Julie Rayzor Free through Halloween.

The first Zombie book in my series is Free Wednesday and Thursday for Halloween ( Free book: www.tinyurl.com/JulieRayzor )
Jeff Dawson rated it 4 of 5 stars
The saga continues... This is the second in the Julie Rayzor series. This book picks right up where #1 finished. Julie is torn between staying in Tulsa, assisting her commander, Colonel Winters or calling it quits. Jill, Julie’s long time friend, has had enough. She wants to run off and hide where the Zomb won’t find her. Good luck there. Winters resolves the issue by sending Julie, Jill, Gary, Jim and two soldiers on a fact finding mission to Spiro. He believes there is a group there where Julie and Jill can feel safe and rebuild their shattered lives. He conceals his real reason for sending them on the mission.

What makes this a great book is the drama and storyline Richard creates. It isn’t all slash and gore. There is a bigger picture to the characters. They are well defined and easily connected with.
The caveat I enjoyed the most is how, despite this being a modern day end of the world work, it has a great flair of a Western Romance. It is very apparent the author is well versed and schooled in riding horses. With gasoline in short supply, equestrian travel is the primary mode of transportation.

The only slight I have, is the ending. Up to this point, the action is well described and exciting: the battle of Spiro, Julie’s perilous escape and the birthing of twins—not going into this, but it isn’t for the faint of heart. All three were well crafted scenes.

Overall, an entertaining read. www.tinyurl.com/rayzorwire1

RayzorWire - The Julie Rayzor Zombie Was sequel is out in Time for Halloween!!!

The first review for the zombie sequel!!! five stars! Warning : spoilers! RayzorWire: Julie Rayzor Zombie War Book Two (Julie Rayzor Zombie War Series) (Volume 2) 

This well written book is packed with action, adventure, Zombies, and more. I never read a Zombie novel before, so I learned a lot about Zombies. I didn't know there were also Zombie horses! Being a former military wife, I could relate to the parts of the book that talked about Humvees, helicopters, and MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). This book includes some steamy romantic scenes including two jealous women smitten with the same man. One of the women settles for another man who ends up being killed in a Zombie battle. The author is very talented at using words to describe the scenes and painting a picture for the reader. An example is one of the most gruesome scenes with dead, decaying bodies left in cars. After being attacked by Zombies and losing several of their people, there was an upbeat moment in the story when the twins were born. The happiness was short-lived, however, after one of the twins and the mother died. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves action, adventure, drama, romance, and Zombies! Www.tinyurl.com/rayzorwire1

RayzorWire - Julie Rayzor Sequel - Zombie War Series Book 2

I have people asking when the Julie Rayzor Zombie War Sequel will be out. I am glad to say that it will be out by August 2013. For more updates on my and my books, please look for me on Facebook where I am more active on a daily basis. I don't get around to this blog very often! Cheers and thank you
Richard

Midwest Book Review featured the Julie Rayzor zombie novel!

I'm thrilled!  On top of the great Amazon review yesterday, The Midwest Book Review just sent me a letter state that The october 2012 edition of their magazine Children's Bookwatch features "Julie Rayzor" zombie novel.

The review states: "When times are tough, everyone must fight in their own way. 'Julie Rayzor: Romance, Adventure, Zombies' is a thriller of a dangerous future world where Julie Rayzor, a seventeen year old trying to survive in thise conflict, embarks on a rescue mission that falls apart and leaves her in more danger than ever. A riveting tale of adventure with plenty of coming of age elements, 'Julie Rayzor' is a fine pick for teenaged readers and above, recommended."

Thank you to James A. Cox Editor in chief and Diane C. Donovan, Editor and the rest of The Midwest Book Review for this amazing feature! http://www.midwestbookreview.com/cbw/oct_12.htm

Excerpts from Julie Rayor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies

Here's a couple little excerpts from the book: Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies. I hope you enjoy this work. It was fun writing it. Look for it soon in ebook and paperback.
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I killed a puppy - murdered it, actually. I shot it right between the eyes with a gun and didn’t feel even a little remorseful. It didn’t bother me. In fact, at the moment of pulling the trigger, it was the right thing to do.

Awaking to tears on my cheeks, I couldn’t remember when I last cried. It must have been a year before or even longer, when little Julie Rayzor was just an innocent pup herself. Sleep escaped me the rest of that night. I dried my tears and slowed my breathing to avoid waking anyone else up. To pass the time I listened to the sounds of the military hospital compound that we called ‘Fort Tulsa’. Through the barricaded windows set high-up in the warehouse I saw the September sky as the false dawn forewarned of the coming morning. I thought that the night patrols should be back soon[t1] , and maybe Jim Barnett would return from his mission. It had been three days with no word.

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We moved into the street - which street we were on, I did not know. We were lost in the dark. The moon was the only landmark and near its peak, it told me only which way was north. Escobar helped Conners walk, Wilcox taking up the rear guard, while Jill, Lopez, and I watched for Zombs as we moved from car to car checking for keys in the ignitions.

Jill found one in the middle of the street. When she turned the key, the solenoid clicked.

“It has gasoline. It just won’t start,” she said.

“The solenoid or...” Escobar said.

“The battery is dead.” Wilcox finished his thought.

Lopez found another car and the engine turned over but it wouldn’t start.

“No gas,” he said as he looked at the gauge.

“What if we put this battery into that car?” I asked.

“Good idea. No time. No tools.”

We moved down the street.

Zombs followed us. On rooftops and through windows and doorways I saw movement. They would appear and then disappear before I could shoot. From some hidden place, Leaders were tracking us. They kept their zombie slaves just out of range. When one of us took aim, the Zombs all moved as if given a standing order, ‘move now, any direction.’ When out of our sight, they seemed to stop. Total silence filled the space between their shuffling feet and raspy wails.

