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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Right now, zombies work
A lot.
(Probably why they're so tired.)
Next week it might be superhero lawyers that works.
Or a different look at zombies.
Or outright slapstick fantasy.
Not sure what it will be but odds are higher that it'll come out of indie-land while the corporate publishers are racing around looking for the next 50 Shades or Hunger Games clone. (There are still folks maing money out of the Harry Potter Kid-something-or-other meme.)
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I read a lot of UF, but zombies are probably the one part of the genre I haven't embraced (pun intended). I think the only zombie book I've read was one by Amanda Hocking--Hollowmen? Hollowland? I thought it was quite well-done as it's a character-based story of some teens on the run. Zombies are enemy number one. She got a few facts wrong (and I don't mean zombie facts--I mean things like a teenage girl heaving a car battery at a zombie or dripping basements in Nevada) but the story *moves* and is compelling.
Zombies don't interest me much. Vamps as a love interest? Are you CRAZED? The guy is dead. And who is going to take out the trash in the morning? And does he have a job? Because the whole idea of a woman going to work all day Kicking Ass and taking names, who then comes home to some dead loser without a job just doesn't cut it.