by Jay Wilburn

Brent Abell is really coming into his own as an author and is contributing great, original work to the zombie genre. His Southern Devils series is going strong, bringing together alternate history and voodoo, intelligent zombies with a mission before they can rest. This series deserves more attention. Dying Days: Death Sentence is written within Armand Rosamilia’s Dying Days universe based off a short story Brent Abell originally wrote within that universe. With Rosamilia’s blessing, Abell released the full novel within and as a part of Dying Days universe continuity. It is a great book well worth checking out.

Abell tells me he’s very proud of Dying Days: Death Sentence and what he was able to do with his characters in the Dying Days world. There were some hard things to write in the book. A few of the characters have some traits and such closely tied to people or pugs from my life. He honestly couldn’t read parts of it for a few weeks after he wrote them to give himself some space. The way he wrapped it up left the door open for an expansion to the north and he hopes the book receives enough support, so he can justify continuing the journey. I think the book should be a great hit.

He’s gearing up to begin the third book in his Southern Devils series and wrap-up the Civil War storyline. The end of the trilogy was originally going to end the series, but Chuck Buda asked about doing the same thing for the Revolutionary War. Well, their conversation stuck with Abell and in Southern Devils 2: Reconstruction of the Dead, he added in a few things that will allow the infection to bleed out into other timelines and events throughout history.

Abell has been working on Death Inc., which is a horror/rom-com. The book centers on one of Death Inc.’s new Reapers, Milo, who inadvertently causes his girlfriend to commit suicide and he must comb the afterlife to find her. The idea came to him as he was thinking that after countless years, the Grim Reaper would retire from active reaping and form a corporation in the afterlife to handle his work. He also has the next two books in the White Creek cycle planned out which will explore the bloody history of the town and how it has affected the town over time.

I hope I have made the case for Brent Abell. Check out Dying Days: Death Sentence or any of the other works linked above. If you want to know more about Brent Abell, check out this “case for” post from a previous tour.

Jay Wilburn

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.

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