Month: September 2017

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You’ll Laugh at the New Andy Zach Reviews

You’ll Laugh at the New Andy Zach Reviews

I thought I wrote funny books, like Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law.  But these New Andy Zach Reviews are chuckle-worthy too.

First, there’s this one, about My Undead Mother-in-law

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But you don’t have to click this link. I’ve copied it here:

New Andy Zach Reviews by Customers

5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes You Happy About Your Real Mother in Law
By Julia A. Andrews on September 26, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Who is happy about having the mother in law they have? You definitely will be after this book. A hilarious account of a zombie mother in law with issues. Many, many issues. She tries to blend into the non-zombie population and as long as you don’t upset her (love her Sunday pot roast, hint, hint) things go rather smoothly. Upset her and watch out! Funny, irreverent and in the same vein as his previous book, “Turkey Zombies”. You can’t help laughing! Can’t wait for his next book! Enjoy the read!

 

But there’s more review goodness!

New Andy Zach Reviews- The Second

Lightning strikes again! Another laughing reader produced this second review. I’ve copied it below My Undead Mother-in-law back cover:

New Andy Zach Reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Read this NOW and laugh away your troubles!
By jackie on September 20, 2017
Format: Paperback
Who hasn’t had mother-in-law issues? Well, what if your mother-in-law was a zombie?

And yet our hero is a zombie avenging evil with her zombie turkeys, bulls, and corgis–all under her command.
Hilarious and heartwarming at the same time. The perfect wedding shower gift for the new bride. Curl up with Andy Zach’s laugh out loud yet poignant newest novel and leave your troubles behind.
I guarantee you’ll be amerced! This should be on the big screen! And if you haven’t read his debut novel Zombie Turkeys, well, what are you waiting for? Don’t bring cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving dinner, bring Zombie Turkeys! They’ll fight over it! Can’t wait for Andy’s next adventure!
Jacqueline Gillam Fairchild–author Estate of Mind, The Scrap Book Trilogy.

The Zombie Turkeys Review You’ve Wanted

You didn’t know it, but you’ve been waiting for this next one.

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Zombie Turkeys print book. Click to download.
5.0 out of 5 stars 
Makes You a Zombie Fan
By Julia A. Andrews on September 26, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
I am not a zombie fan, but have been known to like turkey especially with stuffing. No seriously, this book is so imaginative and original but I wouldn’t classify it as a novelty book. It is too well written for that. Especially like the author using small towns in central Illinois as sites of the attacks as I am also from central Illinois. This read will put a smile on your face no matter where you live. Looking forward to his next book about mother in laws. His funny, askew view is very entertaining. Enjoy the read!
Maybe you know a friend who hates the zombie genre: give him or her a copy of Zombie Turkeys. This is not the first anti-zombie person to be converted. Let’s make this viral and spread!

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4 Steps in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook

4 Steps in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook

The first step in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook is to create your ACX audiobook account and connect it to your published book.  For me, it’s my Zombie Turkeys book, the first volume of the Life After Life Chronicles.

Zombie Turkeys Audiobook
Zombie Turkeys print book. Click to download.

Step Two in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook

I then published the audition script for the book, selecting the best sections to show the reader’s capabilities. I put the book out to bid on ACX.

Step Three: Sending the Script

After selecting a voice actor, Phil Blechman, I submitted a contract for the audiobook, and the person agreed.

Here’s Phil’s profile on ACX:

Step Four: Approving the Audiobook

Phil will send me a fifteen-minute sample. After I approve that, he’ll finish the book. That leads us to the final step of the process.

Along the way, I also send him directions on how I want the characters voiced: their accent, tone, and age.

I have over eighty characters in Zombie Turkeys. Of course, some of them die.

Here’s one:

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Sam Melvin fighting zombie turkeys from Zombie Turkeys

And here’s another:

Illinois Zombie Ready
Lisa Kambacher with flamethrower fighting Zombie Turkeys

The Final Step: Selling the Zombie Turkeys Audiobook 

Here is where you come in: would you want to buy the Zombie Turkeys audiobook?  Reply to this post, or contact me, Andy Zach, right here. (Click here)

The audiobook will be for sale exclusively on Amazon.

Media kit
Kindle edition of “Zombie Turkeys”. Click to download.

Let’s close this post with the latest review of Zombie Turkeys:

4.0 out of 5 stars The handprint turkey on the cover is your first clue.
By Les Lynamon August 26, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
Let me start by saying that “Andy Zach” has an unusual sense of humor (or possibly has escaped from a lunatic asylum and is living under an assumed name). I invite you to check out his Amazon author page and read the bio. He’s gone all in on this zombie expert thing (since his parents were zombies) and states that he reanimated dead animals as a child for a science fair. He also currently raises phoenixes as a hobby. One more thing before starting on the story. What is that ‘thing’ on his head in his author picture?

Right off the bat, you have to assume that with a title like “Zombie Turkeys” that this will be a humorous story, yet it unfolds almost like a documentary. I wanted to love it, but something didn’t fully click with me. I did LIKE it, nonetheless. There are some cute running gags about expense accounts and the occasional shift of POV to the head ZT “He felt great. He was full of energy, he had many hens to breed with, and he was the leader of a great flock.” There are plenty of other gags (like ordering a Zombie Turkey killing flamethrower from Amazon Prime) that continue to make things fun, as well as all of the way-out ways they develop to dispatch the undead turkeys.

