Samuel and Lou continued their trek and would have gotten farther if human author wasn’t dorking around with the website for half the day.  It looks better, but cheese Louise – what a rat hole!  Samuel and Lou are scowling at me.  Maybe I can do better during the impending snowstorm.

Original illustration by James_Illus from fiverr.com

Happenstance nets a win for Samuel after Lou shows his true colors, the selfish son of a coyote!  Added 1000+ words in 45 minutes between laundry, dinners, putting kids to bed, reading stories, cleaning the kitchen and stemming the flow from a leaky drain.  Also, trapped one of Vinnie’s former compatriots under the sink as well (a mole of all things in 20 degree weather).  Dropped him outside near the compost (as Vinnie says “We all have to eat, right?”).  No coyotes present to force the laughter from the audience here though – that was in the meadows.

We’ve dropped the price for “Samuel Shinpike and the Attack of the Roadkill Zombies” to $0.99 until Sunday, February 16, 2014 (Kindle only). Buy the paperback and get the kindle version FREE!

Samuel Shinpike and the inhabitants of the Meadow have made it to Amazon!  After some last minute updates and a deep breath, they took a journey over the internet and are now alive and well for all to see!  We’ll be setting up an email opt-in shortly so you will be able to track promotions and updates on a weekly or bi-weekly basis when Samuel and company have resurfaced.  Resurfaced? Yes – little does Samuel know, he has a tracking device that was placed sub-dermal back when he was a young badger by the professor who was his caretaker when he was rescued in the pillar city of petroleum, during the height (or depth) of the zombie apocalypse. Stay tuned!

Samuel Shinpike and the Attack of the Roadkill Zombies available on Kindle

Also available in paperback!

Samuel made it through the editorial gauntlet and is looking a lot less shabby than when he began. The cover got a redo, a time-warp was fixed, corrective actions against the school of redundancy school were enforced, and as of 21:00GMT Samuel and the crew from the Meadow, along with a host of zombies are on their way to Amazon.com!

Next stop, my mechanic – auto mostly fixed, but a couple of other issues cropped up between inspections.  it seems cars are a lot like computers: they’re guaranteed to be trouble free as long as you don’t operate them.

Next time: Editor.  Reading through it after the seventh time, fixing errors, finding extra words, putting on the comma commando garb then fine ding gits finding it’s still got errors can make one a little insane.  Did I miss those or did the comma fairy come and sprinkle those curly bits throughout my manuscript?  Extra spaces, he where she should be and visa versa.  Fortunately there are roadmaps for going through it with a red pen which will be the next round. First though I may get a proof copy just to throw in the fire.  I hear if you soak it with special salts and let it dry first the colors are beautiful…

Samuel is almost ready to go, but the evil Water Pump and it’s partner in crime, the notorious Blue Pressure Tank have held him hostage for four days! All is not lost, though – as Water Pump and Pressure Tank have been replaced by their do-good  twins! (warrantied for at least one year, capes and billowing wind sold separately).

Zombie Horde from the back cover of “Samuel Shinpike and the Attack of the Roadkill Zombies” © 2014 Andrew Perkins

Samuel has left the confines of the city. He has been living in the “Meadow”, where he thought he’d be able to live an idyllic life as a badger in the country. As with most things in a post-zombie apocalypse world though, things are not always the way they seem.  Turns out there are zombies here too.  Most live in the swamp, some make it across the highway (yes, here in the Pillar Cities metro area they have many of the modern conveniences of the pre-apocalypse world, though traffic jams are few between the cities).

There are other goings on in this bucolic enclave as in just about any rural area: some good, some deadly.

Samuel is just about done here, and will probably be moving on – if he survives.