“TOOTH AND NAIL delivered the goods. Great story, great ending. Well done.” -Seth Owen
Thanks, Seth!
Writing about horror, particularly zombies, takes you into some, well, horrific veins of research. This video describes a research project to learn about the stages of human decomposition. It’s certainly not for the squeamish, but then neither is the horror genre. If you want to see what zombies would really look and smell like, check it out.
Zombiephiles.com has published an interview of me talking about TOOTH AND NAIL.
I hope you’ll check it out here.
Just finished John Ajvide Lindqvist’s HANDLING THE UNDEAD. Not your traditional zombie fare in any way, a little slow, and with a somewhat unsatisfying ending (a major story line ends without resolution), but a highly original, entertaining and emotionally charged story about what would happen if our loved ones came back from the dead.
(By the way, I was a bit surprised by the image used for the cover, which had already been used for a cover for another zombie novel by a fairly prominent author. I saw a similar duplication with another two zombie novels recently. Stock photos are open source images but one would think cover designers would want their work to be somewhat original, and not duplicate other works in the field.)
Fell zombie author Ian Grieve Sandusky invited me back to his blog for an extensive writer to writer interview about writing for the zombie apocalypse genre. The questions were great and I hope you find the answers interesting and insightful.
Click here to read the complete interview.
Ian DG Sandusky, author of GREY DOGS, and I have been sharing ideas with a would-be zombie author about what makes (or breaks) a good zombie apocalypse novel in an Amazon.com discussion board. He took my list and posted it on his blog. If you’d like to add or dispute anything, be sure to leave a comment.
Click here to read the list.