ZomBcon 2011 is 1 week away. To help you get in the 'walking dead' mood for the October 21-23 event, I'm giving away signed copies of FEED and DEADLINE, the first two books in Mira Grant's Newsflesh Trilogy.

Newsflesh Trilogy:

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command...FEED.

Two experimental viruses—a genetically engineered flu strain designed by Dr. Alexander Kellis, intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and a cancer-killing strain of Marburg, known as "Marburg Amberlee"—escaped the lab and combined to form a single airborne pathogen that swept around the world in a matter of days. It cured cancer. It stopped a thousand cold and flu viruses in their tracks.
It raised the dead.

Millions died in the chaos that followed. The summer of 2014 was dubbed "The Rising," and only the lessons learned from a thousand zombie movies allowed mankind to survive. Even then, the world was changed forever. The mainstream media fell, Internet news acquired an undeniable new legitimacy, and the CDC rose to a new level of power.

Set twenty years after the Rising, the Newsflesh trilogy follows a team of bloggers, led by Georgia and Shaun Mason, as they search for the brutal truths behind the infection. Danger, deceit, and betrayal lurk around every corner, as does the hardest question of them all:
When will you rise?

TO ENTER:

(1) "Like" us AND leave a comment about Zombies on our facebook page.
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(2) Leave a comment below. Please post using your facebook or Twitter name so we know who you are.

BONUS ENTRY: post the following on Twitter: @4wegies #ZomBcon2011 #Newsflesh.

Rules: All entries must be in by Thursday, October 20th 2011 at 11:58 pm PST! This contest is only open to blog or facebook followers. All entries are validated against follower list. Entries by non-followers will be disqualified. Contest is open in the United States and Canada only. Winner will be chosen randomly from valid entries and will be posted on the blog, and announced on twitterand facebook. So don't forget to check back, if I have not received notice from winner within 7 days I will announce a new winner. Void where prohibited.

Other books in the Newsflesh Trilogy:
COUNTDOWN, a novella set prior to the Rising, available in electronic format
BLACKOUT, 3rd in the trilogy, release is scheduled for May 2012

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