tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1420586303708322952024-03-05T09:18:01.295-05:00Books, Beer and BlogshitThe Compendium Blog To The Books, Beer and Bullshit PodcastAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-76730943632879582762015-11-30T19:16:00.002-05:002015-11-30T19:16:32.122-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Thad David<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! It's the only blog on the internet that is posting the last Books, Beer and BLOGshit interview of the Winter of Zombie 2015 Blog Tour. I am you exhaused host, Mr. Frank.<br /><br />This is it! This last and final interview this season. And who else do we end this whole shit and shebang with? That's right! Your pal and mine, Thad David. He is co-author of a zombie book talked about earlier this season with his partner in crime, J.L. Koszarek. Together they wrote DIVIDE THEN CONQUOR. But tonight, the last night we all spend together until the summer, I say we all Unite and Multiply!<br /><br />Feel the love and read the interview!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> We are promoting Divide Then Conquer – Book 1 of the Zombie
Company Crusade Series. The ZCC series
is a collaboration between Jodi and myself that sparked from the creation of
the Zombie Company Crusade video game that launched Sept 1<sup>st</sup>. I’m always fascinated with politics and the
lengths that people go to “protect the party” as well as how much people think
their one side can save the country. I
wanted to use Zombies as a catalyst to divide the United States and bring these
political cleavages to light. Jodi and I
talked about this for over an hour and she asked me to send her what I
had. The next day I received an e-mail
that blew me away. She had taken what
little I had down on paper and added a ton of info and turned it into an
amazing story. Since then that’s been
our whole process, a constant back and forth collaboration on this really cool
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> Before we both answered these questions, Jodi and I agreed
to not read each-others until after we wrote it. I’m dying to hear what she put down for this
one because its something we haven’t discussed yet in full detail.</div>
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As far as my answer, I see the outcome of the story to be a
pretty messed up place. We are basically
taking 3 trains, putting them at full speed ahead, and blasting them into a
head on collision. We have a lot of
action happening all at once coming from several different places. I know this doesn’t fully answer your
question so in short I do believe mankind will prevail here as long as they can
get over their petty differences and beliefs.
The real question now is which faction of mankind will survive, good,
evil… it’s a bloody political battle inside of this war. Even if mankind wins the fight against
zombies, they may still lose.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> Ill be as honest as I can here. Divide Then Conquer is my first attempt with
writing anything. I have some outlines
for several books but putting pen to paper is another story. My strengths as a writer is the story creation
and I focus on creating suspense. J.L.
Koszarek is the mastermind behind the writing in our story. We get a ton of complements on the writing
style and character development and that is all thanks to Jodi. She is a true author and artist. I have another Thriller storyline I would
like to pursue in the future but for now I am trying to learn as much as I can
from Jodi. We are planning to make the
ZCC series at least an 8 to 9 book series so we have a ways to go and I have a
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> I personally enjoy the human perspective, especially in
survival situations. In ZCC we have a
TON of characters. They range in a wide
scope of human personalities. I believe we
have at least one character that a reader can relate to and enjoy
following. I started out the series as a
huge fan of Jack Mason and I’ve really fallen in love with some of the other characters. I would really hate to see some of them
succumb to the virus that’s running wild across the country. While I have others that I truly hate and
would love for them to fall face first into a pit of crawlers. A soft-landing though so they remain alive
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> I am very new to Zombie fiction as a fan and a writer. For me personally I would say the most
important writers are Shawn Chesser and Armand Rosamilia. These two writers have been a huge help to me
personally in so many ways. They both
care deeply for the Zombie culture and it shows in their actions and work. I really enjoy their stories. I’m jumping into some other stories as well
and I can’t leave out Mark Tufo. I am very
excited for this blog tour. I have met
so many wonderful authors so far and I am really excited to read their
stories. To many books is a good problem
to have right now.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> I hope so. I wouldn’t
want to live in a world without meaningful relationships. Love and sex are at the forefront of most of
these stronger connections that we as humans thrive on. Besides how will mankind truly survive if we
aren’t reproducing? If everyone around
you is falling it doesn’t mean we have to stop having a little fun. Obviously it may be tough to find the right
time, place, or mate but I don’t see how we as humans would go without sex for
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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Seasons have not played a large role in DIVIDE yet, but they
will in Book Two. Surviving the zombie apocalypse in warm weather is difficult,
but winter is coming and with it will come challenges specific to freezing
temperatures and precipitation. The cold and snow will affect the zombies, too.
In the apocalyptic world, the weather has a direct influence on our chances of
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The change of seasons is also a great literary tool to
convey the passage of time. The ZCC series will span months, and possibly even
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Thad and I are gearing up for our first Winter of Zombies in
the ZCC series. As I sit here today, I wonder which character(s) aren’t ready.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thad David:</span> A lot actually, as Book 1 ends winter is just around the
corner in the story. We are preparing
and have discussed the different possibilities and ways that zombies will be
affected by the colder climates. It’s
going to be interesting to see how everyone attempts to survive the cold in
some of our mountain regions of the story.</div>
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final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
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This, the next-to-last interview for the Winter of Zombie 2015 Blog Tour, features Brice J Chandler. He's quite handsome. Unless he is a she, in which case, she's quite pretty. But if she <i>is</i> a he well I mean he could be pretty too, you know? I've heard men labeled as pretty before. They are the type of men who are extremely secure in their masculinity too. Unless of course their masculinity is a farce and they are totally feminine, in which case it would be wholely appropriate to call them pretty as well.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span>I’m promoting alcohol, violence, and tearing shit up…
wait, sorry, I thought you meant what kind of writing process do I promote/use.
I’m here to promote my novel <i>Whiskey Jack</i>,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span> The zombies in my story are probably not going to
decompose, at least not any time soon. So the outcome doesn’t look good for
humanity.</div>
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Even with that bleak forecast, there’s always hope. Without
hope, there’s no reason to have a story because no one is going to care about
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making it, then they won’t want to keep reading to see what happens in the end.
Besides who the hell wants to read a story where the zombies walk around
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As far as the outcome for humanity in <i>Whiskey Jack</i>, I’ve contemplated a sequel to the book where I would
explore the world after the apocalypse (maybe 25-50 years later). I think
humans will still be around, but they’ll need new heroes to help reestablish
their place in that world. I might have a returning protagonist, but it’s tough
to bring back my heavy drinking, main character from the first novel 25 years
later. I’m a writer and a factory worker, and I can barely get up some mornings
because my knees, back, or some new pain is killing me. Forget going on a
drunken zombie killing spree. </div>
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zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span> I initially started writing Whiskey Jack in 2001,
when I was on a deployment with the 15<sup>th</sup> Marine Expeditionary Unit.
So, the zombie sub-genre is where I started my career and my first love, but
I’ve already branched out into other genres. </div>
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I don’t think that all of my writing will be in the genre. I
really love the zombie genre, but I have a lot of other worlds I’d like to
explore. I’ve had a couple literary short stories published in different
places, and I’m currently working on a cross genre zombie/literary and also a
post-apocalyptic series with a sci-fi/steampunk basis. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span> That’s an interesting question. Normally, I’d say a
sympathetic human, because I think readers will better relate to another human.
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As a writer, I’m interested in the zombie’s point of view,
especially if they have an interesting story. Like, what if the culprit of the
zombie apocalypse – the person who started it (assuming that it was some kind
of biological weapon… something like that) – thought that they were doing
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What if that that zombie could tell its story? It might not
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What would be really interesting is if such a zombie came
face to face with a sympathetic human. How could that zombie justify being the
catalyst of the apocalypse to a guy or gal who was forced to kill their loved
ones because they turned? That would be really interesting. I’m sure it’s been
done. I briefly touched on that idea in <i>Whiskey
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span> The political answer would be to say, “all of the
authors on the Winter of Zombie blog tour,” or better, “Armand Rosamilla,” but
that really isn’t trying to stay on everyone’s good side or kissing ass. It’s
the truth. The indie authors are the people out there fighting in the trenches
for readers’ attention. They’re out there saying “hey check this book out.
Please give it a chance.” That’s really hard to do as a writer in any genre,
but the amazing thing about zompoc authors (and a lot of indie authors in
general) is that they work together as a group so that everyone benefits. Armand
goes out of his way to help promote the genre and indie authors. There’s also a
lot of Facebook groups such as All Things Zombie and Band of Dystopian Authors
and Fans that are making huge strives for authors. It’s pretty cool to be a
part of that. It’s too bad that I’m sort of a social media introvert, but I’m
going to try my best to pull my weight.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span>Gotta repopulate the Earth somehow. Look back at human
history and you’ll find that even in our darkest points of despair there was
room for sex. Wars, disease, depression, famine… doesn’t matter. Somewhere in
the midst of it all, people were having consensual sex. Why should the zombie
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span>I’ve written zombie stories set in every season, and I make
sure to consider the effects of season on the survivors and the zombies. I’ve
been that guy out running around in the desert in summer in full gear with
weapons and a heavy pack. Even when you’re in pretty good shape, running a
hundred yards in the heat isn’t easy. You have to consider how people are going
to operate in the different weather extremes. You also have to consider if a
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number one priorities when I write. I’m generally too focused on trying to create
a story I think kicks ass and that my small fan base will love. I think that if
I can entertain one reader then I’ve succeeded, regardless if something defies
logic and science. It’s the zombie apocalypse after all. </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brice J Chandler: </span>Brice’s Bloody Burritos and Body Shots. I can make a pretty
mean burrito, and I’ve made too many trips to Chipotle or Moe’s where I could
barely walk after eating so much. I figure that if I can entice the zombies to
eat to the point of being bloated, it’ll make escaping easier after I’ve run
out of food. Also every food truck needs to serve alcohol. What zombie wouldn’t
love a body shot where they can take a chunk out of a body, just as long as it’s
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As we wind down here on The BLOGshit on the eve of the final day of the tour I'd like to extend my hope to every writer whose participated in these interview, the very best of luck. The indie zombie market is crowded and its a large crowd in a larger sea of saturated independent authors. Making an name in this world and getting your books out there is a daunting task. We at The BLOGshit sincerely hope we have helped in some small way help put your work in front of a few more eyes that may not have seen you otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And with that sappy stuff out of the way, we present the Books, Beer and BLOGshit Winter of Zombie interview of P. Mark DeBryan. Happy reading.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>My novel <b><i>Family Reunion</i></b>! It has quite the
backstory and as a matter of fact it was originally a short story. It started
its life as <b><i>In For A Dollar In For A Dime</i></b>, a short story that I wrote for
John O’Brien’s <i>Untold Stories</i>. John
was gracious and allowed me to take the story and expand it to a full length
novel. Basically it’s about a large family spread out across the U.S. who are
all on their way to the Pacific Northwest to attend a long overdue family
reunion when a pandemic breaks out. Then a vaccine causes millions to turn into
crazed, blood thirsty creatures that live only to feed on you!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>Well, there is always hope, or there would be no reason to
go on. I think humanity creates these crises in order give us something to
fight back against. Of course we will eventually either overcome the crisis or
we won’t; by that time I guess we won’t be worried about it. We will all be
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>I love this sub-genre! It give us a great opportunity to
create hope, by making us face the overwhelming odds of not making it. It also
speaks to the underlying fear that many feel these days of an uncertain future.
We all think “Oh crap, at least we aren’t living in a zombie apocalypse… we
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I have read voraciously since learning how in my second time
around in the second grade. I was “held back” because I couldn’t read. My
mother began reading to me every day, and I became a book junkie. I read in all
genre. I would list them but… let’s just say there are not many that I don’t
like or haven’t read. I only say this to point out that I do not fear “having
to” write outside the genre. I look forward to it daily. I think of about six
book ideas in as many genre every day, but right now I am happy that I get to
play in this niche’.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>Hmmm… That’s a loaded question. I think the human survivor
is key because I believe that most, if not all, good stories revolve around
relationships. The human condition is only relatable when there are more than
one of us around to relate too. You can have a sole survivor, but he/she is
always relating to that one fact; he/she is all alone. What does that one
survivor do that makes us want to read about him/her? They survive, but their main goal is to find
another human or group of humans. You can insert <i>sentient being</i> in place of <i>human</i>,
but the zombie no matter how interesting, by its very definition doesn’t care
about anything but its next meal. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that the
zombie’s storyline can be disregarded, but I feel it is only as important to
the story as it relates to the human counterpart(s). Although, I have been
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>John O’Brien, Joe Mckinney, Tufo, Chesser, oh crap, this
could go on and on… there are just too many to list. I think any of them that
put together an entertaining story are important to me as a reader. As a writer
I learn something every time I pick up a well written story. Whether it is
format, style, creativity, or the business end of being an author. David P.
