Why so long? Well, originally I wrote it in answer to a call from Lycaon Press for YA short stories. I'd intended it as a one off but after a suggestion for follow-on titles, I decided to do a trilogy at least. I planned to write the second during the April 2015 Camp NaNoWriMo (when book one would be released), with book three down for the July Camp.
Except halfway through writing book two, Breathless and Lycaon announced their upcoming closure in May, a scant ten days after book one was due to release.
It was a shock. I'd been with BP/LP just over a year since signing my first contract with them, and Zombie Girl was to be my fifth release with them. I took the decision to finish book two to complete my Camp word count, but with my debut novel Keir due for re-release already in May and now five books homeless, I had to make some choices. I decided to go ahead with Keir and my four earlier BP/LP titles (three novellas and a short), while shelving Zombie Girl. Although BP allowed us to use our edited versions, I still needed to buy artwork for them all and get them all back out. It meant re-releasing five titles in one month - more than enough work.
And Zombie Girl? Well, I had several ideas of what I could do with it. I could finish the remaining two parts and release each in turn, with the three put together as one volume for a print version. I could do it as one novel in three parts and sub to agents. I could serialize it, either for free on WattPad, or cheap episodes on retailers. But it meant more writing, and more editing and artwork which would cost. I had my Keir series to complete already, and that's my priority.
So Zombie Girl sat on my hard drive, until a few days ago. I've been thinking a lot about it lately, although I'm still not ready to finish the trilogy. But it bugged me that it was sitting there doing nothing when, with just a cover, I could put it out to expand my backlist and hopefully fund some of my other projects. After playing with a couple of images in an attempt to do my own cover and thus cut costs to a minimum (the stock images cost me just 70 cents), I decided to go ahead with it.
At this point my marvelous editor and cover designer Danielle Fine offered me a helping hand (she spoils me!), and I ended up with a far superior cover to my own attempts (mine was okay, but it'll never be up to Danielle's standards). Zombie Girl: Dead Awakened is now back on the loose as a pre-order, with a 15th February release date(isn't the cover gorily gorgeous?!). You'd better start running!
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