Need more hours in the day!

I started this with the best of intentions, but sadly the demands on my time have meant that it's still going to be a very long, protracted gestation until it gets going properly, especially now that we're planning a 'formal' offshoot of My Favourite Books.

Sigh.

Sign of the times...

It lives!

Has there ever been a cooler word than zombie?

I’m not talking about the deeper, historic-cum-religious origins of the word, I’m talking about the sound of it. Go on, say it out loud. Zombie. It’s strangely comforting.

The first zombies I ever saw were courtesy of Night of the Living Dead, having managed to hire a copy despite being underage - veritable larceny back then in the dogdays of the '80's. They scared the pants off me….right up until I realised that I actually wanted the zombies to win.

My dvd cabinet attests to the fact that I’ll watch any movie that has zombies lurching about the place, whether they’ve been raised through sorcery or ritual, anointed with toxic waste, infected by aliens or evicted from an overfull hell. I have my own Zombie Apocalypse Survival Plan wedged in amongst the various books, comics, sketches and role playing games featuring my rotten lovelies.

The issue I have with zombies these days is that no one thinks they’re scary anymore. They’ve become horror’s goofy cousin, when they should be its evil twin with the chainsaw fetish.

So what's the blog about, you ask?

I'm currently working on a fantasy novel that, perhaps unsurprisingly, revolves around a world infected by the undead. I started refreshing my brainnnss on all things zombie (it's a valid excuse to re-watch some of the far too dusty movies on my shelves) and I thought Hey, why don't I write/ save all this stuff somewhere in case I need it later- and so the idea for this 'mini' blog was born.