Death Sense - my new zombie book published on Amazon
Today my latest book has
appeared on Amazon, and that always puts a nice big smile on my face.
It’s a book about the coming of the Zombie apocalypse, and the
start of the fall of society. Back in April
I posted about how I was writing a zombie book. As is often the case
with books, I had been writing it for a while, and thinking about it
for a long time before that. The idea was put in my head by the book, Z is forZombie,
written by Nick
from New Girl. I
hope my book is more serious than Nick’s book, but I’m sure I had
just as much fun writing it.
Here is
the blurb:
At
the start of the zombie apocalypse you can watch what’s happening
on TV. But very soon your food runs out, the TV networks go off air,
your power and water drop out, and you have to leave the safety of
your own home and go out into the chaos.
Death
Sense is a story about people who do just that, either in small
groups, alone, or in large communities, and what happens to them as
the world continues to crumble under the weight of the zombie
onslaught.
Each
group struggles to survive and adapt in a post-apocalyptic world
filled with zombies and other bands of survivors – some friendly,
some adversarial – and not every group will make it.
The
cities are first to fall, huge urban centers like San Francisco
falling in just a few days, so the book takes place in the coastal
redwood forests of northern California. As each last bastion of
society crumbles, the people of the area must more and more confront
the possibility that they – and other small groups in the
hinterlands around the globe – are the last humans in the world.
Death
Sense is a novel about the constant battle against the end of the
world brought on a tide of zombies, but there is also space for human
relationships. People who would never otherwise meet are forced
together, and their feelings are felt intensely, sometimes hate and
sometimes love.
One
of the most difficult questions was the title, and – no less
important – the subtitle. All of the good zombie-related titles
that I could think of have already been taken. Zombified, which was a
title I was drawn to has, apparently, been used for three different
books by three different authors.
In the
end I reluctantly decided that I was not going to be able to work the
word Zombie into my title in any way I liked. I toyed with the idea
of Zombiegeddon, Zompocalypse, Zombieism and a whole lot more.
In the
end I decided that the zombies would appear on the cover only in the
art and in the subheading, rather than being named in the title. It’s
more subtle than I originally intended, but hopefully not too subtle
to hinder sales. Now the zombies are only mentioned in the subtitle,
which refers to the name of the serious of books I intend to write –
Century Z. As we all know from Nick’s work, Z is for Zombie.
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