First Anniversary & Zombie Book Giveaway

Well, I somehow miscalculated the date of the very first AEIOU post. And when I say "miscalculated" what I really mean is I looked at the date a couple weeks ago and then, for whatever reason, remembered it being four days later than it actually was.

So technically, we celebrated our one year anniversary on Friday the 13th! Too bad I didn't remember it then. But to celebrate the occasion, I'm having a little zombie giveaway!

Before we get to the good stuff, I just want to say how much I appreciate those who read my craziness regularly. I don't know who you might be or where on Earth you are, but thanks! Also a big "howdy do" to my fellow bloggers.

Since getting off my butt and starting this blog, I...

• Particpated in my first Countdown to Halloween blog-a-thon
• Co-founded the new internet holiday/blog-a-thon, Creepmas
• Connected with other Halloween freaks and creeps
• Wrote a guest post about Thundarr for Strange Kids Club
• Joined the League of Extraordinary Bloggers and The Dork Horde
• Fell into an amazing gang of pop culture geeks
• Continue to meet more and more of them!

Of all the things I've done in the past year, meeting and interacting with others is what I enjoy the most. And it kinda keeps me going some days.

On to the contest!

The main prize is a copy of Mira Grant's novel Feed, Book 1 in the Newsflesh Trilogy. I hadn't heard about Feed until Wickedly Bookish did a giveaway for it. She has book giveaways all the time, so you may want to check her site out too!

I thought I was in for another post-zombie apocalypse story (not that there's anything wrong with that!) but the world Grant sets up is very unique and not the same old setting I was expecting. I really enjoyed the first two books and just started the final book this week. Don't just take my word that the book is good, right now on Amazon it has an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 261 reviews! I don't want to give anything away, so here's a blurb from Feed:

In 2014, two experimental viruses—one a genetically engineered flu strain intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and the other a cancer-killing strain—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.

So, if this grabs ya, go ahead and enter below. If you leave a comment, make sure you have an email address in your profile or leave it in your comment so I can contact you.

Contest runs until 11:59pm Eastern, July 21 and is only open to those in the US. 

Winner will be notified and posted here on the following day.

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