Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.
by Shawn Chesser As a fiction writer, I derive inspiration for my characters from many sources: friends, famous people, strangers, my kids’ teachers, neighbors, and my favorite—family. While the majority of my characters are conjured up solely by my imagination, the ones I seem to connect most with are based on family. In my Surviving …
Stage 3: Alpha is the exciting sequel to Stage 3 by Ken Stark. “Across the street,” she hushed, grabbing Lucy’s hand and half-dragging her toward the bodega, “Now!” They were almost out of time. The two charging alphas were joined by another, then two bloodied faces rose up from the belly of a dead man …
by Armand Rosamilia I think I touched on this during the Summer of Zombie tour but it bears repeating. It’s going to be weird to not write these characters and another Dying Days book. Darlene Bobich started out as a quick flash fiction character. Nothing more. I even asked on Facebook for a name I …
by Jessica Gomez Are you ever in a store, restaurant, or even at work when you think, what would I do if the zombie apocalypse happened at this moment? I have. More than I probably should. I have escape routes and plans all over the place. The major question you have to ask yourself is, …
by James D Dean The sound that interrupted me was not human. The screeching roar that suddenly erupted from within the woods belonged to no man or beast I had ever heard. It was as if hell itself had opened up and its herald had sounded its first trumpet. The air stilled as my breath …
by Chris Philbrook I want to write a new zombie novel. Not a new novel in the Adrian’s Undead Diary series, but something entirely new. A new concept. A new cause. A new perspective. A new plot. Not that there’s anything wrong with the popular trope of “surviving the apocalypse” or “surviving the initial outbreak.” …
by Lauren M Wilson Recipe Share: Roasted Garden Vegetable Medley In a post-apocalyptic world where supermarkets no longer exist, if you want fresh veggies you’re gonna have to grow them yourself. The communities in The Walking Dead have found ingenious ways to grow fresh food, planting crops in filing cabinets, truck tires, pots and anywhere …
by Grivante Who remembers that candy bar from the 80’s? I used to love them, though this post actually has nothing to do with them, it has to do with what we call our favorite dead monsters! One of the most challenging things as an author of zombie fiction is coming up with new things …
by Jack Wallen Six years ago today, I published I Zombie I. That was my first horror-centric novel (after having written mostly thrillers and the Shero series). I’d held off for years, writing within the horror genre, simply because I wanted to ensure I had chops enough to serve the genre I’d loved for so …
This story appears in the charity anthology Treasured Chests: Cameron Gather lay on a narrow bed in a little room off the main emergency room ward at Saint Helen’s Hospital, absently rubbing her bulging stomach, waiting for the doctor to examine her. She stared up at the ceiling, breathing slowly like they’d taught her to …
