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The Wreath of Khan part deux

Just a few quick items before the end of the year. My story "Green Eyes and Chili Dogs" has just been published in the Dark Moon Anthology, Vampires. I can't speak for the other stories in the collection, but I can guarantee that there is no sparkling in my vampire tale. Its an older story but hasn't been in print since 2005. Dark Moon also published my flash story "A Thoughtful Gift," in their flash anthology, Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction. Its a Christmas story. Sort of. Imagine It's a Wonderful Life meets Seven. Merry Christmas.
On a liter and goofier note, a while back I created a Wreath of Khan graphic to post on the Night of the Living Trekkies Face Book Page. I love to photoshop a good, or bad, pun between writing sessions, and well, someone saw the graphic, felt inspired and brought it to life, actually making a Wreath of Khan. This is Joe Regan's real life version of my graphic.
And if that isn't enough holiday nerdyness, the Geeks of Doom website posted about the Night of the Living Trekkies' holiday Wreaths. Love their site, and its always fun to be on it. Here is a link to see the whole collection on FaceBook I don't think geeky graphics help sell books, they might, but honestly, I just thought they were good clean nerdy fun.
Have a wonderful holiday and a peaceful New Year. Qapla!

The Wreath of Khan

I've been in a photoshopin' mood and its the holidays so theses happened.

I have a few more in me but you can only take a pun so far.

Dark Moon Books has released FrightMares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction, which has my flash fiction piece "A Thoughtful Gift." It's a Christmas story. Well it takes place at Christmas. Dark Moon Books will also release Vampires, a collection of short stories about bloodsuckers. This anthology will feature my story "Green Eyes and Chili Dogs," one of my personal favorites.That's all for now. Check out FrightMares on Amazon and have a happy holiday and a peaceful New Year.

Terrifying

You think Paranormal 3 is scary. Try driving in the age of extreme distraction. Terrifying.

Speeding through an intersection!

The Good, The Bad, and The Blogs

Blogs. Are standard blogs going the way of Betamax, MySpace, and Charlie Sheen's career? I don't know, but if I had a nickle for every time I've blogged this year, I'd have enough to buy a cup of coffee...in the 1940s. Originally I started this blog to replace the news section on my web site to update my fans, all six of them, (Hi Dad!) Now it seems its just a source of neglect and quilt. I post news on Facebook and tell myself that I'll get around to blogging the news later. But later rarely comes, and I feel guilty for ignoring my blog which collects internet dust, like my hotmail email account. I wonder if that is still active.
Oh well, on to the news. AUDIO DRAMA: The folks at HG World, the Parsec Award winning audio drama series, produced an audio dramatization of Night of the Living Trekkies Chapter 4 The Cage. Its a lot of fun to listen too, and when I close my eyes I can see how incredible a movie version would be. A big thank you to Jay Smith for heading that up. He's a big fan of the book and good writer to boot. You can give it a listen here. NotLT Ch 4 "The Cage" MOVIE: In regards to a movie version of Night of the Living Trekkies, last I heard the most promising talks so far have recently broken off. What's that mean? What I think it means is that there has been lots of talk between studios, agents and publisher, but no deal thus far. Honestly, I thought a deal would be in the can and shooting to have begun by now. A few months back there was even a commitment from a well known (wish I could mention his name) Star Trek actor!!! I kept thinking, oh please let this work out so I could sneak onto the set and meet him.
ZOMBIE TREKKIES: I love NotLT fans. This October two fans went above and beyond. Jenna Carodiskey-Wiebe attended Geek Girl Con in Seattle wearing a stellar Zombie Trekkie outfit. Way to represent! Stephanie Naboshek has created a step by step guide on how to make your own Zombie Red Shirt Costume. Very Detailed, very geeky. Makes me wish I could sew. You can check it out here: DIY Zombie Red Shirt! It's as easy as 1,2,3...





SPANISH EDITION: On October 5th the Spanish publisher Timus Mas released the Spanish Edition of Night of the Living Trekkies, and once again we have another great cover design. What I like about this one is it seems to be a mash up of the English cover and the award winning cover of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I don't know how well its doing, but I'm sure the cover will get folks attention .
KIZUNA: Fiction for Japan - Earlier this year I was invited to participate in a charity anthology to benefit those effected by the massive 9.0 earthquake in Japan. I'm one of 75 authors from 11 countries to donate a piece to this collection which was released this August. It's the first time I've been involved in a project like this and I look forward to doing more like it. The anthology is available on Amazon. Kizuna: Fiction for Japan
















SHORT STORIES: I have a few short stories coming out in two new anthologies possibly this year. I would say check this blog in the future for more info, but I have no idea when or what has to happen to motivate me to keep blogging. If this is my last and final blog entry then I bid the blogosphere adieu. If it isn't, then I'll be posting again in a month. Or two. Or three.

Infecting Germany

The German edition of Night of the Living Trekkies, "Die Nacht der lebenden Trekkies" was released this month from Heyne Publishing. It's in paperback form with a redesigned cover and I have to say, its simple but to the point. If the ranking on Amazon is any indication, and every professional writer I have ever met says "No it is NOT an indication," then it seems to be off to a great start. There should be a Spanish version coming soon.

The literary web site Speaking Volumes posted an interview with me, and like most online interviews its worth the paper its printed on - The story so far with . . . Kevin David Anderson

BuyZombie.com Interview

I've been busy. Too busy to write a proper blog entry, but who am I kidding. I blog about as much as a Wookie shaves. But I have been busy. And as proof I offer this interview I did for ButZombie.com, a fantastic Zombie resource for all your undead apocalypse needs.


BuyZombie Interview with Kevin David Anderson

You Win Some, You Loose Some...

Public Libraries - They let everybody in

In the past few months Night of the Living Trekkies has been nominated for a few awards. Back in February the site Mail Order Zombie nominated it for a Dead Letter Award for best zombie novel 2010. It fell short and the award went to Jonathan Maberry’s YA horror novel, Rot. Then in that same month the trailer for NotLT was awarded Best Viral Star Trek Video 2010 by TrekMovie.com. And in June the trailer was nominated for a Moby, but the Best Small House Trailer Moby went to Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Then a day later the fans at Fourth Day Universe awarded Night of the Living Trekkies the Uni for Best Zombie Novel 2010. Sooooo… you win some, you loose some. It’s just fantastic to know that the novel is getting read, and received well. And in just a few weeks the German edition will hit bookshelves in Berlin and begin the infection in Europe.

Speaking of Europe, Night of the Living Trekkies Super fan, Spritt Schapiro paid tribute to the novel by dressing up as a Zombie Trekkies at the Copenhagen Zombie Crawl, 2011.
Live Long and Prosper

New Genre Review Program on PBS

Levar Burton, Next Generation’s Geordi Laforge and host of the long running PBS show Reading Rainbow, will once again host a show on the Public Broadcasting Network. Rainbow of the Living Dead will premiere this fall rolling out interviews with Max Brooks, George A. Romero …. Yeah, no, not really. But file it under, wouldn't it be cool.
Brent Mills, editor of Kizuna: fiction for Japan, has let me know that two of my flash fiction pieces will appear in the charity anthology, Homecare and The X-Ray. All proceeds will go to Japan relief efforts via the Red Cross. Its nice to know that even my most dark and twisted thoughts set down into a fast narrative, can do some good.
I just got a few copies of Murky Depths' 16th issue and it looks great. Its a mix of graphic art and fiction, put together very well. I'm proud that this UK magazine has included my story Momentum, in this issue. Even though I penned this one five years ago, its the first time it's been in print, and its about bloody time.








Need to get back to it. Fly low and avoid the radar.