Forsyth has given me award winning advice on “how to” while John O’Brien is the
one responsible for unleashing the beast inside me.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>Not for me, I’ve been married for 28 years.</div>
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place over a couple of weeks. So, no, not yet. I will however (hopefully) be
writing for the foreseeable future, and I will take care to make each story
follow the laws of physics and the changing of seasons. <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">P. Mark DeBryan: </span>Oh my! This is actually right up my alley. I love to cook,
and every cook I know wants to please those that they are cooking for. That
being said, brains will have to play a major part in the name, however, as the
genre has evolved the zombies have become much less picky and are into fast
food now. Intestines and internal organs are more often the first choice of the
zombies as the buffet gets picked over. This is really an important question
and I don’t want to give it short shrift, but I procrastinated until 10 pm the
night of your deadline for getting this in, so… Brains Intestines Organs NOW!
The design of the logo would be key. The acronym would be BIO NOW!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that cuts to the chase. I am your host, Mr. Frank!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This afternoon on Books, Beer and BLOGshit, author Ted Nulty. He is awesome. The chase has been cut to. Read the interview now!</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>My series ‘Gone Feral’ which features zombies that are made by ingesting a chemical. The ‘Ferals’ are psychotically violent and turn cannibal. My book ‘The Other side of me’ is the third installment of the series.<br />
Zombies, I’ve loved them since I saw ‘Night of the Living dead’. The overwhelming sense of dread at facing a swarm of the living dead is a rush. But they really became cool when they got fast, Dawn of the dead, 28 days later fast. Now single zombies were a threat where before it took a whole town to be scary.<br />
I wrote ‘Gone Feral’ as a homage to all the zombie writers before me, but I wanted it to be real, I wanted it to make sense where sometimes some of the other tales left a little too much gap in the realm of plausibility. Watching CNN in a bar one night with some Marines, we saw a naked man going cannibal on another man on a freeway overpass in Florida. The story about bath salts was my inspiration for the series. You see every single aspect of the chemical poisoning of the population was ‘Gamed out’ at the Marine Corps EOC (Emergency Operations Center) at Camp Pendleton. I learned how many airplanes it would take to disperse a water soluble drug to 60% of the population. Throw in a little artistic license, and I was ready to go.<br />
I did want to stay as close to the zombie “rules” as I could. So I made the chemical transferable through a bite. I also made the affected, immune to pain and hard to kill. Add in some rage and you are looking at as close to a zombie as I can realistically get.<br />
The positive response from readers was quite a shock, and I immediately began work on book II at the behest of my small but growing fan base. I wrote ‘Barry’s Walk’ in response to that feedback and it turned out to be wildly popular with folks. Barry was a minor character in the first book that people said they wanted to know more about. I wrote it as a stand-alone novel and therefore had to include some of the story from the first book for continuities sake. I burned that sucker out in 30 days and had a blast doing it. I left a little cliff hanger there at the end just because I had another novel in mind. But I had another flight of fancy first and decided to scratch that itch.<br />
‘The Other Side of Me’ is my homage to Jekyll and Hyde. I wanted to write about a really good person who through no fault of his own becomes a very evil monster, then I want that tortured character to face the challenge of reconciling his acts with the knowledge that it wasn’t his fault. Kind of a PTSD on steroids type of thing. Again the plot twist bug bit me, and I had to throw a few curve balls in there. The story is set in the ‘Gone Feral’ universe, and the drugs the terrorists use are the vehicle used to catapult this whole new cast of characters through a wild journey.<br />
Did I mention I’m a Marine? Well I am, and we like challenges. So not only did I make my zombies hard to kill, and fast. I made sure that all mammals were affected by the drug, making Cats, Rats, Dogs, and Pigs (Especially pigs) susceptible to the effects of the toxin. This made the world exponentially more difficult to survive in. It also gave me more ways to herd, corral, push, or otherwise guide my characters into more trouble.<br />
I can’t get through a day without some form of humor, so I have taken the task very seriously to introduce some form of off color shenanigans into my books. It’s what us Jarheads do to cope with stress, and I know it would happen in the real world. I have to confess that the kid humor is always taken from my devil spawn children. You’ll have to take it with a grain of salt (pun intended).<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>Book IV will cover humanity’s attempt at rebuilding, but I like a challenge, therefore I think that even after the ferals are ‘cured’ I think that there will be a lot of former monsters having psychotic breaks and becoming serial killers.<br />
In the first book, I have 1/3 of the population eat the second 1/3 with the rest of the population surviving. If you think about it, that means 2 out of every three homes empty. Think of all the stuff lying around! People will develop a user mind set instead of being productive (They just lived through the apocalypse remember) so they will be massive consumers. It would take years to get people to go back to being producers of anything but food. I mean there would be five new cars at the dealership for every person left alive! People would become wasteful. There would be a lot of unused but serviceable stuff lying around.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>I am a science fiction writer at heart, I just haven’t written a book yet! I do very well with my crime fiction, but I need to write a metric shit-ton more books before I can live comfortably.<br />
I am inspired by Keith Laumer and want to write a Bolo themed book. Especially when they first became self aware.<br />
The same goes for Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle…I want to write a WAR World book. The Saurons are so cool to beat up on!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>In ‘The Other side of Me’, the main character is a Pastor who becomes a raging pscho-cannibal, but after he recovers he tries to redeem himself (Kind of a Jekyll/Hyde kind of thing), but my nasty nature intervened and I threw some plot twists in there. It helped develop the story line. My fans have said they like how I have an abundance of characters and they like how they all get developed. They say they get to know them, all the better when I have them eaten, shot, or otherwise torn apart!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i> For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>The Indie crowd is it! Eric Shelman, Mark Tufo, WJ Lundy, Shawn Chesser, John O’Brien, Gareth Wood, Z.A. Recht, James Cook and the list goes on! I am humbled when I actually see my name mentioned with these great writers. Three years ago I was reading all of their works and wishing I was that talented.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>There is always room for a good sex scene in a book. I however am a Marine and am woefully unqualified to write such things. I’m more of a bash the girl over the head with my club kind of guy who then drags her back to my cave. Probably why my picture is up at the post office. One of my shortcomings.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>A little bit. My stories start off in the summer, so the bodies can get ripe and pop from internal gasses. I just wish books had ‘smell-o-vision’ so they smelled like what you are reading. My kids wouldn’t let me back in the house with the number of zombie books I read!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>Our final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ted Nulty: </span>You ask this after I get done describing how things should smell! ZOMPIZZA! I love Italian food especially pizza. Gotta have a ‘Brain Pie’! with a nice Corona to wash it down! DEEEE-EEEE-Lish!<br />
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Ted Nulty's Home Page: <a href="http://tednultyauthor.com/">http://tednultyauthor.com/</a><br />
Ted Nulty on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Nulty/e/B00MMWZNCY">http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Nulty/e/B00MMWZNCY</a></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>I’d like to promote
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Let’s talk about my book, This Dying World: The End Begins. It’s the story of Dan Foster, who wakes up in
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reach the safety of his brother’s home…which is conveniently placed about 3
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?</i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>Well, the problem with a zombie apocalypse is that last
little word…apocalypse. Now I know there
are a few different ideas on how absolute that word is, but generally it means
a shitty time will be had by all. The
villagers will not rejoice, the local store will run out of good humor bars,
and The Walking Dead will probably be cancelled.</div>
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With that being said, is there hope? Sure, there’s always hope. But I have a saying I use a lot. Fill one hand with hope, and the other with
crap…see which one fills up faster. The
world that the Fosters live in is dying, and humanity is going to take a huge
hit. Most have already succumbed, and
the numbers of the dead grow every day. </div>
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As far as the outcome…I’ll let you know. It all depends on when the voices in my head
stop arguing with each other long enough to clue me in on what will be happening. The fun part about writing this story is I
have no idea what will happen next. In
many ways, my characters tell me how their lives are going and what their next
moves are. If I try to force it, they
don’t like it and they mess up the story for me. I mean really, I created the jerks and they
STILL don’t listen to me!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>I think it’s usually more of a want than a need to write
outside the genre. There are always
people who want to read zombie fiction, so I would be willing to bet that an
author can sustain themselves on zombies alone if they want to. But for me personally, I love horror as a
whole. I can easily see myself branching
off into other areas of horror fiction.
Plus my geek side still loves sci-fi and sword and sorcery genres too,
and I may eventually write in those genres as well. I guess it all depends on how I feel when I
start typing.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>What about a sympathetic zombie survivor with a pet human as
his storyline? </div>
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Honestly, I think you need a little of both. The sympathetic human gives the reader
someone to relate with. The more real
the character the more your audience can slip in to the role of that
person. (sounds dirty doesn’t it?) A real person is a flawed and imperfect
creature, and a character should reflect that.</div>
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But no matter how realistic your character is, if they don’t
have an interesting zombie storyline to live with, the story can get stale
really fast. But if your zombie grows
with your character, giving your human survivors new challenges to overcome,
you end up with a story that stays fresh and interesting.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>I’ll be sappy here and say pretty much the indie community
as a whole. If it wasn’t for all these
indie authors paving the way for new authors like myself, I would probably have
never given writing a serious shot.</div>
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Individually (and this should come as no surprise to anyone
that knows me) Eric A. Shelman would rank on top. Besides being a big fan of his writing, he’s
helped me in so many ways to get my first book out there. Through him I met the person who eventually
edited my book, Ramona Martine. He pointed
me to Giles Batchelor, who is a top beta reader as far as I’m concerned. He set me up with Jeff Kosh to do my cover
art. And indirectly because of Eric I
got to meet a great supporter and soon to be author Lana Sibley. (YOU BETTER BE WRITING LANA! DON’T MAKE ME COME OUT THERE!)</div>
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Hey Eric, you can mail me my check now!</div>
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Now of course there are the ones I enjoy reading. Mark Tufo, of course…Bobby Adair, John
O’Brian, Shawn Chesser, Chris Philbrook, Ted Nulty…honestly I could keep
going. It will sound cheesy, but if an
author can make all the voices in my head shut up long enough to carry me off
into their story, I think that is a pretty important author.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>Umm, really? Is there
room for sex in the ZA? If all you do is
run, hide, eat, and sleep…what’s the point?
Now, should people get pregnant in the ZA? I would say probably not. But if you have a chance to get laid in the
apoc and you turn it down, I’d shoot you out of principle.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>Seasons are very important in my story. The whole book takes place over the course of
a couple weeks in the middle of a Midwestern winter. The cold doesn’t really bother the zombies in
my world, but it does pose a significant challenge to the survivors. The roads become impassable, there’s
frostbite to worry about, and there’s always that little issue of freezing to
death. Even simply walking can lead to
serious injury from slipping on ice.</div>
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Of course, spring and summer come with their own
challenges. There are storms, floods,
droughts, and all the other issues that come with changing of the seasons to
challenge any survivor. Throw the fact
that rotting corpses are now getting warmed up into the mix and the world is
going to start smelling worse than an outhouse on an asparagus farm.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">James Dean: </span>Dead Fred’s Meaty Masterpieces</div>
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Carol’s Cookies</div>
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The Shambling Gore-met<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">YES! THIS JAMES DEAN!<br /></td></tr>
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James Dean on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/James-Dean/e/B00WW7Y6GI/">http://www.amazon.com/James-Dean/e/B00WW7Y6GI/</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-25556602180914892562015-11-28T20:00:00.000-05:002015-11-28T20:00:01.615-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: GG Silverman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that thinks YA stands you YouTube Anonymous, a new support group for YouTube addicts. I am your subscribing to everyting host, Mr. Frank!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I peel myself away from YouTube for a brief moment, I'd like to introduce you to YA zombie author G.G. Silverman. I believe she is the first pure YA zombie novelist we've had on this or any Winter of Zombie tour. We are struggling to keep it PG here on the BLOG<strike>shit</strike>shoot. T<strike>his doesn't bode well. I fear we are just going to be censored from here on out. Fuck it. Opps. Read G.G. Silverman's interview on the BLOGshit before we get in deep shit!</strike></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>I’m promoting my first novel, VEGAN TEENAGE ZOMBIE HUNTRESS.
