James Melzer's Blog (9)

I am pleased to announce that The Zombie Chronicles has been nominated for a DEAD LETTER AWARD by the fine folks at MAIL ORDER ZOMBIE! The DEAD LETTER AWARDS celebrate the best in zombie movies and media from 2008 and TZC is nominated in the category of BEST WEB SERIES! It’ll be a tough win because it’s competing against two other excellent series. Z Day is Here by Rob Fox and most notably, The Takeover by my friend Mur Lafferty. A little healthy com… Continue

I tried this when I first started off but quickly abandoned it. Now that listenership has grown exponentially I figured I’d give you guys a chance to sound off on whatever you want! Therefore I would like to introduce to you: THE BLOODLINE! Tell me how great you think TZC is. Tell me how crappy your life is or tell me how noisy your neighbors are and what exactly you’d do to them if given the chance. Think: BLOOD! Call 206-350-8638 and leave me a message discussing whatever you’d like. I’ll p… Continue

FROM: www.thezombiechronicles.net Help ‘SCAR ME 4 LIFE’ and Win Free Stuff! By jjmelzer on Thursday, December 4, 2008 Filed Under: Contests, The Zombie Chronicles, featured There’s nothing like a good contest to stir things up a bit and man, oh, man - have I got a contest for you! It’s called the ‘SCAR ME 4 LIFE‘ contest and here’s the lowdown: To celebrate the sale of my first novel trilogy to Permuted Press I’m going to commemorate the occasion by g… Continue

I did it! After 31 years I can finally say that I will be a published author. It’s been a long, treacherous road with many up’s and down’s but I can honestly say that I wouldn’t trade any of it for this moment. Yup, you guessed it. The Zombie Chronicles Trilogy has been SOLD to Permuted Press in a 3-book deal that is a first for podcast fiction. Why? The opening book in the trilogy isn’t even finished yet! This deal comes based on all the episodes you have heard so far. Permuted has faith in… Continue

Let’s face it, you guys visit TheZombieChronicles.net to listen to the podcast novel and keep up to date with what’s going on in the series. You don’t go there to listen to me bitch and moan about the state of things in this crazy mixed up world that we live in. Therefore I’ve decided that it’s time to separate fact from fiction. I’ve started a new blog that is totally detached from The Zombie Chronicles. It is not endorsed or supported by anyone but me.… Continue

On Devil’s Night I had such a great time on The Projekt X Radio Show with Brian and Otter. One of the other featured guests along with me though was Australian rockers Mz Ann Thropik and believe me, they do ROCK! After the show I got in touch with Mzzy, the lead singer and her and I talked about the band doing some stuff for The Zombie Chronicles. We worked out the details, dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s and now TZC has got some new theme music. Thanks to Brad, the bands bassist, TZC is go… Continue

People all over the world today are buzzing with the news that the United States has elected its first black President, that the winds of change are blowing and about how this win has brought a nation together. Nowhere is this buzz more widely heard than in the blogosphere. Just a quick Google search will bring up millions of results but folks, I’m not one to jump on the bandwagon so today, I am refusing to blog about Barack Obama. I refuse to talk about how I got goosebumps listening to his sp… Continue

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am mixing down Episode #07 tonight and it should be up tomorrow (Sunday) evening. As a special "BONUS" feature I am including, in full, my interview with The Projekt X gang from Devil's Night for all the world to hear! It will be featured at the end of the episode. So if you missed it the first time, you still have a second chance! James www.jamesmelzer.net Continue

I am currently soliciting you, the fans, for some cool projects that will be happening in the future…so here’s what I want you to do. Send me the coolest artwork you can do on Zombies. I don’t care what it is. Zombies eating people, brains, other zombies, puppies…it doesn’t matter. Color, black & white…it’s all good! Draw something, photoshop something, do it in crayon but when you’re done, send it to me here: jjmelzer@gmail.com It doesn’t have to be based on characters from TZC but that… Continue