Get all your Weekend Zombie News! right here, from me, Andy Zach your favorite comic paranormal animal author.
First of all, my youngest pet phoenix Phoerensix, picked a book of the month winner. Here’s the first stage of packing;
And next is the second layer of packing:
Phoerensix also picked a winner of my monthly audiobook giveaway.
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Weekend Zombie News – We pose this question:
If you can figure out the meaning of this graphic image or if you have a wild guess, reply to this post or to my Facebook post and I’ll send you a ‘Paranormal Privateers’ advanced reader copy.
Weekend Zombie News – Audiobook Update
My audiobook will be coming out any day! Here’s me reading chapter 1!
Weekend Zombie News – How to Start a Novel
I found this advice pretty commonsensical.
Did You See This?
My new business card!
Then we have some more truth about being an indie author.
I also found this wonderful graphic illustrating complexity!
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Weekend Zombie News – New Years Poem
My fellow author Jane Jago wrote this poem for New Years:
Upcoming Andy Zach Appearances at Conventions
Say, any of you readers want me to come to your town? Just reply, or send me a message right here.
Andy Zach Cogitating
Then there’s this new addition to my office door:
One of my favorite Christmas presents!
If you like time traveling science fiction, I found a great article about this right here:
If you like historical fiction, here’s a fun article about medieval walking.
Paranormal Privateers Update
I’m over fifty-nine thousand words in chapter 8. I also have a free advanced reader copy of chapter one if you request it or reply to this post!
Get the first My Undead Mother-in-law discount now!
I’m so excited! For the very first time I’m offering a 67% discount on the Kindle version of My Undead Mother-in-law. You must get this first My Undead Mother-in-law discount now. Simply click on the book cover image below!
first My Undead Mother-in-law discount: Try the first chapter right here!
You’re from Missouri. (The ‘Show Me’ state.) You don’t want to buy without trying a little of the novel.
Wait no longer! Just click on the handy Youtube video of me, Andy Zach, reading the first chapter for you!
“I Want the Audiobook, Andy!”
I can understand that. Listen to this wonderful excerpt on Amazon:
Zombie Turkeys audiobook cover. Click to get!
I’m also working on My Undead Mother-in-law audiobook right now in this blog post. with my fantastic voice actors, Phil Blechman and Raven Perez. I told you about them.
How would you like for me to give you free audiobooks? I will! I’m committed to giving away a book this month. For Christmas, Hannukah, New Years, and any other holiday that you may celebrate at this time, I’ll also give away a free audiobook of Zombie Turkeys. Gobble! Gobble!
“How Andy? How do I get all this?”
I’ll tell you! For the My Undead Mother-in-law discount, you must buy hereon December 18 and 19th only. You snooze, you lose!
But What About the FREE Audiobook?
That is even easier! Just go to my home page andyzach.net and subscribe to my newsletter. All newsletter subscribers are entered in the monthly drawing AND the SECOND drawing for the audiobook.
But again: you’re under a time limit! This drawing is for this month only! Don’t miss it, or you’ll be a turkey!
The first step in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook is to create your ACX audiobook account and connect it to your published book. For me, it’s my Zombie Turkeys book, the first volume of the Life After Life Chronicles.
Zombie Turkeys print book. Click to download.
Step Two in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook
I then published the audition script for the book, selecting the best sections to show the reader’s capabilities. I put the book out to bid on ACX.
Step Three: Sending the Script
After selecting a voice actor, Phil Blechman, I submitted a contract for the audiobook, and the person agreed.
Here’s Phil’s profile on ACX:
Step Four: Approving the Audiobook
Phil will send me a fifteen-minute sample. After I approve that, he’ll finish the book. That leads us to the final step of the process.
Along the way, I also send him directions on how I want the characters voiced: their accent, tone, and age.
I have over eighty characters in Zombie Turkeys. Of course, some of them die.
Here’s one:
Sam Melvin fighting zombie turkeys from Zombie Turkeys
And here’s another:
Lisa Kambacher with flamethrower fighting Zombie Turkeys
The Final Step: Selling the Zombie Turkeys Audiobook
Here is where you come in: would you want to buy the Zombie Turkeys audiobook? Reply to this post, or contact me, Andy Zach, right here. (Click here)
The audiobook will be for sale exclusively on Amazon.
Kindle edition of “Zombie Turkeys”. Click to download.
Let’s close this post with the latest review of Zombie Turkeys:
Let me start by saying that “Andy Zach” has an unusual sense of humor (or possibly has escaped from a lunatic asylum and is living under an assumed name). I invite you to check out his Amazon author page and read the bio. He’s gone all in on this zombie expert thing (since his parents were zombies) and states that he reanimated dead animals as a child for a science fair. He also currently raises phoenixes as a hobby. One more thing before starting on the story. What is that ‘thing’ on his head in his author picture?
Right off the bat, you have to assume that with a title like “Zombie Turkeys” that this will be a humorous story, yet it unfolds almost like a documentary. I wanted to love it, but something didn’t fully click with me. I did LIKE it, nonetheless. There are some cute running gags about expense accounts and the occasional shift of POV to the head ZT “He felt great. He was full of energy, he had many hens to breed with, and he was the leader of a great flock.” There are plenty of other gags (like ordering a Zombie Turkey killing flamethrower from Amazon Prime) that continue to make things fun, as well as all of the way-out ways they develop to dispatch the undead turkeys.
Zombie Turkeys Review Part 2
The central character is Sam Melvin, a reporter with the tiny local Illinois paper “The Midley Beacon”. Sam becomes an internet sensation by reporting on the Zombie Turkey outbreak. He always manages to be in the right place at the right time to get the story. Sam is a VERY mild-mannered reporter and I found him a little too ‘everyman’. Walter Mitty at least had adventures in his head, Sam seemed to get to the scene MOSTLY in the aftermath of the battle.
Overall, I think it was the characters that left me in the friend-zone with this story. None of them struck me as endearing, which I think could have gone a long way to make this a better story (for me). Perhaps I should also go on the record as stating that I’m not a Zombie Genre fan. Never watched an entire George Romero movie and switched off “The Walking Dead” after 3 episodes. I’m more of a “Shaun of the Dead” and “iZombie” kind of guy.
Before closing, I also have to say that at the end of ZT, there is an opening chapter of Andy’s second book “My Undead Mother-in-law”. I found it interesting enough to put it on my reading list for the future. Maybe I just don’t like turkeys?
If you have an off-beat sense of humor, give Zombie Turkeys a try. It might be right up your alley.
