(In no particular order, from the home office of Karina
Fabian, author of Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator)
10. They're the next
big trend! Forget your sparkly
vampires--maggoty zombies are the hot literary trope in the fantasy horror
world!
…okay, this is really a lame reason to write about them. Write what you enjoy and what's in your heart--make the trend; don't follow it. However, this is the first time I actually was part of the current, and it's a new experience for me.
9. Need to
incorporate all five senses? Zombie
stench makes that easy!
8. There's so much uncharted territory. Let's face it--if you have to add glitter to
your vampires to make them new, the genre's been done. Zombies are still wide open. Really--see the guts?
7. No more pressure to put in that sex scene to bump ratings
6. You can abuse them
freely. They're dead. You can whack off their heads without
remorse. Or, if you choose to go for the
legs and leave them crawling and groaning "flesh wound!" it's funny.
Bonus--the ASPCA doesn't care about them!
5. Body humor! No one can lend you a hand with that better
than a zombie! (From Neeta Lyffe, Zombie
Exterminator: "He moved in to cover
her while she checked out some zombie spoor: dried skin, a rotting finger, what
looked like part of a nose. Must have
been some sneeze. ")
4. Easy to write
dialogue for.
3. What a literary
device. In Neeta Lyffe, Zombie
Exterminator, I use zombies as a foil to attack some of the finer aspects of
society--conspiracy theorist, radical ecologists, activists, etc. It was a lot of fun to point at these groups
with a rotting finger.
2. When you've
explored all aspects of life, what's left?
Oh, wait!
1. To prove you have
the braaaiiiins for it!
Purchase links:
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