Author Ambush with Gena Showalter

Hello everyone!  

Book Monster Reviews and LITERAL ADDICTION are incredibly honored to have the beautiful and talented Gena Showalter back with us today, and we are VERY excited to help her celebrate and promote her latest release —“Alice in Zombieland”, the first 

WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES book.

Gena is a New York Times and national bestselling author of more than thirty novels in a wide range of genres that started writing at the age of 27. Her fiction has appeared in Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines as well as on MTV, and has been nominated for the prestigious RITA, as well as the National Reader’s Choice Award.

She has always believed in love… An avid romance reader, she decided to try her hand at a story of her own, and is now the author of a multitude of white-hot paranormal romances, sexy contemporary novels, and thrilling young adult titles.

Gena’s wildly sensual page-turners have a mix of humor, danger, and wickedly hot sex – a combination that is sure to enthrall! After all, she is universally known to be “made of awesome” and “a star on the rise” and we couldn’t agree more! :)

Gena’s library of literary excellence consists of an amazing array of titles and series. We highly suggest you check out her ENTIRE backlist HERE.

For the sake of this Event, we’ll be talking about Gena’s most recent release, "Alice in Zombieland", Book #1 in the WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES (a Young Adult Paranormal). 

"Alice in Zombieland"

JUST RELEASED 9/25/12

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Books A Million / Kobo / Harlequin

She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse 

back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies….


I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
I'd tell them I love them.
I wish... Yeah, I wish.

Sounds good, doesn't it!?  It absolutely is!  :)  Now that we've captured your interests, how about we get to the highlight of our Event?  We had the extreme pleasure of sitting down to talk with Cole and Ali of "Alice in Zombieland". Check it out below...

Hello Book Monsters and Literal Addicts!  Once again we were lucky enough to be able to secure an interview with some amazing stars.  This time, Cole and Ali of Gena Showalter’s Alice in Zombieland.  Take a peek at our interview with the cast of Gena’s latest hit…

[After securing our interview with Ali and Cole, we booked our flight to Birmingham and a hotel, went shopping for some new hip clothes (have to impress the youngsters you know), and planned out what we thought you, our readers, would want to know about the couple.  We had made arrangements to meet the duo at a quaint little diner in their hometown, so upon arrival we scoped it out and just counted down the hours until we could chat with them.]

[Arriving early, we snagged a spacious booth in the most visible corner, ordered a couple burgers and milkshakes, and settled in for the couple to arrive]

Chelle:  (taking another huge pull off of the huge mint cookies and cream milkshake and groaning) Sweet mercy, this is the best milkshake I’ve had in ages!

Carla:  (wiping mouth after a bite of her burger)  You aren’t kidding, this burger is to die for!

[We hear the bell over the door tinkle and glance up to see a young, beautiful leggy blonde and a gorgeous dark haired bad boy enter hand in hand.  The guy seems to memorize the details of the entire place in a single glance]

Chelle:  Whoa!  O.K, I am going to sound like the worst kind of Cougar right now and utterly lascivious, but Cole is just…yummy. (shaking head and laughing) That’s got to be them, right!? (looking to Carla)

Carla:  (chuckling)  You’re under 40, doesn’t that make you a Puma rather than a Cougar?

[We laugh together and stand up to wave and get the couple’s attention]

Cole: Ladies, I hope you’ll understand the reason for this, but even if you don’t, I’m still going to do it…

[He forces us to stand and quickly pats us down.  We wanted to ask him to be more thorough, but manage to hold the words back.  When he’s done, he motions to Ali, and she slides into the booth.  He takes the spot next to her.  And wow, he’s big.  He can’t be seventeen.  He just can’t be.  And are those eyes really violet?]

Chelle:  (shaking hands with both—and cringing under the strength of Cole’s grip) Hi, I’m Michelle from LITERAL ADDICTION, but everyone calls me Chelle, and this (gesturing to Carla)

Carla:  (shaking hands—and cringing--as well) I’m Carla from Book Monster Reviews.  Thank you both so much for coming to talk with us today.  Our readers will be thrilled.

Chelle:  (sitting down) We were just stuffing our faces.  Can we get you two anything?

