Cover Alerts: Deadline, Follow My Heart and a Cookie Man Titty

I just had to post the covers for two future reads that should be on everyone's to be bought pile...

Mira Grant just posted the cover for Deadline, the second book in her Newsflesh series. I just finished Feed (review coming soon) last week and it blew my ever loving mind away. As of now it's in a three way tie for my favorite book of 2010. And get this, it's not even a romance! Ode to bloggers, freedom of the press, furturistic zombie apocalypse for the win! (can you guess what the other two books are?)

Deadline will be released on June 1st from Orbit.

Synopsis: "I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. -Georgia Mason"

Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.

But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.

Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun
Then there is Kate Noble, one of my favorite historical romane authors around. She just posted the cover for Follow My Heart (coming May 3rd from Berkley).

Synopsis: Jason Cummings, Duke of Rayne is feeling the weight of his responsibilities – one of which is to get married. Being the most sought-after bachelor in London can be trying, so who can blame him if he seeks refuge from the voracious hordes of young debutantes at the decidedly female-free Historical Society? Female-free, that is, until Winnifred Crane marches up to the door, demanding entrance.

Despite her prowess as a historian, Winn is denied membership the Society. So she daringly offers an unusual bargain: if she can prove the authenticity of a certain painting, she’ll be granted recognition, fame, and respect. But to do that, she must go abroad. And to go abroad, she must have an escort, even a stubbornly unwilling one…

Jason has no desire to accompany Winn on her adventure across Europe, but even he is not immune to Winn’s passion for her profession. As the journey proves more difficult than planned, they must work together to stay one step ahead of their rivals…. and the closer they get to the proof Winn seeks, the closer she and Jason become. But as their adventure turns dangerous, can Jason keep this headstrong bluestocking safe? And what will become of their growing bond when the adventure ends?

And I must thank Chris from Stumbling Across Chaos for this nomalicious cover. You can 't go wrong with cookies and man-titty! Seven Sweet Things: a novella with recipes by Shaun Levin now available from Lethe Press.

Synopsis: An affair that begins in an Internet chatroom takes the narrator and his lover, Martin, further into love than either could have imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of London. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing (chocolate-coconut fudge bars, oatmeal cookies, rum-glazed chocolate cake, meringues). The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and from Clissold Park in North London to Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family.