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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Winner Winner Zombie Dinner!

Last week I wrote a review of my friend Jason’s new book that he has written about zombies. The name of the book is “The Dying Of The Light:End”. The book is pretty awesome.


You can buy the book through the publisher’s website for a paperback copy. Or you can buy the Kindle version here for only FOUR bucks. Yes I said FOUR BUCKS!!!

In that post I announced that I would be doing my first giveaway here on Make Daddy A Sammich by giving away a copy of the zombie book.

So on Sunday night I wrote down all of your names who wished to participate in the giveaway. I then cut out the names of all you who wanted in and placed them in a green plastic cup.

I then put on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” song on my laptop and made my kids walk around like zombies. Yes I know “Thriller” was about werewolves, but that is not important right now. So after making my kids walk around like zombies while listening to “Thriller” for five minutes, I let my daughter stop and pick one person’s name out of the cup.


And the name that my daughter picked was………………….




Bushman over at "The High Cost Of This Low Living" is the official winner. So please go check out his blog. I will be contacting Bushman soon to get his address to mail him the copy of the book. As soon I as get the book in my hands, I will be sending it out.

Thank you to all of you for supporting my friend by liking his facebook page, buying his book, and spreading the word about his book through your peoples. I really appreciate of all your help. And thank you for participating in my very first blog give away.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The Zombies Are Here

A while back I told you about how my friend Jason has written a fiction book about zombies. Well I finally got my hands on a copy of the book a couple of weeks ago and just finished reading it this past weekend.

The book is called “The Dying Of The Light:End” and I must say that it is very good.


It opens by giving you some back ground history on zombies and how long they have been really been around. The book then chronicles the only survivor of a zombie outbreak in Colorado named David Blake.

From there the action picks up with the formation of a special group assigned to killing zombies. From that point forward it is some good zombie killing action with all hell breaking loose.

I don’t want to give away too much about the book because I want you to read it. The book is good and has something for everyone. It has zombies, action, drama, humor, suspense, conspiracy, religious nuts, and pretty much everything that you would expect from a good zombie book.

The book was really easy to read and I could not put it down until I finished it. And that is saying a lot since I normally can’t read a whole book cover to cover in one sitting. Although I am no literary critic, I liked the book. The book was well researched and the author did his home work when he wrote the book. It was also very well written.

The book was well worth the time spent in reading it, and I am recommending it to you.

Please go and “like” Jason’s facebook page. And you can purchase the book in print form here or in kindle version here.

And since I am appreciative of all of my followers and your efforts to spread the word about my friend’s book, I am going to give away a copy of the book here (which is my very first giveaway).

To win a copy of “The Dying Of The Light:End” I only ask that you be a follower of mine and in addition to whatever comment you leave for this post, simply say “Free Zombie” as well.

I will print off a little piece of paper with the name of each contestant and pull the winner from a hat. Or some other type of container. And I will let one of my kids pick the winner, so cross your fingers.

I will leave this contest open until Sunday night and I will post the winner next week.

So please get out the word about my friends book and go buy it!!!!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Zombies Are Coming

Yes that is right, the zombies are coming. But no not the real ones you are thinking of walking down the street slowly asking for brains.

You see my friend Jason (yes I have friends outside of the internets) has been writing a fiction book about zombies for the last year. Well it is finally finished and in the process of being printed into paperback. It is the first book of a trilogy series.

I have seen bits and pieces of it on Facebook and it looks great. Sometime in the next two weeks I should land a paperback copy in my hands. So as soon as I read it I will post a review of it. And the book should be released in early June.

Here is a write up from the website where you can pre-order the book:


"I didn't see Rebecca die for the second time."


The United States military hides a secret: the true and completely real existence of eat-your-brains, one-bite-and-you're-dead zombies. The Army has known for over a hundred years that they exist, and have been quietly and expertly keeping the secret.


Until now.


His hometown is overrun and destroyed, with everything and everyone he has ever known dead and gone. The sole survivor of Fall Creek, David Blake, joins a secret military group to combat the single greatest threat our world has ever known. Unfortunately, his help may come too late, for even as victories over the walkers begin to grow, the seeds of our ultimate doom are sown from within, and at the last, only a brave few may survive to carry on.

(Actual cover art from the book)

So if you are interested in zombies, please go to my friends Facebook page and show him some love. And if you are interested in buying a copy of the book, please visit this site where you can pre-order the book (which comes autographed and with an e-reader copy as well during the pre-order period).

And if you are not into zombie books, please pass on this post to your friends who like zombies as I am trying to help my friend out.

And to thank you in advance, when the book comes out I will be buy myself a copy and another copy to do a give away with for those of you who can help spread the word about my friend Jason’s first book.