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Origin Story of Zombie Turkeys!

Origin Story of Zombie Turkeys–where did they come from? How can they be stopped? I tell you all!

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Zombie Turkeys was the first book I wrote and published. I wanted to write something light and funny. I fried a turkey, brought it into the house, and said, “What if this turkey came back to life?” Someone said, “It’d be a zombie turkey.”

“That’s my book title!” So I wrote the book around the title.

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Origin Story – Zombie Turkeys – Review

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Firstly, where’s this review coming from? Goodreads!
S. Policar

Author 24 books

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November 20, 2023

If you’ve seen Poultrtgeist: Night of the Chicken Dead or Thankskilling and liked them, you’ll LOVE this. The sarcasm is there, the humor is dark and twisted, and our killer Tom turkey wakes up every day feeling great and ready to see who he can kill in the state of Illinois with his massive flock of wild and domesticated zombie turkeys.
I loved this book. The end is a bit predictable given the fact that it’s a series, but its definitely the predictable you’d expect from something like this. I think this book would make a great low budget movie like the two I mentioned earlier; and let’s be realistic, thanksgiving is a pretty much open holiday in the book and movie business.

I give this book 4 of 5 Paws and I look forward to reading the rest of this series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 

A very fun, very funny read.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2018

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.

Origin Story – Audiobook – Review – 3

Deliciously silly book!

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What a deliciously silly book! If you love zombies and comedy, this zombiedy story is for you. The whole premise of zombie turkeys is just so ludicrous it makes the whole tale funny, no matter how seriously the characters take their roles. Story is suitable for the whole family. Very little blood & guts, no swearing, sweet, innocent romance.

I really enjoyed the main characters, Sam and Lisa, who work for a small newspaper in Illinois. Sam is out for the real story, thoroughly enjoying his investigative reporting. Lisa runs the little newspaper with efficiency and soon she has the entire nation demanding their news reports. Zombie turkeys are a bad problem, for sure, but they have launched this small newspaper right into the big leagues.

I loved all the straight line jokes, like how the turkeys couldn’t possibly outsmart law enforcement or the military. Yet people aren’t thinking like turkeys, let alone zombie turkeys. In order to predict their behavior, one must mindmeld with the zombie turkey!

Then there’s the weapons deployed to eradicate the turkeys – flechettes, flame throwers, big knives, grenades, etc. The story takes every opportunity to poke fun at being over-prepared… for the wrong things. Yet, no one could possibly see zombie turkeys coming, right? The story ends with one final piece of investigative journalism which just might explain where these deadly birds came from. So looking forward to book 2! 5/5 stars.

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Juicy Details from Paranormal Privateers – What’s It Like?

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Juicy Details! How do I begin Paranormal Privateers?  With the hook!

Here is my actual first line hook and the rest of the first paragraph:

Dirac sighed with relief when the US flag came down and the surrender flag went up on the mast of the titanic luxury yacht. He didn’t mind firing rounds from his AK-47 over their heads, but he hated killing people. He knew they were only infidels, but they were still people.

The reader learns: 1) a US yacht is surrendering; 2) the pirate’s name is Dirac; 3) He’s ready to use his AK-47 on them; 4) The pirate considers the US citizens infidels.

More questions leap to mind immediately. Don’t you want to read the next paragraph? This whole scene is here: Imagine You’re a Privateer:

So I wrote the whole chapter pretty quickly. It’s a lot like performing magic: you lead the reader to expect one thing and then you make the opposite happen. I begin with the readers learning about zombie invincibility–and then put them in a seemingly impossible situation to escape.

Sometimes I lead you to expect a big fight and then all the villains escape. Sometimes I lead the reader to expect another adventure just like the last one–and have the heroes rescued by someone else.

Then just as you think you have the pattern of the chapter adventures established, I change all the rules of the game and add completely new and different villains.

Oh, I love writing!

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More Juicy New Details from Paranormal Privateers

It’s not all lollipops and roses. Aside from the light-hearted chapters about the Somali pirates, I have a worldwide epidemic–affecting zombies only.

Heck, let me give you the table of contents. And the chapter icons.

