Winter of Zombie 2015: Brice J Chandler

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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 is 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.

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The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Brice J Chandler:  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 Whiskey Jack, which has many of the previously mentioned qualities. 

The Blogshit: 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?

Brice J Chandler:   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.

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 the outcome. If the reader doesn’t think that the protagonists have a shot at 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 moaning and grunting because there aren’t any humans to eat.

As far as the outcome for humanity in Whiskey Jack, 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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Brice J Chandler:   I initially started writing Whiskey Jack in 2001, when I was on a deployment with the 15^th 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.

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.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Brice J Chandler:   That’s an interesting question. Normally, I’d say a sympathetic human, because I think readers will better relate to another human.

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 something to better humanity.

What if that that zombie could tell its story? It might not be much as far as dialogue (some moans and clacking of teeth). Unless they could speak. I think that would make for an interesting story.

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 Whiskey Jack.  

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Brice J Chandler:   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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Brice J Chandler:  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 apocalypse be any different?

The Blogshit:  How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Brice J Chandler:  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 zombie’s brain will freeze in below freezing temps.

Although, to be fair, the seasons and weather are not my 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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Brice J Chandler:  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 not mine.    

Brice J Chandler on Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Brice-J-Chandler/e/B00IS8BMHQ

Brice J Chandler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewritebrice

Winter of Zombie 2015: Ted Nulty

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This afternoon on Books, Beer and BLOGshit, author Ted Nulty. He is awesome. The chase has been cut to. Read the interview now!

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Ted Nulty:  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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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).

The Blogshit: 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?

Ted Nulty:  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.
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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Ted Nulty:  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.
I am inspired by Keith Laumer and want to write a Bolo themed book. Especially when they first became self aware.
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!

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Ted Nulty:  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!

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Ted Nulty:  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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Ted Nulty:  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.

The Blogshit:  How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Ted Nulty:  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!

The Blogshit: 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?

Ted Nulty:  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!

THE Ted Nulty

Ted Nulty's Home Page: http://tednultyauthor.com/
Ted Nulty on Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Nulty/e/B00MMWZNCY

Winter of Zombie 2015: Scott Lefebvre

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I'm busting into the word driven version of my world famous, flamboyant French accent and that can only mean one thing! Author Scott Lefebvre is up on The BLOGshit today. Le-fev-REH or Le-Fehvvvvvvv. Or Scott Le Fleh, all acceptable pronunciations if you do it with the proper French flair.

Viva La France and Viva Lefebvre!

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Scott Lefebvre:  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 Winter Of Zombie 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 The End Of The World Is Nigh.

The Blogshit: 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?

Scott Lefebvre:  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 reader/viewer.

The Blogshit: 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?

Scott Lefebvre:  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 The Stand.  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 The Walking Dead, 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 Day Of The Dead, Romero was exploring the idea of trying to domesticate the zombies, an idea he explored further in Land Of The Dead, 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 hungry.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Scott Lefebvre:  I know that other authors explore the possibility of using the awareness of the zombies as themes.  Philip Nutman’s Wetwork 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.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Scott Lefebvre:  Obviously Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard are hugely important as influences in zombie fiction considering that The Walking Dead 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 The Road are much stronger stylistic influences on the style of work that I’m trying to create.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Scott Lefebvre:  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.

The Blogshit:  How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Scott Lefebvre:  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.

Think Pink

The Blogshit: 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?

Scott Lefebvre:  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: We’re All Pink On The Inside.

Paranoid or Steroid? You Decoid.

Lefebvre on Lefebvre:

Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.

Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public library.

His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.

He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and Condemned; and a contributing author to Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.

His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.

Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:

http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/

Check out his electronic music here: soundcloud.com/master_control

And here: master-control.bandcamp.com

Check out his Etsy here: www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt

Stalk his Facebook at: www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre

E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com

Winter of Zombie 2015: Peter Welmerink

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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.

So get on your tight fitting khaki motocycle pants and strap on your standard issue California Highway Patrol helmet and get ready to dive into the world of zombie author, Peter Welmerink.

