Checking The Facts …

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working hard on the manuscript for The Outbreak, getting it ready to be sent off at the end of the month to the editor I work with do the final checks on things like grammar and spelling.

As part of this process, I’ve been checking over various facts just to make sure I have them right. This, however, means that the search terms I’ve been entering into Google have been pretty odd, and taken together they might suggest I’m up to something a lot more nefarious than writing a novel about survival in a zombie-filled post-apocalyptic landscape.

Here’s a few examples (and I promise they were all just for fact-checking purposes!):

1. Is the island of Handa uninhabited?

2. Is morphine a clear liquid?

3. How big is the crew of a Royal Navy frigate?

4. How quickly does a tank move?

5. How much morphine would you need to kill a child?

6. How many bullets does a semi-automatic handgun hold?

7. On which side of a plane does the pilot usually sit?

8. How many people live in Miami?

9. How does a fuel-air bomb work?

10. Where is Hunterston Nuclear Power Station?

I just hope there’s no one out there keeping too close a track!

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From the author of For Those In Peril On The Sea, a tale of post-apocalyptic survival in a world where zombie-like infected rule the land and all the last few human survivors can do is stay on their boats and try to survive. Now available in print and as a Kindle ebook. Click here or visit www.forthoseinperil.net to find out more. To download a preview of the first three chapters, click here.

To read the Foreword Clarion Review of For Those In Peril On The Sea (where it scored five stars out of five) click here.