We’re so pleased to have author Julia Talbot dropping in today to celebrate her newest release, Night of the Living Manny, the latest addition to Dreamspinner Press’s Dreamspun Beyond house line.
Welcome, Julia!
Hey y’all!
I’m Julia Talbot, and I’m here to chat today about Night of the Living Manny, my new paranormal category romance from Dreamspinner Press!
I feel totally out of step with zombie stuff right now. The Walking Dead? Never had time to start on it. Zombie nation whatever? Eek. I’m old.
So, instead of trying to talk intelligently about newer zombie media, I’ll tell y’all about the time I dressed up as a zombie for work.
I was working as an assistant manager at a super cool and surprisingly progressive bookstore in Western Colorado. I would shout it out, but it closed when I was still working there. Sigh. Anyway, I decided I had nothing for a costume that year, so I tossed some clothes in the dirt and some red food coloring, gave my hair some bad colored gel, and painted on a few bite marks a la Face Off.
Then I put ink on my fingers and gave myself some strangulation bruises just to confuse the issue. I painted my face blue and gray and yellow and boom. I was proud of how I looked like something from Day of the Dead.
Reactions were mixed. My boss thought it was too graphic for work. The UPS man, Geoff, loved it. My co-workers seemed a little jealous.
However, the one person I learned the most valuable lesson from was a customer. She looked at me at the cash register with dawning horror, and I was like, “Eek, she hates zombies,” but when I apologized, she shook her head. “No,” she said, “I work at a battered women’s shelter. You look too real.”
So, that was my lesson that zombies and the workplace aren’t really appropriate.
Unless you write books, like I do now!
I hope y’all will give Night of the Living Manny a chance!
XXOO
Julia
About the Book
Something besides love is growing…
Manny Brenden Torrance is good at his job. He’s dealt with all sorts of children and parents, but he’s never met anyone as intriguing as Liam Whitehouse. Liam is a scientist with three kids, whose job is keeping him away from home more and more. That’s where Brenden steps in to help.
Liam has secrets, though. He’s working on a project for a pharmaceutical lab that could change disease management. Or destroy it. While he and Brenden start a romance they both want to continue, things at Liam’s job come to a head, and suddenly the whole family of Dad, manny, three kids, and a big drooly dog is on the run from the one thing that might keep Brenden and Liam apart. And infect the world.
Buy Link: Dreamspinner Press
About the Author
Stories that leave a mark.
Julia Talbot loves romance across all the genders and genres, and loves to write about people working to see past the skin they’re in to love what lies beneath. Julia Talbot lives in the great mountain and high desert Southwest, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by Dreamspinner and Changeling Press among many others. She believes that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters are involved. She also writes BDSM and erotic romance as Minerva Howe. Find Julia at @juliatalbot on Twitter and Facebook, or at www.juliatalbot.com. “The mountains are calling, and I must go”