The Truth About Zombies
My name is Erin and I am not a zombie, though my boyfriend, the gangster, Ryu, and the ghoul, Clément, tried to make one of me. They nearly succeeded, too, but Clément blew it—as he usually does—and although I no longer speak, appear to be totally apathetic, and exhibit other zombie-like behaviors, I was not really “made” in the traditional sense. I still have my will. If you read the official accounts, you’ll find that Erin Orison, the talented and rebellious only daughter of American ambassador,...
Dead Love: The App Happ...
You know what makes me appy? Talking with award-winning travel writer, photographer and ghoulfriend Laurie McAndish King, whose work has been published in literary anthologies and Smithsonian magazine. Her day job is helping small businesses develop effective marketing strategies....
Dead Love: Another Zomb...
You all know by now that there was another zombie in the house … or should I say many zombies on House, the morbidly mordant FOX medical series starring Hugh Laurie as Gregory House, the misanthropic MD-sleuth with Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills and addictions. The undead...
Dead Love: Zombie Book ...
Hope you all saw the news about Dead Love being up for a “bloody big award” in Anneli Rufus’s East Bay Express column on Sunday morning: “Dead Love has been nominated in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category, along with Horns by Joe Hill, Rot and Ruin by...
Dead Love: Zombies on T...
March 2010, Palm City, CA So the twisted heir to the Chandler fortune—Conrad Chandler, also known as “The Lich”—has found a way to turn people into zombies and he’s going to use his “formula” on the entire city. “The Lich” is a police moniker...
12. Born-again Zombie (...
My mouth fell open, one hand reached involuntarily toward the wall. I could feel my breath quicken, my heart beating faster, so fast it was dizzying. The image, the beautiful image of the body, began to darken and fade. A thick numbness spread through my legs. I felt them buckle....
Dead Love: Friday Night...
Zombie lovers, join Ed Martinez and other dead lovers for The Dead premiere and zombie gathering in the San Jose Repertory Theatre vicinity at 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk in San Jose, this Friday night, March 4th, at 5:30pm. Full feature horror/zombie flick at cinequest. Get made up as...
Dead Love: Stoked about...
As long as I’m celebrating the DEAD LOVE Bram Stoker Award nomination, I thought I might devote a word or two to Dracula’s big daddy, although eventual suicide John William Polidori, author of the 1912 novel The Vampyre, will always have “grandpa status” in my...