Posts Tagged ‘Zombies’

Brains!! Brains!!!


BRAAAIIINNNSSS!!!

Yesterday was the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle. It was awesome. Thousands of zombies showed up, brains where eaten, beers were drunk, homeless people went “missing”.

You can check out all the photos I took of the day HERE.

Death, Dismemberment and a Little Bit of Sass – my POD published book of insanely good short stories is now available at Lulu.com.

In the midst of a zombie apocalypse might one man have a second chance at love?

When a werewolf hunter faces his worst nemesis yet – a psychiatrist – who will come out on top?

A woman in a religious cult begins to hear voices but will they lead her to salvation or destruction?

A family’s vacation is cut short when they try to help a stranded spaceship, but who really needs the help?

All of these and more in this collection of eleven murderously good short stories

There is –

• Where Wolf?
• Truckstop Unicorn
• Icy Dead People
• Dah’min
• Oneirophasia

And much, much more… Eleven in total.

Here’s what the critics are saying -

“This books is awesome!! Amazing! Four stars… What? If you want more stars, it’ll cost you extra. Where’s my money?”

“I’ll say whatever you want, just leave my kids alone. Please.”

“Oh god!! Stop hitting me!! Okay, okay, Five stars. FIVE STARS!! Oh god, I’m bleeding.”

I’m very proud.

So, BUY IT NOW! and enjoy almost 200 pages of murdery goodness!

I know I did -

What goes up must come down. This is basically what my last month has been like, since I last posted anything here. I’ve been meaning to, but never got around to it. But, long story short, good shit happened, bad shit happened. Some other good shit happened. So it goes…

For a while there I was on a writing streak but then, as I often do with this project I’m working on, I stop and ask myself if I’m writing it the right way. Maybe it would work better in third person. No, First person. Maybe more linear storyline. No, go the disordered route. Second guessing my second guesses. So I’ve gone back to the drawing board… or writing board. And am re-planning the whole thing. This time on little cards.

Speaking of writing – The NaNoWriMo starts in less than a month. Will I work on this project? Or another one? Who knows. But whatever the case, I plan on being more prepared this year. I plan on getting some planning done first. Maybe. Also, whatever the case, I plan on totally rocking the 50,000 words this year. You just watch me.

You might’ve noticed that little guy in the corner. That there is a sneak peak. To what? Not telling. But that’s a little snippet of what I’ve been working on the last few days like a zombie with a hard-to-break-open skull in his hands. It’s all looking great and I’m hoping it won’t be too long till I get to show all of you people who care nothing about it. Wink.

Speaking of Zombies… Yesterday this little baby arrived in the mail -

It’s Forrest J Ackerman presents Anthology of the Living Dead. A great book full of awesome zombie-fied short stories. There’s some really good stuff in there so if you haven’t gotten a copy yet, you’re missing out. But never fear, for I is here, you can get a copy from Amazon – Click Here.

There’s something strange about this book though. I opened up to page 163 and found a short story whose title seemed oddly familiar and the Author of which had a very odd name. Here’s a picture of what I’m talking about -

Weird, hey?

It’s almost like it’s my short story in that book…

Oh wait, it is!

Booya!

I actually sat down and read it last night. It’s the first time I’ve looked at the story in over a year and the first time ever I’ve read my work without editing or any such thing, and I have to say I enjoyed it. Is it wrong to laugh out loud (several times) while reading your own short story? It’s not exactly akin to laughing at your own jokes, is it?

Well, in any case I found myself laughing throughout the story. All the things that I worried about not being funny, just being stupid and weak, they worked… for me at least. I hope they do for everyone else to.

Oh… I promised myself I wouldn’t cry. I’m just so proud!!

Wink.

Anyways, get yourself a copy. It’s awesome. I’m off to read the rest of the book soon, it’s all been great so far. Then up next on the To Be Read List is this odd little number –

You might’ve also noticed the picture of yours truly up in the banner. It’s not there because I’m vain or anything, I’m just that pretty. Actually, it was just a bit of practice that turned out much better than expected. And so I’ve taken to putting it up there. A little howdy do.

Anyway that’s it from me, catch ya later.

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away,

I had a pretty crappy April, as I’ve said. But May hasn’t been to bad… so far.

One good thing, my new phone arrived in the mail. It’s a Palm Treo Pro. Back in January I finally upgraded from my Treo 680 to a Treo 750. Unfortunatley the 750 didn’t last me very long, the touch screen stopped working, several keys became hard to press (I repeatedly had to go back and fill in the e’s) and the battery wouldn’t hold a charge for very long.

So I finally gave up on it and ordered a new phone. I bid on a second hand 750. After two months of waiting (and putting up with my broken phone) The guy tells me it has been returned to him twice, unable to be delivered to my address. He has offered me a refund, which I’m still waiting for. (I’m pretty sure I’ve been screwed out of the money.)

