Big Pulp Zombiefest, Cold, Lifeless Fingers on Schedule

We���ve had a few posts about delayed publications, but here���s one that seems to be right on schedule according to Editor Bill Olver���s e-note earlier this week:�� ���At your convenience, could you send a current author’s bio for the zombie collection?�� We plan to send story proofs by the end of the month, so be on the lookout for more email from us as we get closer to publication!���

The publisher in question is Big Pulp which had put the call out for a zombie-themed collection just about a year ago, subsequently accepting a story from me called ���Cold, Lifeless Fingers��� (cf. March 8).�� ���We love the undead,��� the guidelines had said, ���but the term ���zombie��� can be interpreted a lot of ways.�� Successful subs will look outside the box.����� So my story, a reprint originally published in GC MAGAZINE for Halloween 1999, went back to zombiedom���s Haitian roots with an until-recently resident of Port-au-Prince finding himself in a gated community in the US confronting a lawn sign:�� Anyone Who Wants to Take My Gun will have to Pry It from My Cold, Lifeless Fingers.

If you were a zombie, what would you do?

In Editor Olver���s case, he accepted it, noting that ���[w]e received enough good submissions this time to fill two books,��� and added that mine would be in the second one, scheduled for April 2015.�� Then two more things:�� the first volume, titled BLACK CHAOS:�� TALES OF THE ZOMBIE, apparently came out at its promised time of June 2014 according to Amazon, while further exploration of the internet found, on a blog entry by artist Ken Knudsen, what may be the cover of the second.