Navy Seals VS Zombies is coming!

Press Release: "BEVERLY HILLS, CA – August 24 2015 – Rick Fox (Former NBA player, Dope, “One Tree Hill”, “Sharknado 3”), Michael Dudikoff (“American Ninja series”, Olympus Has Fallen), Molly Hagan (“iZombie”, Election, Some Kind of Wonderful, “Instant Mom”), Ed Quinn (“Revenge”, “Mistresses”, “True Blood”), Olympian LoLo Jones and real Navy SEALs star in the upcoming action horror thriller Navy SEALs vs. Zombies. The film arrives on Digital HD on Friday, September 25th and on Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on Tuesday, October 6th from Anchor Bay Entertainment and is directed by Stanton Barrett (NASCAR driver and Hollywood stuntman) in his directorial debut.

After losing all contact with the Vice President during a routine campaign stop in Louisiana, the U.S. Government sends in a team of Navy SEALs for the rescue. Dropped into a war zone, the SEALs quickly discover that they aren’t dealing with a normal enemy. The city is under siege by hordes of fast-moving, flesh-eating undead. The infection is spreading and urban warfare has been unleashed. With no cure in sight and time running out, the elite unit has to survive their most horrific mission of all.

Navy SEALs vs. Zombies will be available on Blu-ray™ and DVD for the suggested retail price of $26.99 and $22.98, respectively."

First clip from The Walking Dead Season 6

Check out this first clip from The Walking Dead featuring Sasha and Abraham. Season 6 premieres October 11 , 2015 on AMC.

Interview with Dane Hatchell author of the zombie book Resurrection X

Check out my interview with Dane Hatchell, the author of Resurrection X. (TDWS is short for The Dead War Series)

TDWS: What inspired you to become an author?

DANE HATCHELL: Conventional thinking eludes me at times, not always to my benefit I might add. I’ve been drawn into worlds created by other writers, where imagination is the only limit. Over the years I’ve had various plots for stories appear in my mind, but I never had the ability to flesh out a full story. One day I came across a ‘For the love’ anthology, and decided to sit down and give it a shot. That was over five years ago, and I’m approaching the one million word mark in my fiction writing.

TDWS: Why write in the zombie genre?

DANE HATCHELL: Zombies are an unconventional enemy. A creature who is already dead is a most formidable foe. What better way to explore the human condition than pushing it to limit with flesh eaters with unquenchable appetites who require no sleep?

TDWS: Let's get to your book. What's it about?

DANE HATCHELL: Resurrection X is a post-apocalyptic novel set five years after the defeat of the undead by recombinant DNA warfare. The zombies are turned into obedient slaves and help rebuild the world they nearly destroyed. A lab experiment gone awry turns Lisa Goudard into a zombie-human hybrid with the key to immortality flowing in her blood. Because of the affliction, she losses her status as a citizen and now has to fight for equality. During her downward spiral, forces are at work to enslave her in hopes of perfecting the immortality drug, Resurrection X. But while all of this is going on, though programmed to serve mankind, the zombies harbor the will to survive. The taste of flesh and blood is still a recent memory, and a slow burning hunger intensifies. Let’s just say all events lead toward a day of zombie insurrection.

TDWS: Is it a series?

DANE HATCHELL: Resurrection X is a standalone novel. However, it is the second book in a shared world series. The Dark Times begins the apocalypse, and occurs seven years before Resurrection X.

TDWS: As I'm sure you know there are thousands of zombie books out there right now. What makes yours stand out?

DANE HATCHELL: Resurrection X brings zombies into modern society as True Blood did with vampires. Zombies are integrated into the workforce and are treated as a slave caste. The zombies are used as pawns as different forces in power manipulate their future. Without giving too much away, the zombies are evolving on their own. And whereas this is not a survival novel, there is some old fashion undead crunch and munch to be enjoyed. So Res X puts zombies right into the world of today and there are some twisted individuals that gives the story a real roller coaster ride.

TDWS: What's the cause of the zombie apocalypse in your book/books?

