* The truck rolls to a stop on the coastal highway. James Dean and two other men step out. They pace out a few feet ahead to the sound of the waves. The men hold their weapons at the ready as Dean marks off towns, neighborhoods, and resorts they already searched on the map with …
*With the armies gathered behind, they face Armand Rosamilia’s forces under the next overpass on the freeway. This is Florida, so there is no high ground and no clear winner yet. Chris Philbrook stands at the front of combined forces of the survivors. The Warlord Rosamilia has grown his numbers through his treasury of M&M’s.* …
by Jay Wilburn Great zombie stories build the human characters in the midst of the zombie monsters. Still, there is a need to build the monsters whether they are zombies, vampires, werewolves, a surrogate for these tropes, or something completely new. Zombies can be mindless and empty, but there has to be something built into …
*The army stops for the night. Jay Wilburn still wants to leave, but zombies continue to close in on all sides of the camp where posted guards wait to take care of them. He wanders through and notices a familiar face in one of the tents. James Schannep studies flowcharts hanging around the inside of …
*Jay Wilburn works his way through the slow moving vehicles and the thousands of ragtag warriors marching in uneven groups. Zombies approach the moving column from all sides. Gunmen on top of the vehicles take aim, but hold their fire. Wilburn is amazed at their discipline since many are mercenaries only fighting on the promise …
by Jay Wilburn Making it work as an author of an ongoing series comes down to being able to sell yourself to readers and being able to sell the expanding universe you are wrapping around your stories. It would be easier if we could just sell books like a respectable profession, but “Buy My Book” …
*Jay Wilburn checks his watch again as he sits on the side of the road in the shade of a collapsing billboard for Erectile Dysfunction drugs. Dust rises high from behind the hills in the distance. It could be wind. Might be zombies. Might be vehicles from any of a number of potentially hostile groups. …
* Jessica Gomez turns over a blackened table in the midst of the burned and crumbling structure. Smoke rises from other burned buildings within the fallen fences. A few others take down the zombies still straggling into the area attracted by the fires. Nothing is left under the table except for ash. Gomez leaves it …
by Jay Wilburn Smart money is supposed to be on novels. Smarter money is supposed to be on a series. The smartest money is probably on not writing at all and especially not writing about zombies. We don’t all get accused of being smart every day though. I think there are great things to be …
*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 …
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