Month: March 2018

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Zombie Turkeys End Time – Your Last Day for Free Laughter

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Zombie Turkeys End Time

The Zombie Turkeys End Time is now. That is, the last day of the free Kindle sale, right here:

In case you don’t realize it, at midnight tonight, March 16th, PDT, the free book sale ends and the price reverts to $2.99.  Still very inexpensive entertainment!

Zombie Turkeys End Time – Why You Must Read It

Here’s the latest Amazon review of Zombie Turkeys:

Zombie Turkeys End Time

Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 starsA very fun, very funny read.
ByTravis S. Bachon March 16, 2018
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I loved every gobbling, clucking page of this book. It’s this hilarious and insane story that wonderfully hits all the right zombie outbreak tropes I love, but done with turkeys and thanksgiving themes. SO FUNNY! I could read about heroic turkey farmers making chipper-shredder last stands for just about forever.

The main dude, Mr. Unknown Blogger, was also a very likable and fun main character to ride around with. I loved reading about this bottom-of-the-pile reporter turning his life around even while the hordes of zombie turkeys get worse and worse.

Just writing this review makes me want to read the book again. So much fun.

What Else Is Happening?

Lots! I’m going to the PennedCon Convention in St. Louis:

Reply if you’ll be there!  I’ll give all my blog followers special gifts!

Are you a newsletter subscriber? If you are, I’ll also give you a special gift at PennedCon!

If you’re not a subscriber, join now by clicking here.

Paranormal Privateers Novel Launches May 5th

Right now I’m busy working with my line and copy editor, Dori Harrell. You don’t know about the different types of editing? Check out this article.


Dori helps me with sentences and passages that aren’t clear or as good as they can be.

I’m also working with my illustrator Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan who did the covers for Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law. I showed a snippet of a sketch of the back cover last week.

Just for Fun

I found this item on the internet last week:

Next, we have this:

Then there’s this too:

That’s it for now! Keep the cards letters and emails coming!

 

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Andy Zach’s Tombstone and News From the Net

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Andy Zach’s Tombstone and News From the Net

As I said in my previous blog post, I’ve been busy editing and writing my third novel, Paranormal Privateers. That hasn’t stopped me from surfing the net and Facebook and finding all kinds of stuff.  Let’s start off with Andy Zach’s Tombstone and epitaph, kindly supplied by my author friend GD Deckard.  Give him a follow if you like!

For those who don’t follow article links:

Andy Zach's Tombstone

Thanks to Affordable Markers for the free tombstone design service!

For those who aren’t familiar with my Ph.D. thesis, you can read about it here.

News From the Net other than Andy Zach’s Tombstone

First, here’s a wonderful library where you can spend a day–and a night.

Please reply if you’d like to spend a night here, like I would.

Next, we have this awesome, breathtaking video:

You may not know my first love was science fiction and before that, the US space program and astronomy. I remember tracking John Glenn’s three trips around the earth in pencil on the paper map of the world on my wall. I studied my wall diagram of the solar system endlessly. Then I got hooked on science fiction.

Sometime in the 70s, I discovered fantasy, probably through Tolkein’s ‘Lord of the Rings’.

What do you like to read?

If you want to simulate the solar system, here’s just the app to do it:

Final News about Andy’s Next Book, Paranormal Privateers

I’ve sent my book to my editor, Dori Harrell. I kept detailed statistics on my writing and editing. Here they are:

November 2017 – Nanoma writing month, I began the first draft.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
1,008.64                     50,141.00                  41:03:00

Much to my chagrin, that encompassed only about half my book! I kept writing in December, but the holidays slowed me down.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
630.00                    59,454.00               66:02:00

I wrote 20% as many words, but it took 50% more time! I kept writing in January and finished the first draft.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
     779.41                   97,676.00               127:15:00

I worked as much in January as I did in November and December combined!

Then I edited in February. But that’s a story for another blog post.

Paranormal Privateers in Andy Zach's Tombstone
Cropped sketch of the back cover of Paranormal Privateers
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Get Your Advance Copy of Paranormal Privateers Now

Get Your Advance Copy of Paranormal Privateers Now

You read that right. You can get your advance reader copy (ARC) of Paranormal Privateers Now.  I finished my edits on Paranormal Privateers. You can get your advance copy now. To show you I mean business, here’s an advance copy of the back cover:

Paranormal Privateers Now
Cropped sketch of Paranormal Privateers back cover 

Here’s How: Get Your ARC Paranormal Privateers Now

It’s as simple as One, Two, Three!

First, subscribe to the Andy Zach newsletter, if you haven’t already. Go here.

Second, contact me, Andy Zach right here.  Or, if something goes wrong, you can email me at [email protected]

Third, when you contact me, just ask for your ARC copy with your email address, and I’ll send it.

Andy Zach, Where Were You?

No blog posts for a month. No newsletter since February 9th. (If you want the last newsletter or any from the past, just ask in the comments, or right here.

What have I been doing? Editing Paranormal Privateers, the very ARC copy I’ll send to you, and I sent to my editor,  Dori Harrell of Breakout Editing.

Since I love statistics, here are some on my editing process:

  • I researched and and outlined Paranormal Privateers last summer, August through October.
  • Then I wrote the first draft in 127 hours. That’s 97,676 words written from November 1 to January 31st.
  • Finally, I edited for 140 hours producing the 2nd draft from Feb 2nd to March 2nd.

Is That All You’ve Done Andy?

Not exactly. Hop over to my Facebook page and you’ll see my posts like this:

And this:

And finally this:

Then I also updated my Zombie Turkeys page with this next post and more:

Not to mention this next post:

And then this one:

Finally (I really mean it this time) Don’t Miss These Dates!

First, May 5, Paranormal Privateers worldwide launch date!  Look for my launch party on Facebook!

Second, April 15th. Instead of depression over the US tax days, let’s have the Paranormal Privateers cover reveal!

And then there’ll be author appearances To Be Announced!

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Andy Zach at Chambanacon 2017