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Peter Welmerink:  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 big tanks and big guns.

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 CHAOS HOME TO MICHIGAN.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Welmerink:  We’re still here. They’re still here.

Like Humankind usually does, we survive even in a post-post undead-filled world.

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 stew, whatever.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Welmerink:  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.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Peter Welmerink:  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.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Peter Welmerink:  Armand Rosamalia. Of course. LOL

I am going to throw some perhaps names out there that people might not know but write some bomb shit when it comes to zombidom: Jay Wilburn, Jack Wallen, Rob E Boley and Brent Abell.

And Armand Rosamalia. Of course.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Peter Welmerink:  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, claw up your ass.

Seriously, there is room for anything, anything is fair game, including sex I suppose, in the zombie apocalypse.

One of my more crude and lewd crew members in my TRANSPORT books alludes to having had , erm, relations with some undead female prostitutes. I do not go into detail on the how’s and why’s.

The Blogshit:  How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Peter Welmerink:  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 months later in the heat of summer.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Welmerink:  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.

Peter Welmerink on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Welmerink/e/B00H0KBVN8

Peter Welmerink Home Page:  http://peterwelmerink.com

Winter of Zombie 2015: Michael Robertson

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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.

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!

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Michael Robertson:  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 - Click Here

The Blogshit: 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?

Michael Robertson:  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?

The Blogshit: 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?

Michael Robertson:  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.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Michael Robertson:  The human. I'm sure there are books out there with interesting zombies, but on the whole, they're a faceless wave of destruction. 

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Michael Robertson:  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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Michael Robertson:  I think when you put a group of humans together anywhere then there's room for sex. It's what we do, right?

The Blogshit:  How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Michael Robertson:  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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Michael Robertson:  Squeals on Wheels - I'd serve them pig to try to convince them that bacon tasted better than human.

Michael Robertson's Web Site:  www.michaelrobertson.co.uk
Michael Roberson on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRobertsonAuthor/

Winter of Zombie 2015: Peter Meredith

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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.

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!

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Peter Meredith:  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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Meredith:  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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Meredith:  I am currently writing my twentieth book and only nine are zompocs. I also write fantasy, general horror and action adventure stories.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Peter Meredith:  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.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Peter Meredith:  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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Peter Meredith:  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.

This is tasteful, right?

The Blogshit: How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Peter Meredith:  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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Peter Meredith:  Pete’s Fresh and Screamin’ Meat Pies

Obey The Sexy

Peter Meredith on Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Meredith/e/B004O91QGU
Peter Meredith Web Page: http://petermeredith1.com/index.html

Winter of Zombie 2015: Duncan P Bradshaw

You're reading Books, Beer and BLOGshit! It's the only blog that loves to put mayonnaise on everything as much as the British! I am your cockney host, Mr. Frank! 

Pip! Pip! Cheerio! And all that whatnot that we British folk love to go on about. Listen here Guv'nah, we're going to sit down and have us a spot of tea whilst we read the marvelous words of one Sir Duncan P Bradshaw, Knight of the British Empire.

Okay! I'm not British and Duncan P Bradshaw has not been knighted. BUT I think he may have watched several episodes of Knight Rider in the late 80's. That's gotta count for something!

Here nor there. Just open up a can of Spotted Dick and let's see what Duncan P Bradshaw has to saw to Books, Beer and BLOGshit.

The Blogshit: 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?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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.

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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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.

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…

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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.

I really 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.

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.

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.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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.

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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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 have sex with zombies.

No. Not for me.

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.

The Blogshit: How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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.

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 upon.

The Blogshit: 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?

Duncan P Bradshaw: 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, that was heaven huh?

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.

Find us all over the wasteland, you get a free side of lungs and kidney butter with your first order.

Zombie Clyde’s Ribs and Limbs – For zombies with brainnnnsssssss

Duncan P Bradshaw After Eating A Big Bowl of Mayonnaise

Duncan P Bradshaw on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Duncan-P.-Bradshaw/e/B00OH6EVGC

Duncan P Bradshaw Web Site:  http://duncanpbradshaw.co.uk/

Winter of Zombie 2015: Russell James

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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!?

