Stephen Drivick's Blog - Posts Tagged "zombie"

Sometimes We Ran: A Story from the Zombie Apocalypse has been published for 90 days.

90 days ...Not a whole lot of time in the grand scheme of things. However, I feel like celebrating. So everyone don your party hats. Sometimes We Ran is now on sale for the low, low incredible price of $1.99. That's right ...you save a dollar. It's available for Kindle and NOOK.

But you better hurry. The sale ends Monday 8/26.

Shameless promotion ...done.:)

Well, I guess it's close to October.

Halloween is coming up, so I decided to hold a little sale - Sometimes We Ran will be marked down to 99c for the month of October! You can pick up a copy where all ebooks are sold - Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and DriveThruFiction.com.

Speaking of Kobo, I finally sold a book in the Kobo store! Whoever you are who bought my book ...Thanks!:)

Till next time. Happy Halloween all you zombie lovers.

Sometimes We Ran 2: Community is on the journey from first draft to novel. The self-edit/read through has begun!

It's amazing how words you thought were brilliant and captivating a month ago now look terrible on the first read through!

Remember those book fairs you attended as a kid? Here's a cool one on Facebook.

http://tinyurl.com/of9y2zf

Of course, Sometimes We Ran is there and representing the zombie nation. Go see.

Sometimes We Ran 2 hit a little snag. It's almost ready to hit the market. It's been put into chapters for Leanpub, a blurb has been written, and the cover is ready.

But then I got sick.

The nasty cold/flu killer virus came down hard on me, and sent me to bed. I am just now getting over it. The book had to wait.

Funny story (okay, maybe not that funny). Some of the symptoms of the cold/flu killer virus that got me were the same as my zombie-changeover symptoms in my book. I knew it wasn't actually going to happen, but I still didn't want to close my eyes.:)

Look for Sometimes We Ran 2: Community in your favorite ebookstore soon!

Sometimes We Ran 2: Community has started to rollout to the sales channels! It is currently available on Amazon for your Kindle. Other ebook stores will follow.

Kindle link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HUGWWQC

NOOK, Kobo, and Apple will follow. DriveThruFiction will also be included in the fun.

And don't worry print lovers...a paper copy from CreateSpace is in the works.

I hope everyone enjoys the book. Keep reading everyone! Thanks zombie lovers.

Sometimes We Ran 2 continues its rollout to the general zombie-loving public!

Now available for:
NOOK: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somet...

Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...

Apple, DriveThruFiction, and a print version coming soon! Libiro is out of action while they update, but I'll hit it with PDF and EPUB copies when they reopen.

Sometimes We Ran 2: Community just hit its first small milestone - 30 copies sold.

Thank you, zombie fans. Actually, thanks to all the zombie sequel fans out there.:)

Sometimes We Ran (Vol 1) has reached another (small) milestone - 200 copies sold!

I'm considering it a (again, small) success. It is by no means a bestseller, but the fact that anyone is reading it at all pleases me to no end.

So, thanks zombie fiction fans. Sometimes We Ran 2: Community is on sale beside the first volume, and Sometimes We Ran 3 is on the way!

This is my second entry for the Blogging from A to Z April 2014 challenge. Today we look at the letter B-Baseball Bat

When I was writing Sometimes We Ran, I wanted to give my female main character, Claire, a signature weapon to dispatch the bad guy zombies. It would be her go-to way to carve through a crowd of walking corpses.

Claire is small in stature, and she needed something that anyone could use. I thought of a knife, but that brought the zombies in too close. A small gun was a possibility, but my other main character used a firearm and I wanted something different. I tossed out machetes and other assorted blades because I couldn't picture Claire swinging a sword, and it had been done: See Walking Dead and other zombie movies.

My mind drifted. I started looking around the room. My eyes fell on a wooden baseball bat in the corner. Claire had her weapon.

I changed it to aluminum. Claire has now been wielding the mighty baseball bat in two novels.

Come to think of it, a baseball bat would be a very effective zombie deterrent. It's simple to use, you can probably find a bat everywhere you look, and it makes you look like a total zombie-killing badass.:) It also gives Claire a neat character trait. I have to confess, I don't know if a baseball bat would cave in a skull. I don't know if someone of Claire's diminutive size could even use a bat effectively. Still, I think it works in the story and no one has called me on it yet.:)

So if a real zombie apocalypse happens, the first thing I'm doing is finding the nearest sporting goods store. I'm adding a bat to my arsenal. Claire would approve.:)