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Zombies Ate My Mom

Zombies Bought The Farm!

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When I first wrote Zombies Ate My Mom!, I had planned for it to be a short story of about 3000 words. Of course, when I showed it to my wife and my beta readers, they all said the same thing. “It’s not finished!”

After I reread it, I had to agree, which is how Zombies Ate My Mom! became the novella that it is.

But there was the inevitable question. “What happens next?”

So, just in time for Halloween, Zombies Bought The Farm, the second novella in my Zombies series answers that question. It’s now available from most of the major retailers, and should be available from all of them before the end of the month.

Andrea and her boyfriend Brad, along with their new friend Sean and the young boy Danny, escaped from zombie infested Lynnwood to a quiet, cozy farm. After three months, the zombies seem to have thinned out and the four of them are getting used to their new life.

Except they are slowly running out of food, and they haven’t got a clue about how to butcher a cow.

When a prison bus carrying a close-knit family stops in their driveway, they invite them in for dinner. but soon, they discover the family harbors a terrifying secret.

And Brad still can’t shoot.

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Fragments, Grim Repo Files, Minders, Shattered, The Sacrifice of Mendleson Mooney, Zombies Ate My Mom

Fragments Delay, Future Releases, and Other Notes

First, I want to say that I am very sorry that Fragments is not out, yet. It’s the longest book I’ve written so far, twenty-eight percent longer than Shattered, and it’s taking me time to work through it. Back in May, I started formatting the paper edition, and quickly decided that I needed to do another edit of the book, which took longer than I thought. The book is better for it.

I submitted the files for the print edition last week, and I had planned to release it next week, assuming all went well. Unfortunately, all is not well. I discovered that the font I planned to use on the cover and some of the interior, while listed as public domain, may not have been stolen by the “author” of the font, and thus not public domain at all. There seems to be some question, but if there’s a question, I’m not going to risk infringing on someone else’s copyrights. So, I’ve had to redo the lettering with a font that I DO own a license to, which means I will have to order another proof, and that will delay the book by at least another week. I am going to wait and check the proof that’s already on it’s way before ordering the new one, so that I can catch all the other issues that might have cropped up. That said, the target date for Fragments is now August first, give or take a few days.

This latest delay won’t have a huge effect on future releases. I expect Zombies Bought the Farm to be released around the third week of August, and Minders to release around the middle of September, with the sequel to Grim Repo in October. I’m not placing a date on Reworked, yet, because it’s not finished, and it will need a lot of time to edit. It looks to be about thirty percent longer than Fragments, despite what the word meter says.

Finally, I’m looking for a new tile for The Sacrifice of Mendleson Moony. My wife and I talked about it, and we’ve both concluded that, as cool as the title is, it doesn’t fit the book. The book is a fantasy romance book, and nothing about the title indicates that the romance between the characters is a significant driver of the story. If you’ve read the book, help me out. I can’t, for the life of me, come up with a title that fits. Please send me your suggestions. If you suggest a title and I use it, I’ll send you a free book of mine (your choice).

Writing, Zombies Ate My Mom

The Order Of Things

I had planned to have Fragments out toward the middle to end of March, but that’s not going to happen. It’s one hundred twelve thousand words, and it’s taking longer to edit than I planned for. It will also take longer to publish. I should be finishing up my first edit of it this weekend, and it will go out to beta readers early next week. If it’s awesome, and everything else goes well it won’t be long after that before it’s done. If it’s not awesome, well, I don’t want to talk about that.

In the meantime, I don’t want to leave you empty handed. I think I can squeeze the second Zombies book out, now called Zombies Bought The Farm, before the end of March. It will go to a mostly different set of beta readers, and is only about one fifth the length, so I might be able to get it published before Fragments comes back from its beta readers.

In other news, as soon as I finish my edit of Fragments, which should line up nicely with the completion of the first draft of Grim Repo 2, I’ll start work on the third book of A Wizard’s Work. I’m itching to get started on it.