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Your 12 Best Links of 2019 From Andy Zach

Your 12 Best Links of 2019 from me, author Andy Zach are right here. What have you missed? Perhaps there’s a laugh or two for you or some amazing bit of technology you didn’t know about. The journey through time begins now!

January 2019 – My Favorite Video of 2019

This nostalgic memory from my childhood is much funnier now that I’m an adult.

How many of these famous cameo appearances can you identify? Identify all and win a book!

I can just hear some of you Millenials saying, “Ok, Boomer.” I am a Baby Boomer, so I can’t deny it.

February 2019 – A Great One Liner

Need I say the prequel to my book Paranormal Privateers is set in the Caribbean? Need I say this prequel is in my new book, Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse?

March 2019 – A Great Movie Trailer

Terry Pratchett is one of my inspirations. I re-read The Color of Magic, his first book in his Disc World series this year and it’s better than I remembered. This movie adaptation is great. Be sure to see it. Watch the trail above, if you doubt me.

Nine more links to go in Your 12 Best Links of 2019!

April 2019 – My Favorite ComicCon of 2019

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Andy Zach at PeoriaCon. Click to read all about it.

At PeoriaCon I read the first page of Zombie Turkeys dozens of times while acting it out with my zombie turkey puppet. The Peoria Journal Star caught me in the act right there in Peoria, a mile from my home!

Click on the blog post to hear me on video!

May 2019 – The Fifth of Your 12 Best Links

Seriously, how can ‘spider butts’ not make the highlights list?

June 2019 – The Sixth of Your 12 Best Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=a1Om-662nUg&feature=emb_logo
Which Star Wars Movie is This?

I have to include this blog post, of four future science fiction story ideas. Which one do you like the best?

That’s all for now! I’ll post the other six items tomorrow.

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New Books Just in Time for Christmas

I’ve got a list for you and I’m checking it twice: New Books Just in Time for Christmas. Some are ebooks, some print, some will cost you, some are free. Your choice.

Let’s start with the BIG ONE: my latest release: Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse. The paperback came out November 27th. You can get the ebook NOW for preorder.

This is my first collection of short stories. It includes some of your favorites: A Phoenix Tale, In A Pickle, and A Hamster’s Tale. In it, you’ll find many others that’ll tickle your fancy.

Do you want to know more?

Accidents happen. Especially around zombie turkeys. Then you add zombie humans, and problems proliferate. Mix in some ill-planned genetic engineering, and things get crazy.

The insanity continues, from the story where zombies are merged with cucumbers to the one where two basement-dwelling nerds gain access to all video content from the past two hundred years—from aliens.

Andy Zach pulls out all the stops on his imagination as he serves up this smorgasbord of silliness. Try it. Laughter is good for your soul.

From the back cover of Oops!
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The full cover spread of Oops!

New Books – Free For You Follow This

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15 Free Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for You

But wait! You’ve got more coming to you! This Middle-Grade e-Book offer includes my own, Secret Supers.

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Click to get your free copy!

In case you can’t read this blurb, here it is:

Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal. Then things got weirder when his best friend, Dan Elanga, got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind.

Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys.

What should the four friends do? Jeremy knew if the word got out, it’d be a media circus. Then they started fighting crime, as the Secret Supers. Who knew a disability could be a perfect disguise? No one would ever think of disabled kids as superheroes. Then they ran into problems they never expected.

From Secret Supers back cover

Is that all? Nope! Read on for more free stuff.

If you’re a newsletter subscriber, I give away two books every month. I’ll give you a free book in exchange for a review. Just contact me here.

And I’ll give anyone that asks a free audiobook until all my codes are gone. Check them out below.

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Your first Free audiobook sample
Your next Free audiobook sample
Paranormal Privateers audiobook
The last Free audiobook sample

Goodbye for now from Chambanacon in Bloomington Illinois!

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5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You

5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You in the whole three years I’ve been writing this blog. How can I be sure? I’ve just learned about them in the past month.

But first, let’s have this:

I wasn’t planning to count this as one weird thing since it’s satire, but I wanted to start with something funny.

Okay, this next item begins the weirdness:

This triggered so many things in my mind: first, the cloaking field from Star Trek.

The Enterprise decloaking

Next, Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility:

https://giphy.com/gifs/harry-potter-magic-J5lxA8X7kisRG
Harry Potter getting his invisibility on

But the oldest example is below:

The Invisible Man – “I’ll show you!”

On we go to the next weird thing.

Your Second Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things

How can I not have the phrase ‘intelligent slime mold’ in my blog post? You may ask, ‘How can a slime mold be intelligent?” They can efficiently solve the famous ‘Travelling Salesman’ problem. You haven’t heard of that? Check out the following article:

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The Travelling Salesman Problem – click the image for more

Earlier in my life, I worked in operations research and this problem was difficult to solve by computer. How difficult? It belongs to a class of problems called ‘NP hard problems’. That means the difficulty goes up as a factorial (1*2*3 = 3 factorial) of the number of cities.

You can solve this by brute computing force, but the slime mold does it without brains! That’s weird.

Your Third Weird Thing

But first, a book break!

I am an author, so I love books. Tell me your favorite and I’ll send you a free short story.

On to our next weird thing! How about a robot that does gymnastics? It also weighs about four hundred pounds.

If this robot isn’t grist for a science fiction story, then I’ve never read SciFi before!

The Penultimate Weird Thing

I love vocabulary for its own sake, ever since I read the ‘Abecedarian Book’ when I was twelve. Penultimate is one of those weird words you read, but may not know the meaning. Look it up.

I read this book when I was 12.

Your new weird thing begins here.

Do you believe this?

You know it’s weird when you can’t believe it (I didn’t) and yet it’s true.

The Last Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things – And Free Stuff

Who doesn’t like dragons?

Finally, I bid you adieu!

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Andy Zach at Archon in St. Louis

PS: I forgot to tell you where you can get free stuff.

First, you can get 31 free books here:

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Click image to get 31 free books

Then, you can get my comic paranormal animal book, Zombie Turkeys here:

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Click to get your free copy