Ali: No, thanks.  I have to train after this, and I’d rather not spew my meal all over a certain boy’s boots (thrusts her thumb in Cole’s direction).  Not again.

Cole:  Are you saying I push you too hard?

Ali: Yes!

Cole: Good.  You’re welcome.

Carla:  I hope we didn’t drag you guys away from anything important today!?

Ali:  (grumbling) Just the workout I did before this. 

Cole: Again, you’re welcome.

Chelle:  So, for added introduction, can the two of you tell us a random fact about yourselves that will help our readers get to know you better?

Ali:  Well, I’m learning to speak Meow.  My best friend Kat is teaching me.

Cole (fighting a grin): Ask her to say, “Cole is mean.”  She’s quite good.

Carla:  Ali, we’re so sorry about all of your loss lately!  You have our utmost sympathies and we hope that you’re getting better each day with the grief.

Ali: Life hasn’t been easy, that’s for sure, but I’ve realized I have to pick myself up and fight the good fight.  I’m doing more than surviving.  I’m thriving.  

Cole: (grinning proudly) That’s my girl.

Chelle:  You two look pretty cozy together, it’s nice to see! (smiles)  If you were to pick one thing about the other that drew you two together, what would it be? 

Cole:  Ali, you’re up first.

Ali: Let’s see…well, what happened at our first meeting was a pretty big draw.  I mean, I might not have given him a second glance otherwise.

Cole: You lie.  You gave me more than one glance even before what happened actually happened. 

Ali: And you know this how?

Cole: Because I was giving you more than one glance right back.  By the way, you give good eye.

Ali:  (blushes)

Carla:  Any pet peeves with each other yet, or is the relationship still too new? (chuckles)

Ali: Oh my gosh, where to begin?  He’s so bossy!  And he picks fights with soooo many people. 

Cole: And I actually win.

Ali: True. 

Chelle:  This might be a hard question to answer, but what’s it like to leave your body and enter another dimension as pure spirit? 

Ali: Weird.

Cole: Necessary.

Carla:  What do you find the hardest about what you guys are doing?  Keeping the secret, or the fight itself? 

Cole: The fight itself.  You get knocked down, you lose your friends, and no one understands why you’re bruised and angry and frustrated, but you have to immediately get up and keeping fighting or you’re dead. 

Ali: Yeah, what he said.

Chelle:  Why do you think that for some, seeing zombies is something attained at birth, and for others, it takes a traumatic experience to unlock the ‘sight’?

Ali: People build walls.  Those walls have to come down.

Carla:  We know that you and the gang have been training hard and getting ready for the next big showdown.  How are things going?  Are the delicate balances within the team with regards to personalities calming down somewhat?

Cole: When you’ve got a roomful of alphas, tempers are going to blow. That’s all there is to it.  But there can only be one boss, and if that boss does his job, no one will be (permanently) hurt.

Chelle:  It’s got to be difficult being still so relatively young and yet having such an amazing responsibility on your shoulders. How do you deal with it all?

Ali: You know, I’m still learning.

Cole: You keep your eye on the prize.

Carla:  What are you guys concentrating on most right now?

Ali: Training.  I have so much more to learn about the dark world of the zombies—and just how to shine the light through it.

Cole: How to recover from whatever scare Ali causes.

Ali: Funny.

Cole: Who’s joking?

Chelle:  What’s up next for you guys and the rest of the gang?

Ali: I have a feeling we’ll find out when you do.

Cole: I hear a former slayer is coming back to town and if that happens…

Ali: Wait.  Tell me everything!  Who is it?

Cole: I can’t speak the name without punching something.

Carla:  (glancing at watch)  Oh geez, we don’t want to keep you guys here all day, I’m sure you have better things to do than undergo our interrogation (laughs).

Chelle:  Yeah, we probably should let you go, but before we do, is there anything that either of you would like us to take back to our readers?

Ali: There is a world operating alongside ours.  Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Cole: Draw a Bloodline.  All’s I’m gonna say.

Chelle:  Thank you both so much for taking time out of your weekend to chat with us.  We really appreciate it and we know our readers will love us bringing back this interview!

Carla:  Yes, thanks a ton.  Good luck in everything, and if you ever need help spreading the word about anything, you know how to reach us.

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