Self-Published Zombie Titles Have Doubled Since 2012 74
An anonymous reader writes "For the second year in a row, the number of self-published ebooks with the word zombie in their title has doubled. The annual check is performed on Halloween in Amazon's Kindle Store, and this year discovers 8,052 ebooks (with titles like 'Jesus Camp Zombie Bloodbath' and 'Never Slow Dance with a Zombie...') — more than 12 times the number that appear in the Library of Congress. 71-year-old literary author Joyce Carol Oates — twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize — also named her 2009 novel about a serial killer 'Zombie (P.S.'", but most of the titles in the Kindle Store 'aren't as ambitious,' notes this article, which still applauds the self-published authors and their 'massive outpouring of new creativity, as people all around the globe start wondering what's going to happen in their own imaginary zombie scenarios...'"
I suspect... (Score:5, Funny)
...that most of them are autobiographies.
Re:I suspect... (Score:5, Funny)
...that most of them are autobiographies.
Ghost written, surely? ;)
beaten-to-death trend (Score:4, Funny)
Zombie lit, just like real zombies, is impervious to the fact that it's dead. (Same with vampires and vampire lit.) Funny that.
I misread the headline (Score:4, Funny)
Self-Published Zombie Titties Have Doubled Since 2012
Re:I suspect... (Score:3, Funny)
uhm ... what was your dead giveaway.
Re:Those that hate citizen freedoms (Score:2, Funny)
>It is also a fact that most major publishing houses in the West strongly align with Israel.
Thanks for saying this. It saved me the time of reading the rest of your comment.
Thank you for pointing that out. It saved me the time of reading the rest of his comment.