It’s a comedic YA horror novel, and my one-sentence description is that it’s a
mash-up of some of my fave things from pop-culture: <i>Daria</i>, <i>Mean Girls</i>, and <i>Shaun of the Dead</i>. The main character is
a feminist and vegan, and her non-violent principles come into conflict with
having to kill zombies, and that conflict provides so many opportunities for
comedy. But I’ve been told that as funny as the book is, it also delivers on
the horror, but not so much gore that non-horror fans can’t get into it. The
humor softens the blow.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>In my book, life starts returning to normalish after a year,
but I gloss over it. Most of the action occurs during the z-poc.<br />
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In the real world, it’s such a big question to ponder. I think that so many
things are possible. On the one hand, a dreadful cannibalism scenario like
something out of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD could happen for sure, if food
became scarce. But then you’ll see some people creating great acts of kindness,
and you’ll see others using the ingenuity to come up with great tools. But
overall, I think there’d be a lot of destruction, and that part makes me
nervous. Imagine if tomorrow your sewer line stopped working, and you couldn’t
flush. That right there is the beginning of a horror show. Some of my neighbors
can barely handle sorting their garbage into the right bins, if it even makes
into the bins. I can’t even imagine what would go down even if everyone started
crapping in the woods. SO. GROSS. <gags></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>not ever exclusively written about zombies. I’ve got a dark
spy-ish thriller in the works, and I’ve had a science-fiction story published
as well as a ghost story, and I’ve got some literary stuff coming down the
pike. I like working in as many forms as I can. Keeps my writing fresh. That
said, I will continue to honor my zombie fans with MORE BOOKS about their fave
characters, Cokie, Clarissa, and Lila, and new ones too. That’s right. There’s
several more coming down the road. Stay tuned!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>Either can be interesting if done well. Take a look at WARM
BODIES by Isaac Marion. It’s told from a zombie’s perspective, but is soooooo
beautiful. It’s the first time I ever had a crush on a zombie. I’d totally make
out with R from Warm Bodies. Is that weird? Making out with a zombie? I mean, R is total sweetheart and I just
can’t help myself. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>I mentioned Isaac Marion above, because he’s doing unexpected things,
not following the norm. Then there’s obviously Robert Kirkman, who’s WALKING
DEAD took the world by storm. I also have to thank Max Brooks for WORLD WAR Z
and THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE. About ten years ago, he truly did the hard
work of paving the way for the rest of us zombie genre folks, and without him,
none of us would be here, I think. He got everyone hungry for more, pun
intended. And he’s still writing great zombie stuff. I have massive respect for
him.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>Um, there will have to be if the human race wants to
survive! I mean, last time I checked, sex was how babies were made. Unless you
know another easy way that someone can do at home without test tubes or turkey
basters. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span>So far, my zombie books occur all the space of one night, so
I consider the season so far as what the weather will be on that one night. So,
if it’s raining because it’s spring in the Seattle area (my setting), there
might be mud. And mud makes for fun pratfalls.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">G.G. Silverman: </span><spits out coffee> Ohhhhh my goodness. So many fun
things pop into my head. I’m a branding consultant by day so this naming gig is
<i>right</i> up my alley. My dark,
zombie-infested alley.<br />
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Ok, here’s a list of fun food truck names serving specifically zombie clients.
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• Flesh-tone Foods</div>
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Well, that’s it for now. Thanks for letting me play!</div>
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G.G. Silverman's Web Page: <a href="http://www.ggsilverman.com/">http://www.ggsilverman.com/</a></div>
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G.G. Silverman on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/G.G.-Silverman/e/B00F64HFQC">http://www.amazon.com/G.G.-Silverman/e/B00F64HFQC</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-91705537866410765442015-11-28T15:00:00.000-05:002015-11-28T15:00:00.790-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: John O'Brien<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that hunts zombies with its bare hands! I am your coagulated blood handed host, Mr. Frank!<br />
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Today, author John O'Brien makes his triumphant return to the BLOGshit. He is a regular to the BLOGshit on both the Winter and Summer of Zombie blog tours and we always look forward to him like he's Santa Claus with a gun. John O'Brien is a preeminant force in the zombie fiction world and we always look forward to what he has to say in this, the Books, Beer and BLOGshit Winter of Zombie 2015 interview.<br />
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BANG!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">John O'Brien: </span>It could go either way and there’s always hope that humanity
will survive in some capacity. But it’s
a huge uphill struggle. The odds are
pretty bad. As the series began, the
odds were 7 night runners for every single survivor. That very quickly dropped off into staggering
odds as humanity vanished under the wave of hunting night runners. So, we’ll have to see what happens.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">John O'Brien: </span>I’m not sure about this, honestly. I feel that I could sustain it with stories
in the same genre, but eventually those would overlap. There are only so many different things that
can happen. So, I will eventually write
outside of the genre and have a few stories in mind to do just that. I will most likely branch out into the
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not the focus. After all, the characters
are in a stress-filled environment.
Post-adrenaline, shared tense encounters, and the closeness each
survivor will share will naturally lead to that. I chose not to be descriptive or have that in
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possible. I mean, it is fiction. However, each season brings a different
challenge to the mix so I keep that in mind when keeping track of the story
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Mexican or Asian? We carry only the finest and specialize in celebrity cold
cuts. Try our leg of Tufo sandwich. Cold outside? Of course it is — you’re
undead. Order our famous Armand chili. Have your own kill? Bring them in and
throw it on our open grill. Leave your legs behind, we cater. Whatever you crave, don’t moan. We have what
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-88498541656641308252015-11-28T08:55:00.002-05:002015-11-28T08:55:34.328-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Nerys Wheatley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today at Winter of Zombie camp, is the very suspicious camp counselor, one Nerys Wheatley. She keeps telling the kids all these graphic, creepy stories that are far too detailed to be something she made up off the top of her head. What I think is that <i>she</i> is the maniac murderer of Winter of Zombie camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, being the first one to suspect that means my time in this movie is coming to an end soon. I only hope I can provide the first key clue as to Ms. Wheatley's true nature to the protagonist before my ultimate demise. So read the interview and get clued in so you can be the hero at the end of the day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>m
promoting “Mutation“, book 1 in my “Twenty-Five Percent” series, a
zombie/action/thriller with scares, tension, and a few laughs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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thirteen years, the world has learned to deal with the virus that turns people
into mindless flesh-eaters. There<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s even a cure, although those who come through the disease
are physically changed and Survivors, like police detective Alex MacCallum, are
often feared and hated. When a new, much worse strain of the virus causes a
sudden, massive outbreak, Alex is forced to join with Micah, an anti-Survivor
activist who hates him. Surrounded by hordes of eaters, the two enemies
struggle to stay alive and find the cause of this new, and possibly not
entirely natural, strain of the deadliest virus on earth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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outcome of the zombie world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity
succumb to the new world order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>There<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s always
hope! My scenario is a little different
in that the outbreak is localised and contained to one city. The virus has
already been around for thirteen years so they know what it does. What they don<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t know
is that this is a new strain and not so easy to deal with and the authorities
seriously underestimate the danger. As things stand now, the situation is grim,
but my heroes will fight to stop the outbreak somehow. Whether or not they
succeed has yet to be revealed (and I haven<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t written it yet!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your
career writing about zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside
the sub-genre to continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>m
currently writing book three in the series and there will most probably be more
in the future, but I won<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t write another, separate, zombie series. It<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s not a
case of sustaining my career, it<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s more that I enjoy all different genres and I want to write
them too! I can<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t
stay in one place. Too many ideas! I have plans for future science fiction
novels and I can see myself going into other genres too. I hope those that
enjoy my zombie books will also enjoy them.
Being an author is kind of like being the Doctor, being able to travel
anywhere, anytime, and into any story. It<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s exciting!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>Well,
in the best books you would get both! But if I have to chose, it would be the
human survivor. An interesting, likeable lead character for the reader to root
for is always what I want in the books I read.
Without that I tend to lose interest. I want someone I can take the
journey with, experience things through their eyes and want them to succeed.
Those are the kind of characters I try to write. Although in Mutation I kind of
have both in that my <span lang="EN-GB">’</span>zombies<span lang="EN-GB">’</span> (called eaters) are not your typical walking dead (they<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>re not
dead, for a start!) and my lead character was formally infected and cured. So I
have a sympathetic human survivor AND zombie with an interesting storyline all
in one person!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>This
is difficult for me to answer as, to be honest, I don<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t read that much zombie
fiction! Should I admit that? I read more when I wasn<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t writing it, but there<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s
something about writing the genre that makes me move away from it a little.
Kind of like taking your work home with you! So as far as important goes, there
are other people who can and I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>m sure will answer that better than I can. <o:p></o:p></div>
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ask me what I think is important to zombie fiction as a whole and I would say
more originality. I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>ve
had several reviews for Mutation that comment on how different it is from the
other zombie stories out there and how refreshing it is to have something new.
I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>ve
also heard many people say they are over the whole zombie genre because it
seems to them like it is becoming all the same. It doesn<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t have
to be that way. There are always new stories to be told, and I know there are
new zombies to create! Undead innovation, we can do it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>Unless
the human race is going to die out, there had better be! Are we talking
human/human? Human/zombie? Zombie/zombie? Or, in a twist, zombie/werewolf? I<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>m not
here to judge. Whatever floats your boat!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerys Wheatley: </span>My
series so far only takes place over less than a (very action-packed) early
autumn month so so far I haven<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>t had to! <o:p></o:p></div>
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but can<span lang="EN-GB">‘</span>t
quite shake a penchant for the grey matter? Try our new menu, for discerning
zombies who like something a little bit different. From marinated medulla
oblongata with a spinal fluid and parsley sauce, to fricasseed frontal lobe
topped with spiced kidney wedges, we cater for all your undead culinary
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-85661222181161990942015-11-27T17:56:00.000-05:002015-11-27T17:56:31.323-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Rob E Boley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back in the day, in a little town called Freehold, New Jersey where Bruce Springsteen once got frustrated with suburban life and a grand mall once stood stood a little resturaunt in said mall's food court. It was called Roli Boli. It was delicious. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>I’m promoting my Scary Tales dark fantasy series of novels,
which begins with <i>That Risen Snow: A
Scary Tale of Snow White & Zombies.</i> The series is a mash-up of fairy
tales and classic horror monsters. It starts where the classic Snow White fairy
tale ends—with the Prince kissing Snow to wake her from her zombie curse.
Except she wakes up as a deranged zombie and all hell breaks loose. Although
Snow White’s zombies remain the primary threat throughout the series, I also
introduce other mash-ups, such as Red Riding Hood and werewolves, <i>Beauty & the Beast</i> with <i>Phantom of the Opera</i>, and Goldilocks and
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
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order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>I don’t want to give away any spoilers but I will say this:
very few of my characters are likely to live happily ever after. I’m a huge fan
of bittersweet endings. It’s far more satisfying—and true to life—when
characters win a little but also lose a little. I mean, how many pure victories
do we ever really achieve in life? Achieving anything—especially surviving a
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writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>I never really set out to be a zombie horror writer—or even
necessarily a horror writer. I just write the stories that come to my mind, but
so far those have mostly tended to be horror or dark fantasy. I grew up reading
horror and I love the genre. I have a few more books coming in The Scary Tales
series. I’m also working on another book that features zombie-like creatures,
but I can’t imagine all of my future books will feature zombies. I have some
ideas for non-zombie stories, and it’s just a matter of time before one of
those sees print. At some point, I aim to write a werewolf novel. I’ve always
loved the man-beast duality of werewolves.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>It totally depends on the story. But as long as the survivor
has some serious flaws and the antagonist has some depth, I think the story
will do just fine. That’s the thing with writing zombie fiction—zombies
aren’t—as characters—typically that interesting. They’re more like a force of
nature, like a hurricane or flood, than most traditional monsters. So, in
zombie fiction, it helps to have some regular people to serve as an alternate
antagonist. <i>Walking Dead</i> is a great
example of that. After the first few trades, the real threat quickly becomes other
people—not the shambling ghouls.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>Honestly, I don’t know if I’m qualified to say. I mean, there’s
so much zombie fiction out there, I can’t imagine I’ve read but a small
fraction of it. I will say that Robert Kirkman’s <i>Walking Dead</i> graphic novel series is brilliant. I love Max Brooks’
work, too. I am a huge fan of David Wellington’s <i>Monster Island</i> trilogy, which was an original spin on the zombie
mythos.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>Sex is like Jell-o. There’s always room for it. I actually
get frustrated that there isn’t more sex in zombie apocalypse tales. I mean,
death is literally staring these people in the face. Hell, death is trying to
eat their faces. Why aren’t they screwing like rabbits, you know? Seriously,
though, if you want a great example of sexy zombie apocalyptic hijinks, check
out <i>The Resurrected</i> by Megan Hart.
