by Jason Joyner | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog, CSFF, Imaginary Jesus, Matt Mikalatos, monsters, Night of the Living Dead Christian, zombies as literature
Yesterday I asked if you were ready.
If you’re back today, I’m assuming you are.
The CSFF Tour is featuring a book with a very intriguing title. Night Of The Living Dead Christian.
You’d think it would be the most interesting book we’ve ever featured. However, it has to settle for a tie.
The tie is with a book called
My Imaginary Jesus (known then as
Imaginary Jesus), which features time travel, sledding mishaps, and talking donkeys chasing after the real Jesus among a multitude of fake ones.
Oh, and they’re both by the same warped mind: Matt Mikalatos*.
These books are unique. They are fiction, but the main character is Matt himself, inserted into a wacky world where anything can happen. They preach more than any other novel you’ll read this year, but they are so fun you won’t really notice. Matt manages to poke fun and satirize the Church, our religious goofiness, and himself whle making the reader laugh. Then the reader will be asking what kind of monster they could be.
In Night Of The Living Dead Christian, intrepid Matt is the lone Neighborhood Watchman for his street. After happening upon a mad scientist, his android sidekick, and a horde of zombies, he finally ends up doing something interesting.
He meets a Lutheran werewolf. His name: Luther Anne Martin.
Luther seems like a perfectly decent fellow. Other than he’s a Lutheran but not a Christian. He has a wife and daughter. But they’ve moved out because Luther has an itch he can’t quite scratch. At least, not in his human form.
Lycanthropes have much sharper claws with which to itch.
Matt, being the helpful fellow he is, and being stuck in his own story, tries to help Luther make a transformation for good rather than evil. Along the way they dodge well-dressed zombies, a reluctant vampire, and Matt’s pregnant wife in their quest.
Confused? Yeah, you’re just going to have to read it.
I’ll have more on the meat of the story tomorrow, but how about a fun little quiz? What type of monster would you be out of the list below? Leave a comment explaining your choice. I promise I’ll…try to think up something clever for the type that gets the most votes. [And Matt has even provided a guide to help your choice. Sweet!]
- Vampire
- Werewolf
- Gargantuan
- Mummy
- Invisible Person
- Mad Scientist
- Troll
- Robot (Androids and Cyborgs count too)
- Sasquatches
- Troll
- Zombie
For even more interactive fun, Becky Miller lists all the current posts for the CSFF Tour at her website. So hurry on over and see what others are saying.
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*Nobody noticed my dangling asterix. When I crossed through warped in describing Matt, I realized it takes one to know one…
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by Jason Joyner | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog, CSFF, Imaginary Jesus, Matt Mikalatos, monsters, Night of the Living Dead Christian, zombies as literature
Yesterday I asked if you were ready.
If you’re back today, I’m assuming you are.
The CSFF Tour is featuring a book with a very intriguing title. Night Of The Living Dead Christian.
You’d think it would be the most interesting book we’ve ever featured. However, it has to settle for a tie.
The tie is with a book called
My Imaginary Jesus (known then as
Imaginary Jesus), which features time travel, sledding mishaps, and talking donkeys chasing after the real Jesus among a multitude of fake ones.
Oh, and they’re both by the same warped mind: Matt Mikalatos*.
These books are unique. They are fiction, but the main character is Matt himself, inserted into a wacky world where anything can happen. They preach more than any other novel you’ll read this year, but they are so fun you won’t really notice. Matt manages to poke fun and satirize the Church, our religious goofiness, and himself whle making the reader laugh. Then the reader will be asking what kind of monster they could be.
In Night Of The Living Dead Christian, intrepid Matt is the lone Neighborhood Watchman for his street. After happening upon a mad scientist, his android sidekick, and a horde of zombies, he finally ends up doing something interesting.
He meets a Lutheran werewolf. His name: Luther Anne Martin.
Luther seems like a perfectly decent fellow. Other than he’s a Lutheran but not a Christian. He has a wife and daughter. But they’ve moved out because Luther has an itch he can’t quite scratch. At least, not in his human form.
Lycanthropes have much sharper claws with which to itch.
Matt, being the helpful fellow he is, and being stuck in his own story, tries to help Luther make a transformation for good rather than evil. Along the way they dodge well-dressed zombies, a reluctant vampire, and Matt’s pregnant wife in their quest.