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!

And now on with the show.

The Blogshit: 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?

Russell James:  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.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Russell James:  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 proves me wrong.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Russell James:  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.

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Russell James:  There will be some in the next Q Island story I have in the works. And it won’t be pretty.

Would you read Russell James? I'd read Russell James.

The Blogshit: How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Russell James:  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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Russell James:  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.

Russell James on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Russell-James/e/B006BFIOKQ/

Russell James Home Page: http://www.russellrjames.com/

Winter of Zombie 2015: Zach Bohannon

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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.

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!

The Blogshit: Let’s cut to the chase, what are you promoting for the Winter of Zombie?

Zach Bohannon: 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.

The Blogshit: 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?

Zach Bohannon: 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!

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!

The Blogshit: 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?

Zach Bohannon: 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.

This IS the Zach Bohannon You're Looking For.

The Blogshit: What is more important to the story: A sympathetic human survivor or a zombie with an interesting storyline?

Zach Bohannon: 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.

The Blogshit: For you, who are the most important writers in zombie fiction at this moment?

Zach Bohannon: 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!

The Blogshit: Is there room for sex in the zombie apocalypse?

Zach Bohannon: We’re human: there’s always room for sex.

The Blogshit: How much consideration do you give to the seasons in your zombie stories?

Zach Bohannon: One of the big underlying conflicts in Empty Bodies is how 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 important.

The Blogshit: 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?

Zach Bohannon: Undead But Well-Fed

This is not the Zach Bohannon you're looking for.

Zach Bohannon's Home Page: http://www.zachbohannon.com/

Zach Bohannon's Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Zach-Bohannon/e/B00QJSYF5S

Summer of Zombie Blog Tour - Julianne Snow

You're reading Books, Beer and Blogshit! It's the only blog that has satanic messages in it when read backwards!  We are your bloggers, Mr. Frank and Mr. Jeff.

We are one third of the way through our Summer of Zombie Blog Tour interviews. Since three times is a charm we figured we'd bring on a sparkling bauble of an author, Ms. Julianne Snow. That's right, this zombie fictions stuff isn't just for the fellas. Julianne Snow is showing the ladies can get it done with grit and gore as well. And maybe, just maybe be more bad ass then the boys in the process.

She's fairly new on the scene but she is one to keep an eye on. Let's tear into her brain and see what's inside. Good Readers, we present to you without any commercial interruption The Books, Beer and Blogshit interview with Julianne Snow.

The Blogshit:  Which of your books do we need to be talking about now and what is inside the pages to get excited about it?

Julianne Snow: You absolutely need to be talking about Days with the Undead: Book One. It’s the first in a series and it follows the journey of group of (semi)prepared individuals as they move away from the point of outbreak. There are tonnes of things inside the pages to get excited about. There are zombies, though admittedly they are never referred to as such; death; mayhem; perfectly flawed characters’ moments of hope’ moments of despair; and undead chipmunks. Yes, you heard me correctly. Undead chipmunks. I dare you to look at a chipmunk without shuddering after reading my book.

High Five, Bro!

The Blogshit: What is it about zombies that keep you writing in this genre?

Julianne Snow: I love the genre. I have since I was a young girl and caught a showing of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead at the age of six. Since that moment, I’ve sought out as much of the Zombie related media that I could – books, movies, video games. I consider all of it research because you never know when you’re going to need to think fast.As for what keeps me writing in the genre – that’s simple. I have a number of stories in my head that need to be written down. I don’t choose them, they choose me. Could I set these tales against a less apocalyptic backdrop – more than likely, but it certainly wouldn’t be as much fun!

The Blogshit: With the saturation of zombie fiction in the current market, what do you do to keep your writing fresh and relevant?

Julianne Snow: I read a lot of Zombie fiction, but I know there’s no way I could read it all. That being said, my stories aren’t just about the zombie and the apocalypse. I write about flawed people and how they would react. I write about ordinary circumstances made extraordinary by the situations that unfold as they arise.

