Neil Davies's Blog - Posts Tagged "zombies"

Tidying up The Risen Dead, a novella, the first in a series called The Givers Of Life. At the moment, with the sad demise of Screaming Dreams (who it was placed with), I have no publisher and am having difficulty finding one willing to take on a series of zombie-based novellas. Therefore (and with my children’s permission… read old blogs to find the relevance of that!) I may consider self publishing it.

No absolute final decision yet, and I am still looking at publishers (anyone know any zombie and series friendly ones out there?).

I thought I’d take this unexpected and unfortunate opportunity to go over the novella one final time… it was originally finished over a year ago, and I haven’t read it since then. Fresh eyes will always find things to change.

The novella does stand on its own, but I really wanted to go further into its world, which is why I plan to do a series. And there are some questions deliberately left unanswered, or at least vague. Lots more to write on this.

And if you don’t like zombies? Give it a try anyway, when it comes out from whatever source. I hope I’m bringing a slightly different slant on the genre, rather than retreading the same old themes, but ultimately you, the reader, will decide that.

My latest work is a novella, and my first time with zombies (despite writing horror for over 40 years!). It's the first in a series of novellas, with the overall title of The Givers Of Life, all set in the same world but not always with the same characters. I consider them linked rather than direct sequels.

If you can, please read it and review it. Hope you enjoy it.