Steal A Catamaran And Try Not To Puke with Kate L. Mary | Zombie Book Club Ep. 165

Bestselling zombie author Kate L. Mary returns to the podcast to talk through what a realistic survival plan might actually look like, how you'd know it's really happening, and why a slow, confusing outbreak is scarier than the instant-chaos version we usually see in movies. We talk about getting family together, avoiding major roads and … Read more

Steel City Apocalypse: Zombies, Zoos, and Zero Regrets with A.M. Geever | Zombie Book Club Ep. 164

We sit down with award-winning author A.M. Geever to talk Steel City Apocalypse, a slow-burn outbreak story that traps its survivors inside a Pittsburgh zoo built to keep dangerous animals in (and, as it were, zombies out). We talk about plotting with evolving outlines, killing your darlings (scenes and characters alike), sunk cost, and why … Read more

Drawing Zombies With Heart with special guest GreenMann AKA Yuxel G | Zombie Book Club Ep 163

At 17, illustrator Yuxel “Green Mann” G. has already built a distinct style out of zombies, gore, and dark humor. We talk about the childhood moment that turned fear into fascination, growing up during the Walking Dead era, and the artists (Tony Moore, Jhonen Vasquez, Aaron Alexovich) who shaped his eye for art that's equal … Read more

If We Survive the Night: Jo Salazar’s Sourcebooks Relaunch (with Surprise Guests Sarah Lyons Fleming & Kate L. Mary) | Zombie Book Club Ep 162

Jo Salazar is back to celebrate the biggest twist in her writing career: her self-published zombie novel The Dead Weight has been acquired by Sourcebooks Fire and relaunches as If We Survive the Night on August 25th. We talk through the wild, one-DM-at-a-time path from indie hustle to a traditional book deal, what changes (and … Read more

The Internet Apocalypse That Already Happened | Zombie Book Club Ep. 161

The open, weird, human internet you grew up on is dead, and most of us kept scrolling like nothing happened. From Web 1.0's personal sites and forums to today's “narrow web” of a handful of platforms, the internet had changed is big ways that shift ownership from the people to a handful of greedy tech … Read more