The likely two people who still read this blog will have noticed that I erased every post that once was here. I have a good reason for that, and I'm going to explain it in a moment, but, first, let me explain that those posts will never be coming back.
Now, onto why. The simple answer: My old writing sucked. Ever since I finished Dead Place/The Killing Fields, I've written more and more, and my writing has evolved and grown, and every time I went back to that novel, I've looked upon it in shame. Understand, I'll always love it, because it was my first, but I just can't read it without thinking, "Goddamn, that was shit," or something of that nature. Because of this, I have decided that I will rewrite Dead Place/The Killing Fields. The novel itself will be greatly expanded and revised, with more new than old content, and the old content won't be entirely the same (or, at all, really). There are certain things that I just can't keep, for personal reasons.
1.) I've sort of "grown up" from using the term "zombie" in my stories. As work progressed on the sequel that is still unfinished, I found myself not calling them "zombies", but "walkers", much like The Walking Dead does, though that had little influence on my writing. To my knowledge, the first use of the term "walkers" in reference of zombies was Land of the Dead, but that's not really important to my using it. I decided that the different groups of living in my stories would use different terms to refer to the zombies.
2.) As I reread the novel, I discovered that the story of Alan Frakes, his sister and their posse, just isn't enough, and so I decided to add two other story threads, following different characters. Some readers of the original version will recognize, others you will not, hopefully there are more new characters than old, because I certainly don't remember some of the new people, but I could be forgetting things.
And so, for these two specific reasons, and plenty of others that I'm not telling you, Dead Place/The Killing Fields is being rewritten to just be better.
I hope.
Whether or not it is better will be something I leave up to you folks. Better to me may not be better to you. Up until the story is finished, the original version is still available on Kindle, just in case you want to read it. Once I'm finished, however, that one is coming down and the new one will replace it.
See you then.
