Link-O-Rama

Zombie, Illinois has gotten some good media attention recently!

• Here is a link to the starred review in Publishers Weekly.
• Here is a link to a review in Serial Distractions.
• Here’s a link to an interview I did along with Matt Mogk of the ZRS.
• And finally, here’s a link to a review in Library Journal.

The Library Journal review is subscription-protected, so I’ll also paste it below.

LIBRARY JOURNAL - October 15, 2012

“A zombie outbreak in Chicago brings together three very different people—Ben, an ambitious newspaper reporter; Mack, the pastor of a congregation located on the city’s troubled South Side; and Maria, the drummer of an all-women punk band—who form an alliance based on staying alive and helping others do the same. When the death of the mayor in a zombie attack hits the news, the city’s aldermen make plans to fill his position. Some of them see the zombies as a convenient smokescreen to cover up their unscrupulous ambitions. When Ben and his two companions discover what is happening, they realize that they may be the only ones able to save the city. Kenemore’s sequel to Zombie, Ohio raises the bar for zombie fiction, combining the standard blood and gore of zombie battles with shady politics to tell a story of human resilience and the triumph of community solidarity. VERDICT The author of the mock self-help Zen of Zombie series continues his saga of zombie warfare with a strong, compelling story that should appeal to genre fans.”

Huzzah!

“Zombie, Ohio” praised in PW, ALA Booklist

My upcoming novel, Zombie, Ohio, got good reviews in today’s issues of Publisher’s Weekly and ALA Booklist.  Here they are: 

BOOKLIST

December 15, 2010

Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead.

Kenemore, Scott (Author)

Feb 2011. 304 p. Skyhorse, paperback,   $16.95. (9781616082062).

George Romero, director of the original Night of the Living Dead and its sequels, should snap up the rights to this novel. It has everything: zombies, gore, brain-eating, love, death, even a murder mystery. All of it revolves around Peter Mellor, who wakes up after a car accident a little discombobulated. Even though the country is in the midst of a “zombie apocalypse,” it takes Peter a while to figure out that he is now one of the “moving cadavers” because, unlike your typical zombie, he can talk, reason, and, well, pass for human. As he’s trying to come to terms with his new undead state, reunite with his girlfriend, and figure out who was responsible for his car accident, Peter winds up the leader of a zombie horde and the target of human rednecks and intense military scrutiny. Kenemore, author of the humor books The Zen of Zombie (2007) and Z.E.O. (2009), combines humor with horror in a way that is guaranteed to make any zombie fan stand up and shout, “Braaaaaains!”

— David Pitt

Publishers Weekly

Kenemore’s debut is a darkly humorous depiction of one zombie’s struggle for enlightenment and redemption. When college professor Peter Mellor recovers consciousness near the wreck of his car, he finds himself in an apocalyptic landscape populated by desperate survivors and the walking and hungry undead. Soon Peter discovers that he is a zombie himself, albeit an unusually intelligent one, and that the crash that killed him was orchestrated. Determined to track down his murderer while dodging resentful breathers, Mellor struggles against his yearning to eat the brains of the living. His lapses are epic, even for a zombie, but nothing compared to the excesses of the living who see the apocalypse as license to indulge their worst impulses. There’s plenty to satisfy zombie fans who’ve come to expect some philosophy with their gore. (Feb.)