Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Organize before they rise!

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.