Armand's Blog Tour!
Q 1 It finally happened. You wake up one morning and all of Florida is full of the walking dead. No, not retirees the real, decomposing zombies you always wrote about. What do you do first?!
I'd like to give you this big speech about fortifying the house, grabbing my cache of weapons from under the floorboards, and figuring I had sixteen years of canned goods stockpiled in my panic room. In actuality, I'd pull out a bag of M&M's and sit on the couch and watch TV until they came for me. Seems like too much work. And for what? There's no more pizza delivery in the zombie apocalypse.
Q 2 Do you kill off people you hate in your fiction? And if so, details!
Would you like to kill people off you hate in your fiction (if you don’t
already)?
Oh, I kill off people all the time. I have two ex-wives, and they've both met horrible deaths (in fiction, of course). I've probably killed off most people that rubbed me the wrong way over the years, but the fun thing about people: they keep pissing you off, so you can keep killing them.
Q 3 What would be your own particular hell?
The power goes out and the battery on the laptop fails, right in the middle of a great cene I'm writing. And it doesn't back it up. And it never comes back on.
Q 4 In Britain there are a lot of parties that put candidates up for office. All you have to do is have a deposit.
There was for example, The Monster Raving Loony Party which used to get votes sometimes!
Now here’s the question: Would you like to see a Zombie Party? Perhaps you could suggest one for the UK?
You people are bollocks over there! (is that a real word, or just something on a Sex Pistols album I owned?). I would like a Zombie Tea Party (which, of course, is the name of my zombie short story collection book - what a great subtle promotional spot!).
Q 5 What is your biggest secret and are you telling the truth?
Six months of not working a 'normal' job has made me fatter and lazier, but I wouldn't give up a writing life for anything. I suppose I'll eventually have to but I'll go kicking and screaming. Believe it or not.
Q 6 What was the most shocking thing a fan ever told or wrote to you?
I once got a severed head in a box. Wait, that had nothing to do with my writing. I had a fan write because she was on a fixed income but someone gave her a $5 Amazon gift card in a contest and she bought "Dying Days" with it and loved it. She went on and on and it made me feel great. I even wrote her and her family into a story, and sent her copies of "Darlene Bobich: Zombie Killer" and "Dying Days 2" when they came out.
Q 7 If there was a game show (as in the Running Man (but for authors) what would you agree to do to reach number one on the NYT best seller list? What sort of ordeal would you be willing to endure?
I would do absolutely nothing that involved me physically moving from my desk chair, and I refuse to sweat, talk unless I have to, or waste time blinking. Other than that, I would slowly barbeque Blaze McRob over an open spit but don't know if I would eat him. Unless it was a top twenty NYT best seller placement. Top fifty, who am I kidding?
Q 8 What was the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
Besides getting married twice? Not much. I've lived a pretty normal life, although in my younger days I was a bit of a bad ass and got into many fights. I had this cricket bat (hard, solid wood) and I'd use that to hurt people… I've said too much.
Q 9 There are those who claim to be real vampires. In your opinion do you think there are people who think they really are zombies?
I think the idiots (er, people) who think they are real vampires are, well, idiots. I've been to New York City and seen the crack heads in the alleys, so I've seen real zombies.
Q 10 A question you don’t have to answer:
Are there political parties that are more zombie-like than others?
I am so apolitical it's scary. At 42 years old I have successfully been naïve about politics as long as I could, and won't discuss it. Stop talking about it. Enough.
Oops, sorry!
Q 11 If your books were made into films who should direct?
Ridley Scott has already decided to do all of the "Dying Days" movies, with Wynona Ryder starring as Darlene Bobich and Johnny Depp as John Murphy. Or none of that is real, I can't remember.
Q 12 If someone wrote a zombie love story (think sparkly zombies) that became hugely popular would you commit murder?!
Very much so. That would signify the zombie genre as being officially dead (not undead) and then we'd move onto mummies (and then sparkly mummies).
Q 13 And last but not least, if you could star in a zombie film which one would it be and why?
A true life account of a man who sits on a couch, watching TV and eating M&M's while zombies kill everyone else in the world… it will be called "Zombie M&M Apocalypse"… directed by Ridley Scott.
