Zombie Housewives
Ami Blackwelder
Genre: NA Paranormal Thriller
Publisher: Eloquent Enraptures Publishing
Date of Publication: Halloween, 2013
ASIN: B00H6TIGGS
Number of pages: 26 on kindle
Word Count: 9,416
Cover Artist: Ami Blackwelder
Book Description:
Welcome to Mulberry Lane, NJ where a quiet suburbia died as the sun descended. The reporters tell us something in the soap caused these...these changes. No one could say for sure what caused this, but this is one neighborhood that will never be the same.
When Crystal, Jennifer and Carrie begin to change from housewives into zombies they bring all their repressed angst with them. Dishes, laundry, and neglectful husbands and spiral into a fit of rage. Follow these three characters in a dark comedy where being a housewife never looked so creepy.
This is an original novella. The sequel is Zombie Models.
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Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/1gnudO9rBQ8
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Zombie Housewives: It Started in the Kitchen
New Jersey, in the not so distant future...
Crystal and Alex
A silent scream erupted from somewhere deep inside Crystal. She could feel the anger building, like something inside of her broke. Slowly counting to 10, she gently placed the camera on the sofa and spun back around to glare at her husband Alex, her thin summer dress swirling around her. “Fine, I won’t pick up my camera again! I’ll spend all day in the kitchen.” Trapped, she felt so trapped, unconsciously her upper lip curled like an angry dog.
Her husband Alex threw his hands up before finishing his point, just like he always did, and then his hands landed on his suit’s slacks. “I didn’t mean it like that, Crystal. I just need you to be more focused on the housework. Dishes are piling up and the floors are dirty. I’m at work all day and then come home to this...this filth.” His carefully trimmed eyebrows sat at angles over his dark slanted eyes. His tall and slender shape hung over her like a drill sergeant, his growing anger would become one more thing his mother would blame on Crystal, somehow. Sometimes she imagined him floating out the window like a kite, his words dragging behind him like a tail. It may not soften the stabbing complaints seeping from his mouth, but the image of him flying away made the words a little less painful. Wow, when did she start wishing she could blow him out of her life?
She wished that she could feel chastised by this charade of a fight that they seemed to have every payday, but these days she couldn’t summon enough emotion to care. She dusted her hands on her dress before she marched into the kitchen and jerked on the faucet, her wavy blond locks bouncing behind her. Water splashed over the dishes and she squeezed a few more drops of the SunShine dish soap into the filling sink. Rinse, Soap, Rinse, repeat. She settled into the never-ending ballet that was the dishes, the sudsy plates dancing across the counter. Her fingers started tingling.
Alex followed her into the kitchen and continued. “Can’t you spend less time on your hobby and more time on the house?”
He went there.
“Hobby! Hobby?” The anger rising in her throat was palpable. “I studied photography at college. I have wanted to be a photographer since I got my first camera at four years old. How long did you study for your job? Eight Weeks? Whatever, Alex! If we hadn’t gotten married right out of college maybe I would have had time to pursue my dreams... I am your wife, not your slave. I have replaced working on my career with working on your dinner and five years later where has that gotten me?” Another bowl careened into the soapy water.
“What does that mean?”
“It means you were supposed to have duties too, remember? Or did you already forget all the promises you made?” She spun from the sink, her back at the counter edge, and her hands covered in suds. At least he had the decency to blush, the red creeping up his cheeks staining his Asian complexion.
"I didn’t care about your promises of a two story home with a picket fence and two cars. I never cared about keeping up with the Joneses, or the Changs, or the Griffins. I never wanted to get married." Damn it, why was she crying? "I wanted to travel the world, just me and my camera. Then you came along and I loved you so much that my heart hurt every time I thought of leaving...My bag is packed, Alex, has been for two months now.
It has been five years, Alex. Five years! What do we have to show for it?” She flung her hands at him and the suds scattered. She scanned the dingy kitchen of their one bedroom home, as if just noticing the peeling wall paper, mismatched chairs and chipping paint.
“I’ve told you real estate is tight right now. No one is buying. The economy is bad. I work all day to make ends meet and come home to more mess. How do you think that makes me feel?”
