Darci and I have been taking part in a blog tour for Ash!
There are interviews, reviews, quotes, and fun facts about the book!
Check it out: Blog Tour!!!
There's a giveaway too! (There's still about a day left to enter.)
I'm welcoming the talented Stacey Jay back to my blog! Her book My So-Called Death is now out!
So what is it about?
One second, freshman Karen Vera's on top of the most fabulous cheer pyramid ever. The next, she's lying on the pavement with seriously unflattering cranial damage. Freakishly alive without a pulse, Karen learns that she's a genetically undead zombie.
Suddenly, Karen's non-life is an epic disaster. She's forced to attend a boarding school for the "death-challenged," her roommate is a hateful wannabe-Goth weirdo, and she's chowing down on animal brains every day to prevent rot (um, ew?). Even worse, someone is attacking students and harvesting their brains for a forbidden dark ritual. And it might be the hottest guy at DEAD High, the one who makes Karen's non-beating heart flutter!
Armed with a perky smile and killer fashion sense, it's up to Karen to track down the brain snatcher and save her fellow students from certain zombie death.
I had a chance to ask Stacey a few questions. Here they are:
1. Having the devil for a dad can be tough. But sometimes having a regular parent can be just as hard. What was your most embarrassing parent related moment?
Well, I have a lot to choose from so it's hard. One time, my dad tried to take me and my sister to school in our pajamas. I was six (my sister three) and tried to tell him that the matching Strawberry Shortcake outfits were our P.J., but he wouldn't listen. I cried all the way to school and he kept telling me I was being ridiculous...until we got there and Mrs. Shoemacher confirmed that I was indeed wearing pajamas. Then he took me and my sister home and we got to eat pancakes all morning and skip school. So...in the end, the day was a mix of horrid and awesome.
2. And while we're on embarrassing moments (which my main character has quite a few of)... share with us one of yours (non parent related)?
One time, in seventh grade, I was reading while walking and walked into a brick wall and scraped up the tip of my nose. I had a huge scab for over a week and my friends called me Rudolph. The shame was great.
3. If you could cast your book as a movie/tv show... who would be your dream cast?
I would want MY SO CALLED DEATH to be a cartoon, produced by Tim Burton (a girl can dream, lol).
Today visiting my blog is author and zombie expert Stacey Jay! She's a workaholic with three pen names, and a sick sense of humor. She loves creepies, crawlies, and of course, romance. What would a zombie novel--or any novel--be without kisses that make your toes tingle?
Her new Young Adult book Undead Much? just launched.
So what's it about:
Even Zombie Settlers with Super Hot Boyfriends get the Blues...
A few months ago I was a normal girl with a normal life. But that was before my power to Settle the Undead returned and someone tried to kill me with zombies.
Now I work magic and practice kicking butt while trying to find time for pom squad and my boyfriend, Ethan, and trying NOT to think about how freaky my life has become. It can be tough. Still…things could be worse…
Oh yeah, right: 1. Feral new super-strong zombies. Check. 2. Undead psychic hottie predicting a zombie apocolypse. Check. 3. Earth-shattering secrets that could land me in Settler prison for life. Check. 4. Cheerleader vs. pom squad turf war threatening the end of the half time as we know it. Check.
I’m going to need therapy (and a cookie) if I live through the week. Unfortunately I’m learning that’s not something Zombie Queens can take for granted.
I read the first Megan Berry book You are so Undead to Me and can not wait to pick this one up!
Meantime, Stacey answered some embarrassing questions for me!
1. Having the devil for a dad can be tough. But sometimes having a regular parent can be just as hard. What was your most embarrassing parent related moment?
My dad was seventeen years older than my mom, so he was really more like a grandpa than a dad. That made for a LOT of awkward moments. I remember one time I came downstairs for a first date wearing a very short kilt--that my mother had allowed me to buy and had no problem with, being a child of the 60's and all. But my dad had a hysterical fit when he saw it, and made me go upstairs and change. I'd never been so embarrassed. I almost cried, but I knew that would have made it even worse! 2. And while we're on embarrassing moments (which my main character has quite a few of)... share with us one of yours (non parent related)?
I was at my stepdaughter's second grade open house, surrounded by other parents, trying to pretend like I had some clue what I was doing being a full time caregiver to a little girl I'd only known for a year. I bent over to pick up my then two-year-old and split my jeans completely up the middle. My underwear was ALL OVER Pine Forest Elementary. Thankfully, it was pretty underwear...but still. Neither of my stepdaughters let too many days go by without reminding me of that moment. It's been three years and...I don't think they'll ever let me forget, lol.
3. If you could cast your book as a movie/tv show... who would be your dream cast?
All unknowns! Give the new people a chance, they're probably better than the "stars" anyway. (Spoken as a true former actor, lol.)
I'm taking part in a really cool blog tour. I'll be hosting several fabulous authors on my blog (and they'll be hosting me as well!). Each blog in the tour will feature different questions--so make sure to check them all out! They'll all be different.
First up for me... the talented Erin Dionne. Author of the middle grade books-- Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies and The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet. I read Models and absolutely adored it! I can't wait to get my hands on Total Tragedy.
I asked Erin a couple of questions about her most embarrassing moments!
1. Having the devil for a dad can be tough. But sometimes having a regular parent can be just as hard. What was your most embarrassing parent related moment?
We moved around a bunch when I was a kid, so I'd have to say the most embarrassing moments were when my mom would have to walk me into the first day at school every time we moved. : (
2. And while we're on embarrassing moments (which my main character has quite a few of)... share with us one of yours (non parent related)?
Oh, I can't believe you're making me relive this! It'd have to be when I was in junior high. I was wearing white pants to school, and it was early spring. It had rained, and there were still clumps of dirty snow on the ground. I slipped, fell down a short flight of stairs, and had some awesome black smears down the back of my pristine pants. AND my mom wasn't home to bring me a new pair of drawers. I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out the nicknames that little stunt earned me...
