Another Writer

I just wrote an email to a zombie novelist who is one of my favorites.  I have one paper copy of a book of his and two more of his books on Kindle.  He is one of my favorite zombie writers.  Here is the body of the email I wrote to him:

  The first book of yours I read was 'Dead City'.  It opened my eyes to the emotional potential of a zombie story.  I myself am a zombie novelist.  I've been inspired by the depth of characters in your stories.  I always strive to find human stories in my tales no matter how horrific the action is. Part of that comes from having read your books and I thank you for that.  You've helped to show me that zombie fiction has literary respectability.  I'm constantly on the search for more books that have the same heartfelt reality mixed with gore and mayhem.  If you ever had the time, I would really appreciate it if you would visit my blog site at necrolepsy.blogspot.com.  Thank you for your time in even reading my email to you.

Sincerely,

Paul Loh aka 'Zombie Killer'

 

  I just checked my Yahoo account and found that he had written back to me which is so cool!  Here's the body of what he said back:

 

Paul,

 

Thanks for the kind words, man!  I appreciate that.  I just checked out your blog and it looks like you and Kayla are some pretty neat people.  Some really good content there.  Thanks again for taking the time to write to me, and for letting me know how much you've enjoyed my stories.  This made my day!

 

Joe

  I've been really blessed lately to make connections with so many people who are already doing what I would love to do with me life.  To top it all off, Kayla has recently bumped into someone who has already been to India and helped Tibetan refugees.  This is such an amazing time in our lives and I know that nothing happens by coincidence.

Sinister Press

  More and more publishing companies are following my tweets lately.  That's so cool!  Oh yeah, and my mother-in-law sent us a Kindle that she had somehow won or however, gotten for free.  I jumped on amazon.com and bought Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney.  I think I'm gonna look up my wish list from Book Mooch and see what I can get onto my Kindle since so much of what I want isn't available on Book Mooch.  Amazon.com has some good prices too, which is good.
  Wait a second, I was talking about publishing companies.  I just started having my tweets followed by a company called Sinister Press.  They had a section of their website about submissions.  I wrote a quick summary of the Nocent and submitted it for their consideration.  Also, once I'm done putting out the Greater Number, I'll submit that for their consideration as well.  Couldn't hurt.  Boy, it's just a matter of time before one of these publishing companies thinks I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me.  I will know that you, my loyal and dedicated readers have been with me from the beginning through thick and thing.  Thank you for believing in me and standing by me while I'm still just a starving artist trying to get noticed in the dog-eat-dog publishing world.