by Jay Wilburn Armand Rosamilia started the Summer and Winter of Zombie tours and he built them into something special. He was so successful with this that when his career swallowed the time he would normally use for hosting the events twice a year, he hated to let the tours go or dissolve into memory. …
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Summer of Zombie 2017 Day 1: A Great Year to Return from the Dead
Summer of Zombie 2017 Day 1: A Great Year to Return from the Dead … by Jay Wilburn The Summer of Zombie 2017 blog tour kicks off today with another great slate of authors. We have many old friends, all new books, ongoing series, new adventures, seasoned zombie writers, new voices to the genre, classic …
“Birth of a Zombie” a bonus story by Thad David & JL Koszarek #WinterZombie
by Thad David and JL Koszarek Sarah Grace looked down at her new born baby, her only baby, sleeping on her chest as she rocked back and forth in the chair her parents had given them. She had always dreamed it would feel this good but never thought she would have this chance. She was …
“TPS Reports and Zombies” a bonus story by Jaime Johnesee #WinterZombie
by Jaime Johnesee She crouched in the corner of her cubicle hoping they wouldn’t see her, praying soundlessly that they couldn’t hear her heart beating over the loud cpu fan at her desk above her. They didn’t seem to be looking at anything in particular but noises and smells seemed to excite them. She’d been …
Summary of Winter of Zombie 2016 Riding off Into The Sunset Destroying the Evidence Leave it All Behind post #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn We have reached the end of another tour, but our favorite undead monster keeps finding strength in numbers and keeps shambling on and on and on and … I want to thank Armand Rosamilia for trusting me to take the reins of the tours he worked so hard over so many years …
Alumni Post — the Winter of Zombie 2016 tribute to authors of SOZ and WOZ past — Where are they now?!
by Jay Wilburn As of the the end of this tour, Armand Rosamilia will have been doing the zombie tours for over five 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 …
The Case for Mark Ailes #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn We are excited to have Mark Ailes back on the Winter of Zombie tour where he returns from the 2016 Summer of Zombie tour. Here is his previous “case for” from that tour. As the spots for featured authors filled up this year, we got down to the final selections. We had …
The Case for Thad David #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn Thad David was in a ship off the coast of west Africa. They were providing security for other ships so they wouldn’t get hijacked. This was during a previous presidential election cycle and David was growing weary of the back and forth hatred he was seeing as he dealt with real dangers …
The Case for Alathia Morgan #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn Alathia Morgan is not new to writing, but she has only recently tried her hand at the zombie genre. The Summer and Winter of Zombie tours work hard to balance our veteran writers and classic zombie interpretations with new voices to the genre and unusual takes on the trope. Morgan falls more …
The Case for Brice Chandler #WinterZombie
by Jay Wilburn Brice Chandler has been a fan of the post-apocalyptic ever since he watched his first Mad Max film as a kid. Zombies have always been his biggest fear as a kid though. The country home he grew up in was within sight of a cemetery. It was secluded and exposed – the …