DANE HATCHELL: The Earth wanders into a cloud of space dust and an embedded alien virus rains down. The virus is at first benign, but as time passes it mutates and raises the dead.

TDWS: Are your zombies the fast or slow moving type?

DANE HATCHELL: The zombies are your clasic slow moving type.

TDWS: Are you trying to make any greater point with your books or just write a good zombie story?

DANE HATCHELL: There is a greater point than just a good zombie story. Without being preachy, it does put the ‘shoe on the other foot,’ so to say. Lisa, who harbors no love for the zombie slave caste, essentially joins the ranks when she becomes the human-zombie hybrid. Her physical appearance and physiology changes somewhat, but she retains her sound mind. Lisa is forced to live the life and for once can empathize what it’s like to be treated like a slave. But, this is not some ‘oh woe is me story.’ Lisa may become compassionate for the other side, but she still maintains her character. She always believed in working for what she earned, and her new predicament doesn’t change that. Far left and far right politics both have their weaknesses. Lisa shows real strength comes from seeing both sides of the issues and working for the common good of all.

TDWS: Do you have an online presence? If so where? Blogs, web sites, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

DANE HATCHELL: You can find me on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dane.hatchell

My Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/Dane-Hatchell/e/B003KAR05K/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

And even Twitter: @DaneHatchell

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Interview with Remy Porter author of the zombie book "The Aussie Dead"

Check out my interview with Remy Porter. The author of The Aussie Dead. (TDWS is short for The Dead War Series)

TDWS: What inspired you to become an author?

REMY PORTER: I think a lot of people are attracted to the idea of writing a novel. I’d always liked reading horror fiction from my teenaged days, authors like James Herbert and Stephen King. Back in 2008 and 2009 I’d recently discovered a number of indie zombie novels for the first time, such as Iain McKinnon’s, Domain of the Dead. I was a rural British police officer at the time and I had a slightly inspired idea to use the idea of a country policeman finding himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. This idea eventually became my first novel, Dead Beat.

TDWS: Why write in the zombie genre?

REMY PORTER: I think there is a great deal of inherent drama just from the premise. Usually it’s going to involve the end of society as you know it. Law and order breaking down. A lack of supplies. I think the zombie genre is fun to write in because you can create a world where both the characters and the world in general become very unpredictable. Obviously there are a lot of zombie stories out there now, so half the fun is trying to put a fresh spin on your own story.

TDWS: Lets's get to your book. What's it about? Is it a series?

REMY PORTER: The Aussie Dead is a 17,000 word novella set in Australia. It takes the premise of a British family flying into Australia for a holiday of a lifetime and getting rather more than they bargained for. Potentially it is the first of a series of zombie novellas set in Australia. I choose Australia in mainly because I lived there between 2010 and 2015, and have only just returned the UK. There is surprisingly little zombie fiction set there and I thought it was high time that changed.

TDWS: As I'm sure you know there are thousands of zombie books out there right now. What makes yours stand out?

REMY PORTER: There are a great deal of zombie books out there, certainly mountains more than when I started reading them back in 2008 and 2009. I would hope my stories stand out through unusual settings and a decent streak of British black humour.

TDWS: Are your zombies the fast or slow moving type?

REMY PORTER: Certainly in Dead Beat there appeared to be a mixture of both. I’m aware this is now something of a contentious issue. I probably lean towards the slow these days, but it’s not set in stone.

TDWS: Are you trying to make any greater point with your books or just write a good zombie story?

REMY PORTER: I do really just try to write good stories. My stories don’t necessarily have a huge amount of subtext, but I do try to write balanced and realistic characters. To my mind it more interesting to not have the lead character as some kind of Bruce Willis type, but more an average person adapting to exceptional events.

TDWS: Do you have an online presence? If so where? Blogs, web sites, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

REMY PORTER: I am active on Facebook under the name Remy Porter. There is also an older website, remyporter.com.

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Interview with Rich Hawkins author of the zombie book The Last Plague

Check out my interview with Rich Hawkins. The author of The Last Plague. (TDWS is short for The Dead War Series)

TDWS: What inspired you to become an author?