Confused? Yeah, you’re just going to have to read it.
I’ll have more on the meat of the story tomorrow, but how about a fun little quiz? What type of monster would you be out of the list below? Leave a comment explaining your choice. I promise I’ll…try to think up something clever for the type that gets the most votes. [And Matt has even provided a guide to help your choice. Sweet!]
- Vampire
- Werewolf
- Gargantuan
- Mummy
- Invisible Person
- Mad Scientist
- Troll
- Robot (Androids and Cyborgs count too)
- Sasquatches
- Troll
- Zombie
For even more interactive fun, Becky Miller lists all the current posts for the CSFF Tour at her website. So hurry on over and see what others are saying.
—
*Nobody noticed my dangling asterix. When I crossed through warped in describing Matt, I realized it takes one to know one…
—
by Jason Joyner | Sep 18, 2011 | Blog, books, reviews, zombies as literature
Hungry for something different in fiction?
Ready to sink your teeth into some tasty reading?
Or perhaps you prefer brains…
Pay Me In Flesh is the brainchild of one K. Bennett, a fertile mind who came up with a simple premise: what could be done that’s fresh in the zombie genre. Well, try this teaser on for size.
In L.A., practicing law can be hell. Especially if you’re dead.
In an increasingly hellacious L.A., zombie lawyer Mallory Caine defends a vampire hooker accused of the crime Mallory herself committed, even as a zombie-killer closes in and the love of her former life comes back as the Deputy DA she must oppose. And as Lucifer himself begins setting up L.A. as his headquarters for a new attack on heaven and earth, Mallory slowly discovers she may be the one who has to stop him.
This mass paperback book is packed with witty dialog, unforgettable characters, and an attorney with a bite. Mallory Caine is trying to find out who killed her and see if she can recover her soul. She hates to eat brains, but she’s doing what she must to survive. She’s not the normal lumbering, witless undead. Sure, she needs a little moisturizer and prefers educated brains (Harvard and Stanford go down much nicer than your drop-out), but she still sees a need for the innocent to get justice.
It is a fresh take on both the legal thriller and the zombie novel. The pace of the books keeps the reader lurching forward, and the city of Los Angeles becomes a character in the mood and setting of the novel.
I don’t want to give too much away. Suffice it to say, I think you won’t find a more original novel premise this year, and Pay Me In Flesh is a read that will have you laughing, drawn in, and hungry for more.
You may hear a rumor that K. Bennett shares a startling resemblance to James Scott Bell, but that’s a common point of confusion. Pay it no mind…
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by Jason Joyner | Sep 18, 2011 | Blog, books, reviews, zombies as literature
Hungry for something different in fiction?
Ready to sink your teeth into some tasty reading?
Or perhaps you prefer brains…
Pay Me In Flesh is the brainchild of one K. Bennett, a fertile mind who came up with a simple premise: what could be done that’s fresh in the zombie genre. Well, try this teaser on for size.
In L.A., practicing law can be hell. Especially if you’re dead.
In an increasingly hellacious L.A., zombie lawyer Mallory Caine defends a vampire hooker accused of the crime Mallory herself committed, even as a zombie-killer closes in and the love of her former life comes back as the Deputy DA she must oppose. And as Lucifer himself begins setting up L.A. as his headquarters for a new attack on heaven and earth, Mallory slowly discovers she may be the one who has to stop him.
This mass paperback book is packed with witty dialog, unforgettable characters, and an attorney with a bite. Mallory Caine is trying to find out who killed her and see if she can recover her soul. She hates to eat brains, but she’s doing what she must to survive. She’s not the normal lumbering, witless undead. Sure, she needs a little moisturizer and prefers educated brains (Harvard and Stanford go down much nicer than your drop-out), but she still sees a need for the innocent to get justice.
It is a fresh take on both the legal thriller and the zombie novel. The pace of the books keeps the reader lurching forward, and the city of Los Angeles becomes a character in the mood and setting of the novel.
I don’t want to give too much away. Suffice it to say, I think you won’t find a more original novel premise this year, and Pay Me In Flesh is a read that will have you laughing, drawn in, and hungry for more.
You may hear a rumor that K. Bennett shares a startling resemblance to James Scott Bell, but that’s a common point of confusion. Pay it no mind…
—
He meets a Lutheran werewolf. His name: Luther Anne Martin.