The
Zombie
Chronicles

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Finished works:
   Billions
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   Outbreak
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   Undead
     Advantage
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   Found
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   About a Woman
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   Short Stories

Works in Progress:
   TZC2: Discovery

Works on hold:
   Zombie Nation
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   Zombieboy

Outbreak

Author's Note

As a first book this one has taken me a long time to finish up. I am not writing American classics here, just beer and pretzels literature, it is supposed to be entertaining, read fast and remembered fondly, if all goes right. I had to re-write quite a bit of this to get the ending closer to how I wanted it to be. You see I started on 'Discovery', which is book two of this trilogy and I discovered I needed things to be different. First the original ending was too dark, Max gets nothing the wife and kids are dead and all he has is sadness and despair. I would probably just give up in that case and making it 'logical' for him to continue was difficult. Now he has a happier ending and some kids to live for and see to safety in Iowa. As a side benefit Amelia got to live too. Overall I like it a lot better than the ending where the kids and her died.

Still it has taken me three long years to go back and make this better, and I am not saying my editing is complete either; editing is hard work, certainly harder than writing the stuff down in the first place. Now that I feel this one is closer to finished (done for now) I can move on to book II and some other writing I have on the various burners of my mind. I gotta stop coming up with new ideas, they are killing my desire to complete the older works.

Mark
March 1st, 2009

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