Cover Reveal Party Skateboard Xombies,
Search for the Crystal Coffin
We’re hosting the cover reveal today for YA horror novel
“Skateboard Xombies: Search for the Crystal Coffin”. This is the first book in
a five-part series of Kindle singles.
About the Book
Title:
Skateboard Xombies: Search for the Crystal Coffin
Author: Ace
Antonio Hall
Genre: YA Horror
On a normal school day in Lunyon Canyon, California, teenage
necromancer, Sylva Fleischer, bickers with her teacher in class over an
unfairly graded paper. But when the principal announces that all teachers
should lock their door and not let any students leave class, the entire school
is trapped in a world of terrifying zombies that not only bite with their
teeth, they bite with their minds.Since all life on Earth faces extinction at the hands of the perilous undead, a guardian of a secret society of vampire monks saves Sylva, her friend, Half-Pipe and her family, and lead them to an alternate world. And that's when the real terror begins ... on a planet full of every imaginable type of undead creature that ever lived ... Including those telekinetic zombies!
"As I say on the front cover … A treat for Buffy fans–but 100% Ace Antonio Hall's own twisted vision. Breathes new life into the living dead; run, don't shamble to get a copy." –Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author, Robert J. Sawyer
“In a vast sea of zombie tales, Hall's tale is more than a cut
above. He brings the entire genre to heel and treats us to one Hell of a ride.”
—Art Holcomb, Editor-in-Chief, Andromeda Entertainment
About the Author
Ace Antonio Hall is an actor, former
music producer, and ‘retired’ educator with accolades as a Director of
Education for the Sylvan Learning Center and nearly fifteen years experience as
an award-winning NYC English teacher. He has a BFA degree with a concentration
in screenwriting and has published poetry, short stories and fiction in
magazines, anthologies, newspapers and novels.
Inspired by his father, Chris
Acemandese Hall, who penned the lyrics to the Miles Davis jazz classic, “So
What”, sung by Eddie Jefferson, and his sister, Carol Lynn Brown, who guest
starred in the 1970’s film, “Velvet Smooth”, Ace spawned
his creativity into developing the beloved but flawed teen character, Sylva
Slasher.
Ace was the Vice President of the Greater
Los Angeles Writers Society (2009-2011), and continues to head the Science
Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (ScHoFan) Critique Group as Co-Director of
critique groups within the society. He is also a member of LASFS and the
International Thriller Writers.
On April 14, 2013, Montag Press
published his YA zombie novel Confessions of Sylva Slasher. His next release,
Skateboard Xombies, is coming out later this year, and he has already begun
working on Skateboard Xamurai for the third installment in his Sylva Slasher
series.
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Book Excerpt
He's pressing the trigger!
Grabbing his arm, I grappled his wrist, spun away from the muzzle of the
gun and twisted backward into his body. I threw an elbow into his jaw before he
even knew what happened. He dropped the gun, probably surprised a high school
girl could take him like that. I back-kicked him into his groin with the heel
of my shoe. He doubled over, released a low grunt, and just when I bent down to
grab the gun he dropped, a bullet tore through my arm.
I let out a shriek of pain and went down.
Half-Pipe pushed out a grunt of her own. I rolled over on my back in time
to see her sling a skateboard into the nose of the soldier who shot me.
Rising on my feet, I held my shoulder, and winced. It burned like crazy,
but I knew it would heal soon; especially if I got a little human blood to
speed up the process.
The soldier; standing outside the passenger's side turned and started
shooting at Half-Pipe who hid behind an old black Lexus. I ran toward him,
leaped in the air and slid on my knees across the hood of his vehicle. He
turned and shot at me. The bullet whizzed past my ear like an angry wasp. I
grabbed the corner of the windshield, lifted myself up, and straddled his neck
with my legs.
We fell to the ground. I
stood up in a low crouch and I jabbed him hard in the throat with a half-closed
fist. He gawked, and I leaned down, biting into the side of his neck. He fought
to get me off, pushing, shoving his knees into my back, but there was no way I
was not feeding off of him.
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