She does an amazing job of infusing erotic tension into her zombie epic.
Spoiler alert: she also writes a bad-ass zombie sex scene. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>Seasons are especially important for zombies. If it’s below
freezing, those corpses are going to freeze right the hell up. Likewise if it’s
summer, those zombies are going to get ripe mighty quick. Autumn is my favorite
season, so I tend to set a lot of my stories, including <i>The Scary Tales, </i>in those fall months. Though probably spring is
the best weather for zombies. All the rain loosens up the soil so it’s easier
to crawl out of the grave. Plus, there’s no dead leaves to crunch underfoot and
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rob E. Boley: </span>I think it’d have to be called Whole Brain Foods. We’d only
serve human brains and meat that were raised free-range style—with a minimum of
two hours of outdoor time each day—without the use of genetic modification, antibiotics,
or tranquilizers. Don’t you just hate biting into a good hunk of human flesh
and tasting a mouthful of chemicals? I sure do! Of course, we wouldn’t use preservatives
for our products, so that food truck is going to stink something fierce.
Fortunately, our zombie clientele aren’t likely to care. Unfortunately, our
zombie clientele doesn’t have a lot of cash on hand—and they always forget to
bring their credit cards. But that’s life—er, afterlife—in the food truck
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>As with all promotional opportunities, I’m hoping to draw
the attention to new readers to check out my work as an author/publisher,
hoping that by checking out one of my books they’ll like it enough to check out
the rest of my books. For the <i>Winter Of Zombie </i>event, I’m trying to
raise public awareness of two novellas that are part of a larger epic-length
post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic project I’ve been working on, called <i>The End Of The World Is Nigh</i>. </div>
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rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
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order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>I know what the end of the story is in the world that I’m
working on, but I think that the journey will be more interesting than the
destination. Plus I don’t want to give
away the ending, because, like every other author I think I’ve come up with a
unique and interesting solution to the problem.
Different authors use different kinds of zombies. The kind of zombies that I’m using are of
medium speed and an animalistic/instinctual intelligence, but they’re not
immortal. I’m giving them about a year
until exposure and starvation kills most of the “zombies” off. But in the world I’m working in 95% of the population
of North America becomes dead/undead so I’m more interested in the living
characters having to deal with a mostly abandoned and dangerous world in the
absence of any kind of central power keeping society running smoothly. There will be cities on fire, fortified
encampments of survivors, and roving bands of cannibals. My goal is to take the few things I liked
from the zombie-epidemic and post-apocalyptic books and films that I’ve enjoyed
and use what I thought worked while avoiding what didn’t work for me as a
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continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>As a fan of the George A. Romero zombie movies, I loved the
way that his films explore the way that different small groups of people
experienced the same phenomenon. After
watching his films over and over I started to imagine what that scenario would
be like where I lived and in some of the places across the country I have had
the good fortune to visit. I was also a
huge fan of Stephen King’s <i>The Stand</i>. After the fourth or fifth time through that
book I came to appreciate the structure of the book and the post-apocalyptic
theme, but the metaphysical duality of good versus evil felt too simplistic. As an atheist, I don’t believe that there is
a higher power that can be appealed to and I’m more interested in the way that
relatively ordinary people would deal with an extraordinary situation. I loved the comic book series <i>The Walking Dead</i>, but it didn’t fulfill
my desire to experience the ultimate in post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic
fiction. My goal is to gradually write
novella length installments until I have enough material to put together an
epic-length work where I can shuffle together all of the novellas into an
all-encompassing work. But, to answer
your question more directly, I’ve written in a variety of genres and mediums. I’ve done fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and
screenwriting, so I don’t feel limited to writing about zombies. I just want to write the post-apocalyptic
zombie-epidemic book I always wanted to read.
After I finish this book, I think I’ll be able to walk away from the
zombie genre feeling like I’ve done as much as I could to try to push the
concept to its logical conclusion. If
you follow the arc of the George A. Romero zombie movies, he was trying to do
the same thing but guiding the idea in a different direction. Even though it’s a sub-plot of <i>Day Of The Dead</i>, Romero was exploring
the idea of trying to domesticate the zombies, an idea he explored further in <i>Land Of The Dead</i>, where the zombies
seemed to be nearing a self-awareness as a different type of human. As much as I enjoy those films, I’m not as
interested in the concept of trying to domesticate zombies. I like my zombies persistent, feral, and
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>I know that other authors explore the possibility of using
the awareness of the zombies as themes.
Philip Nutman’s <i>Wetwork</i> is a
great example of how that can be done well.
In my book series, I’m more interested in the “man vs. man” conflict of
survivors living in a post-apocalyptic world than with the “man vs. nature”
conflict existing as a constant threat driving the characters to work towards a
common goal. The role of “nature” in the
background of the books would be the zombies and the collapsing infrastructure
of the world the characters live in, but even more dangerous than the
persistence of the hungry hordes of the undead is the danger of other people
trying to survive in a desperate situation.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>Obviously Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard are
hugely important as influences in zombie fiction considering that <i>The Walking Dead</i> is one of the most
popular shows on the air. But the films
of George A. Romero and the writing of Richard Matheson and Cormac McCarthy’s <i>The Road</i> are much stronger stylistic
influences on the style of work that I’m trying to create.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>Yes. But the politics
of sex and sexuality would by necessity be much different in the collapse of
society that would occur in the wake of a full-blown zombie epidemic. In civilized independent encampments of
survivors, pregnancy would be an additionally stressful consideration without
the modern amenities of hospitals with trained doctors on call. Outside of the pockets of what remained of
civilization the chances of being killed, raped, and eaten, not necessarily in that
order, would likely be much higher than they already are in the absence of
civil order. In a world where resources
are scarce and the threat of death is constant there may not be as much room
for chivalry and courtesy as there is in our modern world. That being said, I’m not planning on graphically
exploring the consequences of roving bands of cannibals that want nothing
better than to have rape for dinner. I
might mention it in passing, but I don’t want to describe it in detail. My intention isn’t to write gore porn for
rape fans. There’s enough blood, gore,
and violence in the books to earn the horror genre tag without having to use
the “woman in peril” button too.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>In the project I’m working on, the seasons play a central
role in the story arc. I’m planning on
working with between one and two years for the arc. In the first year, the threat of the undead
is constant and overwhelming, but the amount of resources available to the
survivors, left behind by the dead/undead is considerable. In the second half, the threat of the
dead/undead remains, but the problem of survival in a world where the
mechanisms of production that supply our desires for consumption becomes a much
larger and more interesting problem than just having to escape from hordes of
hungry zombies. I’m interested in
exploring life in a world where humanity has the chance to start over again,
but with the constant threat of a disease that is incurable and could rise up
again to end the human experiment.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Scott Lefebvre: </span>In the interest of equality, and considering that to
zombies, humans would be considered equal opportunity targets, I think I’d name
my Zombie Food Truck: <i>We’re All Pink On
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-6388083500261807772015-11-24T20:30:00.000-05:002015-11-24T20:30:33.476-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Peter Welmerink<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Peter Welmerink on the BLOGshit today. He once turned down a role to play Officer Poncherello on the hit television series, C.H.i.P.s Instead Mr. Welmerink went on to become a relative unknown in the world of modern English fiction. We seek today to change all that and help elevate Peter to the upper echelons of the literary community or at the very least, sell a book for him.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>I am promoting my TRANSPORT Post Post-Zombpocalyptic
military action-adventure series during the WINTER OF ZOMBIE 2015. Zombies have
always been my favorite “monster.” I have an extensive interest and knowledge
of Military History, and basically just like to blow things up (fictionally) with
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As I got tired of all the apocalyptic settings being mainly
in the larger cities, I thought FUCK THAT. LET’S BRING SOME ZOMBIE AND APOC
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>We’re still here. They’re still here. </div>
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Like Humankind usually does, we survive even in a post-post
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But as usual human nature goes, we are going to continue to
duke it out, debating and fighting over if the remaining zombie populace should
be fully eradicated, or, if we can keep feeding the local ones the doped meat
byproducts we’ve been feeding them, we can just leave our poor rotting friends
and relatives alone until they…dissolve, turn into a steaming pile of sidewalk
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writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>I have several ideas and stories in which I could sustain
writing about my little zombie world and characters I’ve created. However, as I
enjoy writing Epic Fantasy and Steampunk, and whatever else strikes my fancy, I
will most certainly delve into other worlds and genres beyond the shambling
realms of Zombidom.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>I’d say you have a 50/50 split there, though an interesting
zombie in an interesting storyline would pique my interest. I have a 1950’s gas
station attendant in my TRANSPORT storyline. He not only provides INTEL to my
characters (not giving away any spoilers on how he does it) but also assists my
transport commander in fighting off a semi-undead assassin in one of the books.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>Armand Rosamalia. Of course. LOL </div>
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might not know but write some bomb shit when it comes to zombidom: Jay Wilburn,
Jack Wallen, Rob E Boley and Brent Abell.</div>
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And Armand Rosamalia. Of course.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>Yes, just don’t get caught with your pants down and rear car
windows rolled down when you playing hide the pickle with your lover. Depending
on your position, something already dead might crawl up your ass, or perhaps,
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Seriously, there is room for anything, anything is fair
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>The first TRANSPORT book takes place in Autumn 2025, and
there is a short epilogue piece where my characters are in Milwaukee that
winter. TRANSPORT: HUNT FOR THE FALLEN takes place in Spring 2026 during some
intense rain storms and flooding. TRANSPORT: UNCIVIL WAR takes place a few
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Welmerink: </span>Funny you mention this. The name of the “zombie food truck”
in my TRANSPORT series is called THE HURON, and it is 72-tons of wheeled and
tracked armored personnel carrier, which (one of its jobs) stops and doles out
doped meat to the local undead populace to keep them calm, docile, because the
living city folk on the other side of the enclosure feel sorry for their
effed-up, afflicted family and friends.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-38556107011425790512015-11-23T18:53:00.003-05:002015-11-23T18:55:57.441-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: JL Koszarek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have a writer for the Winter of Zombie 2015 that is quite thorough. One JL Koszarek. If you want explicit details and full bodied answers you've come to the write blog today. JL answers interview questions like Italian wine sates the palletes of the most discerning wine connoisseur. Did someone say wine? I'm thirst. Read the interview, I'll be drunk by the time your done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">JJ Koszarek: </span>I’m actively promoting DIVIDE THEN CONQUER, the first book
in the ZOMBIE COMPANY CRUSADE series. I am very excited to continue working
with Thad David, my collaborator on the series and introduce readers of the
Zombie genre to our literary collaborative effort. DIVIDE is the companion reader
to Thad David’s ios mobile game app called ZOMBIE COMPANY CRUSADE, which to my
way of thinking, separates it from other books in our genre. </div>
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DIVIDE opens with Jack Mason, our lone protagonist as he
struggles to find his way across country from San Diego to Colorado Springs
during the first days of the scourge, the viral outbreak that unleashes the
Zombie apocalypse. Jack’s discoveries and the characters he meets along the way
introduce the reader to the wide spread nature of the scourge and widens the narrative.