The night became like a choreographed dance. It was Thriller sans the Eighties clothing and bad makeup, but much deadlier. This was nothing like shooting fish-in-a-barrel. Every time I got close enough to draw a bead on one, it would move from the window or down the alleyway.

Sometimes Jill or one of the men fired. I thought it a waste of ammo, until Wilcox laughed, “I got one.”

This shooting gallery was distracting us from finding a car, but still I wondered why they didn’t attack us with full force as they had in the tower.

“Back to work,” I hollered. “We need a car.”

Lopez tried a white pickup truck, a Toyota. It had keys and  started with a strain and a grudge.

“Half a tank of gasoline,” he said with a whoop.

Escobar and Conners had fallen back, slowed by the wounds in Conners’s leg.

“Help Conners,” I said to Jill.

She ran back down the street to cover the two men and let loose a blast that stopped a solitary Zomb running toward them.

I scanned right, left, and behind. Wilcox ran back to Conners, having passed him in the excitement. He threw his M4 over one shoulder and bent to lift Conners over his other shoulder. We all moved toward the pickup truck.

The Zombs came at last. They seemed to have received a command to attack as if the Leaders anticipated our escape.

“Into the back,” Lopez yelled to Wilcox. “No time.”

Wilcox dumped Conners over the tailgate and jumped in. Conners groaned at the impact, but we would be safely away in seconds.

Jill jumped into the front with Lopez while the rest of us piled into the tiny bed of the Toyota. Lopez stepped on the gas and ran down a zombie blocking the road. It bounced off the hood with the crunch of bones.

I watched it in the moonlight struggling to try to get back up onto its broken legs. It was a woman, maybe someone’s mother. Was. For the first time in my life, I felt no pity. As we drove away, I noticed something odd about the way she lay on the ground. She looked... pregnant.

New Book: Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies

Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies

I had a week vacation over the holidays so I finished Round 3 of editing my Zombie book. Yes. Another zombie book.

Update: I am on Round 5 of editing and very close to publication, but editing takes time with a full time job, so it might be released by June 2012.

This paranormal book is less about Zombies than it is about relationships between friends and lovers in a post apocalyptic world. Okay, if you want to be specific:

A rescue plan becomes a bid for survival as sixteen-year-old Julie Rayzor struggles with her love for a missing soldier, her concern for her California-girl BFF and her commitment to her adopted family of soldiers. A secret she keeps hidden deep in her heart threatens to tear her apart, destroy her friends and bring about destruction of her home, but she soon discovers that if she can keep her secret safe and complete the most dangerous task of her life all of humanity might be saved.

You will find the book in the Thriller category. It's not an overly gory horror story or a classic romance novel. It's not paranormal - well, on second thought it might be a little paranormal.

It will be available on createspace in paperback and as an ebook on Amazon soon. I hope you enjoy it and look for a Detective Bob Schwimer Mystery soon due to popular demand. Sully and Sullyland will have to wait!

So I need to post...

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What do you do when you're 17, trapped in a fortress that's surrounded by a zombies, and your boyfriend is lost? If you're Julie Rayzor, you lock n load. http://tinyurl.com/cu5hdqa
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Writers write... So I'll write...
I'm a little stuck on the new zombie book. Thought up a good title and main charcter name, plays into a nickname that she (the protagonist) hates. I'm writing... This is writing... Okay, back to writing my novel. Does anyone have any idea how hard it is to market a book and get people to buy it? I'm starting to understand.

Why do I have 123 views of this page and zero views on almost all my other longer and more interesting blog posts? Okay then. I won't argue with success! I'll just use this moment to advertise that my zombie book is on amazon and kindle at:
 http://www.amazon.com/Rayzor-Romance-Adventure-Zombies-ebook/dp/B008Q1JSFS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343657721&sr=8-1&keywords=Julie+Rayzor

Check it out here in paperback:
https://www.createspace.com/3758847

Or Kindle tinyurl here:
http://tinyurl.com/cgmu3p5

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What do you do with too many victims? ActingSheriff Schwimer digs deep, exhumes the dead, and tracks down suspects. http://Tinyurl.com/TheKillersCoop .
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The Terror, a new book idea, 30% written, four days old

Okay, so Sully from Sullyland is on temporary vacation. The murders, the tailing of suspects, evidence collection will all have to wait. I've got a great idea for a new novel that I'm provisionally calling The Terror, for lack of any good ideas for a title. It's for young adults or adults who feel young. I'm in the second category incase you were wondering. It has Action, Romance, Drama, Clash of Personalities, and Zombies. I've written over 18,000 words in four days and my target is 60,000 to 70,000 words - a short novel. My books tend to grow as I write them. (Getting off that first page is the hardest thing! Then it becomes easier.) So 18,000 words means I'm about 30% done. I know I probably cannot keep up that writing pace. I actually wrote 10,000 words in the first 24 hours. Now, I'm averaging a bit less than that. I hope you like 'The Terror' when it comes out. Keep an eye on http://www.richardhowesbooks.com/ for excerpts.

I've decided that this book will be an ebook for kindle, nook, ibooks, and lulu, plus maybe a few others. If it does well there I will consider putting it as POD, such as on createspace.com along side The Killer's Co-op. On THAT note, I've got to get Killer's Co-op onto lulu, and nook, and ibooks.

Hope you are all well.

Richard

PS: I've got a new follower... AnnaC. Hi AnnaC. Please write some feedback. What genre of books do you like to read?