Newest Novel

"I trapped and skinned my first undead when I was fifteen years old. I wasn’t strong enough to break open the skull bare-handed to get to the brain—a main component of the tanning process—but my mentor helped me along. He was a good soul in that manner—fast to criticize mistakes, yet always quick with a kind word should the situation call for it. We enjoyed an easy rapport until he found out I wasn’t quite the young man I purported to be. That is to say, everything changed between us when he discovered I was a girl."

I'm super happy to announce my latest novel is now available on Amazon for the Kindle. I've been working on SKIN TRADE  for quite some time and am quite pleased that it is ready for human consumption.

Here is what Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dead City, had to say about the novel:

"Tonia Brown has crafted a chilling tale with Skin Trade.  In a way, it's like True Grit with zombies.  But don't let that fool you.  This is no pastiche.  In the span of just 150 pages, Tonia Brown has managed to do some richly compelling world building, told a harrowing coming of age story, and given us a complex and multifaceted exploration of the question of loyalty that reminded me of Steinbeck and Harper Lee at their best.  Skin Trade belongs on the top shelf of zombie fiction.  Pay attention folks.  This is how it's done."

If you can't trust a review like that, what can you trust? WOOP!

The Great Undead Uprising of 1870 devastated the western frontier and destroyed the Indian Nations. Though the Army was able to contain the menace before it could devour the entire country, the United States lost claim to her western territories as the survivors fled to the relative safety of the east coast.
Samantha Martin is among the rare folks traveling west, seeking asylum within the infected territories. Running from a past that threatens to consume her, the young Sam dons the mantle of a male and hides in an all boys’ workhouse that borders these Badlands. From there she is thrust into the service of the skin trade; the terrible deed of trapping and skinning zombies for profit. The work is grueling and perilous, but along the way she finds out what it takes to be a man, why she misses being a woman, but most of all she learns what it means to be human.
Can Sam keep her masquerade up long enough to flee the Badlands, or will the outlaws that rule the western frontier find out she’s female before she can escape?

 Click here to buy it! Go on, you know you wanna. This one is gonna be goooooood.