Sometimes DARK-
Sometimes SIZZLING-
Sometimes FUNNY
Noble Romance Presents its Lesbian vs Zombie SERIES.
Where your every emotion will be mercilessly played upon.
COMING Jan 23rd the 2nd from this HOTSeries releases.
Author Amber Green’s
http://www.shapeshiftersinlust.com/
Dead Kitties Don’t Purr
People who take their shots and do as they’re told have nothing to fear, right? The Rabies Z epidemic began and ended in Miami this past summer, didn’t it? And that guy my daddy saw at the Jacksonville airport last week was just having an epileptic seizure. No cause for alarm. Epilepsy always causes an eighteen-hour hazmat shutdown at a major airport. Right? Right. So while my twin tours to flog her newest album, here I am, Camie Invisible, parked at this nice, safe college–as far from the infection as I can get and still pay in-state tuition. Only now my studies have become focused on the fascinating Risa Ruiz. And she has eyes for me. Isn’t this the perfect time for the z-things to show up?
Q- Where did the story idea emerge from?
AG- Thinking back, I guess the series started with my gut reaction to reading, "F/F doesn't sell. Lesbians don't buy books." Really? Only males and cis females buy books? And nobody buys f/f? What a shock that must be to the traditional lesbian publishers.
A year or so ago, at a local writing retreat, Shara Azod mentioned trying to put together a multi-author series involving lesbians and zombies. I didn't attend the retreat, but I might have heard something about her idea, or the idea might have come to me independently. When an idea's time has come, many people come up with it more or less simultaneously.
The series started out as a female-centric Decameron: stories of sex and survival and what makes survival worthwhile. Using zombies as the putative antagonists was as much a no-brainer as using lesbians for the heroines. Music was picked to give the stories another common thread and to symbolize the things that make survival worthwhile. (Given ten different voices and probably ten different kinds of zombies, we needed a few common threads.)
Which led to the question of what I was going to write. Zombies. College. Music. Two girls in love. Okay, start backward. Who are these lovers? I remembered a soft-voiced, unfailingly polite girl I worked with for a while, who wore white jeans and managed to stay inexplicably clean no matter how dirty I got while working right beside her. I remembered her girlfriend, and how they seemed to quietly glow when they looked at each other. I kept the white jeans and the glow, along with a few other elements, and worked from there.
Q- From the little bit above, I can’t help but wonder how you feel about secret gov cover-ups? What I mean by this is all the numerous black and deadly things growing at the CDC. Do you think there might be something the gov is working on that could be similar to a zombie outbreak?
AG- The government could easily have concocted the germs that started this outbreak; the first mutation appeared in Atlanta, interestingly close to the site of the Centers for Disease Control. Germ warfare is so tempting, and so dangerous. Picture vaccinating the friendlies in a contested area, then releasing a few hundred infectious rats to wipe out everyone who hasn't been vaccinated. But how do you get the vector--the rats--to obey boundaries? If the government set the fire, the fire went wild quickly. Nobody can control a disease with many vectors, if it mutates fast enough to stay ahead of vaccine production.
Me- I think deep down we all have a deep rooted fear about zombies. I mean who wants to ever think the dead might decide to get back up? Ya know? But I do fear some of these new super bugs lurking deep within our cellular structure. Gah!
Q- That makes me ask this. What does your heroine truly think about the outbreak?
AG- Rabies has always been a horrific disease. It normally takes at least two months to show the first symptom, and once symptoms manifest, you're a goner. Nothing can save you. And what if you know that your final days or weeks will be spent as something less than human: something terrifyingly dangerous and disgustingly mindless and subject to relentless agony? She's rather fatalistic about what's going on around her, actually, until it hits too close to home.
Q- What’s your heroine's best Bad Ass feature?
AG-Hm. Well, she's quite capable of extreme practicality. Which might (not to drop any spoilers) involve a fishing knife and a good knowledge of anatomy. She is a doctor's daughter, after all.
I’d like to thank Amber for coming and sharing about her latest release available Jan 23rd from ...Noble Romance:
https://www.nobleromance.com/Books/388/Dead-Kitties-Don%27t-PurrAmber is graciously offering up two prizes!!
(1) Winner to receive ‘Dead Kitties Don’t Purr’
(Code for ebook)
(1) Gorgeous L-vs-Z Tee shirt!To enter simply leave a comment below what your favorite genre is.
Winner to be announced Sat Jan 28th.
Be the 1st to Own this Incredible Series!!!
Stay tuned to the blog as I will be updating as more in the series releases!