by Armand Rosamilia I was struggling for an idea for this post because it feels, to me, like I’ve had to write about a million guests posts over the last five or six years about zombies. Sure, the Winter of Zombie and Summer of Zombie blog tours need updated posts each year. Then add in …
Tag: writing
Who is Reading This Stuff Anyway? #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn In business, one marketing strategy is to picture an ideal customer. They go to the point of telling the entrepreneur to picture a single individual. You’re supposed to narrow it down to age, salary, gender, hobbies, where they live, the type of car they drive, what their family is like, etc. You …
Unlikely … #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn We all want to believe we would survive what is thrown at us. It is in our nature to fight to survive. We do it in big and small ways throughout our days and lives as we work to provide and maintain our shelter and food supply. The question comes when the …
Are We Asking Too Much? #WinterZombie
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 …
Branding or Relationships
A few years ago, the last year I was at Mid South Con in Memphis, Armand Rosamilia moderated a panel on blogging. There was one man that was a bit of a bigger name on the panel. It took me a while to come up with his name, but it was Cory Doctorow. He really …
Not Another Zombie Book – For the Love of God, No!
by Thomas Malafarina When I started writing my first zombie book originally titled, Dead Kill: The Ridge Of Death, no one was more surprised than I was to discover that there were more Dead Kill books inside me just waiting to come out. So I changed the title to Dead Kill Book 1: The Ridge …
Is It Bad to be a Zombie Writer?
by Jay Wilburn Yes! End of blog post. Maybe I should explain more. Maybe it’s bad. It sure isn’t easy. People think it is easy to write a zombie novel. Lots of people try. I think we can certainly agree that writing a really good zombie story isn’t easy. There are a few gems out …