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Quirk Perks: Dreadfully Ever After

Quirk Perks: Dreadfully Ever After

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Steve Hockensmith: Only $3.99

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, were both New York Times best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After.

The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating “unmentionables.” But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the proper course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she learns of a miracle antidote under development in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love—and for everyone to live happily ever after. 

Complete with romance, heartbreak, martial arts, cannibalism, and an army of shambling corpses. Dreadfully Ever After brings the story of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to a thrilling conclusion.

STEVE HOCKENSMITH is an award-winning novelist and reporter. His mystery Holmes on the Range was a finalist for the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. He lives in Alameda, California

Posted by Julie Leung

Classics, Fiction: Hockensmith, Zombies

December Quirk Perks: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

December Quirk Perks: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steven Hockensmith: Only $3.99!

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Posted by Julie Leung

Cookbook: Drinks, Fiction: Hockensmith, Fiction: MG & YA, Geek

This Month on BookLikes: Nick & Tesla, Manhattan Mayhem, Find Momo, & More!

This Month on BookLikes: Nick & Tesla, Manhattan Mayhem, Find Momo, & More!

I don't think we've ever had a BookLikes giveaway month this epic before. Seriously. So many books. Too many books? Possibly. 

Here's what you can enter to win on BookLikes this month. 

Posted by Eric Smith

Cookbook: Desserts, Fiction: Hockensmith, Fiction: MG & YA, Geek

Quirk Books Heads to Book Expo America, Brings Swag, Authors, & High Fives

Quirk Books Heads to Book Expo America, Brings Swag, Authors, & High Fives
 
Wow, is it seriously almost time for BEA? Weren't we just at C2E2 in Chicago? Where does the time go? 
 
Next week, the Quirk Books crew are packing up shop and heading up to New York City for Book Expo America, and we couldn't be more excited. We've got some awesome new books to show off, some authors for you to meet, and a TON of giveaways. Because hey, we like you. We want to give you stuff. 
 
Giveaways include posters for How to Make Your Baby an Internet Celebrity, Jane Austen: Cover to Cover, and Kid Presidents. And of course, we will have the coveted Quirk totebags with us. Get ready, they are a lot of fun this year. 
 
We'll be setting up at Booth #2848. Come by, say hello, take some swag! And as for the schedule for signings and events, well, here you go!

Posted by Eric Smith

Fiction: Ben Winters, Fiction: Hockensmith, Fiction: MG & YA

Nook First in Series Sale: The Last Policeman, Nick & Tesla, and Tales from Lovecraft Middle School Are Only $2.99 This Weekend

Nook First in Series Sale: The Last Policeman, Nick & Tesla, and Tales from Lovecraft Middle School Are Only $2.99 This Weekend

This weekend, Nook is running an incredible First in Series promotion, with a ton of fantastic books discounted to $2.99.  And over the course of the sale, you'll be able to wrangle up a few great deals on select Quirk titles. Check it out!

– The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

– Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1: Professor Gargoyle by Charles Gilman

– Nick & Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab by Steven Hockensmith and Science Bob Pflugfelder

The sale runs Friday, March 21st until Sunday, March 23rd. 

Posted by Eric Smith

Fiction: Hockensmith

National Library Week: How a Library Helped One Writer Hitch His Wagon to Books

To celebrate National Library Week, we’ve invited Quirk authors to write about their favorite libraries. Here’s Steve Hockensmith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After.
There are three public libraries in Alameda, the little California town where I live. They have boring official names — the Main Branch, the Bay Farm Branch and the West End Branch — but my family never uses them. Instead, we use the names my 6-year-old son gave them.
Big Library, Little Library and Couch Library.
Those are probably pretty self-explanatory, but just in case you need a little help: The Main Branch is big, the Bay Farm Branch is little and the West End Branch has a couch. (Actually, they all have couches. The one at the West End Branch is just more memorable than the others, for some reason.)
Maybe my son will learn the libraries’ real names one day. If he doesn’t, he’ll be carrying on a proud family tradition. Because my favorite library — the one I’ll remember fondly to my dying day — may as well have been called Wagon Library. It was in Evansville, Indiana, I haven’t set foot inside it in decades, and I have no idea what it was really called. But guess what it had inside. Go ahead — guess!

Posted by Steve Hockensmith

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