thankfulI am terrified, elated, and a whole bunch of other things that are surprisingly difficult to describe. See, Feed was a thought experiment. It was my game of "What if...?" What if the zombie apocalypse happened...and we lived? What if society had to restructure itself around the idea that the dead will always walk? What if this wasn't going to go away? What if?
I walked around for years with a zombie world and no zombie story. I tinkered with the ecology when I got bored, working out dozens of things that will never make it into the novels (as I lack a naturalist protagonist), but which combined to make a deeper, more convincing reality when I finally started really having a party there. I periodically bitched to my more understanding friends about how I had this truly awesome world, all full of zombies and personal firearms and stuff, and no story to tell there.
Then my friend Micheal Ellis said "Well, why don't you write about a Presidential campaign?"
And it all happened from there.
I'm sure I've told this story here before, because I've told this story a lot. But I'm still so grateful, and so overjoyed, that there are no words. I love the Masons, and my weird journalistic world, and everything else about this series, and for all that I am girl, paralyzed by fear, I really am unbelievably excited that you're going to get to meet them all.
One month 'til the Rising. Wow. It's been a long time coming.
April 2 2010, 16:52:47 UTC 7 years ago
I liked the zombies. I liked the "presidential campaign" bits. But I *loved* your take on the future of journalism and blogging. This is the sort of book that I use as an example for "why I like sci-fi and fantasy": it uses the sci-fi/fantasy bits to portray the true nature of the world in stark, clear colors.
Here's to a successful book launch :)
April 2 2010, 17:30:01 UTC 7 years ago