DIVIDE introduces the safe zones that bring the reader into the dysfunctional
halls of The White House, the secretive cold war era caverns under the
mountains in Colorado Springs, civil unrest and search and rescue missions in
San Diego, and a southern militia stronghold in Savannah, Georgia. Each setting
has its heroes, villains, and colorful characters driven to survive in this new
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DIVIDE, for the most, part takes place in the United States,
and explores human behaviors from heroism to duplicity, and illustrates our overall
will to survive within the constraints of various contemporary moral, ethical,
and political factions. The most challenging part about writing DIVIDE is the
size of our cast of characters, settings, plots, and subplots, but it’s my
feeling that Thad and I have done well to maintain continuity that lends itself
to plot twists, surprises, and excitement without derailing the theme of the
book. It’s my hope that our readers can find parts of themselves reflected in
the characters who, in my opinion have come to represent the heart, mind, and
spirit of the USA. I’m proud of this thought-provoking work, and believe our
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rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: red;">JJ Koszarek: </span>Where there is humanity, there is always hope. Thad has more
of an idea of where all this is headed where our project is concerned,
considering ZCC is his brain child, so I’m speaking strictly for myself here
when I say that adversity promotes harmony and ultimately brings people
together, if not only temporarily. I experienced this first hand in the
aftermath of hurricane Katrina. For a short time, the people in my community came
together like never before. Race, economics, politics, and even shared
histories and long held grudges (as exist in any small town) were forgotten. It
didn’t matter who you were, you were a survivor. Today, ten years later, our
community is forever changed by the catastrophe and that short moment of pure
equanimity, but those old social patterns are becoming evident again. The
survivors are now regular people still struggling with the trauma of the
catastrophe, but they’re back to dealing with the everyday trauma of getting
along in life. We’re back to being singular members of a community, but a
community none-the-less. </div>
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is one of the waypoints in the plot of DIVIDE. The work’s lofty goal of
attempting to divide a nation to ultimately bring it back together hinges on
this moment of catastrophe, survival, brotherhood, sisterhood, coming together
to rebuild something. It explores how people who are thrown into an
inconceivable situation make decisions. Altruism, power, greed, love, family,
religion and spirituality, and the natural need for a new way are the
parameters within which the human ability, or inability to make rational
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As a character based writer, the only answer I can give you
regarding the outcome of all this horrible zombie business is that it’s up to
my characters where this all goes. They have to decide whether to follow their
hearts or their minds for the good of all or for the good of a few. The ball is
in their court. I hope you’ll read it and discuss it with your friends and
family because it can go to hell in a handbasket, or it can be a catalyst for
real, lasting, meaningful change.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: red;">JJ Koszarek: </span>DIVIDE THEN CONQUER, Book 1 of the ZOMBIE COMPANY CRUSADE
SERIES is my third book. My first
manuscript was unfortunately destroyed by hurricane Katrina. Due to extenuating
circumstances not limited to the ones already discussed, I was unable to locate
or rewrite the story. Maybe someday I’ll rewrite it. Bits and pieces of it are
still in my head. Maybe everything I write is somehow akin to it, I don’t know.
It was a great story, if I may say so myself; historical romance with a
smattering of supernatural/magic/fantasy tossed in. My other book, <i>Twisted Oak: A Sexual Odyssey</i> was published
in May of 2014. It’s full-tilt erotica/contemporary romance. It was fun as heck
to write and the prequel is bouncing around my head.</div>
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Variety is the spice of life. As a freelance writer, I pride
myself on being able to adapt to any genre; fiction or nonfiction; academic,
informative, fun; whatever. Sadly, I am the worst poet in the world, though. I
read everything I can get a hold of, so I feel as if I am well versed in a wide
variety of genres, but my preference is historical fiction because I believe
history is where every good story starts. History is what produces the what,
how, why, who we are. Stories don’t just fall out of the sky. They are created
histrionically on both the micro and macro levels. History creates my
characters, and as a character driven author, my characters draw from their history
to create their stories that somehow end up on the computer screen.</div>
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Zombie fiction offers a unique opportunity for me to
incorporate the many genres I enjoy into the story. Sure, DIVIDE is zombie
fiction, but you’ll also find history, romance, sociology, psychology, science,
political intrigue, military and wartime history, along with contemporary
issues we find in our newsfeeds every day. DIVIDE is a spicy gumbo, a real
intellectual thrill ride. I am enjoying the process more than I thought I would
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I plan to continue work on the ZCC series because I believe
in it. It’s a great story. It’s a joy to write, and I believe our readers will
find it a joy to read. As such, zombie fiction will continue to be an important
element of my career. So will erotica. So will historical fiction. So will
blogging. I’m a writer. Period. Will zombie fiction sustain my career? That
remains to be seen. I’m not even certain this whole writing thing is
sustainable at all at this point. I want it to be, so I keep writing. It’s up
to my readers to decide whether or not it’s sustainable. I keep keeping on.
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compulsion than a career, I think. Whether or not I make a penny (I really hope
I do because eating is a good thing), I’ll keep at it because Jack Mason and
the rest of my ZCC characters keep me awake at night. If I don’t write their
stories, they will drive me insane. I invite you all to join my insanity and
see where it leads.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">JJ Koszarek: </span>They say to write what you know, so humans are always
central to my stories. My degree is in Behavioral Science because I like to
think about what makes people do the things they do. Without drowning in
minutia here, the process of how humans make decisions and their associated
behaviors fascinates me. Inner conflict, cognitive dissonance, we all
experience it. It’s part of the human condition and makes for excellent fiction.
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Zombies are also important to the story because they are the
impetus that propels my characters toward their destiny. Like humans, zombies
also have a history, but as of yet, theirs is unknown to this writer. Rest
assured, zombies will settle into their important role as our story unfolds.
Their destiny, however is a dark one because they are imprisoned in a diseased
body, therefore have no influence over it. The only hope for zombies lies in
the hands of the humans. Isn’t this where all of our destinies lay? </div>
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<span style="color: red;">JL Koszarek: </span>Zombies having fell out of interest for me since the 1980’s,
I was and still am not as well-versed as I’d like to be in the contemporary zombie
fiction world. I am heavily influenced by Max Brooks. Alex Garland also comes
to the forefront. Both authors are revolutionary in that they reinvented their
zombies to reflect today’s world, today’s technology, dysfunction and
swiftness. I am terrified by their zombies!</div>
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Writing has been such a singular activity for me; just me
and my computer, but now having collaborated with Thad, I have found value in
the voices of other authors in this genre and beyond. I am encouraged by and
can’t wait to get to know the other authors involved in the Winter of Zombie
Blog Tour. For me, the new, and not-so-new zombie authors are an aspiring
group. Learning from them through this experience will prove to be invaluable
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
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<span style="color: red;">JL Koszarek: </span>Of course! How will the human race survive without sex? Humans
are sexual beings. Faced with the idea of extinction, I can only imagine the
evolutionary instinct to procreate will become even more acute. Parents will
protect their children with a vigilance that we may not have experienced
before. Our human tribal nature will take hold again, which brings me to the
previous question about hope. Herein through the creation of new human lives,
the sexual act, is where humans will find hope for security, love, acceptance,
and survival. Sex is very nearly always at the center of it, but as DIVIDE is a
young adult novel, this element will be introduced with taste and will be age
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sexual relations yet. They’re still concentrating on surviving the day, however
there is chemistry. Sparks fly between characters, and some are…well, some are
just into sex for all the wrong reasons. </div>
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will in Book Two. Surviving the zombie apocalypse in warm weather is difficult,
but winter is coming and with it will come challenges specific to freezing
temperatures and precipitation. The cold and snow will affect the zombies, too.
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convey the passage of time. The ZCC series will span months, and possibly even
years. It is my feeling that the change of seasons will come into play in this
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Thad and I are gearing up for our first Winter of Zombies in
the ZCC series. As I sit here today, I wonder which character(s) aren’t ready.
I wonder who will be alive in the springtime.
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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When I think I Rhonda Rousey, I think of zombies. Except that Rhonda Rousey doesn't whip ass nearly ass hard as today's spotlight interview, Rhonda Hopkins. And, she's got more staying power too!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>SURVIVAL<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> is the first in my
zombie apocalypse series. It’s a short story I originally wrote it for a
charity anthology, Let’s Scare Cancer to Death, and later published as a
single. However, I enjoyed the characters and writing about zombies so much I
decided to make it into a series. The next novel-length book should be out
soon. Here’s the blurb for Survival:</div>
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When Sarah escapes from her brutal abductors, she promises
to return to rescue her twin sister, but with the walking dead invading Fort
Worth, TX, she is forced to rely on a competitive coworker who made her work
life hell for years. With her coworker weakened by cancer treatments, her
sister still imprisoned, and zombies looking for an easy meal, Sarah’s only
plan, if she can pull it off, is Survival.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>Even though I write dark fiction, I always like to add
in a little optimism and shine a little light into the dark. So I don’t think
you’ll ever see me write anything that is just full-on-dark and devoid of hope.
While I don’t envision my apocalyptic world going back to the way it was
pre-apocalypse, I do like to think that eventually, humans will win out. It may
take years, decades even, but I see the end. Zombies have to decompose at some
point, right? Technology, well obviously that’s gone for the foreseeable
future. I think people will learn to be self-sustaining if they’re going to
survive and use a bartering system for trade. Unfortunately, there will always
be those who only want to create chaos and make others miserable. So among the
good, there will always be bad. I think that makes us appreciate the good even
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span> I love writing about zombies and the human elements of
the story. But I would get really bored only writing one thing. I write
paranormal and I also have a young adult urban fantasy series (GEMINI SERIES)
I’m currently writing and a suspense waiting in the wings to be written. I also
plan to try my hand at horror for the children’s market aimed at the middle
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>I have to go with the human survivor. A zombie
backstory is just that. A story. Humans have the past and how it affects their
present, and their future. You can get lost in their emotions and in their
relationships. A human will always have more depth to explore than a zombie in
the traditional sense. Of course, if an author is writing about a zombie who is
aware and from that point of view, then they might have a pretty interesting
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span> Oh wow. There are so many I enjoy! Here are just a few
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TW Brown<br />
Armand Rosamilia<br />
Mark Tufo<br />
Bobby Adair<br />
Kate L. Mary<br />
Eric A. Shelman</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>There better be! What would be the point of living
otherwise? Seriously though, mankind has always found a way to procreate and I
don’t see that changing in a zombie world. Sex is basic. The need to feel close
to another person, especially in times of crisis or joy, is so ingrained, I
don’t think it’s in danger of ever going away. Sex can make you feel alive when
there is nothing but death and despair around you. So I think it’s vital for
mankind’s survival and not just because it leads to creating new humans, but
because of the hope it instills.</div>
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relationship, it needs to be believable and not just thrown in wherever. I
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>A lot. My books are set in Texas which makes for a very
hot summer and oh those ghastly corpse smells. All the things you’d typically
do in the summer, but without air conditioning would be a huge challenge. And
in winter, a different set of challenges would exist. Weather can become a
major character when dealing with extremes of any kind.></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rhonda Hopkins: </span>Taco del Brains – A Tex-Mex Variety of Spicy Human
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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zombie book, but definitely not the last. <br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>Wow… this is a heavy question. I haven’t really envisioned
where my apocalypse was going. It changes constantly. INFECTED is going to be
at least a trilogy with small novellas as fillers. As of now, their future is
bleak. Not knowing where the INFECTED are coming from is a wide gap. Leaving
them in the dark. I would like my apocalypse to be something like theirs
though. They don’t have your traditional zombies walking the earth. They have a
relatively nice life living in the cave system, considering some of the other
areas they could be living. I do have to say that I creative the pool and hot
tub in the book selfishly, because that would be something I’d LOVE to have. </div>
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apocalypse started. Nothing is the same. Survival is your only goal. I would
like to believe that humanity would stay intact. I would like to believe I
would be the same person too. Deep inside, I believe we all know that may be
virtually impossible. There are some decisions you will have to face at one
point or another. It won’t be until you handle that decision, will you know
where you stand on that spectrum.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>I love zombies, so yes, I think I could sustain my career on
just them. There are just too many different ways you can write about zombies
to run out of ideas. I love the thrill that consumes me writing action scenes
or reading them.</div>
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zombies and apocalyptic reads, I enjoy other books as well. My first book is
titled, After the Before. A New Adult, Suspense, Romance. Even though this is a
romance, it does deal with violence and abuse, taking you on a traumatic ride.