The Days with the Undead series is written as a first person narrative mainly comprised of journal entries. There is no dialogue and the format truly reads as a non-fictional account. I have received compliments and criticisms for the style I chose, but in the end it’s the way the story comes to me. I take you inside the main characters head and show you the world through her eyes. It’s intense and gritty and by the end, you’d swear you were there with her through it all.

The Blogshit: What makes your zombies stand apart from all the others?

Julianne Snow: That’s an interesting question – my zombies don’t stand out when compared to others. They’re just zombies. But my story does stand out from others. It’s not told in the typical style. Days with the Undead gets into your head and messes with it. It’s super intense and delivers moments of epic savagery right alongside distraught hopefulness.

The Blogshit: Do you write (or plan to write) outside the zombie genre?
Julianne Snow: I do write outside the genre and have had pieces of short fiction published in anthologies and online magazines. I also have plans for longer works too. Now to find the time to write them all…

The Blogshit: Do you think the mega hype around the movie adaptation of World War Z will have a positive or negative effect on the zombie fiction scene?

Julianne Snow: I believe the effect will be a positive one. I loved Brooks’ World War Z and I cannot wait to see it on the big screen. I’m very interested to see how they’re going to fill in the blanks that Brooks left and if they’ll leave it open for a sequel.

The Blogshit: Is there a need for attrition in the zombie fiction market?

Julianne Snow: As long as there are readers hungry for the stories, I see no reason to limit what they have access to. There are a lot of talented writers creating within the genre and voracious readers will eventually weed out what they won’t give a second chance to without needing our help. That’s the beauty of the written word – we can write it, but we need the readers to read it.The Blogshit: What do you see in the future of zombies, both on the page and off?

Julianne Snow:  I see dead people…Fictional dead people. The genre is going to follow the typical cyclical trend of popularity to obscurity to popularity again. There will be the mainstays that never change and many of the addicts (myself included) will worship greats like Romero forever.
Oh and unfortunately, I see the Zombie Apocalypse as inevitable. One day, a few cells will align and the world will never be the same.
The Blogshit: We are building a menu for a fictional sandwich shop. Typically we ask what to put on the namesake of you sandwich. For the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour we are going to set aside a special menu sub-section so: What do we put on your zombiefied sandwich?
Julianne Snow: Brain, Lung and Tomato on toasted marble rye with a side of intestines covered in a head cheese and liver gravy. Mmmm delicious!

What a woman! We suggest you check in on Julianne's work and see what it's all about. We are sure you won't be disappointed. We've added a brief bio on Julianne and a set of links to various ways and means to get your eyes on her work:

It was while watching Romero's Night of the Living Dead at the tender age of 6 which solidified Julianne’s respect for the Undead. Since that day, she has been preparing herself for the (inevitable) Zombie Apocalypse. While classically trained in all of the ways to defend herself, she took up writing in order to process the desire she now covets; to bestow a second and final death upon the Undead. As the only girl growing up in a family with four children in the Canadian countryside, Julianne needed some form of escape. Her choice was the imaginations of others which only fostered the vibrancy of her own.

Days with the Undead: Book One is her first full-length book, the basis of which can be found in her popular web serial of the same name. Along with many zombie shorts published on her blog, she has a story in Women of the Living Dead as well as two zombie pieces; a standalone short and a collection releasing the summer of 2013. Julianne’s second novel in her Days with the Undead series will also be released in 2013. Stay tuned!

Social Media Links:

Twitter: @CdnZmbiRytr

Facebook: Julianne Snow

FB Fan Page: Days with the Undead

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/cdnzmbirytr/

Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110149434437717424445/posts

Goodreads: Julianne Snow

Amazon Author Page: Julianne Snow

Blogs: Days with the Undead & The FlipSide of Julianne & The Randomness of Julianne

Days with the Undead: Book One

Synopsis:

It’s a journal of survival.

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.

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.

Links for Purchase:

Amazon: US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil

CreateSpace (Print)

Smashwords (Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Sony)

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple