The Back Page
I write the date inside the back cover of every book I finish — and make everyone who borrows it do the same.
Three Influences on The Revenant Strain
Thirty+ years in corporate IT taught me that nobody builds anything from scratch — you look at what worked and steal the parts that fit. The Revenant Strain came out of an oral history, a monster movie, and a midlife-crisis comedy.
Only one of them has a zombie in it.
The Elixir, and the Rest of the Buffet
Netflix's Indonesian zombie hit The Elixir is a solid swing — smart family drama wrapped in an outbreak. But watching it got me circling back to the genre's real ancestors: Shaun of the Dead, Train to Busan, The Walking Dead, and the one I actually steal from on purpose, 28 Days Later.