Why not?
I’m a Catholic writer, yet I (like Declan) write for Damnation. Damnation Books that is. It’s one of my favorite publishers: Kim always pays me on time, looks for ways to promote my books, and is producing my books in audio. (Which is why I’m writing today – read on!)
Best of all, I get to write funny stories about a kick-butt zombie killer, Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator.
The Zombie Apocalypse meets Radical Environmentalism.
Neeta is an exterminator in the 2040s. She traps raccoons and sprays for ants, but she also has a unique specialty. She takes out zombies. For reasons unknown, the dead have started reanimating, but in ones and twos rather than thousands. So if one finds its way onto your yard, intent on eating brains or selling you a magazine, Neeta will come over with her chainsaw and behead it before it eats your family. All part of the job.
In the first book, Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator, Neeta trains up novices in a reality TV show that makes Survivor look like a cakewalk. In I Left My Brains in San Francisco, she and her business partner/boyfriend Ted are taking a break in San Francisco when an entire horde rises from a watery grave to attack the City by the Bay and neighboring Richmond. The zombies are silly – one is a mime, which didn’t turn out to be such a terrible thing to waste after all. The people are even sillier: radical environmentalists, survivalists, California lawmakers…. You don’t need Walking Dead to have a world gone insane. But my insane is more amusing.
It’s even funnier in audio. Damnation Books hired award-winning narrator Becky Parker to bring the Neeta Lyffe books alive with great voices and even funnier sound effects. She is the Tsar of Timing, as my character Roscoe would say. They’re PG-13 level comedy that will melt away the hours in a cross-country drive – or a California commute.
So, I confess: I’m a Catholic and I write for Damnation. But all things considered, if making people laugh is a sin, it’s one I can live with.
Find I Left My Brains in San Francisco at:
Damnation Books: http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615727643
Amazon: http://amzn.to/Nzm01L (paper) http://amzn.to/OBBmkL (Kindle)
More about it at http://zombiedeathextreme.com
You can’t visit social media without tripping over news or opinion about Pope Francis visiting the United States right now usually with the hashtag #PopeInUS. I’d say that it was finally drowning out political infighting, but that’s not actually true. After all, the majority of non-Catholic coverage of the Pope’s visit is first being filtered through the proverbial prism of politics.
The Catholic Geek network brought to my attention an interview with Andrew Napolitano, a former judge on the New York Superior Court and now a law professor and a commentator for various publications in both print and on television. The former judge’s interview centered on — as so many news stories are this month — Pope Francis.
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Game So As to Win: the Virtues of Competitive Gaming
Remember back when I wrote a post about competitive gaming and then followed it up by talking about why I love competition? Well, it’s time to finish the job. I’m here to tell you how competitive gaming can…be virtuous? Well, yes. (It was inevitable that I’d turn it back to Catholicism eventually.) I’m going to take this post to discuss how competition relates to virtue, and how the two can actually work as allies and not enemies. It might sound strange, but I promise I’ll try to make it all make sense.
Some of you are probably still confused. Isn’t competition the province of the ruthless and unscrupulous, who stop at nothing to achieve their goals? Haven’t we all learned that winning and losing isn’t important, but that it’s how we play the game? That it’s shortsighted and narrowminded to seek victory so strongly? Continue reading →