Happy World Zombie Day

Zombiefest 2008 -- held at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh this weekend -- has so far been both fun and disturbingly surreal.  I've posted some photos from the first day of the dead in the gorelets.com gallery -- mostly of friends in publishing, but also a few freaky shots like the one above.  Aside from crawling the mall, hanging out at my publisher's table and saying "Brainnns!" over and over again, yesterday I performed a fiction reading along with Ryan Mecum (author of Zombie Haiku) and Steve North (author of Dead Tide) -- which you should be able to hear a podcast of soon on…

Zombiefest 08 Schedule

Some folks have been asking when I'm reading at Zombiefest this weekend, so I thought I should post a reminder here. I'm hitting the mic today (Sat. 10/25) at 4pm, in a storefront beside the main stage (the readings will take place in a defunct Men's Warehouse store on the first floor of the mall, right in front of Boscov's) for the convention in the Mall. The folks at FearZone provide a full weekend schedule.