This excerpt is where you first meet the Undead Mother-in-law, Diane Newby. She’s invited her daughter and son-in-law over for Valentine’s Day dinner. Find out what happens right here:
2025 Best Reviews For You – & Free Books – All for the 4th Day of Christmas. We’ll go through them from the most recent review to the oldest review. But first, your free books.
This book is pure, unapologetic fun. Andy Zach’s imagination runs delightfully wild, delivering one outrageous idea after another—from zombie turkeys and genetically engineered chaos to hilariously absurd sci-fi twists involving aliens and time-spanning media. Each story is clever, unexpected, and laugh-out-loud funny. If you enjoy absurd humor, creative insanity, and stories that don’t take themselves too seriously, this is a fantastic read. Laughter truly is good for the soul—and this book delivers plenty of it.
Zombie Turkeys is ridiculous in the best possible way.
The premise alone undead turkeys that come back stronger every time you kill them had me hooked, but the execution is what really works. Following a struggling reporter and his no-nonsense editor through a collapsing country gives the chaos structure, and the satire of modern media hits harder than expected.
The pacing is fast, the gore is gleefully over the top, and the humor never forgets it’s supposed to be fun. Grocery stores, farms, militias, livestreams each stop somehow escalates the madness without wearing out the joke.
If you like horror-comedy with B-movie energy, sharp commentary, and zero interest in playing it safe, this one delivers. I laughed, winced, and kept turning pages.
I didn’t expect to fall in love with a story about a zombie mother-in-law, but here I am, laughing, gasping, and actually tearing up a little. Diane Newby is wild, hilarious, and oddly relatable. Between her rage bursts and her pot roast dinners, I couldn’t decide whether to run or hug her. The book is chaotic in the best way, funny, heartfelt, and surprisingly human. It made me laugh out loud and think about what it really means to be “normal. Absolutely worth the read.
A fresh and inspiring twist on the superhero story! I loved how Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey turn what the world sees as weakness into incredible strength. Their friendship, humor, and determination make them unforgettable, and the way the story balances action with real-life challenges is both exciting and heartwarming. A must read for anyone who believes heroes come in all forms
A continuation of Zombie Turkeys, that breaks new ground with the same wonderful sense of humor and oddities you come to expect from Andy Zach. It started with turkeys, but now it has spread into other animals and maybe even humans. It will take a reporter turned detective to figure it all out and hopefully help put the zombie genie back in the bottle.
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Jesus Was Born-What Happened Next? For the 3rd Day of Christmas, you’ll enjoy this Christmasy excerpt from my non-fiction book, The Gospel Medley.
What happened between the shepherds’ visit to the manger and the wise men’s visit to the house? Read on, you’ll find out! Plus, you’ll read another momentous prophecy and testimony about Jesus soon after His birth.
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36 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day. 38 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem. 39 When they [Joseph and Mary had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.[1].
[1] Joseph and Mary eventually returned to Nazareth but moved to a house in Bethlehem by the time the wise men visited. Since Herod died in March of 4 BC, this episode had to take place before then but after Jesus’s birth. “All these things” included the circumcision (nine days) and the purification (thirty days) plus at least three days for travel and three days back. At least two months passed before they fled to Egypt. We know the wise men visited them while they resided in Bethlehem. After their flight to Egypt, they returned to Nazareth.
What Happened After Jesus Was Born? The Next Episode in Jesus’s Life
The four icons of the four gospels
The Flight to Egypt
Matthew 2:13–23
13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy Him.”
14 He arose and took the young child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod;
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”[1]
Herod’s Slaughter
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men. 17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”[2]
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 20 “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
21 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, 23 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Footnotes from This Section
Back cover detail
[1]Hosea 11:1 – “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.”
[2]Jeremiah 31:15 – Yahweh says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
What Happened After Jesus Was Born? Conclusion
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