Every time you humans reach the welcoming of a new year you tend to reflect on the past year and decide to make a resolution to change something for the better.
The only real resolution I can suggest for the people of this great country is to prepare yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse which Steve Adelmund is currently doing for himself.
But, I, an UnDead Writer, am only seeking one real resolution for myself in 2011, and that is to finally get published.
You may have read some of earlier blogs talking about the complications I've been having with the world of publication. Now, I've been published in small newspapers and magazines, none of which you've heard of, and even got a couple of awards.
However, I have not been able to leap over that final rotting corpse that blocks me from publication. (You jump hurdles, I jump rotting corpses)
As I have been trapped in this land of sparkly vampires, boy wizards, and girls that wear dragon tattoos, play with fire and kick hornets' nests, there has been no place for a book about drug addicts written by a zombie. I had interest from one agent, but after I sent him the manuscript, I never heard back from him.
I sent him a "follow up" email to see what he thought, but he never replied.
There may be no place fictional stories about addicts, but there is a place in this publishing world for books about zombies.
Pride, Prejudice and Zombies was a #1 bestseller, although I don't recommend it, and World War Z by Max Brooks was also a #1 bestseller, highly recommend that one, so zombies are starting to make some serious headway in the novel world. (I'll talk more about zombie books in another blog.)
I am currently working on my first Zombie Novel, mainly inspired from my zombie childhood, and have been hard at work. I've already got 100 pages down and still running.
I am balancing a few writing projects right now and this year they're all going to be fruitful in some way. I know a lot of folks out there dream of that big publishing contract in the sky and it's a tough dream to catch, but you've got to get through it.
I wish you all great success and happiness in this upcoming year and hope you'll be back to read more zombies stories and news, right here, from your old pal Hunter. Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year.
-HSZ
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