In this Chapter, an important medical discovery is made - the church is making zombies. But is it criminal?

Additionally, more about Detective Rob Stack is revealed.

Whew! I fun lots of fun writing this exciting chapter.

I hear that lots of people will be reading the draft book this weekend.  Don't forget to tell me what you think by completing the poll.

Enjoy.

Please enjoy the biggest chapter to date.

More about Dana is revealed, enjoy a new creepy scene, and see the plot take an interesting twist you might not have expected.

I hope you have as much fun reading this chapter, as I did writing it!

All right!  This chapter was considerable harder for me to write than the first chapter.  I didn't have as much thought put into it, and I had a spend a fair bit of time figuring out my overall story line and how this chapter was going to fit in.

But now a ton of the story boarding work is done, and Chapter 2 is drafted too! I really hope you like it.

It's now 2:32am. Time to get some sleep!

Today was a long day - but I'm pleased with the results!

I've been following some really good ideas in the book, "Book in a Month".  One of the tips Victoria makes in the book is to leave out the sub-plots until later - but to keep a list of them as you go.

The logic is that sub-plots are the most to change, as required to fit an evolving story. I don't have many sub-plots figured out yet - but so far I can say this advice is bang on!  My one or two sub-plots I'd been thinking of in Chapter 1 would have definately changed by the time I was done the chapter, requiring re-writing.

Thanks Victoria - you saved me a ton of time!  Great book by the way - it has been super helpful.

Ok, Zombie followers - please have a read of the first chapter, and tell me what you think.  Thanks.

Wow - I can't believe I stayed inside out of the sunshine in beautiful Maui today.  From about 9am this morning to 5pm - skipping two meals along the way - I've been working solidly on the prologue of Zombies Evolved.

For a draft, I'm really happy with how it reads. I think this introduction will give everyone a great taste of a zombie future that provides the background for my story, plus several others.

Download it for yourself, and let me know what you think!

After reading several eBook articles and FAQs, one of the topics that seems to trip people up are the technical details of self-publishing. So I made my first goal to figure out how to self-publish an Office document into an eBook, and host the eBooks online.

I wanted to self-publish this eBook by starting in Office Word format, then convert it to formats for the Kindle (.mobi) and other readers like the Nook and Sony Reader (.epub), which my wife has.

After several failed attempts with Mobipocket Creator (which could create a .mobi eBook, but I couldn't get it to reliably and consistently create a table of contents), I attempted to use Calibre for the purpose. I'm pleased to announce that Calibre is working great!

The wonderful thing is, Calibre can be used to create both of the eBook formats I want - starting with an HTML file that Word can easily create.

After getting my stub files successfully converted to two different eBook formats and testing on the Kindle (passed!) I used Weebly to get a simple web page up and running that can download each of the files.

I also wanted to make it easy for people to view the book right online, using Docs.com - then I discovered that Docs now provides embed code for viewing Word docs right on your site!  Weebly supports a custom HTML part, paste the Docs embed text - and it works great.  I played around with the dimensions to get something that seems to look good in my browser - and done.