And then they all laughed at me when, midway through the process of writing Feed, the big zombie boom hit. “My fans and colleagues mostly reacted with relief when I said I was finally going to buckle down and write a zombie novel, rather than talking endlessly about how much I wanted to write a zombie novel some day.

There’s something beautifully appealing about the dead that walk. It’s not just me! But it was zombies for me because it was always zombies they’ve been one of my favorite monsters since I was a kid and got in trouble for sneaking out of bed at midnight to watch Night of the Living Dead. And Madeleine Roux wrote an interactive horror-comedy zombie novel called Allison Hewitt is Trapped. Kelley Armstrong has done some fantastic things with zombies in her Women of the Otherworld setting. Cherie Priest’s fabulous steampunk zombies got her on the Hugo ballot last year. Zombies aren’t as much of a boy’s club as some people think. Why Zombies? How did you fan base and colleagues react when you told them you wanted to write, not just a zombie novel, but a series of them? Grant was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule of writing kick ass novels, taking care of her cats and sharpening her machete to answer a few questions.īob: You are one of the few female author who has embraced the Zombie genre. You can check out my review of Deadline here. The Print version from Orbit Books, and the Audio version from Hachette Audio are available June 1.

in my humble opinion, is a brilliant follow up to Feed. Her latest addition to the series is Deadline, which. Feed, the first book in that series, has been nominated for both a Hugo Award for Best Novel, as well as an Audie Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Audiobook. Mira Grant is the author of The NewsFlesh Trilogy.

The newsflesh trilogy