The second book in this series is about to release in December titled, Slipped
Away. Even though this is the second book, it’s a prequel to the first. Telling
the story of their lives before the car accident. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>I really think it depends on where you are planning to take
the story. Most of the time I would go for the sympathetic human survivor. You
have somewhere to progress to since they are still living. Their story is
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ceases to be when they become a zombie. However, this is depending on how you
write your zombies. Take INFECTED for instance, they are not <i>really</i> dead. They were mutated by a
chemical weapon, changing them into feral beasts that resemble zombies. They do
not change you by biting you. You change because of the chemical weapon. They
only eat you because they’re hungry, not because they are looking to eat your
brains. They have reverted to creatures that are slowly dying and going insane,
their skin is sagging off their bones, and most of them have large boils all
over their bodies. With these types of Zombies you have more of a progression
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>Sadly, I have not read as many zombie books as I’d like, but
I LOVE the movies and series. Of course The Walking Dead is up there. Love me
some Darrell. ZNation, traditional movies (old and new), the Resident Evils.
Book wise, the few that come to mind are Tracey Ward’s Until the End & In
the End. I really enjoyed them. Airicka Phoenix’s, When Night Falls. The the
best part about being a part of the Winter of Zombie tour, is that I have had
my eyes opened to a world of amazing new authors. More great zombie books to
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span> Is there
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>Hands down, YES. Lol, Not because I’m some kind of nympho,
but because sex is in human nature. Especially when your adrenaline is high.
You are constantly on edge. Things are going to explode at any moment. You will
need an outlet. People who believe that because of the apocalypse there will be
no time for sex are insane. It may happen a lot less, but people will always
make time. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> How much
consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>Quite a bit actually. INFECTED started in the summer. The
cave system that they are living in are in the mountains of Oregon. Which just
happens to be the state I live in. So I know that during the winter the
mountains get tons of snow and it’s colder than hell. In the next book, IMMUNE
this is going to be one of the obstacles they will have to learn to adapt to. I
am excited to see how they deal with it. I have begun writing the second book,
but at this point have not made it to that point in the story. So I am waiting
as well to see where this will go. <br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jessica Gomez: </span>After thinking about this for a while, I decided against
going with ethnic zombie<br />
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unless their peoples races. I decided to go with just the general, brains,
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I have decided to go with, Lucifer’s Leftovers. Where the
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This was the hardest question to answer. I can’t wait to see
what everyone else’s truck names are!<br />
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Jessica Gomez on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Gomez/e/B00N77SU4Q">http://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Gomez/e/B00N77SU4Q</a>/</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-7114167581409021922015-11-16T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-16T09:00:03.430-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Samie Sands<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that makes outrageous claims. I am you blog host, who once outran an Jaguar while on vacation in the Himalayas with the soul purpose of finding the perfect taco, Mr. Frank! (BTW: The tacos aren't all that great in the Himalayas.)<br />
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Speaking of tacos, today's interview is with none other than Samie Sands! What is the connection of tacos and Samie Sands you ask? I have absolutly no idea but logic would dictate there is one. I hope that Samie Sands is the type of person who condones avacado on her tacos. That's all I'm saying.<br />
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Time for the interview as the Winter of Zombie Blog Tour continues on Books, Beer and BLOGshit!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span>Let’s
cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>I’m promoting <i>Forgotten
</i>– the second book in the AM13 virus series. In this book, the quarantine
from the first book, <i>Lockdown</i>, has
failed and so the Government has come up with a new plan – a sanctuary that’s
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This book introduces 3 new characters, all which bring their
own issues and personalities into surviving the zombie apocalypse. There’s the
OCD sufferer, Ethan, who couldn’t deal with everyday life before infection.
Then there’s Alyssa, who is an overly confident teenage girl who knows
everything about zombies and finally Dr. Jones who seemingly has the fate of
the human race resting on his shoulders. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>This is actually something that you’ll find out in the third
and final book in the series! All I can say is by the end of <i>Forgotten</i>, it doesn’t look good. As with
anything apocalyptic, the human race irrevocably changes – how would you go
back to a normal, civilized society after going through all of that?! </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>I love writing zombie fiction – pushing characters to their
absolute limit is a lot of fun, because it allows you to explore human nature
in a very unique way. That being said, I would love to write in other genres
too, for the experience. I’ve had a few short stories included in horror
anthologies that weren’t centered round zombies, and they were entertaining to
write too. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>Having a human survivor that people will route for is important,
but it’s also really fascinating to see the world from the perspective of a
zombie. Sometimes it’s too easy to see them as just monsters, but of course
they were just another person once.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>My favorite zombie author is Adam Baker, because his virus
is something unique and it has really strange effects on the body which is
unlike anything else I’ve ever read. There’s new awesome zombie author’s
popping up all the time, which is brilliant for the genre. The more it grows,
the more popular it becomes!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>I’m sure that if people could find the time and a safe
space, people would be having sex, so yes there’s definitely room for it. <br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;"> The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>The seasons are mentioned, but aren’t a massive factor in my
books because it’s not set over a really long time scale. It’s not a world in
which the cold or heat has a particular effect on the undead. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Samie Sands: </span>Undead Appetizers: Resurrect Your Taste Buds<br />
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Samie Sands Web Site: <a href="http://www.samiesands.com/">http://www.samiesands.com/</a><br />
Samie Sands on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Samie-Sands/e/B00JWQJS4C">http://www.amazon.com/Samie-Sands/e/B00JWQJS4C</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-39804358404812834842015-11-12T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-12T09:00:25.453-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Michael Robertson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! It's the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that makes outrageous and exaggerated claims about itself. I am you're extremely talented, awesome and super sexy blog host, Mr. Frank!<br />
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We have another person who is talented, awesome and super sexy on The BLOGshit today, Michael Robertson. Michael Robertson first appeared on the hit television series, Taxi, as the special attache to The United Kingdom. Latka gives him a ride and says funny things in a high pitched voice. It was classic 80's television at its best. Thank you very much.<br />
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He's done tons of other things since his television debut. I have no idea what, but odds are he must have done something and a lot of it. Am I right? Who cares, on with the interview!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>I'm promoting my series called The Alpha Plague. It's a
fast-paced zombie series inspired by 28 Days Later. Here's my Amazon author
page - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Robertson/e/B00DK2PRLM/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1" target="_blank">Click Here</a></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>I have that planned for book four, so I don't want to go
into too much detail with my story. To speak about the zombie apocalypse in
more general terms, I think there can be hope. I like The Walking Dead, and how
28 Days Later resolves itself. But I also like the hopelessness of Dawn of the
Dead. I can't help but think with the bolt holes some people have - Especially
those in power, that some will survive. And what about cruise ships and other
vessels at sea?</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>I do write outside of the genre. I think you can sustain a
career from writing zombie fiction, but it is a niche, and there are bigger
markets out there. I also write Sci-fi and horror. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>The human. I'm sure there are books out there with
interesting zombies, but on the whole, they're a faceless wave of
destruction. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>I'd say Robert Kirkman above all else. The Walking Dead has
taken over from the great Romero films to make the genre more mainstream. And
Alex Garland for the 28 Days Later screenplay. <br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>I think when you put a group of humans together anywhere
then there's room for sex. It's what we do, right? </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>The seasons play an important role in a lot of my stories. I
think they always matter, especially when you want to immerse a reader in the
world. If it's freezing, that becomes more of a challenge for the main
characters because they have to survive against that too. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Robertson: </span>Squeals on Wheels - I'd serve them pig to try to convince
them that bacon tasted better than human.<br />
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Michael Robertson's Web Site: <a href="http://www.michaelrobertson.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.michaelrobertson.co.uk</a><br />
Michael Roberson on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRobertsonAuthor">https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRobertsonAuthor</a>/</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-26402092049154043362015-11-11T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-11T12:29:22.142-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Peter Meredith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only</i> blog on the internet that drinks the Kool Aid at Dynatox Ministries. I am your cult follower, Mr. Frank!<br />
<br />
Speaking of cults, author Peter Meredith of Peter Meredith Cults, Inc. joins us on The BLOGshit today. When he's not busy taking all of your life savings or making you believe he is the next incarnation of the Super Beast, he's laying down a sweet string of words associated with zombies.<br />
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Just kidding. I have no idea if he really writes about zombies or not. What I do know is that he participted in the Winter of Zombie Blog Tour on Books, Beer and BLOGshit today. That has to be true!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> Let’s
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>The Apocalypse Crusades Series! It’s a slow motion descent
into the hell that is a zombie apocalypse. Each book in the series spans a
single day so that the readers can follow the heroes as they must battle the
undead and at same time as they run up
against the police, self-serving politicians and the National Guard in an
effort to get out of a slowly but surely expanding quarantine zone.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>There is hope and it lies in the title The Apocalypse
Crusade. The only hope for any zombie apocalypse is in the people. The moment
they stop cowering, the moment they stop waiting for a corrupt and inefficient
government to protect them, that id the moment they have a fighting chance.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>I am currently writing my twentieth book and only nine are
zompocs. I also write fantasy, general horror and action adventure stories.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>Whenever someone asks me what my stories are about I say
People. People in fear, people in danger, people in love. A zombie with an interesting
storyline is nothing but a person with an affliction, but an interesting one.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>Tufo, O’Brien, Howey, Smith...there are too many to name.
Any author who, through his talent, can keep the public interested in zombies
is a tremendous boon to my writing. The second we as authors stop producing
high quality work that will be when the genre dies.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>Since there is choice lesbian scene in my first zompoc: The
Apocalypse, I’m going to say yes. Of course it has to be tastefully done and
not just thrown in there. Sex is an important part of the human element.
Leaving it out completely diminishes the characters.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>In our first world life, the weather is rarely more than a
pleasing addition to the day or an irritant that occurs between the hundred
feet that separates our cars and the office. In my stories the weather is
another factor that isn’t just remarked upon by people passing on the street,
it has to be overcome or it will kill as certainly as any flesh eater.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peter Meredith: </span>Pete’s Fresh and Screamin’ Meat Pies<br />
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Peter Meredith on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Meredith/e/B004O91QGU">http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Meredith/e/B004O91QGU</a><br />
Peter Meredith Web Page: <a href="http://petermeredith1.com/index.html">http://petermeredith1.com/index.html</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-71498987656328074102015-11-10T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-10T09:47:00.249-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Duncan P Bradshaw<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Oh yes, one of my favourite zombie books is World War Z, by
Max Brooks. I loved how you find out what happened through the interviews,
which report on the events of the zombie plague. I definitely have an end in
mind, but that is years from when the trilogy is set. I think hope is one of
the most defiant human emotions/feelings that there is, even more so when everything
is just so crushingly oppressive and bleak. To seek better days when everything
has gone to crap, and zombies are tucking into your friends guts, and there is
nothing you can do, well, that is something worth writing about.</div>
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Personally, I love the post-apocalyptic world, technology is
gone, you’re back to the dark ages. Instead of twenty four hour news reports,
you hear of things around campfires, and messages in safe zones. To me, it
kinda builds this whole new era of legends again, where tales of heroism are
exaggerated, and acts of depravity embellished. It’s really cool to read these
myths in one book, and then expose the reality in another. It’s something I’m
very much looking forward to doing with this trilogy.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan P Bradshaw: </span>Excellent question, I think a lot of people fear being
typecast by sticking to zombie fiction, particularly these days when the whole
sub-genre is flooded. For me, yes, I will write about other ideas that I have,
and try out new things. But…I will ALWAYS go back to the undead world I’ve
created and fashion new stories to tell.</div>
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I’ve made it my mission to launch at least one zombie novel
a year, amongst my other releases. Zombies are such an intrinsic part of me,
that to even contemplate not writing about them, is…well…impossible. As long as
the story that you have to tell is an engaging one, and you can offer something
different, which is tricky, then I’ll be writing about the undead until I’m one
of them. Just need to make sure I can work a laptop once I’m reanimated…</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Ooohh, that’s a cool one. In my first book, I had a
narrative which focused on a pair of zombies, one of which was kinda key to the
story, and I’ve had so many people say how cool it was to show something from
their point of view. Depending on how you set up your world, a zombies motives
and reasoning is going to be pretty basic, they’re all about sticking their
gore covered hands into someone’s torso and pulling out their intestines like
rope.</div>
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I <i>really</i> enjoyed
writing from that perspective, and would again, though as above, you are very
limited by what you can convey. They’re a very limited character, and once
you’ve used the historic angle, the only real use for them is so you can have
lashings of gore.</div>
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Human survivors, well, that’s a bit different. I think the word
‘human’, means that most people will have flaws which will cause them to be a
bit of a dick at one time or another. Ultimately, people are now in the
minority, resources are scarce, and if the threat of zombies isn’t bad enough,
you’re also going to get people who will take advantage of the end of the
world, and create their own empires of blood.</div>
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Personally, I write my lead characters to (hopefully) be
likeable, but it is clear that they, like the reader, have the ability to do
stuff that isn’t particularly nice. In the end days, it’s a dog eat dog world,
and if you lack the ability to do morally dubious things at times, you are not
going to last very long.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>I’d have to go with Robert Kirkman. A lot of people will
argue that comics are different to novels, and they are, but seriously, look at
what he has done with that world. It’s been going for TWELVE years, you have to
be doing something right, for something to last that long.</div>
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The main reason I say Kirkman, is that he has made the
apocalypse utterly brutal, no one is safe, just when you think that things are
going to be okay, he pulls the rug out from under you, kills off a main
character and throws in another curveball. I’d say that, for me, he has added a
new layer into the undead world, and it’s something I try to emulate, in my own
way, naturally.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Ha, I was chatting to a mate of mine about this the other
day, he loves his pulpy stuff, and has at least one sexual encounter in his
books. He was making suggestions about what I could add into a future book, and
I can’t say I was too convinced. If it’s between survivors, it could add to a
scene, or show some raw intensity that might need to be conveyed. I’d
personally go for something a bit more subtle, leave it to the readers
imagination. My mate started laughing, he meant survivors who go around and
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No. Not for me.</div>
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I’m not saying that as a tool, it’s one to completely dismiss,
and I wouldn’t rule it out fully, but I think that I would then be putting my
books into a bracket that I wouldn’t be comfortable with. Plus…and this is the
deciding factor, I don’t think I could write a sex scene. Some writers have
trouble with dialogue, others with action scenes, me? Two people getting jiggy
with it.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>It’s something I definitely consider when I’m writing. Not
just down to the conditions, and therefore what they’d be wearing, the
particular hardships, but also the time of year. Things like birthdays, or
Christmas, I like to explore these themes. It harks back to when things were
simpler, and less bitey, people reminisce over the times they had, and
everyone, I don’t care who you are, EVERYONE gets sentimental over certain
things.</div>
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You can use them for good parallels, or set up certain
setpieces. Diseases tend to ramp up more in hotter weather, so in my world, you
become a zombie when you die, not by getting bitten. So a bout of cholera for
example, can work through a previously healthy camp. Whereas you had twenty fit
survivors, you now have a potential death trap, just waiting to be stumbled
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Duncan</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">P</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bradshaw</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Hey! Yes you! We know what it’s like to be a rotting carcass
in the end days, shambling around from one boarded up safezone to another.
