*Grivante takes of his pack and sets it down on the road behind him. He stands in the center of the street as his people move from building to building. Bodies are dragged out into the street. Wagons roll slowly along and the dispatched zombies are loaded on the growing piles in the back. Jay Wilburn steps up beside him.*
Wilburn: What are you doing?
Grivante: We’re exterminating the zombies. It should have never gotten to this point and it doesn’t have to stay this way.
Wilburn: Can we do the interview?
Grivante: As long as you don’t get in the way.
Wilburn: State your name and the title of your latest release, please.
Grivante: Grivante and The Zee Brothers: Zombie School Lockdown
Wilburn: Tell me about it.
Grivante: The brothers find themselves trapped inside a school with no weapons, scared children and a host of hungry and toxic undead. They’ll have to improvise to survive and save the school from becoming a slaughter house.
Wilburn: Tell me about the key characters.
Grivante:
Jonah Zee is the gruff and handsome leader of this zombie killing trio. He loves classic music, cigars and his truck Sasha. He’s the one who calls the shots and keeps them alive.
Judas Zee is the younger brother, who’s a bit of a goofball, a little slow on the uptake, but he always has his big brothers back. He loves rock-n-roll, pretty women and guns.
Last but no least is their girlfriend, the hot and sassy JJ Hembrook. She is the heroine that manages to capture the brother’s hearts. She’s a bit damsel in distress when she’s out of her element, but once she gets her bearings, she’s the toughest one in the bunch.
Wilburn: You have a little bit of a different take on zombies.
Grivante: My take on zombies is that unless something cataclysmic happens or there is a widespread and simultaneous outbreak, they won’t reach apocalyptic levels, at least not slow zombies, so in my world, when an outbreak happens the zombie exterminators are called in to deal with the problem. The zombies in my series actually come in many different forms. Everything from ancient curses, voodoo, toxic chemicals, secret government experiments and more.
Wilburn: What were your influences in writing this story and series?
Grivante: There are so many influences that go into The Zee Brothers. I don’t think an author can write in the zombie genre in today’s environment and pretend their characters have never heard of zombies, they’re just too prevalent in pop culture, so I use that as talking points. My characters will joke about The Walking Dead, Army of Darkness, Z Nation and make reference to genre tropes, such as the debate of slow vs fast zombies. For the record, I’m on the side of slow zombies, but I do like what some authors have done with fast zombie.
Wilburn: Thank you for your time. I’ll get out of your way now.
Grivante: This conflict you have with Armand. It seems like the sort of thing you could resolve without pulling everyone else into it.
*When Wilburn doesn’t answer, Grivante turns to see he is gone along with Grivante’s pack. He shakes his head and returns his attention to the work of clearing the town.*
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