Ratpocalypse Promo

 

I'll Be Hosting Reading Zombie's Author Spotlight

I'll be hosting Reading Zombie's Author Spotlight on Wednesday night, 23 October, from 8 - 9 PM EST. There will be some games, giveaways, and a chance to ask me questions. You can ask me anything (except about the CIA's accidental zombie outbreak in Wuhan three years ago). I hope to see you there.

The Chronicles of Paul III: Road to Nowhere Is Available for Pre-Order

The Chronicles of Paul III: Road to Nowhere is available for pre-order on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. The release date is Friday, 13 October (very appropriate). The pre-order price is $2.99. After release, it will increase to $3.99. The print version should be released around the same time.

Paul Madison and his group decided to leave the temporary safety of the logging camp to search for a more secure haven away from populated centers. Their journey will take them through an apocalyptic wasteland of the living dead with no one to rely on but themselves.

As the fight to stay alive becomes increasingly difficult, the morale of Paul’s people slowly erodes. When merely surviving from day to day becomes a major challenge, they begin to ask if death is inevitable.

Is it even worth staying alive?

The survivors need to look inside their souls and find a spark to keep going. However, their resilience is tested to the limits when they encounter a horde of deaders in the Appalachian Mountains.

Reanimated Writers' Fourth of July Freebie Promo

Give us your living dead, your flesh eaters, your hordes of zombies yearning to eat humans. 

With the 4th of July fast approaching and everyone planning a cookout, what better way to celebrate than a zombie feeding frenzy. From 3-5 July, Reanimated Writers is having a Fourth of July Freebie Promo in which several writers are giving away free zombie novels. I'll be giving away free Kindle editions of the third novel in my zombie trilogy -- Rotter Apocalypse.

This is an event you definitely want to check out.

COMING SOON: Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology

Check back later this week for all the details.

Interesting Posts From Other Websites

I've been trying to include more writing-related articles in these weekly postings. Whether you're an aspiring writer or have numerous published works under your belt, the one thing we all have in common is that the industry changes rapidly, and the more we know the better prepared we all are to survive it. Plus some of these are helpful hints that every writer should revisit every once in a while.

First, let's touch on the DO's and DON'Ts of writing: Marketing and Sales for Novelists, by Greig Beck offers nine very sound pieces of advice writers should consider to be popular and sell books. On the opposite end of the spectrum, How NOT To Sell Books: Top Ten Social Media Marketing No-Nos for Authors warns writers what activities to avoid so you don't wind up on the readers' shit list. What's really sad is that most of these should be self explanatory, yet they still need to be addressed in a web posting.

4 Zombie Apocalypse Problems No One Is Talking About was intended as a tongue-in-cheek posting, but it does raise issues that writers of zombie fiction need to take into consideration in order to create a more realistic novel. Foremost is the fact that anyone with a chronic illness that required medication (heart patients, people with high blood pressure, diabetics, those on behavioral modification medicines) will be screwed within a few months of the outbreak.The other is the heartbreak of abandoning your pets. Sure, if you have a dog(s) you an take them with you, especially if they're large breeds. But what about smaller animals, like cats or rabbits? You can't lug them around in their carriers, unless you don't mind being weighed down and eaten by a zombie horde. So your choices are let them go free or kill them. It's an emotional issue that, as far as I know, has rarely been dealt within zombie fiction or movies.

Interview on Dina Rae's Write Stuff

Dina of Dina Rae's Write Stuff posted an interview in which we discuss vampires, writing, the CIA, Nathan Fillion, and my upcoming novel Yeitso. Check it out here.

Interiew With Horror Metal Sounds

Horror Metal Sounds interviewed me recently for The Gore Spotlight section. We discussed writing, vampires, zombies, and my upcoming novel Yeitso. You can check out the entire interview here.

Interesting Posts From Other Websites

There are a of postings out there assessing why the public has such an infatuation with zombies, but Shaun Huhn's Zombie Zeitgeist: The Influences and Culture of Zombie Movies is one of the most thought-provoking ones I've read in a long time. I especially like Shaun's concept that the appeal of the genre is because a zombie apocalypse presents us with a RESET button that can eradicate all the economic and social hardships of today and give us a chance to start over.

Lately I've been researching Hell for my Young Adult saga Hell Gate, and stumbled across this fascinating story about where the concept of Hell originated -- Hell Is a Myth - Actually a Bunch of Myths.It's defintiely worth checking out.

Interview With Days of the Undead

I recently did a fun interview with Days of the Undead where we discuss zombies, of course. You can check it out here.

My Interview With Take a Bite

Take a Bite, The Home of Zombie Authors, Discussions, Debates and Zombie Addicts, has been running a series of interviews with various zombie authors on writing and how we would handle the living dead apocalypse.  Today Take a Bite published my interview.  Please drop by and check out mine as well as the other great interviews. 

Update on "The Last Flight of The Bismarck"

Good news with regards to "The Last Flight of The Bismarck," my steampunk zombie short story that was scheduled to appear in Machina Mortis: Steampunk'd Tales of Terror.  As many of you know, KnightWatch Press had prepared the anthology for publication, but was unable to fulfill its obligation due to unforeseen circumstances.  Rather than leave his authors hanging, the editor passed along the publication rights to Neon Moon Publishing who, it was my understanding, was going to print and distribute the anthology for KnightWatch Press.  However, several months had passed, and none of the authors involved in the project had heard from Neon Moon Publishing and it looked like the anthology was dead.

Thankfully, Fringeworks has now picked up the anthology and is shooting for an early April publication date. I will keep you posted as events develop. 

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