Ok, definitely winner for my favorite title this year is Eat, Slay, Love by Jesse Petersen, the third book in the Zombie Therapy series. These books are incredibly fun, and I think the covers do a good job of showing it. When I was designing the first two books, Married With Zombies and Flip This Zombie, I was definitely going for a bit of a spoof of self-help books rolled up in a Shaun of the Dead kind of aesthetic, while punking on chick lit a bit. The genius of this one tho, is all in the title. Come on, you can’t not laugh, just a little…

In other zombie-related news, Married With Zombies is up for a “Most Unique Cover” award at All Things Urban Fantasy’s 2010 Cover Awards. And Jesse Petersen has been doing great recaps of The Walking Dead on AMC every Monday after the show Sunday nights.

Here’s a little teaser…

“I’m not really in the mood to shop.”

Dave stopped midway to opening the back of the cargo hold and stared at me. “Were you bitten?”

I blinked. “What?”

“Were. You. Bitten?” he repeated slowly and evenly.

I shook my head. “No. The clawing zombie didn’t get close enough before you hit it, you saw it. Even that last one would have had to gnaw through my boot before he got to my skin.” He continued to stare at me, both eyebrows slightly lifted as if he doubted me. Bad in these end times. “What? Why are you looking at me that way?”

He popped the cargo hold and started putting weapons back in their designated areas. “I don’t know. I’ve just never known you not to want to shop.”

And here’s the series together (I love series shots, don’t you?):

And don’t forget, the gray is actually a fab silver on Married With Zombies…and Flip This Zombie is so pink it’s going to jump off the shelves and attack you. Love that. They’re both out now, so go check them out in person!