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Get Your Comic Fantasy Books Signed By Author Andy Zach

Writing Paranormal Privateer

Get Your Comic Fantasy Books Signed By Author Andy Zach

You can attend this book signing and Get Your Comic Fantasy Books Signed by the foremost comic paranormal animal author, me, Andy Zach.

Which Comic Fantasy Books Signed?

You might know this one:

Comic Fantasy Books Signed
Zombie Turkeys front cover. Click to get a copy!

If you don’t, read the latest review from Amazon:

4.0 out of 5 stars Getting a leg up on the competition
ByJoshua Granton April 13, 2018
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

Have you ever seen Thankskilling? If you haven’t yet, don’t, it’s absolutely terrible. It attempted to meld the concept of horror films with turkeys with a smidge of humor as the glue, but let’s just say it failed miserably (honestly, no audience could possibly gobble that up). Fortunately, being no stranger to reanimating corpses, Andy Zach succeeded in that department. Zach’s Zombie Turkeys (yes seriously…sort of) was a lot of fun and involved, you guessed it, the zombie apocalypse…but with turkeys.

Zombie Turkeys follows a myriad of distraught survivors as they’re faced with the unthinkable. Sam and Lisa battle their way across a corpse infested Illinois. The fun part about the book comes from the absolute absurdity of it all, and the fact that the turkey (our patient zero in the flesh, light or dark meat your choice) gets his own perspective chapters that added a uniqueness to the classic trope. All around a fun romp through a near future where turkeys get their just revenge and survivors serve up some rotted carcasses with a healthy dose of stuffing!

There’s also this next book:

Next Comic Fantasy Books Signed:

Comic Fantasy Books Signed
Get your copy of My Undead Mother-in-law by clicking here!

With this typical review:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this NOW and laugh away your troubles!

September 20, 2017

Format: Paperback

Paranormal Privateers  launches May 5th at I Know You Like A Book bookstore in Peoria Hts. The book’ll go on sale worldwide then. Don’t miss it! Here’s a sneak preview of the back cover:

But there’s more next!

What could be better than meeting Andy Zach?

Getting him in your email! You can subscribe and get a free ebook by clicking here:

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Goodbye for now!  Look for my newsletter after you subscribe above!

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Andy Zach’s Tombstone and News From the Net

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Andy Zach’s Tombstone and News From the Net

As I said in my previous blog post, I’ve been busy editing and writing my third novel, Paranormal Privateers. That hasn’t stopped me from surfing the net and Facebook and finding all kinds of stuff.  Let’s start off with Andy Zach’s Tombstone and epitaph, kindly supplied by my author friend GD Deckard.  Give him a follow if you like!

For those who don’t follow article links:

Andy Zach's Tombstone

Thanks to Affordable Markers for the free tombstone design service!

For those who aren’t familiar with my Ph.D. thesis, you can read about it here.

News From the Net other than Andy Zach’s Tombstone

First, here’s a wonderful library where you can spend a day–and a night.

Please reply if you’d like to spend a night here, like I would.

Next, we have this awesome, breathtaking video:

You may not know my first love was science fiction and before that, the US space program and astronomy. I remember tracking John Glenn’s three trips around the earth in pencil on the paper map of the world on my wall. I studied my wall diagram of the solar system endlessly. Then I got hooked on science fiction.

Sometime in the 70s, I discovered fantasy, probably through Tolkein’s ‘Lord of the Rings’.

What do you like to read?

If you want to simulate the solar system, here’s just the app to do it:

Final News about Andy’s Next Book, Paranormal Privateers

I’ve sent my book to my editor, Dori Harrell. I kept detailed statistics on my writing and editing. Here they are:

November 2017 – Nanoma writing month, I began the first draft.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
1,008.64                     50,141.00                  41:03:00

Much to my chagrin, that encompassed only about half my book! I kept writing in December, but the holidays slowed me down.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
630.00                    59,454.00               66:02:00

I wrote 20% as many words, but it took 50% more time! I kept writing in January and finished the first draft.

Words/hour  Running total of words  Running total of time
     779.41                   97,676.00               127:15:00

I worked as much in January as I did in November and December combined!

Then I edited in February. But that’s a story for another blog post.

Paranormal Privateers in Andy Zach's Tombstone
Cropped sketch of the back cover of Paranormal Privateers
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Get Your Advance Copy of Paranormal Privateers Now

Get Your Advance Copy of Paranormal Privateers Now

You read that right. You can get your advance reader copy (ARC) of Paranormal Privateers Now.  I finished my edits on Paranormal Privateers. You can get your advance copy now. To show you I mean business, here’s an advance copy of the back cover:

Paranormal Privateers Now
Cropped sketch of Paranormal Privateers back cover 

Here’s How: Get Your ARC Paranormal Privateers Now

It’s as simple as One, Two, Three!

First, subscribe to the Andy Zach newsletter, if you haven’t already. Go here.

Second, contact me, Andy Zach right here.  Or, if something goes wrong, you can email me at [email protected]

Third, when you contact me, just ask for your ARC copy with your email address, and I’ll send it.

Andy Zach, Where Were You?

No blog posts for a month. No newsletter since February 9th. (If you want the last newsletter or any from the past, just ask in the comments, or right here.

What have I been doing? Editing Paranormal Privateers, the very ARC copy I’ll send to you, and I sent to my editor,  Dori Harrell of Breakout Editing.

Since I love statistics, here are some on my editing process:

  • I researched and and outlined Paranormal Privateers last summer, August through October.
  • Then I wrote the first draft in 127 hours. That’s 97,676 words written from November 1 to January 31st.
  • Finally, I edited for 140 hours producing the 2nd draft from Feb 2nd to March 2nd.

Is That All You’ve Done Andy?

Not exactly. Hop over to my Facebook page and you’ll see my posts like this:

And this:

And finally this:

Then I also updated my Zombie Turkeys page with this next post and more:

Not to mention this next post:

And then this one:

Finally (I really mean it this time) Don’t Miss These Dates!

First, May 5, Paranormal Privateers worldwide launch date!  Look for my launch party on Facebook!

Second, April 15th. Instead of depression over the US tax days, let’s have the Paranormal Privateers cover reveal!

And then there’ll be author appearances To Be Announced!

Weekend Zombie News
Andy Zach at Chambanacon 2017