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The Yacht (Year of the Zombie Book 3)

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by Iain Rob Wright


  My first novel, STRAIGHT TO YOU, was released in 1996 and promptly disappeared from view. 500 copies were printed, and I still have a couple of boxes from the original print run in my garage! The experience taught me several valuable lessons about writing, most notably that both the hardest and most important task for a new author is to find people to read their work. In those dim and distant pre-Internet, pre-ebook days, that was no easy task.

  When it came to releasing my second novel, AUTUMN, in 2001, I was already making my first tentative steps online. It struck me that the easiest way to get people to read my book was to give it to them for free, so that was what I did. And with no real plan or design, my first zombie novel generated around half a million downloads, a series of sequels, a radio adaptation and even a (not so great) movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine.

  Self-publishing was frowned upon in 2001 (and still is today in some quarters), so I decided to take a different approach. I talked about ‘independent publishing’ instead, and I set up INFECTED BOOKS, my own publishing company. I hit the market at just the right time and managed, through luck more than judgement, to capitalize both on the sudden growth of ebooks, and also on the massive popularity of zombies.

  In the fifteen years since AUTUMN was published, zombies have become a global phenomenon. In the same decade and a half, the publishing industry has changed beyond all recognition. Back in the day, myself, Brian Keene and David Wellington were just about the only folks putting out zombie fiction. Now that’s changed and there are many brilliant zombie authors delivering the goods. I thought the fifteen year anniversary would be a great opportunity to celebrate both the enduring appeal of the living dead and the massive success of zombie authors worldwide.

  2016 is Infected Books’ YEAR OF THE ZOMBIE, and over the course of the year you’re going to be treated to brand new zombie novellas by some of the very best in the business. Check www.infectedbooks.co.uk at the beginning of each month for each new release.

  David Moody

  January 2016

  ALSO AVAILABLE FROM INFECTED BOOKS

  YEAR OF THE ZOMBIE

  KILLCHAIN by Adam Baker

  THE PLAGUE WINTER by Rich Hawkins

  STRANGERS

  LAST OF THE LIVING

  ISOLATION

  THE COST OF LIVING

  STRAIGHT TO YOU

  AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION

  TRUST

  by David Moody

  GIRL IN THE BASEMENT

  by Wayne Simmons

  VOODOO CHILD

  by Wayne Simmons and Andre Duza

  FIND OUT MORE AT WWW.INFECTEDBOOKS.CO.UK

  SPREAD THE INFECTION

 

 

 


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