Watching your best friend take a fire axe to the face, and the food? Jeez,
don’t even get started on the food. When you first came back to life, and you
tucked into your first skull, pulled out and devoured your first eyeball, well,
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Well, if intestines have lost their tang, and liver has
become so last season, make sure you shamble over to ‘Zombie Clyde’s Ribs and
Limbs’. We take the choicest cuts from those humans stupid enough to leave a
door unlocked, or fall asleep on sentry duty. Then, using Clyde’s special mix
of bone marrow and pureed frontal lobes, we take your long forgotten favourites
and make them into a wonderful treat all over again.</div>
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Find us all over the wasteland, you get a free side of lungs
and kidney butter with your first order.</div>
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Zombie Clyde’s Ribs and Limbs – For zombies with
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-89732867836728430692015-11-09T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-09T09:00:02.036-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Mike Evans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Winter of Zombie continues this week with a spotlight interview on Mike Evan today. As you know, zombie writer Mike Evans was once known as El Susquehana del Chupo! He once slaughtered a penguin in Oklahoma (the musical, not the state). Most people tell us he's a swell guy. His pelt was prized by native Eskimos in the 18th century.<br />
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Don't say Eskimos, it's not polite. Call them Inuits. Eskimos get offended being called Eskimos. Inuits don't mind being called Inuits. Where do you put this thing? Inuit?<br />
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Get it?!?! HA!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?</i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Evans: </span>If you don’t care about the character then it won’t matter
how awesome the story is. I can’t finish a movie or book with a main character
who I don’t care if they live. I’m all about characters and how likeable they
are regardless if they are good guys or complete assholes. My reviews always
mention how much they love the people in it. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?</i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Evans: </span>I don’t read the genre at all. It is to hard to accidentally
think of your own books. As far as who is important I think the guys like Mark
Tufo, Shawn Chesser, John Obrien are pretty damn important. Why you ask? Becaue
they show that indies can do it, that they can do it on their own and they
don’t need to be signed with anyone to be successful and they are all very nice
guys.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i> Is there
room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?</i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Evans: </span>I think there is, but like anything there needs to be a
certain amount of taste with it. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></i><i>How much consideration
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Evans: </span>I do quite a bit of it honestly. The current book Orphans IV
I’m writing is set in winter. Because it isn’t just driving down a street in a
car, you need to drive down a icy street in the middle of winter, with
blisteringly cold winds blowing across and creating white out conditions.
Zombies and Chainsaws Vol I was fun because I set it in sweltering heat which
in the Midwest early summer is a fantastic time to expect to get tornadoes. </div>
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to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?</i></div>
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<br />Mike Evans on Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mike-Evans/e/B00IQ9Z75A/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Mike-Evans/e/B00IQ9Z75A/</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-72013835671482004952015-11-04T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-04T09:00:02.764-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Russell James<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the only blog that doesn't make cheesy joke about guys without arms and legs in odd predicaments. I am your armless and legless blog host, Mr. (I can't type, I have no arms or legs.)<br />
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What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs laying in a pile of leaves. RUSSELL! As in today's spotlight interviewee, Russell James. Get it!?<br />
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Seriously, take my wife. Please! I'm kidding, I take my wife everywhere but she always find her way home! Cut! It! Out! I'll be here all week! Try the veal!<br />
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writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>Q ISLAND is one of seven
novels I have published through Samhain Horror. They range from haunted
house stories to witch stories to stories of Satanists. This is the only one in
the zombie genre. I’ll continue to write whatever horror genre inspires me at
the time. I have a second story set on Q Island about half-done now, so there’s
at least one more zombie story in me.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>I think people can relate more to a sympathetic survivor,
but Tim Waggoner did a great zombie POV novel in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH that
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>For you,
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>For sheer impact, the writers of THE WALKING DEAD have to be
the most influential. I don’t think anyone else can claim the reach of their
work, and the amount of derivative work they inspire.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>Is there
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>There will be some in the next Q Island story I have in the
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>Q ISLAND covers a long time period and the seasons change
for a reason. The arrival of spring is especially important. This is a time for
natural optimism as the world comes back to life. But on the island, that is
juxtaposed with the fact that no progress is being made on a cure, and
everyone’s standard of living is eroding at an ever increasing rate, with no
end in sight.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Russell James: </span>The Fresh Flesh food truck will be heavily armored, and run
strictly on a cash basis. The menu includes Heart Valve Hoagies, Unfried
Chitlins, Human Back Ribs and Brain and Liver Smoothies. Form a line, no
pushing.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-23959372828886683402015-11-03T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-03T09:00:00.865-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Steven Pajak<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! Its the <i>only </i>blog the rhymes with FLOGshit! I am your blog host, Mr. Frank!<br />
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Another day, another spotlight on a talented zombie author. This time we put Steven Pajak to the BB&BS interview. Steven Pajak is published by the prolific Permuted Press, a name synonimous with quality zombie fiction.<br />
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It is important to note before we begin that Steven Pajak is in no way connected with Pat Sajak, the handsome, debonair and extremely rich host of a popular game show featuring a large wheel. Nor should you think that Steven Pajak is any way affiliated with said wheel or any wheels of toruture. At least, none that this blog is aware of. Before we get Mr. Pajak arrested, lets get this Winter of Zombie interview underway!<br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>I am promoting my Mad Swine trilogy, published by Permuted
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
rarely ever talked about, but how do you envision the outcome of the zombie
world you have created? Is there hope? Will humanity succumb to the new world
order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>I am an optimist. There is hope. There is always hope. If
you’re read the Mad Swine series, you understand what I mean. I think humans
are resilient, adaptive, and always evolving. We’ve proven that fact over the
last tens of thousands of years. Whether it be by finding a cure, or stopping
the zombies by ingenuity or force, humans will eventually overcome the undead.
Now, what they may do to each other in the process, well, that’s a whole other
story. Perhaps one I might like to tell one day.</div>
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writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak: </span>I started my writing career outside the genre. My first two
novels were suspense/thrillers, along the lines of Dean Koontz’ cross genres of
the early to mid-90’s. Since completing the Mad Swine series, I’ve returned to
the suspense/thriller genre. I have a new series I’m working on that will
follow the career of Jack Monroe, Deputy U.S. Marshal, which I plan to be at
least 5 or more novels. That said, I still feel I have some good zombie tales
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world and I’ve also been outlining a full-length zombie novel set in the past
(I don’t want to reveal much about it just yet, other than it is set in 1945)
and have written some 20,000 words. I sincerely think that as long as the fans
want to read zombie fiction, there is certainly enough material to sustain not
only my own career, but of the many other wonderful authors in the zombie
genre.</div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>In my opinion, a sympathetic human survivor. Anyone who has
ready the Mad Swine series will tell you that for me, it’s really about the
people, the survivors, and how they interact with each other. I hope I don’t
piss off too many people by saying this, but the zombies aren’t really so
important. Yes, we all come to the genre because we love the goo and the gore,
we love to read or watch as the survivors hack, shoot and bludgeon their way
through the Z on the road to survival. But the real story is the survivors and
whether or not they will make it. And more importantly, what they are willing
to do, to what lengths will they go, to survive. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> For you,
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at the moment are Joe McKinney, Timothy Long, Peter Clines, and Jonathan
Maberry to name a few. And not only are these some of the most important
writers in the genre, they’re good people who are down to earth and love what
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>Where isn’t there room for sex? Yes, there is room for sex
in the zombie apocalypse, as long as it is done tastefully. As I mentioned, for
me, the story is all about the survivors, what they’re going through and how
they cope with their lives being turned upside down. Sex it part of the human
nature, and nothing, not even hordes of the living dead, are going to stop us
from making the beast with two backs.</div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>Seasons have played a considerable role in the Mad Swine
series. In fact, the second book in the series, Dead Winter, relies heavily on
the horrible winter to help drive the story. Although we’re writing zombie
fiction, and the reader has to suspend belief to a certain point, I think the
more realistic your story is, the more you’re going to draw in your reader. If
the zombie apocalypse were real, the seasons would definitely be something the
survivors would need to consider seriously, and could be just as dangerous as
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
Zombie, Books, Beer and BLOGshit wants you to consider setting up a food truck
to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Steven Pajak:</span><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span>Wow, great question. I guess if I had a zombie themed food
truck, I would name it DINER OF THE DEAD. Yeah, that’s probably cheesy and clichéd,
but I like it. I’d eat there. So would zombies.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-8651134876957416292015-11-02T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-02T09:00:06.873-05:00Winter of Zombie 2015: Zach Bohannon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! It's the <i>only </i>that still thinks its a podcast. I am your podcast blogging hose, Mr. Frank!<br />
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Day two of the already frigid Winter of Zombie Blog Tour 2015. Armand Rosamilia has stacked the deck heavy this winter the a bevy of zombie authors. Some are familiar names from tours past but this winter promises to spotlight a great many new faces.<br />
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One of those ugly mugs is none other than Zach Bohannon. No, not the guitarist from Tesla but the zombie writing lunatic who may have once played the spoons on a certain 90s grunge rock album, but problably not. He deffinitly writes about zombies thought so let's stick to that!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zach Bohannon: </span>Empty Bodies, which is my series of zombie books. Currently,
there are three books out in the series, with book four, entitled Open Roads,
due out on December 8th. Right now, the series is slated for six books.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> It’s
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order? What is the outcome of all this horrible zombie business?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zach Bohannon:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>This reminds me of Robin Williams’ skit on golf where he
says, “We’ll put a flag at the end to give ‘em fuckin’ hope!”. I definitely
have a flag at the end of the fairway, but is there hope? It’s the apocalypse! </div>
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But no, in all seriousness, as a storyteller, you have to
have your characters striving towards some sort of goal. They have to have hope.
