Cassie
is a typical teenager. She’s crushing on
a boy and trying to make it through high school. It’s a typical day of classes
when all hell breaks loose. Forced to run and hide the situation just keeps
getting worse. She makes a mistake and soon becomes infected. She meets others
like her and together they sent out to find a cure. Is their fate already
sealed? Can they find a cure before it’s too late? See what happens through the
eyes of the infected when Cassie tells you how Zombies are people too.
HOW “ZOMBIFIED” WAS
BORN!
BY LYRA MCKEN
When
asked to discuss how I came up with the concept and story line for my novel
Zombified, I had to think back. I had to think of where I was mentally when the
idea formed. I had been annoying my family and boyfriend for weeks talking
about the Zombie Apocalypse. My Dad would say something about, "If the
economy doesn't do something then we are in for it." That isn't exactly
what he said, my father doesn't speak like that, but for the sake of this
article that is what he said. I would respond with, "The Zombies will take
over!"
As
annoyed as my family was, I was fascinated with Zombies and why they enthralled
our culture so. I begin to think how would you feel if you knew you were going
to start eating people and rotting away? Cassie started to form in my mind. She
was a young girl with a bright future, derailed by a disease and the end of
life as she knew it. I then started thinking, what if Zombies actually could
communicate and had a purpose with their constant wondering around. Slopar was
born, my idea of the Zombie language. I pictured Cassie talking to someone
about her life as she snacked on him and wrote the beginning.
After
this I started thinking, what if you bit your crush? I had to give Cassie a
gorgeous guy, figure out how to get them alone, and let her ruin it with her
soon-to-be-dead tendencies. I really enjoyed writing the novel. I wanted to
explore the thoughts of the partially infected, and what would happen when they
met up and tried to fight the desire to feed as the infection spread. I hope
people enjoy reading Zombified as
much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks for taking a trip into my mind.
xx Lyra
Mcken
Lyra
McKen (aka, Emily Walker) resides in the mountains of North Carolina. She lives
on top of a mountain quite literally with her other half of nine years and her
fur baby, Rebel. After a couple of jobs ghost writing for other successful
authors she embarked on her own journey to write a novel.
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