cute kid. So went Virgil’s

thoughts as he, along with two other people, lay studying the undead

from the shade of a wood line, one hundred yards distant, where the land

rose slightly to form a natural observation platform. The heavily

muscled man and his compatriots wore military helmets and were dressed

in loose, green, camouflage clothing worn over a tighter fitting layer

of leather that encased their bodies from neck to foot. The camouflage

was needed to help shield them from sight, and the leather was needed to

help shield them from the infectious bites of the undead, bites that

would, in a matter of minutes, turn any living person into one of the

aforementioned undead.





Virgil

kept the little girl in the telescopic sights of his MP5SD sub-machine

gun. From there, she looked different… better. She was a target. Not

someone’s little girl. Not a precious little thing that someone had

held, rocked, sung to, and played with, whose hair smelled like peaches

and whose smile could turn the day bright and new. None of that. Through

the hard, round tube she was a thing. Or at least it made it easier to

see her that way. It helped him to do what he had to do.





He flicked the safety off.




His finger squeezed the trigger… gently, gently.




For

some reason, she stopped, and turned her back to him. The breeze caught

her shining hair and lifted it slightly, her back and arms were smooth

and white like marble in the sun.





Breathe evenly.




Don’t think about it, don’t think about it, don’t…




Pause the next breath…




With

a suppressed hissing punch, the 9mm hollow point round burst from the

barrel of the weapon and struck the girl’s skull a quarter of a second

later. There was an explosion of blood and brain matter, skull and hair,

and without another sound, she returned to the earth where she

belonged. 









 


Buy Link:




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About the Author:




David Monette was born and raised in the cold rural hinterlands of

upstate New York. As a typical kid in a typical community, life for him

was pretty… typical. He liked to draw creatures and contraptions but as

the second born of four sons, such ability was merely a convenient way

of standing out from the crowd. As he inexpertly stumbled through high

school, his talent for capturing the images in his head onto paper was

noticed and encouraged by both teachers and family members.





Without any other idea of what to do with himself after graduation,

besides a vague idea of doing something art oriented, he decided to

attend Mohawk Valley Community College where he received his associate’s

degree in Advertising Design and Production. Acting on excellent advice

from his teachers at this institution, he went on to Syracuse

University where he learned a great deal about art and eventually wound

up with a bachelor’s degree in Illustration.





With a disturbingly large amount of student debt and a decent

portfolio, he learned what it was to be a starving artist. Namely, he

found that artists don’t starve; they simply pick up an endless series

of part time work to pay the rent while continuing to plug away at their

true passion. This was essentially what he did until he received his

first illustration job and from that point on, he didn’t look back. As

an illustrator, his highly detailed fantasy and science fiction work has

appeared in many books, magazines, board games, and collectible card

games for such varied publishers as Dell Publishing, Wizards of the

Coast, and Atlas Games. Initially, he had completed these diverse

projects utilizing oil and acrylic paints as well as pen and inks.





As digital technology continued to improve, however, he decided it

was time to tackle the arduous task of mastering the computer and

eventually figured out a way to adapt his style to a digital format.

With this knowledge and experience, he went back to school and received

his master’s degree in Illustration from the University of Hartford.

While there, his instructors reviewed his written work and had strongly

suggested that he combine his writing ability with his talent as an

illustrator to chart his own path.





And at the end of this arc, an author was born.




 







Connect With The Author:



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Goodreads Author Page




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LinkedIn








 


Giveaway:




Enter to win one of of three limited edition, original cover, copies

of the first book in the series, The Zombie Axiom. USA only, please!

This giveaway will run 12/2/14 – 12/30/14. Enter at Goodreads.

















Goodreads Book Giveaway



The Zombie Axiom by David

Monette




The Zombie Axiom



by David Monette



Giveaway ends December 30, 2014.




See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.





Enter to win





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