Save Amanda Feral!
There’s a campaign sweeping the internets to save my zombie diva from obscurity (see that banner over there on the right? Click it and find out how it started). What it boils down to is, Amanda Feral’s getting one more shot before the series gets nixed. My publisher is reissuing Happy Hour of the Damned, the first book in the series, in mass-market paperback for the paltry sum of $6.99. That’s less than seven bones, people! Buy four instead of the latest Patterson outline turned bestseller, I won’t tell.
One of the ways you can help to keep an unapolagetic antiheroine in the urban fantasy genre, is to order the books through the University Bookstore in Seattle.
How awesome would it be to open up your package (the kind from a box, not in your pants) and find some handwritten smut personalized for you by Mark Henry! Well, you can make smut happen. Follow these simple instructions and your one step closer.
1. Search for the book(s) you want, might we suggest, HAPPY HOUR OF THE DAMNED (trade or mass market paperback, coming January 26, 2010), ROAD TRIP OF THE LIVING DEAD (trade paperback) and/or BATTLE OF THE NETWORK ZOMBIES (February, 23, 2010).
2. Select the quantity. 10 is a good, round number.
3. Click on buy this book.
4. Follow the directions for shipping and payment and at the bottom of the checkout page request for the book to be personalized in the comments section. If there’s something specific you’d like me to say go ahead and write it in there. Don’t be shy. Duane knows what kind of filth I write, he won’t be surprised by your shocking, disgusting requests.
5. Sit back and wait for the magic!
Welcome to Mark’s Little Corner of the Internets!
Here there be fictions of all sorts, pictures, many a blog post (mostly inappropriate), links, games, reviews of horror movies and even some original short stories if you dig hard enough. Mark also blogs at The League of Reluctant Adults (he’s a founding member) and NEVER at his original site, Burlesque of the Damned, so if you’re hanging out over there, it looks like he’s dead.
If you find you can’t get enough and need to stalk Mark on a daily basis (all the while knowing it’s perfectly likely he’ll stalk you back) you can join the Glamazombies, Mark’s crazy yahoo discussion group.
Make sure to check out Amanda’s page for her take on things, she’s also got her own twitter and myspace, so feel free to knock on her door (though we can’t be held responsible for her moods).
Soon there’ll be a super secret website for Mark’s young adult books. Shhh.
BATTLE OF THE NETWORK ZOMBIES is coming on February 23rd 2010!!!
Preorder now!!!
In Seattle’s undead circles, Amanda Feral is one of the beautiful zombies. Of course, when you’re socializing with werewolves, devils, and rampaging yetis, there’s not that much competition. Still, Amanda has a stylish rep to maintain, which is getting tricky now that her tanking ad agency is obliterating her finances. The fastest way to make some cash: appear on a new reality show, American Minions, hosted by lecherous wood nymph Johnny Birch. Classy? Maybe not, but a girl’s gotta eat.
With zombie gal pal Wendy posing as her bitchy agent, Amanda settles in to “Minions Mansion,” crowded with 24-7 video cameras and undead fame whores. When Johnny is found incinerated in a locked room, Amanda decides to channel her inner Miss Marple (minus the fugly cardigans) and find out who’s responsible. Was it Hairy Sue, the white trash stripper yeti? Tanesha, the glamorous trannie werewolf? Angie, the Filipino vampire with a detachable head? Unveiling the culprit in a heart-stopping finale won’t just save the show from cancellation, it might just keep Amanda alive—or as close as a ghoul can get…
Here’s what people are saying…
“…will make you laugh and squirm at the same time. Awesomely funny and bitingly insightful. Fun, fun stuff. I’ll never think of zombies in quite the same way again!”
–Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series
“Clever, fast-paced, and so delightfully trashy that it should have been printed on Hefty bags, Henry’s third Amanda Feral novel smartly skewers popular culture.” –Publishers Weekly
“Amanda’s back and serving up her deliciously bitchy snark in the oh-so-talented Henry’s wildly bizarre whodunit.” –Jill Smith, RT Book Reviews
Go to the book page for more info and excerpts, or preorder it now in print or ebook at one of these fine retailers…