“Fine, Alex. You win.” Her emerald eyes grew defiant, though her pale complexion turned hot red. She folded her arms tightly over her chest, opening and closing her suddenly stiff fingers. Wasn’t 27 too young to get arthritis?
“Don’t be like that. I’m...” he fished for a reason to cool the argument, “just hungry darling.” Alex inched closer and stroked her cheek with his pinky. She sighed, just about ready to believe his apology. “Could you get me something to eat?”
Jerk!
“Sure!” She wiped her hands off on the dish towel and shoved a frozen dinner into the microwave. The tiny door slammed.“Be ready in five.” She turned on her heel to walk out of the kitchen–being that close to the knives was far too tempting.
Silent at last, Alex stood motionless in the hallway of the kitchen. Crystal brushed past him and headed to the sofa to find her camera. Lifting the viewfinder into her eyes, she aimed the lens at Alex’s disappointed expression as the microwave timer buzzed.
Review Quotes:
"I could totally relate!" -Ashley
"Not your typical zombie story!" -Ami
"The characters stayed with me long after the read." –Katherine
Welcome to Darkest Cravings, tell us a little bit about yourself?
I’m a writer, a teacher and a traveler. I been to Asia, Europe and lived in Asia for six years. I’m actually writing this in Thailand.
When did you first consider yourself a “writer”?
In Elementary school.I would write all kinds of stories and my teacher would read them aloud in class.
Writing adult fiction isn’t for everyone, how did you end up writing for the toughest audience?
I write for adults and YA audience. I have two imprints: Forbidden Passion with every heartbeat which is young love, sweet with some dark sides (AngelFire chronicles, Mer Chronicles, Guardians of the Gate Chronicles) and A Different Kind of Heartbeat (Zombie Housewives, Midnight: Century of the Vampire, and Shifters Saga which is being made into an indie film http://shifterevolutions.blogspot.com)
Most of the intimidating parts of being an adult fiction writer is the steamy scenes, how did you overcome the “stage fright”?
I wrote my first sex scenes in SHIFTERS of 2040 and my editor helped me grow out of my shell.
Which fictional character would you like to go on a date with?
Gosh, Auggie from Covert Affaris of course, or El —the Israeli Why? Hotness and sweetness at their perfect mix.
What was the first adult fiction novel that you read? What was your reaction?
Your favorite adult fiction book is- I like literature,scifi, historical, dystopia and some paranormal. I’d say sex scenes in history or a paranormal realm are usually hot. I don’t really have a favorite.
Your favorite Author is-?
George Lucas, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck , Veronica Roth, Suzzane Collins
We all have a treasured possession, what is yours?
Labtop
Are your characters based on real people or did you create them from scratch?
A bit of both.
Do you think adult fiction have reached its full potential yet, or are we still in for a huge surprise?
Huge surprises are all around us all the time.
Do you think adult fiction helps improves relationships?
Yes, it gives us an escape when we need it and a renewal of energy at times.
If you have to pitch adult fiction to someone that’s too shy to read it, what would you pitch?
Its just you and your book. No one is watching you.
What is your motto?
Believe
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Ami Blackwelder is a Paranormal and SciFi author. Her stories range from Tween & YA to Adult. Growing up in Florida, she graduated UCF and in 1997 received her BA in English and additional teaching credentials. Then she packed her bags and travelled overseas to teach in Thailand, Nepal, Tibet, China and Korea. She has always loved writing and wrote poems and short stores since childhood; however, her novels began when she was in Thailand in her thirties.
Having won the Best Fiction Award from the University of Central Florida (Yes, The Blair Witch Project University), her short fiction From Joy We Come, Unto Joy We Return was published in the on campus literary magazine: Cypress Dome and remains to this day in University libraries around the USA. Later, she achieved the semi-finals in a Laurel Hemingway contest and published a few poems in the Thailand’s Expat magazine, and an article in the Thailand’s People newspaper. Additionally, she has published poetry in the Korea’s AIM magazine, the American Poetic Monthly magazine and Twisted Dreams Magazine.
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