1. Hello, and welcome to my blog! To start off, what made you decide to take the plunge into the world of publishing?
I have wanted to write for a long time now and I have been an avid
reader since I was a child. I've spent years creating the stories I
would love to read, though limited to just my imagination. With my
youngest daughter reaching an age where I am no longer needed unless
it's a meal time, I find myself able to dedicate some time to getting
those stories out.
This book (the first in the series) is set in England and starts out just as the zombie apocalypse
kicks into full swing. The protagonist is a charming man who just so happens to be a somewhat psychotic and sociopathic
serial killer who has just been given access to a world descending into
absolute chaos. When a young woman pursued by the walking dead knocks
at his door, he finds he has a choice to make between staying alone or
saving a life.
Well as I mentioned I love to read. I have read countless numbers
of books over the years and the one thing that they all seemed to have,
was a hero. You know the type, reluctant or eager the hero will still go
out and save the day. Quite frankly I had reached the point where I was
rooting for the bad guy just for something different. Eventually I
realised that if I wanted to explore the world from the more morally
ambiguous character, then I would need to write it myself.
Gosh, without spoilers it
is hard to say. Some scenes were much more fun to write than others.
With a main character who is most definitely not the norm, you get to
have so much fun with so many scenes. Just trying to show how he sees
the world, which is so different from most other people is exciting when
you aren't constrained by the morality and rules of civilisation.
The main character first and foremost. He is so different from
your usual lead in zombie fiction which tend to mainly have the everyday
guy who is terrified and trying to stay alive or the
ex-military/policeman or even the gamer guy who was a loner but manages
to be a zombie killing machine in the apocalypse. Instead we have a man
who genuinely loves to kill. Fighting the zombies isn't a
chore to him and he won't even generally notice the moral dilemmas that
most people would face, which is where the other characters come in.
Between work and being a single parent to an almost teen girl, the
only other thing I do these days is write. I realised early on that to
be able to do justice to my story I would need to dedicate all of my
free time, which generally meant cutting out a lot of the things I used
to spend my time and energy on.
You certainly can. Book 2 in the series is out now and I am
expecting book 3 to be released sometime in September this year and I
have to say I am really excited about book 3. At this point my favourite
killer is definitely finding his way in the world and having a lot of
fun with it. I really do love writing and sharing these stories and I am
planning on doing a lot more in this genre and others.
I would have to say it is a toss up between "The Walking Dead" graphic novels which I think we all know about now and the
"Black Tide Rising" series by John Ringo which has some wonderful characters and an entertaining storyline.
I certainly do have a zombie survival plan and since I have written a zombie apocalypse book it is fair to say that I document it quite well through that book. I will tell you that one of the first things I would do before almost anything else, would be to gather up books. In an apocalypse knowledge would be key, it's no use surviving is you don't know how to grow your own food or purify water.
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