Letters From The Dead – Amazon.co.uk

Letters From The Dead – Amazon.com

Letters From The Dead

Defying all logic and reason, the dead returned from death. All over the world, dead human bodies rose and walked the Earth in search of living human flesh to consume. Despite the valiant efforts of the living’s vast armies and superior weapons, the dead won the Zombie War.

Defeated, the surviving governments of the world fled to the safety of their underground bases, leaving the last living survivors to their fate. All alone, trapped, for them there was no last second rescue, no escape. The Dead surrounded them, pounding on their barricaded doors, smashing in their boarded windows. It was their last chance to say goodbye, their last chance to shout out in defiance. It was time to write their final words.

For decades, the dead ruled the Earth unchallenged, but their reign was finite. In time, they returned to the dust from which they came.

When the living survivors emerged from their underground shelters, they would discover hundreds of thousands of tattered decaying messages, the letters left behind by the last to perish in the Zombie Apocalypse.

These are those “Letters From The Dead”.

Looking ahead, I’ll probably aim for completing Script Frenzy in April for a new super secret Team Awesome project, then get back to work on draft 2 of Naz.

“Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, “We don’t love you anymore.”

Earlier, I mentioned submitting to the BBC Twitter audio book.  This has now been released and is available to listen for free, or to download at their site.

http://bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/

Now, I tried the excuse that Dragon Age: Origins is a masterpiece of story and narrative (it is) and that you could do worse for an example of character interaction (most TV shows), but this didn’t wash with Nige and Andy, who laughed.  Rather cynically.  Bah.

As the rather smart Chuck Palahniuk says “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”  After falling in love with the story in ‘Dragon Age’, those bastards at Bioware broke my heart with the ending, inspiring me to do the same damage to other people.  I wrote more ‘Sulphur Diaries’ and managed to get just over 51k words done by today.

Now back to another playthrough of ‘Dragon Age’, just for research purposes of course.

Althought my original short, ‘Only Connect’ was a mere thousand words, I liked the strange world we’d come up with between us. A mix of mutants, aliens and prostitution, I knew it could go further. I expanded the story to around four thousand words, and yesterday it was accepted by “Cossmass Infinities” to be released in Jan. I’ll update when it becomes available.

It’s not exactly Hemmingway, but the story is moving along nicely. Still aiming for 50k words by November 30th!

Four friends who play a lot of co-op lan games find themselves on the wrong side of an apocalypse. Can their finely honed strategies and tactics help them survive, even without extra lives and unlimited ammo?