The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies

Just when you thought zombies were everywhere, Lynn Messina takes them someplace new—domestic bliss!

The best-selling author of Fashionistas returns to her chick lit roots in the smart and funny new novel THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO DATING ZOMBIES (Potatoworks Press; February 14, 2012; $12.95 trade paperback; $2.99 ebook). Lynn Messina, whose writing has been described as “witty and absurd” (Publishers Weekly) and as having “genuine style” (Time Out New York), playfully subverts familiar romantic tropes in this clever homage to relationships.

Hattie Cross knows what you’re thinking: zombie sex? Ewwww. But she also knows that since a virus turned 99.9999 percent of human males into zombies, it’s statistically impossible to meet—let alone date—the remaining 0.00001 percent. So she writes “The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies” to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters.

Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a down-market tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N.

Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Because all of a sudden she’s convinced a conspiracy is afoot at the drug company and it seems to go all the way to the top!

With trademarked humor and skill, Lynn Messina turns the outlandish idea of dating a zombie into a completely believable prospect. The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies is guaranteed to make you laugh—after you get the ewwwws out of your system.

Lynn Messina is the author of six novels, including Little Vampire Women and Fashionistas, which has been translated into 15 languages and is in development as a feature film. She attended Washington University in St. Louis where she studied English Literature. Her writing has also appeared in Self and Modern Bride, among other publications. She lives in New York City with her husband and sons.

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