Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology Is Published

It's official. Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology went live (pun intended) today. It's my birthday gift to my fans. I hope you enjoy having most of my living dead stories collected in one place.

If you do, please give me a birthday gift and leave an Amazon review. It does not have to be anything elaborate. Just rate the anthology and provide a quick one sentence comment. The more reviews I get, the more Amazon will promote Cruise. And if you do like it, please let your friends know about Cruise. Where else can you get so much flesh-munching, blood-dripping, gut-spewing fun for under a dollar?

Many thanks.

Four More Days Until Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology Is Released

Just a reminder that on 3 March Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology will be released (only on Kindle, though; the content is not large enough to allow a print edition). You can pre-order the book here.

The anthology contains the short stories "Cruise of the Living Dead," "Rednecks Shouldn't Play With Dead Things," "The Hunger," "Last Flight of the Bismarck," "Is Anyone Out There?" and the never-before-published "Recognition."

Stayed tune. Around Christmas I'll also be releasing my zombie holiday classic "Deck the Malls With Bowels of Holly" in which an alcoholic mall Santa battles zombie reindeer (picture A Christmas Story meets Army of Darkness.)

Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology To Be Released 3 March

As promised, here are the details for the upcoming Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology. It's my birthday present to my fans.

Over the years I've published several zombie-themed short stories that I've now pulled together into a single collection. Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology will be published as an e-book available only on Kindle and will be sold for $0.99. The book is scheduled for release for 3 March, but you can pre-order it here.

The stories included in the anthology are:

"Cruise of the Living Dead" - Carissa Banning, a cruise ship's medical officer, finds herself at ground zero of a zombie outbreak when an infected family aboard ship spreads the virus through the passengers and crew.

"Rednecks Shouldn't Play With Dead "Things" - Sam Grodin and his buddies think they stumbled across the ultimate hunting experience when zombies attack their campsite. However, when these zombies fail to behave the way they do in the movies, Sam and the others realize they have bitten off more than they can chew.

"The Hunger" - Janet Simmons has been roaming an apocalyptic wasteland for months avoiding the living dead and trying to find enough food to stay alive. When she stumbles across another survivor, she suddenly finds herself in a human eat human world.

"Last Flight of the Bismarck" - Victorian adventuress Scarlet and her male companion Chappy thought they were taking a trans-Atlantic flight in Germany's latest airship, the Bismarck. When they discover that the Bismarck is actually being used as a delivery device to infect the Northern United States with steampunk-enhanced zombies, they engage in an epic battle with the living dead in the skies above New York City.

"Is Anyone Out There?" - An isolated survivor of a zombie outbreak uses the Internet to contact family and friends before the world comes to an end.

"Recognition" - A never-before-published short story that follows the turning of a human into one of the living dead from the zombie's point of view.

So if you love spine-chilling, blood-curdling, gut-munching tales of the living dead, you will definitely want to pick up a copy. 

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

Check back later this week for all the details.

Dead Water Will "Change Your Life for the Better"

This morning my Google Mention led me to a website that gave away pirated e-books, including my novella Dead Water. At first I was considering going all Rick Grimes on their asses, until I read the blurb from Brimidam: "Don't be afraid to change your life for better [sic]. This book will help you."

What better praise can a writer get? When was the last time a horror writer was told their book could change people's lives? If Oprah still had her book club, I'd be pitching her producers to put me on the show an share my inspiration with the world.

So what are you waiting for? Improve your lives starting NOW! Learn the skills needed to survive a zombie apocalypse. Acquire the knowledge to handle hordes of the living dead aboard an oil rig out at sea. Develop the leadership skills to handle those the-world-has-gone-to-hell situations. Learn to write a proper sentence. You owe it to yourself to change your life and be the very best you can be. And all for only $1.99 on Amazon.

After all, if you can't trust a website that pirates e-books, who can you trust?

[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is not an April Fool's joke, although I am putting a humorous spin on the entire incident.]

Update on Rotter Nation and Rotter Apocalypse

I've spent the last two weeks crashing on the two sequels to Rotter World trying to get these books squared away so I can them released. I can honestly say that those two weeks were time well spent.

Rotter Nation is in final production. All the edits have been completed. Zach McCain is drawing the cover art while I pull together the last parts (acknowledgement section, jacket blurbs, etc.). The book should go into formatting in a few weeks and will be released in late April, in time to be available for the Spooky Mayhem (May) and Walker Stalker conventions (June) in Atlanta.

The final draft of Rotter Apocalypse was completed and sent off to my editor this morning. I'm still looking at a September release date for that book.

I hope to have a zombie-related surprise available for release before Spooky Mayhem. More on that as it develops.

With the grunt work done on the Rotter saga, starting next week I plan to move on to some new and even more exciting projects.

Nazi Ghouls From Space Is Now $.99 for Kindle

My novella, Nazi Ghouls From Space, is now selling for $.99 for the Kindle version. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, now is the perfect opportunity to do so.