John Sears | November 27, 2011
Well, yesterday two big events occurred in my quest for ZombieWriMo glory. First, the evil one, Princess of Lies, Mother of all Treachery Michelle Hartz sneakily got to 50k words first. The second thing is that, of course, I got there as well, and have now effectively completed the ZombieWriMo challenge too. So what now? [...]
John Sears | November 25, 2011
Here’s what I’m thankful for right now: next Tuesday I get to go all the way to Texas* to debate a learned academic on the subject of Zombie Rights. And they made an awesome poster to promote the event too! *Rumors that this venue proved especially appealing due to the relative weather conditions in Madison [...]
John Sears | November 20, 2011
I’ve been sitting on this one waiting to make the announcement but I figure that now is as good a time as any. Remember when the ZRC blog excoriated the University of Houston-Victoria for making ‘World War Z’ the centerpiece of their ‘Community of Readers’ program? Well, one thing led to another via the magic [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2011
I realized recently that I never got around to reviewing the Dark Carnival Film Festival’s various Zombie related films from last month, in part due to ZombieWriMo! Let’s correct that now, shall we? ‘A Chance in Hell’ This indie take on the perennial ‘Nazi-Zombie’ motif is interesting on a number of levels. Shot in murky [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2011
I keep forgetting to post this, but for those of you involved in NanoWriMo, you can easily see my progress at this link. As of right now, I am at 9992 words and settling in for a bit of late night writing. It’s Zombie Friendly, I promise.
John Sears | November 3, 2011
Got up to 2048 words last night! Too bad they’re terrible, heh.
John Sears | November 2, 2011
ZRC pal and author Michelle Hartz (we reviewed her novel ‘Helpless’ here) is a big proponent of NanoWriMo and after some thinking about it (and technically wasting the first day of November) I’ve decided to sign on and write a work of Zombie Friendly fiction.. which will probably be so awful that I end up [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
Just wanted to make one last post about our awesome trip out to ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ both to thank the city of Elgin and the various groups that put on the show for having us, and to show off some fun pictures that didn’t get showcased anywhere else. At one end of the street [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
In our last update I talked about the quite frankly spectacular show put on at the ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ event and how difficult our task of spreading Zombie Awareness in such an environment looked upon arrival. I mean, they hit just about every conceivable trope of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ genre of pernicious fiction to [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
So as you may know from previous blog entries and Twitter, the ZRC attended the ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ event in Elgin, Illinois on Saturday, and we even managed to strike a significant blow for Zombie Rights along the way. More on that in a later post. But before we get into our own ZRC [...]