Giveaway: Dust by Joan Frances Turner

Zombies have had a rough time trying to compete with the seductive vampires and sexy shapeshifters that dominate the paranormal genres.  You’ll be hard pressed to find books were zombies aren’t simply mindless, disgusting, rotting corpses with a one word vocabulary: Brains!  Rarer still are books featuring zombies as main characters with real feelings, emotions, and desires.  Enter DUST by Joan Frances Turner.  On September 7, 2010, DUST promises to change everything we thought we knew about zombies, and thanks to the wonderful people at Penguin, I have five copies to giveaway (see details below).

Dust by Joan Frances Turner

DUST is told from the point of view of Jessie Anne Porter, a young woman who died in a brutal car accident and only to be reborn as a zombie. Through the adventures of Jessie, Turner explores the psychological, emotional and social implications of an alternative reality in which zombies are sentient creatures. Turner’s zombies struggle with love and acceptance, anger and grief—allowing readers to face their own fears about life, death, and whatever comes after. Thoughtful, well-crafted and engaging, DUST adds a new dimension to everything you thought you knew about the living dead.

**Make sure you check out the three book trailers below.  Very clever spoof of a Public Service Announcement (Brought to You by The Equal Rights For Zombies Association).**

Giveaway

Giveaway courtesy of Penguin Books

Five (5) copies of DUST by Joan Frances Turner

*This title will be released on September 7, 2010*

Description:

Nine years ago, Jessie had a family.
Now, she has a gang.
Nine years ago, Jessie was a vegetarian.
Now, she eats very fresh meat.
Nine years ago,
Jessie was in a car crash and died.
Nine years ago, Jessie was human.
Now, she’s not.

After she was buried, Jessie awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. Jessie’s gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient, skeletal Florian and his memories of time gone by. She’s in love with Joe, a maggot-infested corpse. They fight, hunt, dance together as one—something humans can never understand. There are dark places humans have learned to avoid, lest they run into the zombie gangs.

But now, Jessie and the Fly-by-Nights have seen new creatures in the woods—things not human and not zombie. A strange new illness has flamed up out of nowhere, causing the undeads to become more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. As bits and pieces of the truth fall around Jessie, like the flesh off her bones, she’ll have to choose between looking away or staring down the madness—and hanging onto everything she has come to know as life…

Click HERE to read an excerpt from DUST

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