“What’s ‘Happy Undead Mother-in-law Day? I know all about Valentine’s Day. That’s today. What’s up with Happy Undead Mother-in-law?”
My Undead Mother-in-law. Get it for your mother-in-law! Click here.
I’m glad you asked! It so happens My Undead Mother-in-law begins on Valentine’s Day. As the book opens, the family has dinner together, the undead zombies and the normal family members. Naturally, we celebrate it every year.
You can also read the book for free on Kindle or Audible.
Finally, if you’re desperate, you can always do what I do when I want to read a book and not pay for it. Go to Amazon and click on the ‘Look Inside’ button and read random sections until you’ve read it all.
One more thing: here’s a Happy Undead Mother-in-law Review
Why is this my favorite review? It’s from a professional author who doesn’t like zombie books, yet loved My Undead Mother-in-law..
When I started to read this book, I was leery. As far as I know, I’m less interested in zombies than anyone on the planet. How could I give a reasonable review? Turns out, it wasn’t hard at all. I’ve said before and it turned out to be true here that, if you have a ridiculous premise that’s hard to swallow, run with it, normalize it, and readers /viewers will eventually accept. And it worked. The original premise of cognizant, virtually indestructible zombies was lobbed and backed until I was a believer, actively rooting for zombies. Plenty of (bloodier than average) action, some smiling, if not guffaw humor, a nice fulfilling story arc in an easy readable length made for a fun book (if bloody action doesn’t bother you) with charm that didn’t take itself to seriously but still capable of many a tender and touching moments.
I’m glad my prejudice didn’t keep me from enjoying this out-of-the-common-way story.
Happy Undead Mother-in-law’s Day – Now What’s Next?
Later this month I’ll have my cover reveal for my next novel, Secret Supers. Watch this blog or my Facebook page for the exact date. I’m waiting to get all the pieces of the book together: interior text (being edited), chapter titles, and back copy blurb.
Once it’s all together, I assemble it and schedule my publication and launch dates.
Here’s a cover tease:
Aubrey, from the cover of Secret Supers.
But that’s not all! I’ve scheduled my first author appearance this year. See this next Facebook post from my page.
My goal is at least twelve author appearances this year. I’ll let you know as I schedule them.
You may ask why is my post entitled ‘2018: Twelve Laughing Months’? Because while working as a comic author and blogger I laugh almost every day. I invite you to share my laughter.
That’s a high standard for a blog! If I fall short, you can always make fun of me! Comment here if you like or dislike this post, or in the comment section below.
So what funny thing happened in January? I finished writing my first draft of Paranormal Privateers,my Novel for November by NaNoWriMo. It’s funny, because you’re supposed to finish in November. It’s funny because I actually wrote the required 50,000 words in November–and was less than half done. I misplanned–badly.
Bruce Lee with a light saber. What more could you want?
Following is February . . .
Twelve Laughing Months: February
February was worse for me as a writer–I had to edit my first draft. And I was under a time crunch. And my illustrator was behind. And my editor needed time. And I’d already committed to a launch date in May.
What happens when 100,000 zombie turkeys land during the Thanksgiving Day football game?
Then there is this educational video:
Aren’t you eager to use ‘crapulous’ in a sentence?
Moving on to March . . .
Twelve Laughing Months: March
What can be funnier than your own tombstone? The epitaph on it! It’s all in this blog post, Andy Zach’s Tombstone.But don’t worry–there’s still more to come!
Next, from Fan Comments and Free Books–Get Yours Now we have another photo that looks doctored, but it’s not. How would you like to be on this ship? Or on the B-52?
B-52 pilot behaving badly
I must close with another Weird Al video. Enjoy!
Have you seen a conductor like this before?
Sequeing to September . . .
Twelve Laughing Months: September Twelve Laughing Months: September
September was my big convention month at PennedCon. I have a lot of pictures here. The theme was a 20s speakeasy.
After Thanksgiving I went to Chambanacon, a relaxacon, a relaxed SciFi/Fantasy convention. Here’s a picture of me and Brenda Sutton, to give you the vibe there.
Andy Zach and Brenda Sutton and the Chambanacon mascot
You can always click and go to Amazon and get your chance to read free online. You can read into chapter 2 at Amazon. If you have Kindle, you can read the whole book for free. Or you can buy the ebook for .99. You can get the paperback here on Amazon, or on this very website. I’ll give you free shipping too!
You can also listen to the audio sample at Amazon or Audible .
I received a free copy of this book in return for an honest review.
Apart from being called a zombie in the office, because I used to work too long till my eyes turned red and legs felt so tired they often moved like a dead-man-walking, I have never had much proximity to zombies or zombie-hero-stories. I have watched a few movies where zombies were always portrayed as creepy and villainous. So I always associated them with the gory horror films or novels. Having always read only the stereotyped versions of a zombie, Andy Zach’s fun and humorous take on zombies came as a laughter riot to me.
Diane Newby, ‘the undead mother-in-law’ reminded me of many minority rights activists in my country, but unlike them, she is strong- physically and mentally, doesn’t victimize herself but is a true, witty heroine. She became a zombie by accident but instead of looking at it with terror or grief; she learns to enjoy the fun and positive aspects of it: being dead-proof, aging-proof, and disease-proof! She fights against the stigma associated with ‘zombification’ and advocates the use of zombie blood to cure elderly and disabled people. She is not alone in her pursuits but is helped by her husband George, son Don and his wife Maggie (also zombies). Through her son-in-law Ron Yardley’s blog she is introduced to Sam and Lisa Melvin, editors of Midley Beacon, a one-stop online newspaper for zombie news. Through them, she is taken to the battle fronts to fight national catastrophes like zombie turkeys, corgis etc.
First Review Second Part
Apart from the fun narration of an unlikely-to-ever-happen-story, I also enjoyed some other aspects of this book. One was the clever use of excerpts from Ron Yardley’s blog in the narration. It worked really well for striking home a point or an emotion. I also enjoyed the antagonist and his versatile use of latest technology weapons, whether it is cyborgs, controlling chips or hyperloops. I also loved the references to real life people like Elon Musk, Obamas or Trumps. As a point to improve, I would suggest one more round of editing for this book. Errors are not serious, but in many places I could see spaces missing or unwanted words popping up in otherwise perfect sentences. Also, I would have preferred reading time in the format Hour: Minutes (19:00) instead of say 1900. (I am not sure if this format was used purposefully.)
Overall, this is a fun book to read. I would recommend it to everybody who loves Zombie stories or the genre humour. My rating for the book is 3 out of 5 stars – I liked it 🙂 . Even though it is the second book in the series ‘Life After Life Chronicles’, it is not necessary to read the first book ‘Zombie Turkeys’ to understand the second.
I wish the author good luck with all his works. 🙂 Interested readers can find out more about the author and his books at andyzach.net Happy reading 😉
New Reviews Third Part
And here’s the next:
“The book cover is perfect! The story is a creative, funny & unique parody of the “zombie” genre. Don’t read it if you have no sense of humor or hate zombie books. I wasn’t rolling on the floor laughing, but definitely giggling in places in between some good action scenes. If you like Mel Brooks or Monty Python movies, you probably have the right sense of humor for this book.”
Next, for a chuckle, try this cartoon.
One of the great things about becoming an author is that can plug into an existing community of authors. I’ve had a lot of fun getting to know them. Here are some of them:
One More Thing . . .
It’s not a Free Zombie Turkeys Excerpt, but it’s free! Get some free science fiction from one of my author friends.