Rich Hawkins: I’ve loved horror since I was a young lad, especially horror books. At school I started writing a few short stories, but never finished them, and I drifted away from wanting to be a writer. But it was always in the back of my mind and I would often think of ideas and stories; I just never had the self-discipline to sit down and write them. And in my teenage years and early-to-mid-twenties I was more interested in getting drunk and having a good time. That changed when I met my then-girlfriend (now my wife), and she bought me a copy of Stephen King’s ‘Pet Cemetery’ for Christmas. The book, coupled with her encouragement, made me get my head down and start a novel. It was called ‘Ghost of You’, a supernatural thriller, and it was awful and never got published. But it reignited my desire to write stories…and then I went on from there.

TDWS: Why write in the zombie genre?

Rich Hawkins: Ever since I saw Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ on late-night TV, when I was fifteen, I’ve been interested in zombies and how they can be used in stories. After watching DOTD, I discovered NOTLD and it went on from there. And then 28 Days Later arrived, and with the explosion of the zombie’s popularity at that time, I was absolutely hooked. The release of 2004’s Dawn of the Dead and later Shaun of the Dead, ensured I was smitten.

When I first started taking writing seriously, it never occurred to me to write a zombie novel. And later, when zombies had become mainstream, I was reluctant to write about zombies/infected, because it seemed like everyone was writing a zombie story, and I didn’t want to get lost in the horde. That changed in 2012, when I decided to write a novel about four old friends caught in the chaos of an apocalypse – I just didn’t know what would cause the apocalypse. Then I got the idea of a virus that mutates people and turns them into ferocious cannibals whose only instincts are to infect and feed, and that idea became ‘The Last Plague’.

I love zombies/virus/infected/end of the world stories, so it made sense to actually write one instead of daydreaming about it.

TDWS: Let's get to your book. What's it about? Is it a series?

Rich Hawkins: The Last Plague is a novel about four old friends who go on a stag weekend (what people in the US would call a bachelor party?) to an isolated cottage in the English countryside. When they leave the cottage and set off to return to their home village on the other side of the country, they find abandoned cars and deserted houses. They have no idea what’s happening until they’re attacked by people infected with some unknown virus, and the friends realise that a horrific epidemic has hit Great Britain. They have to make the long journey home to reach their families as the country descends into chaos. The novel has recently been shortlisted for Best Horror Novel at this year’s British Fantasy Awards.

I intended it as a trilogy – the sequel, ‘The Last Outpost’ is released in September, and I’m currently writing the third novel, ‘The Last Soldier’.

TDWS: As I'm sure you know there are thousands of zombie books out there right now. What makes yours stand out?

Rich Hawkins: Hopefully the nature of the virus and the hints of cosmic horror in the background of the story make it stand out a little bit. My infected aren’t zombies, as they’re still alive, and they share some similarities with the alien creature in John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’. Plus I hope the central relationship between the old friends resonates with readers.

TDWS: What's the cause of the zombie apocalypse in your book/books?

Rich Hawkins: I left it ambiguous in The Last Plague, although there are a few hints. More is explained about the virus in The Last Outpost. I wanted to keep it a mystery, so the reader could relate to the situation the characters are in, and feel their confusion as they try to survive in a world that’s gone to hell.

TDWS: Are your zombies the fast or slow moving type?

Rich Hawkins: They’re fast – but some of them who’ve been injured tend to be a bit slower. Varying degrees really. Some of them crawl or skitter about on all fours. They’re still bound to the limits of the host body’s condition. They’re not superhuman. I tried to mix it up.

TDWS: Are you trying to make any greater point with your books or just write a good zombie story?

Rich Hawkins: My main aim is to write a story people will enjoy, with an interesting plot and characters, and hopefully give it some layers, with themes of grief, loss, death and mass extinction. Different readers will have varying views on whether I succeed with that. Different people look for different things in the stories they read, I think.

TDWS: Do you have an online presence? If so where? Blogs, web sites, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Rich Hawkins: Yes, I’m on Facebook and Twitter. I also have a blog, but it’s a bit underused at the moment and I tend to announce any book news on Facebook and Twitter. Drop by and say hello!

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