Wow, already a month since Boxing Day! Time certainly flies!
Well, for those who aren't aware, Book 2 in my 'Edinburgh Elementals' series, Tears of Gold, is available to buy for mere pennies (99 pence, or 99 cents if you're that way inclined) via all good ebook retailers... and Amazon, too.
But I'm not taking a snippet from that book. Instead, I'm taking ten work-in-progress sentences from my Zombie-Boyband short, Zomboyz! It's a tale, told in first person, by a college student whose younger sister is a fan of the zombie boyband. Events take a turn for the worse when the sister, Jess, wins a competition to spend time with the boys...
Well, the media called it an accident but were extremely vague on the details despite having previously been happy to print the tiniest, most trivial detail about the boys’ lives. Something had happened when they’d visited the Far East to play a private gig for a billionaire. Some chemicals from the factory the billionaire owned had come into contact with the boys, though god only knows what they were doing at the factory unless the gig was being held there.
The first picture of the aftermath of the chemical accident had been a shocker to everyone. They had been taken on a phone camera and uploaded to Twitter and Facebook, by some lowly employee of the billionaire, apparently, so the picture was a little grainy and you couldn’t see that much. But there was a definite change to the boyband’s faces. A definite greenish tinge to the skin, although the light and the camera could have been a factor in that. Almost immediately, the group became a worldwide Trending Topic on Twitter with the hashtag #Zomboyz being used, and everyone from the meanest of trolls to the most famous celebrities had an opinion about the strange images with many assuming it was some publicity stunt or Halloween thing since it was mid October, anyway. Then the group’s fans had almost melted all the social network sites; some claiming it was an exclusive image from their forthcoming video, others saying it was just the lads larking about ‘cos they were young and had fun and everyone else was just old and boring, so there!
As I say, this is a wip so is very rough. Unsure when I'll eventually publish this but publish it I will (hopefully before someone brings out a zombie/boyband story and makes millions!).
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Well, for those who aren't aware, Book 2 in my 'Edinburgh Elementals' series, Tears of Gold, is available to buy for mere pennies (99 pence, or 99 cents if you're that way inclined) via all good ebook retailers... and Amazon, too.
But I'm not taking a snippet from that book. Instead, I'm taking ten work-in-progress sentences from my Zombie-Boyband short, Zomboyz! It's a tale, told in first person, by a college student whose younger sister is a fan of the zombie boyband. Events take a turn for the worse when the sister, Jess, wins a competition to spend time with the boys...
Well, the media called it an accident but were extremely vague on the details despite having previously been happy to print the tiniest, most trivial detail about the boys’ lives. Something had happened when they’d visited the Far East to play a private gig for a billionaire. Some chemicals from the factory the billionaire owned had come into contact with the boys, though god only knows what they were doing at the factory unless the gig was being held there.
The first picture of the aftermath of the chemical accident had been a shocker to everyone. They had been taken on a phone camera and uploaded to Twitter and Facebook, by some lowly employee of the billionaire, apparently, so the picture was a little grainy and you couldn’t see that much. But there was a definite change to the boyband’s faces. A definite greenish tinge to the skin, although the light and the camera could have been a factor in that. Almost immediately, the group became a worldwide Trending Topic on Twitter with the hashtag #Zomboyz being used, and everyone from the meanest of trolls to the most famous celebrities had an opinion about the strange images with many assuming it was some publicity stunt or Halloween thing since it was mid October, anyway. Then the group’s fans had almost melted all the social network sites; some claiming it was an exclusive image from their forthcoming video, others saying it was just the lads larking about ‘cos they were young and had fun and everyone else was just old and boring, so there!
As I say, this is a wip so is very rough. Unsure when I'll eventually publish this but publish it I will (hopefully before someone brings out a zombie/boyband story and makes millions!).
Thanks for stopping by. Read more SFFSat snippets from fellow writers HERE
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ZombieBoyz! That's awesome. I'd read it on that premise alone. I like how you're mentioning the social media outlets and how society/media is going to shape them how they want to. I'm also intrigued how they became zombies. Is something more sinister in the works? Looking forward to reading more, sounds like you're having fun with it.
ReplyDelete"...and everyone else was just old and boring, so there!" Lol - love that, sounds like a typical teenaged fan-girl attitude!
ReplyDeleteLove the whole concept :)
Good luck with Tear of Gold :)
Love how you worked in social media to the premise, Gayle--so true of how something like that would play out today.
ReplyDeleteAnd Zomboyz! is a great title. Jonathan Maberry would be proud.
;) Heidi
The frightening side of this is that it feels almost real - knowing what the internet and particularly the social media sites can be like, the reactions come across utterly believably! Great snippet - and I love the title, too!
ReplyDeleteI can think of several explanations, but the social media part sounds utterly believable.
ReplyDeleteLol! Fantastic premise and a wonderful snippet. I love the tone change at the end, and how we've already got an idea of what happened.
ReplyDeleteYeay--another zombie writer! I love the title as well as how modern/relevant everything sounds. Makes it really easy to suspend disbelief.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Heidi! Love Zomboyz! And I couldn't help but think Jonathan Maberry, too.
ReplyDeleteI think you have a great voice in this piece.
(and I'm sorry I didn't comment sooner...)
All this time I assumed the boys in the boy-bands were robots, a la Steppford wives. Now I know!
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