Third Book Of The Series Coming Soon

Back on the blog here. Been a long time, been extra busy and extra exhausted. I've already finished the third book of the series, but it will not be released yet. Since I don't have the makeup supplies to do some zombie work and use that as the cover, I'll be having my younger brother do the cover work. He's a great artist and will do a good job. The third book is titled Apocalypse World and does have the main characters returning again. Although I know you might not have read the first two books, but hope you don't mind spoilers just to catch up on what's going on before the third book does come out.
In When The Dead Came, you're introduced to the main characters: Justin, Alex, Holly, Keith, Avery, and Jenny (notable characters are Joel, Katie, and Zackary but they die). Justin is Alex's older brother while Holly, Keith, and Avery are three best friends from Colorado; and Jenny is a 15 year old girl from Lubbock. At the end of the book, the group is split up and actually believe one another are dead. Alex ends up just traveling with Avery east while Holly, Keith, and Jenny are stuck together with their car. At this time, Justin's whereabouts aren't known and he's believed to be dead.

Now in When The Dead Came 2, new characters are brought in and Alex, Avery, Holly, Keith, and Jenny are reunited in Ohio. But after that, things go down hill when a group known as the SGO (Survivalist Group of Ohio) capture them. The characters in this particular group are known as Charles, Lucinda, Trevor, Nick, Jeff, Will, Evan, and Drew. There is also a little girl at one point but she disappears toward the end of the book. Also toward the ending, the group escapes on a bus they find, but the only ones to be on the bus are Trevor, Jeff, Will, Holly, Keith, Avery, Alex, and Jenny. The exciting part is the bus wrecks after Jenny and Holly are both shoved off the bus by Will. Alex and Avery make it out alive, but things turn again, this time between Alex and Avery.

And a little about the third book, Apocalypse World. The only thing I'll give away is that one of the survivors check the bus after a few days. While checking in the bus, one body is missing which reveals one has survived.

As the series progresses, most of the main characters eventually will die.

Ariana

When The Dead Came 2 Has Arrived On Ebook

Here is the link to the second book of my series:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MSV67RY

It costs $2.99 in the U.S. and has 1,275 pages on the ebook. The paperback is still processing and will be ready soon. When The Dead Came 2 is also available to other countries as well. If you have Kindle Unlimited, the book is free to read.

Ariana

Final Book For Now

Hello readers, I have some bad news. The bad news is I will not be posting on here for a long time. Some issues in my marriage have come up and I will be moving back out to the country. There's no internet access there, so no telling when I'll be able to reconnect again. I didn't get to improve my second zombie book of the series like I had wanted to. So before I do leave, I'm going to go ahead and publish it anyways and hope for the best for it. It is titled When The Dead Came 2. There will be more of the series released, just not for some time after this second one. The others of the series are more interesting than the first one, I will admit that. And will be longer. Unfortunately however, I didn't get to make the second book as long as I wanted it to be, but at least it's a few pages longer than the first. I will post back later with the pricing of the second book. Thank you.

Ariana

About Three Characters Briefly

Been writing up more to the series lately. So far When The Dead Came hasn't really sold any still, but not giving up hope on that. For now though, When The Dead Came 2 will be out soon with new characters to introduce. Out of the whole series, in my opinion, the second to last book will be the most intriguing due to what all happens to characters and to the fate of what's left of the world.
if you haven't purchased When The Dead Came, then I'll introduce you to the main characters, being known as Alex, Avery, Justin, Holly, Keith, Jenny. They're in each series and begin to die off as the books progress. The other two characters who are traveling with them are Joel and Zackary, two high school boys that are the same age as the main characters, aside from the brothers, Justin and Alex, Justin being the oldest of the group. You also meet the scientist who knows how it happened and what they can do to stop it.
Join the characters as they travel through the south of the U.S. from Colorado to Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas before heading to Ohio in the second book.
The first book isn't as detailed as the other books with the killing of zombies and you learn more each time about each characters personalities through the series. Such as the character Holly. She's a teenager and happens to be at school when she sees her first zombie. She also witnesses her boyfriend's death and is grieving the entire time until the group leaves Texas. Through the series, you see her change for the better. During When The Dead Came, she was basically useless in helping with supply searching and against zombies. Over time, she learns how to fire a gun for the first time and becomes more brave as time passes.
Another character is Avery, another high school teenager who also sees the same zombie Holly sees for the first time. Avery is quiet, keeps to herself mainly until something happens in When The Dead Came 2 that changes her for revenge purposes. Also in the next book, Avery begins to lose the grasp she once had on her own sanity and on her friendship to Keith.
While Keith began as kind and helpful, he also changes in the next book, not for the better but for the worst.
That's all for now on sharing things about a few characters and their partial backgrounds.
There will be more to look forward to soon. In the meantime, check out the Facebook page named after the first book of the series as I begin to update that regularly.

