Zombie Contingency Plans and Other Coode Street Notes

Some thoughts raised by the recent episode of The Coode Street Podcast, featuring Locus editor/debut novelist Amelia Beamer:

Amelia's first zomromcom novel The Loving Dead sounds all kinds of awesome and if I hadn't already pre-ordered it, I would be doing so on the strength of this podcast! The discussion of Kelly Link's influence on how zombie stories can be told was also really interesting.

The gang discuss the growing divide in the scene between short and long fiction as one is...