four quirky best friend + three seemingly useless (but cute) boys + the most popular guy in school turned zombie + a stoner found hiding in a cupboard = a surprisingly efficient rat-tag group of zombie slayers on their way up the east coast of australia to their safe haven. Some of them may have biceps for brains, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. BEWARE: excessive amounts of pop culture references, bad jokes and zombie guts ahead. (PLEASE NOTE: I wrote this from 2014-2016 when I was 14-16, it has never been edited and was written on a whim with no planning. I hope it's still enjoyable but be mindful it is an old book!) #Wattys2016 [action #25]

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

She's on a desperate quest to protect her family. But will defending them save the planet or result in her doom? Alyx Silverthorne's broken world is falling apart. With her parents dead and her little brother Tommy infected with a zombie virus, she fears she's about to lose everything that matters. But when her beloved sibling dies and returns to life stronger than before, their only choice is a dangerous cross-country journey to the capital for answers. Teaming up with her deserter uncle and the best friend in love with her, they arrive at a secret military base wondering if Tommy is in fact the cure. But the affection of a strapping young soldier is cold comfort when his sinister commander takes a terrifying interest in her family. Will Alyx survive the lies of the living or be consumed by the mouths of the dead? Kill or Cure is the gut-wrenching first book in the Kill or Cure post-apocalyptic teen fiction series. If you like feisty young heroines, struggles against chaos, and teenage love, then you'll adore Pixie Britton's action-packed trilogy. ★★★★★ "A dynamic story of teenage love and gut-wrenching loss in a dystopian world." - Books Monthly ★★★★★ "This isn't your stereotypical run of the mill, zombie apocalpyse novel. Pixie Britton takes the zombie genre and gives it her own thrilling unique twist." - Readers Enjoy Authors Dreams ★★★★★ "There's not a generic zombie survival character in sight. We are dealing with real people and real emotions." - Gallifreyan Buccaneer ★★★★★ "This is a genre that has been done in a million different ways for a million different readers, and one is hard-pressed to find a book that is a little different or offers something new. I'm thrilled (and relieved) to say that this book does that in addition to being entertaining and well-written." - Reads and Reels ★★★★★ "There are times when your heart is in your throat, just hoping things will turn out right. A great dystopian

When the world crumbles around you, how do you keep hope alive? Mallory, escaping a damaging relationship, struggles to navigate a chaotic world...where a viral outbreak turns helpless victims into ruthless zombies. Ty, who's only recently gotten his driver's permit, is abruptly thrust into adulthood as he desperately seeks to save his young sister. He makes a fast friend in a German shepherd yearning for companionship and love in this new, dangerous world. Charlie, restlessly searching for meaning in his life, learns meaning is elusive during an apocalypse. Tremendous obstacles provide him with new self-discoveries. If they can escape the constant peril and find refuge, can they forge a new life from the ruins of the old one? "Race to Refuge" rivets readers with mild thrills in a novel that's not about the zombies...but about the people striving for elusive shelter and a future of hope.

Butcher or be butchered. Survive, if you can. Those are the new rules. Life hadn't always been like this. I was happy once. Before my life crumbled before my eyes. Before I found out their secrets and lies. FALSEHOOD NUMBER ONE: Helion is my hometown. The truth? My hometown never existed. FALSEHOOD NUMBER TWO: I am a clone. The real truth? I wasn't born in a petri dish, I wasn't made from science. Somewhere out in this big, terrible world hide a father and mother I've never known. FALSEHOOD NUMBER 3: Everyone will go back to our true home, the dying city of Xaro. The awful reality? Not everyone makes it back, you have to survive the 90 days first. And very few make it back from that hell alive. WARNING, CONTAINS MATURE MATERIAL *Cover picture by Toni Hooper* **UPDATES EVERY WEEK**

The first novella in a brand new zombie trilogy. Once bitten, the virus spreads throughout the human body. It shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us. But the process takes eight hours. If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do? For Chris Smith, that decision has already been made. He's infected, and returns home to find the rest of his family undead or missing, save his youngest daughter Maisie. He's never been much of a father, but can he make up for it now in the final few hours of his life and find somewhere safe for her to survive? From the writer who brought you the Blood Memory series and The Swiss Family RobinZOM comes this powerful first part in a new zombie novella trilogy. Z-MINUS. Let the countdown begin.

*Over 1.4 million reads - published on Amazon* My name is Abigail Beckett, and this is 2415, the human race is no longer the only intellectual species on this planet. After the third and the fourth world war in the early 2000s, the Earth was almost wiped clean. This cause drastic change in the environment and mass extinction resulting in the most diverse and bizarre adaptation radiation and the bloom of new species in the history of the planet. The radiation released during the massive nuclear bomb war also triggered the mutation of the human genome. Many died, even more were severely handicapped but there were some who survived came out with powers beyond imagination. And I am one of them. Amazing cover by @MulanJiang! Find the Kindle/Paperback here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXZ2457

| C O M P L E T E D | Subject Six is a genetically advanced human. Created in the new world of science, there are only four of her kind. Humans designed to be weapons in the new age, created with similar a DNA structure as animals. Raised in isolation, with no one but her Handler, she soon discovers that she is the only female that survived creation. Which means she is the only female, among three fully grown males, And she has to fight for her rank in the pack. Top Rank: #7 in The Best 1000: Science Fiction Stories (26/03/2017) Top Rank: #6 in The Best 1000: Science Fiction Stories (24/05/2017) Top Rank: #5 in The Best 1000: Science Fiction Stories (14/06/2017)