Ariana

www.facebook.com/whenthedeadcameseries

An Excerpt From My Next Book: WHEN THE DEAD CAME 2

Since I'm halfway finished with the second book of the series, I'm going to share a few paragraphs from the next book for your reading/viewing and what to look forward to in the next book:

Trevor raised the next star in an attempt to help his group’s leader, when he got a sudden stabbing pain in his left forearm, causing him to tighten his grip on the ninja stars that began to cut into his fingers and palm, blood beginning to trickle. He looked at his forearm and saw the knife sticking in his arm. He pulled the knife and dropped his stars with Charles’ gun on the floor and he ran into the bedroom. Avery, after seeing him pull the knife from his arm and dropping the stars, could only think, crap. She immediately began to regret throwing the knife blindly and wished she had aimed at his face, possibly even his eye. She grabbed out the mallet next, trying to become creative and as soon as he came into the room, she flung the mallet. The guy raised his arms, blocking the metal mallet from hitting him in the face, only causing pain on his arms.

            She grabbed out the fillet knife next and lashed out, cutting his arm once again. Trevor, not really ever fighting a girl before, went ahead and grabbed out his combat knife and used it to block the brunette’s moves. He didn’t want to injure her, he usually was the one to deal with the guys. The two began fighting, Trevor doing more blocks than attacking. That is until he began to notice she was starting to slow down suddenly.

            Avery felt herself starting to feel weaker from lack of food and water in her system as of late. She felt worn out and with one final move, ran at Trevor and tried to shove him back so she could make a run out of the room. Instead, Trevor shoved her back and she fell on the soiled bed then they rolled off the other side, landing on a dead body. Both struggled to stand back up and when they did, Trevor finally grasped the fillet knife and twisted her wrist, the knife dropping on the carpeted floor and he dug in his pockets for the zip ties and placed them on her wrists.

            No longer caring, Avery stopped struggling and almost fell over onto the soiled bed again, Trevor keeping a grip on her arms, they returned into the main room.

            Charles slammed Alex against the window, his back shattering the glass and he sank down to the floor, his back aching so badly. Charles wiped the blood from his nose where Alex had hit him and he looked at Trevor,” zip tie him too.” Charles grabbed Avery’s arms while Trevor zip tied Alex’s wrists now and stood him up. Charles grabbed Alex and shoved Avery aside, Trevor once again grabbing her arms and they watched Charles hit Alex a few times in the face and then in the ribcage. He watched the young guy double over in pain and coughing. He picked up his gun while Trevor picked up his gun and stars.

            "You know you're messing with the wrong group here,” Charles said to Alex then looked at Avery before they moved out of the building and went back down the stairs and out into the alley where they saw the two vehicles still awaiting their arrival. Charles threw Alex inside the truck while Avery was shoved into the back of the Dodge and both vehicles left.

An Excerpt From When The Dead Came

For those who haven't come across my book, for this post, I'm going to be sharing excerpts from the book as a way to let you see what it's about.

The corpse awakened instantly, springing with powerful energy as he grabbed onto Walt's left wrist, biting down into the screaming man's arm. Pherson jumped, turning his head to the right, not wanting to see the scene in front of him that's sure to make him incredibly sick to his stomach. As if an alarm was triggered, every nearby employee began running into rooms or straight to the horror scene unraveling. Down the hall, Pherson could see Luke Newhart, one of the men assigned to solve the more recent chemical equation. Pherson wasn't sure why Luke was hired however, he always looked disheveled and drank alcohol profusely while working. Instantly, Luke turned and ran, leaving Pherson to wonder where Luke intended to go and whether he should follow.

Through the night, Avery kept waking up, always hearing screams in the distance somewhere in the city. She heard the undead shrieking and glass breaking. She heard all kinds of sounds through the night, and couldn't go back to sleep. And each time she shut her eyes, she saw the guy outside of her class she had been in when it happened. She kept seeing the blood, his injuries, and that walk. Instead of sleeping, she laid there with her head against the window, and just stared out.

Holly rolled over from her left side to lying on her back, sleeping in silence. She flinched when she felt something wet drip on her forehead. When she felt more drops of the liquid land on her cheek and mouth, she rubbed her face then opened her eyes. In front of her stood a zombie, his hair missing on one side, torn out and his left eyeball hanging out of its socket. Holly screamed as the zombie bit down on her left face cheek, the skin tearing up, allowing blood to flow.

Will be sharing some from my next book of the series soon on the Facebook page, When The Dead Came for people to view and on here as well.