For instance, one of my characters, Gabriel, certainly has hope that he will
find his family. But will I fulfill their hope at the end? We’ll see! </div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> As a
writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
continue? What avenues will you branch out to if you do feel a need to expand?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zach Bohannon:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>I have no interest in that. I love too many things to stick
with just one niche. I’ve always called myself a horror writer and a
storyteller. My zombie series just happens to be the thing most people read,
and I just so happen to love writing it. I also have a slasher horror story
that a lot of people love, I’ve written a paranormal horror story, and I’m in the
early stages of writing a trilogy with J. Thorn that is more of a dystopian
dark fantasy.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> What is
more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an
interesting storyline?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zach Bohannon:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Empty Bodies is all about the survivors. That’s the main
thing I love about The Walking Dead. It’s not really a zombie show. It’s more
about the survivors and how they deal with the new world. For me, character and
story trumps all.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zach Bohannon:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>There’s so many great authors out there in this genre, that
I’m not sure how I pick just a couple. I really like what T.W. Piperbrook has
done with his Contamination series. K.R. Griffith’s The Wildfire Chronicles is
a lot of fun. Glynn James is great. So is TW Brown. Like I said, I’m gonna
leave people out and feel bad about it!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit: </span></i><i>How much consideration
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my characters are needing to find some sort of sanctuary before Winter.
Everything happens in October, so they don’t have a ton of time. So, it’s very
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
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to cater to a zombie clientele. What would you name your Zombie Food Truck?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-6944574593421084022015-11-01T09:00:00.000-05:002015-11-01T09:00:04.766-05:00Winter of Zombie Blog Tour 2015: Derek Ailes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Winter is here already and that means it's time once again for the cold chill of Armand Rosamilia's Winter of Zombie Blog Tour to blow through the BLOGshit. The BLOGshit is always down to spotlight the wide array of those daring to tackle the zombie genre.<br />
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This season we start off with one Derkek Ailes. He identifies as a writer of Horror Fantasy and Science Fiction. That combination alone makes him ripe to offer something different to the world of zombies in ficiton. Let's go ahead and take Mr. Ailes to task with this season's BLOGshit interview.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes: </span> There
is no stopping a zombie apocalypse. You
can try to survive as a society all you want.
In the end, the zombies always will win.
I believe that zombies will outlive cockroaches. Aliens will one day visit earth and have to
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writer of zombie fiction, do you feel you can sustain your career writing about
zombies only or do you feel you will need to write outside the sub-genre to
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> I was writing zombie fiction before the
Walking Dead became popular. I’m not one
of “I just jumped on the zombie bandwagon” writers. When I sit down and begin writing horror
short stories for my next anthology, I make a list of the stories I want in the
anthology. I then decide how many
stories I want to deal with zombies and then how many to deal with cats. My last anthology “Musings From A Demented
Mind” only had one zombie related story.
I can write about anything in the horror and science fiction
genres. I can survive the industry if
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> I
believe those should go hand and hand. A
great zombie story isn’t one where zombies are on a killing spree. The stories dealing with something that hasn’t
been done before are my favorites.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> Mark
Tufo tops the list. When I do a search
for zombie fiction, his name always appears at the top. Robert Kirkman for obvious reasons. I attribute the Walking Dead for the
resurgence of the zombie genre. I still
say John Russo for being one of the masterminds behind zombie fiction
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Is there
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> To this date, I’ve never paid much attention to the seasons in my zombie
fiction. I’m more focus on the
locations. I’ve never written any zombie
stories in the winter. Thunderstorms are
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966;">The Blogshit:</span></i><i> Our
final question always revolves around zombie themed food. This Winter of
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<i> </i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Derek Ailes:</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> B.B.I. Barbecue,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672316476276752303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142058630370832295.post-63388101308993413032015-06-30T09:00:00.000-04:002015-06-30T10:13:31.334-04:00Summer Of Zombie Blog Tour 2015: Claire C. Riley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is it. June has come to an end and so has the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour. It's been a hell of a ride. We've spoke to more zombies than we can shake a rotting limb at. We're read essays defending the zombie genre. We managed to get a drinking game or two in and we've read some exellent stories from zombies on summer vacation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To end this shebang, we've saved our favorite submission for last. Claire C. Riley provided us with an exclusive piece entitled, "My Summer Apocolypse". It is a one of a kind What I Did On My Zombie Summer Vacation Piece. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And before we get started with the end, I'd like to thank each and every zombie author who contributed to the festival of the dead. We had a blast spotlighting you all and we hope we've helped connect you with a new reader or two. Until next summer, we leave you with Claire C. Riley...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brainz. Brainz. Brainz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s all anyone ever thinks we zombies think about. It’s quite presumptuous and insulting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">really. When I was alive, I was a tit man. Nothing like a good ole’ pair of titties to put a smile </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on my face. Summertime was my favorite season of the year. You know why? Because </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">women love flashing all their junk as soon as they see a little bit of sunshine, and I was </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">always on hand to offer them a free ogle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But brainz? Nah, never thought much about brainz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t really know when it happened, the whole zombie thing, but my last thought was of </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">titties. A big pair of bouncing titties in a tiny string bikini. She was jogging along the each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like she was on a Baywatch commercial. Titties bouncing, blond hair flapping around behind </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her, firm ass that I wanted to cup my hand over, and I was practically salivating, hiding </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">behind my RayBans as I watched her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, my last thoughts were damn good ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first thought wasn’t so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pain like you wouldn’t believe flared inside of me. It was like being beaten with a baseball </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bat with six inch nails protruding out of it. So yeah, that pretty much sucked. I remember </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">screaming and not recognizing my own voice. I remember my blood covering my hands, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the red crimson tide lapping over my feet. It was majorly fucked up if I’m honest. Like </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tripping but without the comedown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It hurt to sit it, but I dealt with that, gritting my teeth and forcing my body to move. God </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">damn I felt angry though, and hungry. The last thing I ate was a hotdog and I was pretty sure </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was only an hour or so ago, but it felt like a lifetime. I looked around me, wondering what </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the hell had just happened, the pain in my body was subsiding, and I had a feeling that the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hotdog must have been bad, because my guts were churning something rotten. Still, when I </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">saw that big tittied woman, crawling along the beach and sobbing, I pushed my bad guts to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one side and stood up, intending to be her knight in shining armor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her eyes were wide with fear when they saw me, and I scratched at my beard, feeling the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bristles spiking my fingertips. She wasn’t as pretty up close, but her body was bangin’ either </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">way, so I focused on that instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She smelled like coconuts and mojitos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I smiled at her and held a hand out to help her up, but the crazy bitch started screaming and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">backing away like I was some crazy assed serial killer. I knelt down next to her, intending to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">calm her down and basically shut the hell up, but the smell of coconuts was growing even </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stronger and making my guts twist painfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m not sure what really happened next, it’s a bit of a blur, so you’ll have to excuse my shitty </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">memory. There was blood. I remember that much. Lots and lots of blood. And then I was </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chewing on gristle, and I remember wondering if I had spewed my guts up in my mouth after </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all, because there was the rankest taste in my mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn’t know what the hell was going on with this bitch, but all I really wanted to do was get </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the hell away from her.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I turned and staggered away, my guts still churning and my head spinning from what just </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">happened. I glanced back several times trying to work out if I had done that, but then </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something else caught my eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautiful brunette in a pink bathing suit running along the shoreline. She was screaming </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something fierce, her hair whipping about her face, but all I could focus in on was her big </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ole’ titties bouncing around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stumbled after her, eager to help, or do whatever needed to be done, to get a taste of those </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">big titties of hers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My summer was pretty awesome when I think back to it. No complaints from me. Well, apart </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from my guts still feel awful and I think I just shit myself again.</span><br />
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<i>Claire C. Riley is a bestselling British horror writer whose work is best described as the </i><i>modernization of classic, old-school horror. She fuses multi-genre elements to develop </i><i>storylines that pay homage to cult classics while still feeling fresh and cutting edge. She </i><i>writes characters that are realistic, and kills them without mercy. Claire lives in the United </i><i>Kingdom with her husband, three daughters, and one scruffy dog.</i></div>
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<i>Author of the bestselling Odium The Dead Saga Series, Thicker Than </i><i>Blood, Limerence, plus much more.</i></div>
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You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! It's the <i>penultimate</i> blog on the interwebs! I am your next to last host, Mr. Frank!<br />
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This also happens to be the penultimate blog on the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour for 2015. Author Julianne Snow drags her zombie in, kicking and screaming, for an interview with Books, Beer and BLOGshit. The zombie almost devoured me, so instead we just let Julianne take care of things herself.<br />
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Most zombies don't enjoy the interview and I can't say that I blame them. I'd rather be eating people too. Wait, I wasn't supposed to say that. Please, don't alert the authorities, instead read this interview with Julianne Snow's zombie, William McShane.<br />
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Julianne: <i>Today I’m joined by William McShane, a legendary ladies man who died in the twilight of his life, who gets to live on even in death. How’d you become a zombie?</i><br />
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William McShane: I died. It’s pretty simple really. I drank too much, smoked too much, had sex like I was still a teenager—something was bound to do me in eventually.<br />
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Julianne: <i>Would you rather be alive again?</i><br />
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McShane: Maybe, I mean the ladies are a little turned off by the whole dead thing but when you’ve got the kind of ‘skills’ I’ve got, the ladies aren’t turned off for long… If you get my meaning… *McShane winks, his face breaking into a cheeky grin*<br />
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Julianne: <i>What do the brains taste like anyway?</i><br />
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McShane: Who the hell eats brains? C’mon, we zombies have gotten such a bad rap over the years. We don’t eat brains… in fact, we really don’t need to eat after death. I doubt that’ll stop me though.<br />
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Hey, you’re a pretty thing, wanna grab a drink later? I’ll can show you what I like to eat…<br />
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Julianne: <i>Does everything stiffen up from the Rigor Mortis?</i><br />
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McShane: It does for a few hours but after that you’ll need a little help. You know how the living have the ‘little blue pill’? Well, the dead have the “little green pill’ and I’ve already got my first prescription filled. Now I just need someone willing to test them out…<br />
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Julianne:<i> If you could eat anyone, who would it be?</i><br />
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McShane: By now, I think that would be obvious…<br />
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Julianne Snow is the author of the Days with the Undead series and Glimpses of the Undead. She is the founder of Zombieholics Anonymous and the Co-Founder and Publicist at Sirens Call Publications. Writing in the realms of speculative fiction, Julianne has roots that go deep into horror and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. With pieces of short fiction in various publications, Julianne always has a few surprises up her sleeves. Be sure to check out The Carnival 13, a collaborative round-robin novella for charity which she contributed to and helped to spearhead which was released in October 2013.</div>
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Twitter: @CdnZmbiRytr</div>
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Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/cdnzmbirytr" target="_blank">Julianne Snow</a></div>
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FB Fan Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JulianneSnowAuthor" target="_blank">Julianne Snow, Author, Days with the Undead, & Zombieholics Anonymous</a></div>
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Amazon Author Page:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Julianne-Snow/e/B007WH0MN4/" target="_blank"> Julianne Snow</a></div>
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Goodreads:<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5763158.Julianne_Snow" target="_blank"> Julianne Snow</a></div>
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Google+:<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110149434437717424445/posts" target="_blank"> Julianne Snow</a></div>
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Blogs: <a href="http://dayswiththeundead.com/" target="_blank">Days with the Undead</a>, <a href="http://theflipsideofjulianne.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The FlipSide of Julianne</a> & <a href="http://zombieholicsanonymous.com/" target="_blank">Zombieholics Anonymous</a></div>
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It’s a journal of survival.</div>
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Five people set out to escape the Undead who have risen too close to home. Join the emotional and physical struggle as they began on the third day after the awakening of Brooks VanReit, as they are recorded from the point of view of Julie, a former pathologist and part-time survivalist.</div>
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Each entry is geared toward helping those who want to help themselves and maybe give a few that don’t a swift kick in the ass. Join our group of survivors on their journey through these Days with the Undead.</div>
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