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Book Dedicated to My Mother-in-law – Find Out Why–What book is that? My Undead Mother-in-law. And the book is on sale from July 23-30! Click here to get it!

But why? Barbara Beyer was my mother-in-law. (She passed in 2020 at 88). She lived in our home while I wrote My Undead Mother-in-law in 2016 and 2017. Here’s the dedication page:

Happy Mother's Day
Book Dedicated
Diane Newby, in her natural environment.

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My mother-in-law read the book and loved it. Read what other readers think below!

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Shannon Skinner

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024

Fun zombie read! I love paranormal and supernatural books so I was intrigued to read this series. I’ve listened to it on audible and the narrators are really fun and easy to listen to, I feel like they’re talking to actual people rather than reading a story. The storyline is funny and it has just gotten better with each book in the series.

Excellent!

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kixfan

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024

Great story. Really hilarious in a ridiculous way and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I love this story! Amazing author and an amazingly well done performance.

My Undead Mother-in-law Excerpt

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Sam arrived at the Deviled Turkeys farm in the dark winter
evening. Sam could see the National Guard trucks and a
couple of police cars along the snowy drive to the barnyard.
They had distracted the flock of perhaps a thousand turkeys
from attacking the house and were now barely holding their
own position.


Sam heard the BANG of shotguns, and the pop, pop of
rifles and pistols. Why did the police waste their time and
ammunition? Those weapons proved ineffective against the
zombie turkeys last November.


Grabbing his trusty Flaming Turkey brand flamethrower
from the backseat, he approached the line of soldiers.


“Stay away, mister!” an officer yelled over the crackle of
gunfire.
Sam noticed he had a skinny neck and a shock of red hair.


“You should have a flamethrower!” Sam yelled back.


“We do! We can’t use them this close to the buildings.
There’s a family in there!”


Good thing Lisa isn’t here, Sam thought. During the zombie
turkey apocalypse, she’d flamed first and asked questions
later.


Another car pulled up in the drive. The officer yelled, “Get
away, ma’am! This is a dangerous situation!”


“I’ve come to reason with the turkeys,” Diane Newby yelled
back, her red eyes gleaming.


“You can’t reason with crazed killer turkeys!”

“You watch me!” She leapt past the officer, past the line of
soldiers, directly toward the mass of turkeys. The soldiers
ceased firing, for fear of hitting her. The mass of turkeys
washed over Diane like a tsunami. Sam reluctantly filmed her
last moments, for her family’s sake.


The mound of turkeys burst apart, revealing Diane
throttling a tom. She ripped off its head, legs, wings and then
smashed the body into paste on the ground.

“Listen up, you turkeys!” she yelled. “I’m the boss turkey
now! Follow me!” Obediently, the turkeys followed her into the
barn. She led them back into their cages and shut them in.
Where the turkeys had burst doors and wire fencing, using her
bare hands Diane wove the tough steel wire into a tight net,
holding them securely. “Good thing I’m handy with macramé,”
she said to herself as she wove.

Diane’s clothing was shredded and bloody like she’d been
through a wood chipper, but her skin showed pink and
unbroken through the many holes in her pants and coat. Sam
ran to her.

“Are you OK, Diane?”

“Never felt better! I told you I could reason with the zombie
turkeys!”

“How did you find out?”

“It was on the zombie turkey Twitter feed on the Midley
Beacon page, where I was reading your story about us!”

From My Undead Mother-in-law, by Andy Zach

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What are You Getting Your Mother-in-law for Mother’s Day? Try My Undead Mother-in-law. Why should you get this book for her?

I’m giving you everything I have about this delightful, middle-aged, zombie woman with anger management issues. This is every excerpt I have on her throughout my seven-year career as a self-published author.

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Here’s an info dump on Diane Newby, the undead mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law’s a zombie. And she has anger-management issues. My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don’t treat her like a normal human being—with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn’t get her way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

But the world’s most powerful criminal plans to control zombies. His only problem with zombies is that they have way too much free will. He has a solution for that. But will it work with Diane Newby? The world is divided into pro-zombie and anti-zombie factions. Battles break out everywhere. Which side will you take? Who will live and who will die? You might not survive this book. But at least you’ll die laughing.

Here’s your first reason to get the book:

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“Sam, you’re fired.” Lisa’s green eyes met his brown ones.

“What? Lisa, you and I have worked together at the Midley Beacon for ten years! And we’ve known each other for fifteen!  And we’ve been married almost two months!”   

“Sorry Sam. Romance has to take a back seat to finances. Ever since the bottom dropped out of the zombie turkey news market since the first of the year, the Midley Beacon hasn’t made enough to pay your salary.”

“But that’s our salary. We share and share alike.”

“We can still live on my salary. And you can apply for unemployment, now that you’re fired.”  

“But what’ll I do all day? I can only play Fortnight for so long.”

“What did you do before I hired you, ten years ago? What did you do while I was in college?”

“Uh, mow lawns. Handyman repair. Stuff like that. But I’m a grown man now. I want more.”

“Hmm, you are a decent reporter.”

“Thanks Lisa. That’s high praise from you.”

“Well it’s the truth. You’ve grown from a crappy reporter, like 99% of all reporters, to well above average. I did lay off everyone else on the staff before you, you know.”

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“Aw, you’re making me feel warm and mushy.”

“That’s part of good management, emotional manipulation.”

“Uh, you mean you don’t mean it?”

“Nah, I mean it. Emotional manipulation is much more effective if you’re sincere.  Say, why don’t you call Andy Zach and see if he has some royalties to share. We signed a contract with him to get half the royalties from his book Zombie Turkeys. We supplied more than half his source material right from the pages of the Midley Beacon.”

“I just called him yesterday. His sales haven’t paid for the cover yet, let alone the editing.”

“I told him to go with traditional publishing!”

“He’d still be trying to get an agent, let alone publishing his book. Who wants to represent a zombie turkey author?”

“So think of something to do with your reporting and investigative skills. That’s your first job. Get out of here and work on it at home. When I come home tonight, I want a decision from you. That’s a deadline.”

“Ok, Lisa. And thanks. You know I work best under a deadline.”

“Sure dear. We’ll go out for dinner tonight to celebrate your new career, whatever it will be.”

“I’m kind of tired of McDonalds.”

“We’ll spurge. We’ll go to the big city of Peoria. Maybe to the Country Time Buffet.”

“Wow. Thanks, Lisa.”

“Now, shoo! Don’t forget to clear out your desk.”

From Zombie Detective, by Andy Zach

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Not a typical zombie story!

  • Overall    5 out of 5 stars
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Based on the title and the cover, I originally thought the detective was going to be a zombie back in the 30s or 40s. That wasn’t the case, but it was still a hilarious amateur detective story and I loved the absurdity of it all.

It’s a short read (or listen, since I listened to the audiobook), but is packed with Sam in crazy situations with all sorts of zombies. His string of good luck is as unlikely as the conundrums he finds himself involved in, but somehow it works for him.

Phil Blechman was the perfect choice for Sam’s character. Lauren Testerman did a great job channeling Lisa, the poor woman who has to manage Sam and all his antics.

I Love Andy Zach’s Books!

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I wasn’t quite sure where this book was going when it started but as it kept going I understood where it fit in the timeline. . . It was a great book. I laughed several times. Now that I’ve finished this one, I’m going to have to read my Undead Mother-In-Law again.

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