Ariana

A Small Look At The Characters In The Series and What To Look Forward To In The Second Book Coming Soon

The thing I enjoy apparently, is letting others in on who the characters are and just allowing others to get to know the name of characters who are in the series. And that's what I'll be doing now. In the first book, if you already read it, has only eight main characters, plus a few with small parts: Avery, Justin, Alex, Keith, Holly, Jenny, Zackary, and Joel. Then there's the Boss, scientist mainly known as just Pherson, the group from Texas, the survivors in Kansas, John, and Katie.
Avery is the high school girl, friends with fellow high schoolers Holly and Keith, her two friends. Katie was also a friend as well, but doesn't make it past the first few pages of course, also John doesn't either. The Boss is who starts it all, and Pherson doesn't reappear until toward the ending.
Justin and Alex are brothers from Seattle, on their way to Lubbock by car. The two brothers form the group with Avery, Keith, and Holly then are joined with other high schoolers from Lubbock, Joel, Zackary, and Jenny.
I'm going to try not to reveal when these next characters make their appearances, but will let you in on what they do. Here's the list: Trevor, Evan, Drew, Charles, Nick, Will, Jeff, Lucinda, Laura, Seth, Jared, Jeremiah, Melinda, David, Miles, Elizabeth, Mitch, Kevin, Simon, Wyatt, Brandon, Ryan, Zach, Kyle, Sebastian, Paul, Molly, Francesca, Eduardo, Jesse, Barry, Walt, Joseph, Devon, Tom, Logan, Marlon, Zeke, Perry, Scott. And more to come.

The first eight names are all part of a group together. In my book series, eventually, you begin to learn and hear a lot about the SGs: Survivalist Groups. This particular group being known as the SGO (Survivalist Group of Ohio) while the bulk of the names in the rest of the list actually belong to the SGC (Survivalist Group of California) and are also some of my personal favorite characters of my series 'cause of how I created them out to be. True, I created characters that I like, and then there's some I'm not a fan of too.
Overtime you learn about each characters past and what they were doing when the zombie virus began. One character had been working as a Graphic Designer when they found out and witnessed the killings, in turn, he races to his parents home to check on them. They're not there, but his brother and sister are and he ends up killing them. You learn in the last few books that he carries that weight and regrets. There's the character who left a group because he didn't like how they did things. There's the woman with an attitude toward everyone and the character who disappears and is never heard about again. And the character who travels out to sea to begin their search for survivors in the other countries over seas.
In each series, the characters are actually traveling from state to state and meet new people and lose people ( an example of that is in the first book available through createspace and amazon). They gain friends, lost friends, and end up with enemies or develop hatred toward someone they once called a friend.

i'm going to be releasing my second book very soon, I just need to figure out a cover for it. So what can you look forward to in the second book? For one, it'll be longer than the first book for sure. But you'll get to meet the SGO for the first time and the chance to see the characters personalities and how they run their group. Keith changes for the worst, Holly begins to change for the best, Jenny still cries a lot. Avery begins changing as well for the worst mentally while Alex develops an attitude toward life that doesn't result in a good way at the ending. Plus characters die, including someone from the original group.
Hope you enjoy the book and I'll be letting you know when the next of the series will be out.

Ariana

The Beginning...

Welcome, first of all, to my blog specifically for my book series, When The Dead Came. So far it has 7 or 8 books and thinking of continuing on with it until I kill off all the survivors. But likely won't stop there. If you're new to this, then you'll be one of the first to learn some interesting things about my book series that I haven't shared elsewhere yet. I began the series back in 2008 and haven't stopped writing since then. For the front cover of the first book, the background was Photoshopped in, I won't lie about that, but the hand on the front cover was actually my own that I had done makeup efx on back then. It's actually my first makeup work I ever attempted and how I did it was with limited supplies 'cause I didn't have the money to get the things that other people and professionals use. I ended up using squares of toilet paper, red lip gloss I didn't wear, foundation I didn't use, black ink pen, q-tips, makeup brushes that had came with a makeup set I had received for Christmas. With all that, the results looked pretty good for my first try:

Was quite happy for myself. Nothing actually gave me the idea to begin this series, by nothing, I mean no zombie films or books. It was just what came to mind one day and then I grabbed up a pencil, my notebook, and began writing from then on out. The book series follows a group of survivors who meet up over time, both good and bad people. And if I had to choose favorites, I'd say my favorite characters don't join the series until the 6th book. Don't know who your favorite (s) would be if you read the series. So far, only the first book is available online for a small price. It's available on Amazon for Kindle and available at CreateSpace.com as paperback. Check them out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KNQYS0O  and at  https://www.createspace.com/4831456



Amazon Kindle Prices:
U.S. - $2.99
IN -   175.00
UK - £1.83
DE - EUR 2,68
FR - EUR 2,68
ES - EUR 2,68
IT - EUR 2,68
JP - ￥ 305
BR - R$ 6,65 
CA - CDN$ 3.25
MX - $38.44
AU - $3.99


And of course, Amazon tells taxes apply where applicable

Ariana