About Paranormal Privateers
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Acknowledgments. 5

Foreword. 7

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Chapter 1 – Somalia. 10 (See above for icon)

Chapter 2 – Haradhere … 25

Chapter 3 – Crimea. 37

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Chapter 4 – Midley ………… 60

Chapter 5 – London … 73

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Chapter 6 – Tumen River ………… 100

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Chapter 7 – Myonggan … 131

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Chapter 8 – Kimch’aek … 160

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Chapter 9 – Washington DC. 193

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Chapter 10 – Gary ………… 220

Your Fourth Literary Gift
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Chapter 11 – Gulf of Mexico … 228


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Chapter 12 – Earth Orbit   ………… 244

Chapter 13 – Area 52 ………… 264

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Meet My Aliens
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Chapter 14 – Peoria … 279

Chapter 15 – International Space Station ………… 290

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Chapter 16 – London ………… 301

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Chapter 17 – Westminster ………… 319

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Why Chapter Icons? Juicy Details

First of all, I like them. I had my artist give hints to each chapter in them. So they’re like an Easter Egg within the book.

Second of all, I paid for them. They were part of my illustration contract. So I might as well share them in this blog post.

Thirdly, I’ve never shared some of them before. So they’re part of my juicy details for you in this post.

More to come!

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Book Dedicated to My Mother-in-law–Find Out Why

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Book Dedicated to My Mother-in-law – Find Out Why–What book is that? My Undead Mother-in-law. And the book is on sale from August 17th-24th! Click here to get it!

But why? Barbara Beyer was my mother-in-law. (She passed in 2020 at 88). She lived in our home while I wrote My Undead Mother-in-law in 2016 and 2017. Here’s the dedication page:

Happy Mother's Day
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Diane Newby, in her natural environment.

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My mother-in-law read the book and loved it. Read what other readers think below!

Book Dedicated to My Mother-in-law – Most Recent Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024

Fun zombie read! I love paranormal and supernatural books so I was intrigued to read this series. I’ve listened to it on audible and the narrators are really fun and easy to listen to, I feel like they’re talking to actual people rather than reading a story. The storyline is funny and it has just gotten better with each book in the series.

Excellent!

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kixfan

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024

Great story. Really hilarious in a ridiculous way and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I love this story! Amazing author and an amazingly well done performance.

My Undead Mother-in-law Excerpt

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Sam arrived at the Deviled Turkeys farm in the dark winter
evening. Sam could see the National Guard trucks and a
couple of police cars along the snowy drive to the barnyard.
They had distracted the flock of perhaps a thousand turkeys
from attacking the house and were now barely holding their
own position.


Sam heard the BANG of shotguns, and the pop, pop of
rifles and pistols. Why did the police waste their time and
ammunition? Those weapons proved ineffective against the
zombie turkeys last November.


Grabbing his trusty Flaming Turkey brand flamethrower
from the backseat, he approached the line of soldiers.


“Stay away, mister!” an officer yelled over the crackle of
gunfire.
Sam noticed he had a skinny neck and a shock of red hair.


“You should have a flamethrower!” Sam yelled back.


“We do! We can’t use them this close to the buildings.
There’s a family in there!”


Good thing Lisa isn’t here, Sam thought. During the zombie
turkey apocalypse, she’d flamed first and asked questions
later.


Another car pulled up in the drive. The officer yelled, “Get
away, ma’am! This is a dangerous situation!”


“I’ve come to reason with the turkeys,” Diane Newby yelled
back, her red eyes gleaming.


“You can’t reason with crazed killer turkeys!”

“You watch me!” She leapt past the officer, past the line of
soldiers, directly toward the mass of turkeys. The soldiers
ceased firing, for fear of hitting her. The mass of turkeys
washed over Diane like a tsunami. Sam reluctantly filmed her
last moments, for her family’s sake.


The mound of turkeys burst apart, revealing Diane
throttling a tom. She ripped off its head, legs, wings and then
smashed the body into paste on the ground.

“Listen up, you turkeys!” she yelled. “I’m the boss turkey
now! Follow me!” Obediently, the turkeys followed her into the
barn. She led them back into their cages and shut them in.
Where the turkeys had burst doors and wire fencing, using her
bare hands Diane wove the tough steel wire into a tight net,
holding them securely. “Good thing I’m handy with macramé,”
she said to herself as she wove.

Diane’s clothing was shredded and bloody like she’d been
through a wood chipper, but her skin showed pink and
unbroken through the many holes in her pants and coat. Sam
ran to her.

“Are you OK, Diane?”

“Never felt better! I told you I could reason with the zombie
turkeys!”

“How did you find out?”

“It was on the zombie turkey Twitter feed on the Midley
Beacon page, where I was reading your story about us!”

From My Undead Mother-in-law, by Andy Zach

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