Told in the surreal prose that Allie Burke has come to be known for, Nowhere Train is the first zombie novel of its kind. At two parts hippie and one part magic, it is as deadly as it is beautiful; as dark as it is hopeful, baring the question in mind: who--and what--are Jett and her family really fighting for?
Description:Two-years post end-of-the-world, all Jetilyn Fournier wants to do is learn to navigate a world that is no longer her own. Surviving zombies feels easy, though, compared to dealing with her rocky relationship with her best friend, the death of her mother, her sister’s faux happiness, and her father’s sudden desire to speak, after decades of silence. Saving herself is not even something she can fit in at the moment.
Enter Devlin Shea: for all intents and purposes, a mortal enemy. Though she should hate him instantly upon contact, she doesn’t, and before she knows it, Jett has another life to save.
Told in the surreal prose that Allie Burke has come to be known for, Nowhere Train is the first zombie novel of its kind. At two parts hippie and one part magic, it is as deadly as it is beautiful; as dark as it is hopeful, baring the question in mind: who–and what–are Jett and her family really fighting for?
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THE BOOK I’M LOOKING FOR
“Allie Burke writes books she can’t find in the bookstore,” says my bio. This is true. In fact, I haven’t been able to find a single book to stack any of mine against in a comparative analysis. This makes things especially difficult for marketing, but especially satisfying for my loyal readers (or so they tell me).
Many years ago, like so many others, I was caught in the crossfire of my post-Twilight obsession, left with a sickly, tragic romance feeling in my gut and with nothing to read. I scaled the bookstores with no positive outcome. I ripped through the YAs and the adult paranormal romances with the raunchy shirtless dude on the cover, and couldn’t find anything remotely close to anything I would ever enjoy. (I didn’t think I would enjoy Twilight either, but I did.) After falling in love with such a series, I didn’t feel as though I could go back to my crime mysteries, and I thought, well, I read a lot, and I’m sort of intelligent, and sometimes I correct people’s grammar on Facebook, so I can totally write a book.
And I did. It was called Violet Midnight. I never intended for it to be a series, but after playing around with endings for what seemed like forever, I realized that there was more to the story. And thus became the Enchanters trilogy.
Between writing the second and third book, I was dropped with a bombshell of a medical diagnosis: I had schizophrenia. Though it was extremely difficult on my new medication, I did finish the series, and then I disappeared off the face of the earth.
Four years later I published Paper Souls, which was completely out of the realm of anything I’d ever written—or read—before. Writing that book was the most emotionally draining and self-depricating thing I have ever done. It is by far the best piece of literature I have ever written or believe I will ever write, and, self-narcissistic tendencies aside, it is my favorite book ever.
I did get the idea after that to come back to the Enchanters with the dystopian Enders novellas, which opens up with Nowhere Train. The next book, Prius, will be out later this year.
So, yeah. I write books I can’t find in the bookstore.
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A Bestselling Author, publishing imprint Manager, and Psychology Today Blogger from Burbank, California, Allie Burke writes books she can’t find in the bookstore. Having been recognized as writing a “kickass book that defies the genre it’s in”, Allie writes with a prose that has been labeled poetic and ethereal.
Her life is a beautiful disaster, flowered with the harrowing existence of inherited eccentricity, a murderous family history, a faithful literature addiction, and the intricate darkness of true love. These are the enchanting experiences that inspire Allie’s fairytales.
From some coffee shop in Los Angeles, she is working on her next novel.
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