Zombie Turkeys Review Part 2

The central character is Sam Melvin, a reporter with the tiny local Illinois paper “The Midley Beacon”. Sam becomes an internet sensation by reporting on the Zombie Turkey outbreak. He always manages to be in the right place at the right time to get the story. Sam is a VERY mild-mannered reporter and I found him a little too ‘everyman’. Walter Mitty at least had adventures in his head, Sam seemed to get to the scene MOSTLY in the aftermath of the battle.

Overall, I think it was the characters that left me in the friend-zone with this story. None of them struck me as endearing, which I think could have gone a long way to make this a better story (for me). Perhaps I should also go on the record as stating that I’m not a Zombie Genre fan. Never watched an entire George Romero movie and switched off “The Walking Dead” after 3 episodes. I’m more of a “Shaun of the Dead” and “iZombie” kind of guy.

Before closing, I also have to say that at the end of ZT, there is an opening chapter of Andy’s second book “My Undead Mother-in-law”. I found it interesting enough to put it on my reading list for the future. Maybe I just don’t like turkeys?

If you have an off-beat sense of humor, give Zombie Turkeys a try. It might be right up your alley.

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Andy Zach Reviews, By and For

Andy Zach Reviews, By and For

Greetings, faithful blog followers! And you are the faithful who have stuck with me through my two-week hiatus. Before I get to my Andy Zach Reviews, let me explain my absence: I’ve been busy promoting other authors on my Facebook page:

So that’s where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. Now, about those reviews.

Andy Zach Reviews – Reviews For My Undead Mother-in-law

Andy Zach Reviews
My Undead Mother-in-law cover. Click to download.

In time order, this one’s first: (Click here)

But to save clicks, here it is:

5.0 out of 5 stars  A zombie in the family!
By Kathi Clements on September 9, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
This is the kind of mother-in-law we all need–one who can take over a flock of zombie turkeys by tearing the lead turkey into bite-sized pieces. This is just as good as “Zombie Turkeys,” folks! Andy Zack is an amazing author! Hope he writes another story soon!

Andy Zach Reviews: Reviews by Andy Part 1

I reviewed Creating Memories by Jacqueline Gillam Fairchild. (Click here)

Creating Memories: Book One of the Scrap Book Trilogy by [Gillam Fairchild, Jacqueline]

Jackie’s a fellow author I know. Here’s the review (Click here):

4.0 out of 5 starsCreating Memories through romantic comedy
By Andy Zach on September 19, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Take three lonely elderly ladies, add a ditzy young woman from a New York advertising firm, and a Californian race car driver, mix in some magic and put them all in a remote, Midwestern town. POW! Romantic, funny entertainment for everyone.

I categorize this book as romantic, comedic fantasy because it has a little magic from Scotland. There are several laugh-out-loud scenes in here, as well as funny one-liners.

Beach reading? Yes! Fun read on a snowy night? Yes!. The novel goes down fast and easy, like a slice of rum cake.

Andy Zach Reviews: Reviews by Andy Part 2

I also reviewed volume 2 of this romantic fantasy trilogy:
5.0 out of 5 stars More magical romance in an Art Deco atmosphere
By Andy Zach on September 21, 2017
Format: Paperback

Andy Zach Reviews: Two More For My Undead Mother-in-law

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Diane Newby, hosting her children for dinner.
5.0 out of 5 stars Let’s start with wow!
By an avid reader on September 11, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
I am a huge zombie fan, I had thought the genre had worked itself out for a while and then I read this book. I think I have been scarred for life! I foresee months if not years of counseling in my future.

Not everyone is going to like every book, you know what that’s all right. Maybe they don’t understand the book. If you want to envision hordes of undead animals attacking the evil… sorry I don’t do spoilers. Think of a slightly sardonic look on life and you will be getting close.

While reading this book I was reminded of a visionary work of Cinema, “Polterygiest: Night of the Chicken Dead” a great movie by Troma Entertainment. Do yourself a favor check out this book.

And finally, I got this review:

My Undead Mother-in-law, Chapter 5 Icon
My Undead Mother-in-law, Chapter 5 Icon
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this NOW and laugh away your troubles!
By jackie on September 20, 2017
Format: Paperback
Who hasn’t had mother in law issues? Well, what if your mother in law was a zombie?
And yet our hero is a zombie avenging evil with her zombie turkeys, bulls, and corgis–all under her command.

Hilarious and heart warming at the same time. The perfect wedding shower gift for the new bride. Curl up with Andy Zach’s laugh out loud yet poignant newest novel and leave your troubles behind.
I guarantee you’ll be amerced! This should be on the big screen! And if you haven’t read his debut novel Zombie Turkeys, well, what are you waiting for? Don’t bring cranberry sauce this thanksgiving dinner, bring Zombie Turkeys! They’ll fight over it! Can’t wait for Andy’s next adventure!
Jacqueline Gillam Fairchild–author Estate of Mind, The Scrap Book Trilogy
That’s it for now!  See you soon–not two weeks this time!