Posted on December 24, 2017December 25, 2017 by admin

Pre-Christmas Potpourri – News and Your Free Short Story

Greetings zombie fans, Zombie Turkeys fans and My Undead Mother-in-law fans! This is Andy Zach here with my Christmas Potpourri before Chris tmas. More on Christmas later!

Let’s begin with Facebook!

Christmas Potpourri: Andy Zach Facebook Posts

Here’s my free short story offer! Just click on the post, follow the directions, and I’ll send you my short story, A Phoenix Tale. Or you can reply to this blog post. Or contact me on this blog!

Next you can read my review of Ksenia Anske’s humorous fantasy young adult book, The Badlings.

Life wouldn’t be complete without a video excerpt from me reading from My Undead Mother-in-law.

Christmas Potpouri My Undead Mother-in-law discount — Get your copy of My Undead Mother-in-law by clicking here!

Christmas Potpourri: Zombie Turkeys Posts

The zombie Turkeys were busy posting too!

Free Short Short Part Two by Andy Zach — Hungry zombie turkey wanting more

December 24th is the last day of Twelve Days of Christmas Buying on Facebook. Dozens of fantasy, science fiction, and humor authors are offering their best deals. Don’t miss it!

Did you know authors, even me, Andy Zach want reviews? Do you know why?

And now for a humorous dog video:

Next, I have a spooky turkey video: turkeys vs a cat.

Now we have a writing sample from a guest author: a computer!

Then I have this zombie-themed Dilbert cartoon:

And then a video of me reading a Zombie Turkeys excerpt:

Paranormal Privateers Progress

Moving on, let me give you an update on my Paranormal Privateers novel, volume three in my Life After Life Chronicles. I had the delight of researching flying saucer movies of the 50s, like this one:

I also had a chance to compute the apparent diameter of the seven-mile in diameter flying saucer next to the ISS, International Space Station, orbiting at two hundred and fifty four miles above the earth. I compared it to the moon at 240,000 miles with a diameter of 2,100 miles. The saucer would look three times the size of the moon.

Adding these and other items to my novel, I’m in chapter 8 Washington DC with 55,000 words done. The first draft will be around 100,000 words. It’ll probably edit to 80-90,000 words.

Let me know in the comments what elements of Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law you’d like to see and I’ll send you an advanced readers copy, the same text I’ll send my editor.

Posted on December 1, 2017 by admin — 1 Comment

Andy Zach Wins NaNoMo! Read All About It!

Andy Zach Wins NaNoMo!

Dear Andyzach.net blog readers,

It’s true. Andy Zach Wins NaNoMo! I’ve been away for blogging, slaving over a hot keyboard to write 50,000 words in November for NaNoMo, the National Novel Month contest where writers are challenged to write 50,000 words during the month of November. This is how I wrote Zombie Turkeys in November 2015 and My Undead Mother-in-law in November 2016. Both times I fell short of 50,000 words. This November I made it and wrote 50,000 words!

But …

Andy Zach Wins NaNoMo: A Pyrrhic Victory

Why was it a pyrrhic victory?

A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ ( listen) PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way, though the heavy toll negates a true sense of achievement or profit.

What was my terrible loss?

Losing contact with you, my beloved blog readers.

Now, coming up next:

Let’s turn this terrible loss into a terrific gain for you.

How You Can Turn Defeat Into Victory for Your Gain

Simply contact me and get a free short story, A Phoenix Tale. It’s my never-before-told story of how I got my first pet phoenix.

You didn’t know I had five pet phoenixes at my home? Here’s my official bio:

With his first book, “Zombie Turkeys” Andy blazed new ground in paranormal humor. The second book in his Life After Life Chronicles, “My Undead Mother-in-law” is now on sale for Amazon Kindle and Createspace print edition.

Andy Zach was born Anastasius Zacharias, in Greece. His parents were both zombies. Growing up, he loved animals of all kinds. After moving to the United States as a child, in high school, he won a science fair by bringing toads back from suspended animation. Before turning to fiction, Andy published his Ph.D. thesis “Methods of Revivification for Various Species of the Kingdom Animalia” in the prestigious JAPM, Journal of Paranormal Medicine. Andy, in addition to being the foremost expert on paranormal animals, enjoys breeding phoenixes. He lives in Illinois with his five phoenixes.