It’s contest time over here at the TZF central. We want to get you infected and join our horde and we plan to do this with the oldest trick in the book: a free book. To help create some buzz around the upcoming release of our first anthology, The Zombie Feed vol. 1, we have our authors at the ready to answer your questions.
Well, to be exact, our authors will answer one question and their responses will be grouped in one massive post. So if you want our seventeen authors answer your question, you better make it a good one.
The Contest:
Leave your question that you’ve always been burning to ask zombie writers as a comment under this post. There are no guidelines as to what the question could relate to. Make it scary or make it hilarious. Make it sophisticated or outrageous. Entertain us and you will be picked.
The Prize:
If you get picked, then you’ve won yourself a copy of our anthology The Zombie Feed vol. 1, signed by the horde’s editor Jason Sizemore. Isn’t that enticing? To be honest, we did want to throw in a kidney for nom-nom-nom purpose, but the post office is reluctant to deliver organs, if you can believe it.
The Rules:
I’m tempted to yell: “Grab your chainsaws and shotguns, cause we’re gonna rumble free style.”
Alas, the reality is a bit different. While the horde won’t censor content, entrants must exist within the borders of the US/Canada ONLY. That means no portals, people. Or neighboring dimensions…
The contest ends on Thursday, March the 10th at precisely 23:59 EST. Be punctual or miss out on winning a great book.
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With AMC’s The Walking Dead, and some chatter on the ‘tubes, i’ve heard it’s a faux pas to refer to zombies as, well, zombies. Is this really an issue? Are we still ok with calling zombies, zombies?
In light of the coming zombie apocalypse, where do you all stand on mandatory zombie education in schools? Not only could this help curb the all too familiar confusion surrounding the dead coming back to life for lunch, but it can also instill that much needed mental attitude needed for survival. I mean, I teach all my kids that if I’m infected, I’m no longer daddy, and they should blast me, but I also understand that not everyone gets this much needed information. As we’ve of course seen, this leads to unnecessary infection. How much of this should be a personal responsibility, and how much should fall on the state? FYI, for some reason my local school board will no longer allow me to address this topic in open meetings. I’m hoping some new opinions by you experts can reverse this unfortunate and potentially deadly turn of events.
So as a writer where does your biggest infulance for zombie style writing come from. And I am trying to write a book on zombies myself, what could you tell me to help me out?
Ever thought about the idea of zombies getting a disease that’s also supernatural in origin. (Vampirism, Lycanthropy,etc). Would they be the new carriers of said illness, infected, or would it just burn out?
Why does most zombie fiction treat a zombie breakout as an instantaneous apocalypse? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume people would adapt to the zombie menace, and reach a state of detente with the undead?
What do you normally base the zombie “plague” on? Is it biological or supernatural? If biological, what do you think is happening to/controlling the body? If supernatural, what controls the body and why can’t it talk?
Thanks.
What would a band of hookers turned zombie eat first?
What makes YOUR zombies different?
What happens when the immovable object meets the unstoppable force?
If zombies eat, they must digest their food. Hmm-do zombies have bowel movements?
As a cover designer, what trips your triggers to pick a certain cover? The blood, guts, what exactly? More real life or cartoony?
If you were going to be eaten by a zombie, would you rather they start at your top or your bottom?
As a fan of zombie fiction since the original Dawn of the Dead was a new movie, I have a great appreciation for old classic movies like Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and, of course, the original Night of the Living Dead. I feel that classics have now gone to a new level with books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. My question, What kind of wine goes with live brains?
As a zombie writer myself, the question I get asked the most is, why can’t zombies turn door knobs? =/
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Everybody always acts surprised when zombies show up. But aren’t they rotten? Don’t they stink? Are the only people to survive the first wave utterly anosmic?
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What do people say when they find out you write zombies? Has it given rise to any interesting encounters, either positive or negative?
Paranormal romance as a genre is pretty big biz at the moment, but zombies are painfully under-represented. Where are the zombie love stories?? I don’t mean two people fighting back the zombie horde and finding love. No. I want to know about the quirky romance between shambling, suit-wearing male zombie #43 and the female zombie with the crowbar lodged in her neck.
Is “zombie romance” something we will ever see or should I consider contacting a therapist for some counseling?
Do you think there’s a place in the zombie genre for zombies who aren’t slow and who can think like the rest of us (but who are still dead and want to eat our brains)?
If a zombie farted, would you be able to smell it?
As writers, do you prefer if zombies eat any and all flesh or just go for the brains? Or avoid the brains all together in order to spread the infection? Just how much (or which parts) of the victim’s body needs to remain in order for the victim to rise again themselves?!
If a Zombie outbreak happened on a cruise ship who would be responsible for organizing the defence? The ship’s Captain, the Medical Officer, or the Social Director?
Any chance of seeing a vegan zombie? I don’t recall seeing one in anyone’s stories yet. Would the guy/gal just lose all humanity to feed on brains, or would a lingering sense preclude them from dining down on the gray matter?
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So do zombies have any REAL friends. I know they group as hordes, but do they strategize together cuz they’re like, you know, pals or something??
PS I’m writing super awesome zombie story. Like smart zombies and stuff.
Would a zombie ever be able to get pregnant, and if so, would she nurture the baby, abandon it or eat it?
What would be the key characteristics for a memorable and enduring undead hunter standing between us and the teeming hordes of the zombie apocalypse? What would they equip themselves with? What kind of personality and training would set them apart as an effective slayer of, as opposed to lunch of, a flood of undead shamblers and ragers all slavering for brains?
Fast or slow, flesh eaters or those who only eat brains, zombies are always pretty fun. Let’s look at them when they aren’t massing and trapping the last bastions of humanity and reducing them to red smears.
What do zombies do when there isn’t prey to motivate them? Say “World War Z” level of infestation goes ahead and wipes out humanity, do zombies establish a society? Do they take jobs? Set up daycares? Worry about 401Ks and health insurance? Or do they just sort of sit around and rot away?
With the horror genre repeatedly being raped by pop culture without so much as a pre-rape dinner date, why is it that zombies seem to be the only sub-genre or creature seemingly untouched by Hollywood’s filthy, filthy hands?