by Jay Wilburn As of the the end of this tour, Armand Rosamilia will have been doing the zombie tours for over six years now as a host or a featured author. He began with the Summer of Zombie tours and the Winter of Zombie tours have been running almost as long. Some years he …
by Jay Wilburn Let’s face it. With fame, comes a certain level of interest from fans. Zombie fans are a special group too. Sometimes special in a scary way, but mostly in a good way. You may be wondering how to properly stalk your favorite zombie authors. There are a number of things which have …
by Jay Wilburn There was a time that I struggled with readings. I struggled with reading when I was a kid in school too, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. I struggled with “readings.” This is where an author stands or sits in front of an audience of varying size at a convention, …
by Jay Wilburn The smart money is on writing a series. Maybe the smart money is on not writing zombies or not writing at all, but if a person is already hopelessly committed to writing, then the smart money is on a series. Committed readers often gravitate to a series over standalone novels because once …
by Jay Wilburn This is one of the funny things about humans and real life. In many situations we observe, we try to imagine what we would do which leads to us thinking what we would do differently. It is a version of “Monday morning quarterbacking.” We see the consequences of an event and then …
by Jay Wilburn It is just a zombie story after all. Should we expect deep characters, high-minded dialogue, and literary symbolism? Do we want social commentary like Romero tried to accomplish in his films or is it better to just layer on the action, violence, and gore? Is it asking too much to even have …
