Summer of Zombie Blog Tour 2014: T.W. Piperbrook

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If you don't know the drill by now, there is no hope for you. Tis the season for the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour and this year is a veritable orgy of talent. Over 30 authors in all are participating this year and Books, Beer and Blogshit strives to be one of the go to destinations for the tour. Are we doing a good job this year?

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Check out T.W. Piperbrook. Here's a writer really trying to add a new twist while keeping it classic. Read the SoZBT2014 interview with Mr. Piperbrook. NOW!

Books, Beer and Blogshit:  Are you a survivor or one of the undead?

T.W. Piperbrook:  A survivor. I already have weapons picked out and an escape route planned.

The Blogshit:  What is your latest piece of zombie fiction we should be concerning ourselves with?

T.W. Piperbrook:  Contamination 5: Survival! If you haven’t read any of the series, you can get the Contamination Boxed Set (Books 0-3) on sale right now!

The Blogshit:  Do you feel you are a classic or progressive type of zombie fiction writer?
T.W. Piperbrook:  Progressive. I like my zombies fast and dangerous, and I do my best to bring a unique back-story and perspective to each story.

The Blogshit:  What makes your zombies different from all others?

T.W. Piperbrook:  My zombies spring from a man-made virus that contaminates the food and water supply. They start off semi-cognizant, and then slowly lose their abilities. They have a limited life span of a few weeks. I think this is pretty different from anything I’ve read!

The Blogshit:  What makes your living different from all the others?

T.W. Piperbrook:  Aside from one police officer, my heroes are all normal people with no survival training or combat skills. They learn as they go, and they are susceptible to the same dangers that most of us would be.

The Blogshit:  Do you think it's important, in this climate, to run with the pack or really try to reinvent the wheel in zombie fiction?

T.W. Piperbrook:  I think there’s plenty of room for anyone who can tell a well-written story in today’s climate. All authors bring their own unique perspectives and backgrounds to the zombie genre, which is part of what makes it so fun. At the same time, it helps to have a little twist!

The Blogshit:  Zombie fiction seems heavily dependent upon working within the construct of a series. Do you feel that is the way that makes it work best for you or do you think there is still room for stand alone stories?

T.W. Piperbrook:  I love working within a series. It allows me to switch perspectives, and then I can follow up on whichever characters I choose (major or minor) in later books. In a world overrun by the infected, there’s too much story to be told for one book!

The Blogshit:  Are you ever afraid of being pigeon-holed in this zombie fiction genre?

T.W. Piperbrook:  Not really. Zombie fans are an incredible and diverse bunch. At the same time, I plan on releasing things outside of the genre soon (I have a novella entitled OUTAGE that will be out in June. It may or may not have werewolves in it J.)

The Blogshit:  For your next zombie story, stand alone or series, do you think you will need to go sicker or smarter to keep it going? 

T.W. Piperbrook:  I like to blend both elements. My favorite stories are the ones that are character-driven, and I do my best to make my characters relatable. At the same time, I’m not afraid to throw some gore into the mix.

The Blogshit:  On last year's tour, we asked about what to put on your zombie sandwich. This year, we want to know: What special ingredients would you use to pickle the pickles on your zombie sandwich?

T.W. Piperbrook:   Fresh intestines with a side of eyeballs.

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The stench of rotting flesh is in the air! Welcome to the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour 2014, with 33 of the best zombie authors spreading the disease in the month of June.



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Summer of Zombie Blog Tour 2014: Timothy Baker

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The Summer of Zombie Blog Tour 2014 plods on through the dogs days of June. Today we put author Timothy Baker through the ringer. No, not action/thriller writer Tim Baker whom you may be familiar with but zombie/horror writer, Timothy Baker who you may also be familiar with but not through these channels, at least not until now.

Anyhoo...

On with the show folks! Meet, Timothy Baker.

Books, Beer and Blogshit:  Are you a survivor or one of the undead?

Timothy Baker:  Survivor. A large percent of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse will probably be zombie writers and their fans. We're just very educated on the subject.

The Blogshit:  What is your latest piece of zombie fiction we should be concerning ourselves with?

Timothy Baker: Path of the Dead (Hungry Ghosts V.1) A rather standard zombie story (I mean, what z-tale doesn't have fighting, running, holing up, drama, fighting, and running?) in a radically different setting, told from a non-western POV. And you should be concerned with it, because Path of the Dead is risky and highly dangerous.

The Blogshit:  Do you feel you are a classic or progressive type of zombie fiction writer?

Timothy Baker: Most definitely classic, if by that you mean the Romero zombie. He gave his undead so much humanity and potential for behavior, that I don't think that that potential has been fully tapped. Plenty of room for me to come in a play with his zombie mythos, expand on it, and give it a different twist, without trying to re-invent the zombie wheel. Path of the Dead could be seen as happening the say day as Night of the Living Dead, just on the other side of the world.

The Blogshit:  What makes your zombies different from all others?

Timothy Baker: They fly and poop.

The Blogshit:  What makes your living different from all the others?

Timothy Baker: Three of my survivor troupe are Buddhist monks, of which one is a nun trained as a Ldab Ldob warrior, the other a Shoalin Kung Fu trained hermit monk seeking his release from the world. Along with a young Chinese soldier and a ten-year-old boy, it makes for some interesting action and character dynamics.