Thank you for this interview! Now about that severed head...?!
Oh, I kill off people all the time. I have two ex-wives, and they've both met horrible deaths (in fiction, of course). I've probably killed off most people that rubbed me the wrong way over the years, but the fun thing about people: they keep pissing you off, so you can keep killing them.
Q 3 What would be your own particular hell?
The power goes out and the battery on the laptop fails, right in the middle of a great cene I'm writing. And it doesn't back it up. And it never comes back on.
Q 4 In Britain there are a lot of parties that put candidates up for office. All you have to do is have a deposit.
There was for example, The Monster Raving Loony Party which used to get votes sometimes!
Now here’s the question: Would you like to see a Zombie Party? Perhaps you could suggest one for the UK?
You people are bollocks over there! (is that a real word, or just something on a Sex Pistols album I owned?). I would like a Zombie Tea Party (which, of course, is the name of my zombie short story collection book - what a great subtle promotional spot!).
Q 5 What is your biggest secret and are you telling the truth?
Six months of not working a 'normal' job has made me fatter and lazier, but I wouldn't give up a writing life for anything. I suppose I'll eventually have to but I'll go kicking and screaming. Believe it or not.
Q 6 What was the most shocking thing a fan ever told or wrote to you?
I once got a severed head in a box. Wait, that had nothing to do with my writing. I had a fan write because she was on a fixed income but someone gave her a $5 Amazon gift card in a contest and she bought "Dying Days" with it and loved it. She went on and on and it made me feel great. I even wrote her and her family into a story, and sent her copies of "Darlene Bobich: Zombie Killer" and "Dying Days 2" when they came out.
Q 7 If there was a game show (as in the Running Man (but for authors) what would you agree to do to reach number one on the NYT best seller list? What sort of ordeal would you be willing to endure?
I would do absolutely nothing that involved me physically moving from my desk chair, and I refuse to sweat, talk unless I have to, or waste time blinking. Other than that, I would slowly barbeque Blaze McRob over an open spit but don't know if I would eat him. Unless it was a top twenty NYT best seller placement. Top fifty, who am I kidding?
Q 8 What was the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
Besides getting married twice? Not much. I've lived a pretty normal life, although in my younger days I was a bit of a bad ass and got into many fights. I had this cricket bat (hard, solid wood) and I'd use that to hurt people… I've said too much.
Q 9 There are those who claim to be real vampires. In your opinion do you think there are people who think they really are zombies?
I think the idiots (er, people) who think they are real vampires are, well, idiots. I've been to New York City and seen the crack heads in the alleys, so I've seen real zombies.
Q 10 A question you don’t have to answer:
Are there political parties that are more zombie-like than others?
I am so apolitical it's scary. At 42 years old I have successfully been naïve about politics as long as I could, and won't discuss it. Stop talking about it. Enough.
Oops, sorry!
Q 11 If your books were made into films who should direct?
Ridley Scott has already decided to do all of the "Dying Days" movies, with Wynona Ryder starring as Darlene Bobich and Johnny Depp as John Murphy. Or none of that is real, I can't remember.
Q 12 If someone wrote a zombie love story (think sparkly zombies) that became hugely popular would you commit murder?!
Very much so. That would signify the zombie genre as being officially dead (not undead) and then we'd move onto mummies (and then sparkly mummies).
Q 13 And last but not least, if you could star in a zombie film which one would it be and why?
A true life account of a man who sits on a couch, watching TV and eating M&M's while zombies kill everyone else in the world… it will be called "Zombie M&M Apocalypse"… directed by Ridley Scott.
Thank you for this interview! Now about that severed head...?!
Great interview!!! and may I add that I've always felt that people living under a cruel dictatorship was something like a zombie apocalypse,no hope in sight, but a romance story with a zombie...nah...too gross. I'll be following Mr. Rosamilia.
ReplyDeletethank you so much, Marie!
ReplyDeletei had fun posing the questions and got some great answers!
So delighted you liked it and will be following Armand!
thanks, again!
Thank you for the comment, Marie! Feel free to send me M&M's...
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