Anyway, as soon as I got the message about the refund I went onto ebay and started looking around. Still weary of buying another 750 that might break down again. And so I put a bid on a Treo Pro, sure that I’d be outbid in the last moment.

I wasn’t. And I’m glad I wasn’t.

Because 2 days later. (yeah! Two days from winning to delivery!) This arrived in the mail –

In April, the worst month of the year this year, another thing that happened was my computer broke down. One of the monitors kicked the bucket, amongst other problems. I finally gave up on the old thing and have switched over to my laptop permanently. I’m using my one remaining computer monitor and a slim usb keyboard to run it like a desktop. I also bought a 1tb external harddrive to replace the 500gb internal in my old computer.

So here’s a look at my setup now –

I’m going to do a bit more moving around but you get the idea.

BEHOLD! THE RETURN OF THE TODO LIST!

Okay now, it’s been a few months since I’ve done this, but I’m returning to the monthly ToDo lists. So without further ado here is my List of things To Do for the month of May.

One – Write. Always my number one of things to do. I haven’t been doing a great deal of this lately, especially over the last month while I’ve been very melancholic. It’s been quite difficult to focus on anything but the cause of my mood. But it’s time to focus, productivity is the enemy of… something something. I don’t know, I’ll finish it later. Depression? maybe…

Two – Edit. I actually have some work that needs editing badly, It’s a bit of work that I’ve been putting off because… well, as above. Once I’ve finished this project there will be major news that I’ll be posting here and on my facebook page and anywhere else I feel like.

Three – This one is physical. I’ve actually been on a diet for the past month. Well it started out as something else (Trying to deal with stuff…), but wound up being a pretty good diet. And so far I’ve lost about 15kg and about 10cm. Which is damn good for me, whose never lost a kilo thanks to a diet in my life. So I’m going to keep that up and hopefully I’ll have lost the same again by the end of this month… maybe even more since this month is a day longer. Still, I need to exercise more.

Four – Well, I don’t know if I need a number four. I can’t really think of anything anyway. Maybe I’ll do another Doug update. I haven’t written a Doug of the Darkness in about five months. And I think last time I left it he was about to get in some serious shit.

Okay, so I’ll leave the ToDo at that.

What else is there?

Oh, In news unrelated to me, (a rarity on this site, I know. It’s such a narcissistic blog isn’t it?), Apparently it’s been 10 years since the release of fight club, one of my all time favourite movies. I know, I was shocked it’s been ten years too! There have been several tributes around the blogosphere but my favourite has to be the one from Suicide Girls. Remember the sixth rule of fight club – No shirts and no shoes. Yay!

Check it out here.

Well that’s it for now. I’m going to go, I have work tonight. Bleh! Anyway, here’s a little comic I found somewhere on the internets that gave me a bit of a giggle –

To all my dear imaginary fans out there,

I’m pretty confident in saying that it’s possible that maybe mostly kinda my short story Icy Dead People is complete. Finished. Done. Mostly.

There maybe some minor punctuation or grammatical errors that I overlooked due to the fact I was watching Planet Terror while I was editing it, but it’s like what I always say ‘what the hell do you want? get off my back already!’
But apart from that I’m done with it.

So enjoy Icy Dead People: A fun romp with Zombies and Perverts.

Now it’s back to Doug of the Darkness and editing Dah’min and trying to start Blue Flowers and working on the next chapter of Mal Macabre for me. If only I had twelve hands, four brains, eleven toes and three nipples. It’d make things much easier.

Also in Recommendations – If you’re into worlds where Literature is the way of the world, where it’s not Britney Spears but Shakespeare’s work that everyone talks about, where the pen is mightier than the plasma rifle and the Dodo V1.2 is the pet to have – Then get yourself a copy of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

I know I’ll be getting the rest of the series.

In other random comments today – Anyone seen 30 days of night? The movie about Vampires in Alaska. I saw it last night and I had a couple of problems with it.

1- The passage of time didn’t seem to make sense. For instance, staying in the food shack for seven days? It seemed like they added days in randomly just to fill in gaps.

2- (and my major problem with the film) – I don’t know a great deal about vampires, only what I’ve read in books and seen in movies and Tv Shows, but from what I understand they drink people’s blood for sustenance. Human Blood = Vampire Food. Now, I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t walk around for a month with my food all over my face, I don’t even like having a chunk of food sticking out from between my teeth. So why do these vampires walk around with blood all over their faces? Can anyone say wash cloth?

“Hey vampire, you have something on your face… no, the other side… you almost got it… oh, now you’re just smudging it… you’re making it worse! stop it! here, let me…”