Today is the beginning of the Supernatural Showdown. Everyday you’ll find something new. Here is the tentative schedule:

Sunday, August 8th – Introduction Post and Contest Opens

Monday, August 9th – Author Guest Post (Carrie Ryan, author of THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH)

Tuesday, August 10th – Top Ten Reasons To Love Zombies

Wednesday, August 11th – Author Guest Post (Daniel Waters, author of GENERATION DEAD)

Thursday, August 12th – Heart Throbs from Zombie books

Friday, August 13th – Author Guest Post (Jonathan Maberry, author of ROT & RUIN)

Saturday, August 14th – Wrap Up and Prize Pack Winner Announced

Remember, I’ll be focusing on Zombies in my posts and Lisa at Badass Bookie will be focusing on Angels.  Grab the button that is right for you, but if you want to root for the Angels, you’ll have to head over to Lisa’s site to grab the button.  Only ZOMBIE info here!!!

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You also have the opportunity to win a Supernatural Showdown Prize Pack including COFFEEHOUSE ANGEL by Suzanne Selfors and GENERATION DEAD by Daniel Waters.  All you have to do is fill out the GOOGLE FORM and include your name, email address, and mailing address to be eligible to win.

Be sure to vote for your favorite supernatural species.


In honor of the first day of the Supernatural Showdown, here are a list of great zombie books to get you started for the week:

Times Square, New York City: The first ever mass séance is broadcasting live on the Sunrise morning show. If it works, the spirits of the departed on the other side will have a brief window — just a few minutes — to send a final message to their grieving loved ones.

Clasping hands in an impenetrable grip, three mediums call to their spirit guides as the audience looks on in breathless anticipation. The mediums slump over, slackjawed — catatonic. And in cemeteries surrounding Manhattan, fragments of old corpses dig themselves out of the ground….

The spirits have returned. The dead are walking. They will seek out those who loved them in life, those they left behind…but they are savage and they are hungry. They are no longer your mother or father, your brother or sister, your best friend or lover.

They are soulless.

The horror spreads quickly, droves of the ravenous dead seeking out the living — shredding flesh from bone, feeding. But a disparate group of unlikely heroes — two headstrong college rivals, a troubled gang member, a teenage pop star and her bodyguard — is making its way to the center of the nightmare, fighting to protect their loved ones, fighting for their lives, and fighting to end the madness.

Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.

All Megan wants is to be normal and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it’s a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.

Things are about to get even more complicated for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it’s looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party the bloody kind.

Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life and more importantly, homecoming depends on it.

For the first time in Killington High School history, the Jackrabbits football team is one win away from the district championship where it will face its most vicious rival, the Elmwood Heights Badgers. On the way to the game, the Jackrabbits’s bus plunges into a river, killing every player except for bad-boy quarterback Cole Logan who is certain the crash was no accident—given that Cole himself was severely injured in a brutal attack by three ski-masked men earlier that day. Bent on payback, Cole turns to a mysterious fan skilled in black magic to resurrect his teammates. But unless the undead Jackrabbits defeat their murderous rival on the field, the team is destined for hell. In a desperate race against time, with only his coach’s clever daughter, Savannah Hickman, to assist him, Cole must lead his zombie team to victory. . . in a final showdown where the stakes aren’t just life or death—but damnation or salvation. Boundlessly imaginative and thrillingly satisfying, Play Dead gives small-town Texas an electrifying jolt of the supernatural, and is unquestioningly The Zombie Novel of the Year!

At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.

Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.

As if starting high school isn’t hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?

Get ready for a week of brain eating, slow shuffling, and moaning and groaning. So, zombie lovers – be sure to post the zombie button on your blog and spread the love!