Vampires, Fae, Werewolves...Zombies?

So it has now been 48 hours since I published my book. And I am still nervous.

My husband keeps telling me to prepare for any backlash. People who feel the content is not what they would normally read or may be upset that I would even write it. But in all fairness...it is in the description.

The title for this particular blog seemed fitting. All these fun little make believe things that are written about and consumed by our fiction loving population but many still carry a certain disdain for. I personally, love them. Well most of them anyway.

As a personal rule of mine, I generally will read anything once and if I love it I will read it a thousand times over and add it to my collection of books that clutter my room and living room. 

As a young adult, reading young adult literature was expected. Then came adulthood. Suddenly, I was worried that my YA obsession would be frowned upon. I tried and tried to get into reading literature that would be considered adult. But I just couldn't do it.
Non-fiction bored me (I read books for the same reason I love theater and watch movies, to escape reality for a time). And other books contained material that was either way too graphic that I was blushing or language that made me cringe.

So I turned back to young adult secretly. Hiding the covers so people wouldn't know. And then slowly, I began to realize it was nothing to be ashamed of. It is FICTION for goodness sake. Vampires, Fae, Werewolves...yes please. Tell a great story and I am hooked.

But then that leaves the zombies. Oh the zombies. Not so much a fan. Until I rented a book called The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. I rented it because I thought the cover was cool. I read it and only realized about a third of the way through it WHAT I was actually reading. A zombie book.

When I realized this I literally slammed the book shut and stared at the wall thinking oh my gosh. It is a book about zombies. I set the book down, clean house, watching the book carefully as if it was going to jump up and become my worst nightmare. But it didn't. And eventually I was so stinkin curious about the characters that I not only finished it, but bought the next three and read them within two days. And that was all it took.

Because I realized that yes, I do not do gore. I hate it to be more precise. But I do do survival. I do love girls who kick butt and a story of the desire to fight for love and a life worth living.

And so this brings me to my book, Tainted. I wrote it because I wanted to get into the world of a young girl who has to survive a world in which an out of control virus is taking over. Call it zombies, I say chemical warfare and a super virus. I wanted to write a story of a girl who is willing to sacrifice everything for others. A story in which hope cannot be killed, but the tainted can. A story that is minus the gore but full of suspense.

And if I get backlash for that...then oh well. So be it.

So here it is.....
http://www.amazon.com/Tainted-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00788GBFK/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329097393&sr=1-7