It has been two years into he making but finally my first book is published. ZWD: King of an Empty City is available on Amazon.com both in paperback and Kindle eBook format. You should buy a copy. Good looking cover isn't it? And yes that’s me on the cover. Sexy ain’t I?
This book started out as a series of tweets. I had been talked into getting a twitter account and didn't know what to do with it. Somewhere I had read that a girl in Japan had written a number one bestselling novel on twitter so I thought; "I can write a book like that" and that's what I did. I started writing tweets that for some reason were about zombies. I think I had seen a few people walking with their heads in their phones and thought what a bunch of zombies and I was off from there. It actually wasn't the first zombie stories I had tweeted. There was one before this. I have it somewhere; when I find it I'll post it here so you can enjoy it. But after I finished that one I didn't say anything for a long time on Twitter till I got a tween asking for more. I put a little more thought (not much) into the new story mainly just thinking about the food running out and where people would find it when they were starving.
Eventually several people asked for more details and someone said I needed to write a book about this so I stopped tweeting and started writing the story using the tweets as a kind of guide. I put them in the header of each story just to give readers an idea of how I was progressing. After a point the story stopped following the tweets and I had to change them the "tweet" headers to match the action in the story. At the end of the book I think I have all the tweets or at least where I left off. Maybe I'll fix that in the second edition. Since it was my first book I didn’t know what I was doing and decided to just write everything down that came to mind and cut out the crap later. That wasn’t easy since I thought all of it was brilliant. My wife who is a wonderful supporter of my writing tried to convince me to cut the crap out and I just didn’t see any crap to cut. She had her vindication when my editor had me cut a lot of crap out of the story. About twenty seven pages and make it much more streamlined. I’ll have a whole new blog about the importance of editors later. Mine is awesome.
As she was editing the story and ripping my heart out cutting things form the story I thought were brilliant I started sending out query letters and got a lot of generic thank you but no thanks letters in return. That’s when I turned to self-publishing. Honestly, Amazon.com made it easy to self-publish but there is a lot to that process. It’s not streamlined to the point where you can upload a book and send it to the different formats, printed, eBook, audio-book etc. So I have several different Amazon sites that I have to log onto just to take care of different business. That’s the subject of yet another blog. Anyway, the book is done and available for your enjoyment. Buy a copy and leave a review on Amazon about what you think of it. I especially like the bad criticisms, they are more honest that most so don’t think you’re going to hurt my feeling.
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