The Blogshit:  Do you think it's important, in this climate, to run with the pack or really try to reinvent the wheel in zombie fiction?

Timothy Baker: Whatever works for the writer, that's what they should do. Don't write it unless you like it. I simply took the normal zombie (is there such a thing?) and took a u-turn on the setting and POV. I guess I kind of did both in a small way.

The Blogshit:  Zombie fiction seems heavily dependent upon working withing the construct of a series. Do you feel that is the way that makes it work best for you you or do you think there is still room for stand alone stories?

Timothy Baker: The nature of the zombie mythos lends itself to big stories needing several volumes. It is a world catastrophe and long-term after all. It isn't a night of a beast attacking your house in an isolated locale that you can beat and live to see the sunrise happily-ever-after. You can't go anywhere without the flesh-munchers popping out anywhere at any time, and survivors will have a drawn out story to tell. Saying that, I wrote Hungry Ghosts as a stand-alone book. Whether plucked as a series or not, it still had to feel like a complete story for me in which a reader can finish it and be satisfied even if they never read a sequel to it.

The Blogshit:  Are you ever afraid of being pigeon-holed in this zombie fiction genre?

Timothy Baker: Being that this is my first novel, and having published only one zombie short story previously, I have yet to become concerned about that.

The Blogshit:  For your next zombie story, stand alone or series, do you think you will need to go sicker or smarter to keep it going?

Timothy Baker: Sick is innate to the genre and thinking up original gory stuff is always fun, so that's pard and parcel. Whadya gonna do? I know I'm going to kick up the danger a few degrees.

The Blogshit:  On last year's tour, we asked about what to put on your zombie sandwich. This year, we want to know: What special ingredients would you use to pickle the pickles on your zombie sandwich?

Timothy Baker: That is one weird question. I refuse to answer on the ground I might make myself sick.

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Summer of Zombie Blog Tour: TS Alan

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Today on the Blogshit we talk to the ever mysterious, TS Alan. Alan lurks in as much mystique as KISS in the 70s. Who knows the real face behind the man with the close up eyeball? The Blogshit sure doesn't but that doesn't stop us from trying to peel back the layers on the fresh blood being spilled in the zombie realms by TS Alan.

Get your sleuthing skills on becuse its time once again for the SoZBT 2014 interview with TS Alan!

Books, Beer and Blogshit:  Are you a survivor or one of the undead?

TS Alan:  I am a survivalist/prepper.


The Blogshit:  What is your latest piece of zombie fiction we should be concerning ourselves with?

TS Alan:  The Romero Strain.

The Blogshit:  Do you feel you are a classic or progressive type of zombie fiction writer?

TS Alan:  I am both. I have a tendency to write more about the George A. Romero style zombie, but also love the “infected” style of zombie that writer Alex Garland brought us with the film 28 Days Later…

The Blogshit:  What makes your zombies different from all others?

TS Alan:  Viruses mutate so why shouldn’t this affect those who get infected by creating different kinds of zombies. In my novel The Romero Strain you get the classic Romero zombie, but also ones call half-mutes that are not quiet the undead but certainly not a living human.

The Blogshit:  What makes your living different from all the others?

TS Alan:  They are flawed and weak in some aspects, but they know it. They try to improve themselves, which sometimes is difficult for them even though they know it could be a matter of their survival. The survivors also have to contend with their elected leader who not only as some major interpersonal skill issues when dealing with his fellow survivors, but also [Spoiler Alert] through his own unintentional doing became mutated after being bit by a zombie.

The Blogshit:  Do you think it's important, in this climate, to run with the pack or really try to reinvent the wheel in zombie fiction?

TS Alan:  I believe it is up to the writer. If you can come up with a really great story using the classic zombie, then do so. But don’t be afraid to try to invent something different.

The Blogshit:   Zombie fiction seems heavily dependent upon working with the construct of a series. Do you feel that is the way that makes it work best for you or do you think there is still room for standalone stories?

TS Alan:  I’m currently working on a series of standalone stories that are derived from the same zombie virus and take place in various countries, but are linked by one common element that is tied to the first story. It started out as a standalone story and then evolved into different ideas of how the virus might affect people in other parts of the world. So short answer long is yes, there is definitely a place and need for standalone stories, but I don’t think about whether it will be a stand alone only or a series when I’m writing.

The Blogshit:  Are you ever afraid of being pigeonholed in this zombie fiction genre?

TS Alan:  I first started writing science fiction and thriller shorts. I’ve even written a medieval period piece, but somehow ended up writing horror, mostly in the zombie genre. Though I want my other stories to be published and get recognition, and not just being recognized as a zombie writer, it would still be great to be known as an author for a genre that I love.

The Blogshit:  For your next zombie story, stand-alone or series, do you think you will need to go sicker or smarter to keep it going?

TS Alan:  Neither. I’m trying something different in the one I am working on now. The main protagonist will be a zombie. I am hoping readers are wowed and think it is truly something unique.

The Blogshit:  On last year's tour, we asked about what to put on your zombie sandwich. This year, we want to know: What special ingredients would you use to pickle the pickles on your zombie sandwich?

TS Alan:  Formaldehyde, because any good zombie sandwich would use undead fingers as pickles – bones in for crunchy goodness.

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