Posted by Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
This is shaping up as a buddy show with a super hero slant. In this new trailer another super hero gets a mention: Doctor Strange.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier new trailer
Manifest Season 3: The Truth Revealed?
Posted by Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
It’s back in April and I can’t wait. Manifest has been compared to Lost but unlike that show Manifest has continued to keep the mystery up. The story telling and twists and turns have been brilliant. Season two left us with a great cliffhanger where part of the plane that exploded on the ground in the first episode is pulled up from the bottom of the sea. What does that mean for the survivors of flight 828? Are they dead or from another dimension? Tune in to find out.
Zombie Blues: Song of the Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
Book extract: ‘You’ve heard people talk about a soulful voice, right? Well, until I heard Papa Matt I never knew what that meant. He was right up there with Nat King Cole for effortless singing. Unlike many of the ‘singers’ today who use voice enhancers and all that jazz, Papa’s voice simply was flawless. Those tunes came from his mouth were as effortless as breathing. His vocals were part of his D.N.A. Indeed, mom said it was a reflection of his very soul.’
In a zombie apocalypse we would lose so much as a species. Sound attracts the undead so we would have to be on constant stealth mode to avoid attracting them. I have to say one of my favourite nights out is a karaoke night or a pub where you can have a good sing song. Singing brings so much positive energy to us and makes us feel great so the loss of that would be one of the greatest tragedies for us as a species.
in Song of the Zombie we meet Marcus Benning living in the Bronx. it is a busy house with all his family under one roof. It focuses on Marcus and his grandfather Papa Matt who can sing like an angel. They get so far as making the finals of America’s Got Talent but it is a life filled with song even amid the sadness and tragedy. It’s the bond between grandfather and grandson that is the heart of this story. We get to see what music means to this family and the joy it brings them. It’s also a story of hope as Marcus finds a harmony even when undead.
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Zombie Blues: The Kid Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
My name is Justin McCarthy. I live at 121 Cherry Lawn Drive and my Mom’s number is 555- 9041- 437. Her name is Catherine McCarthy and my Dad is Fred McCarthy. I’m nine years old. I have a gerbil called Yondo who I love more than my two sisters Mona and Carmel. That’s was what my parents told me to say if I ever got lost.
Kid zombies are a rare thing in the genre. The Walking Dead rarely show them except in silhouette. Most notably we had Carol’s daughter Sophia, the toy rabbit kid from the opening scene of the series and then Carol haunted by the outline of a child pawing at a frosted glass door. In Mutant we have a whole classroom full and in George A Romero’s Living Dead trilogy we see them being gunned down by Peter something the actor was not comfortable with.
We don’t want to see kid zombies because it’s a violation that something has hurt the very things we are committed to love and protect all their lives. We sacrifice, we make do just to ensure our kids have a happy childhood. So it was something I wanted to include and get a kid’s view of the zombie apocalypse. It also gave us a new perspective on the world as well as showing the mother part of Mother Nature meant nothing to her. One of our fears is to imagine one of our kids alone in this world which is why we see the best of people when a child goes missing sparking a community wide response o find them. With the zombie plague this network is gone so what is it like being a kid in this new undead world?
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Zombie Blues: The Question Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
‘Why?’
Every writer uses their stories as a sort of therapy to make sense of what’s in their head from existing in this crazy ride called life. The Question Zombie is a very personal one for me which I hope will reach out to those in a similar position.
A friend of mine of took their own life. They seemed to have everything yet somehow something inside him thought it was better for all to not be here any more. Now with my parents, one died unexpectedly while the other died of an illness so we knew what was coming. Despite that the one question that kept repeating in my head was ‘Why?’ I would look at other people whose parents were still alive and was jealous. If you let it the question will drive you crazy so you start looking at other things and methods to try and quell it in your head. But with suicide it never stops because you will always wonder why. You wonder was there something you missed or could have done but you are only torturing yourself. There is no easy answer but maybe talking to those who have gone through the same may bring you peace of some sort.
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Zombie Blues: Racist Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
‘Perhaps the whole world should be colourblind,” he remarked. ‘Life would be so much simpler.’
Every zombie was somebody in human form. They are not all good neighbours or citizen Joe doing his civic duty. We are surrounded by bad people all over the world and in our daily lives. One of the most prevalent in recent years has been the surge of racism during the Trump era. It has just gone to show us that we can never be complacent and that the battle for equality continues. Just in the last few days of writing this article I have seen posts on Instagram from people condemning attacks on the Asian community and a video from Hawaii 50 actor Daniel Dae Kim bringing awareness to the masses. As a race we have a long way to go in accepting each other so the sole purpose of this story was to highlight just how dumb racism is. But as always I try to be different and wanted to show that not all racists come from a racist background. Sometimes they simply are. I never really liked the saying that it is the parent’s fault because quite simply I abhor tarring people with on brush. The message is touched upon in The Zombie that Left the Building in Zombie Blues 3. Racism comes from all angles and directions but we as a species must stand together and fight it.
To see does becoming a zombie change Racist Zombie’s mind get your copy today here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zombie-Blues-2-Owen-Quinn/dp/B084DGVGVG/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=zombie+blues+owen+quinn&qid=1613905321&sr=8-2
Zombie Blues: Bigfoot Hunter Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
My inner self was highly sceptical that zombies would find and kill Bigfoot. Sasquatch and zombies were polar opposites: one was a fast mover, the other not so much but as I said Mother Nature had great patience.
I love the idea of Bigfoot and Sasquatch or whatever you want to call the big hairy giants that inhabit deep forests and deserted mountains and jungles in certain parts of the world. There is more than enough evidence now to prove they do exist and they are a part of the Time Warriors universe in the Time Warriors Book 3 Red Water. So there was no way I could resist adding them to the universe of Zombie Blues. The challenge was how to do that in a believable manner and tying it into a very real human trait.
I think I’ve probably watched every documentary there is on the subject over the years (this obsession grabbed me at a very early age) and the common thread for those who have had an experience with Bigfoot is that it changed their lives forever. In that moment I had my hook into the story.
I chose a female lead for this one because I had done a similar story for a Time Warriors book where the lead was male. She had an encounter as a child and it sent her on a path to discover what she had really seen. But it became an obsession leading her to miss out on the other things in life so the story is a look at how focusing on one thing to the exclusion of everything else is not healthy and can be soul destroying. It’s a look at blind faith and ho far that faith can take us down a path that may never be answered. Knowing what you witnessed is one thing and gives you a strong stance but what does that make you when the rest of world laughs at you like some sort of freak? Are you a fool or an example of someone resolute in their beliefs? A hero or a zero? Is that journey worthwhile if you do achieve your goal?
It also opens up that Mother Nature knows Bigfoot exists and they too are on her hit list. As her twisted sense of humour shows what better person to hunt down Bigfoot than someone absolutely devoted to proving their existence. Again she takes someone’s passion and twists it to suit her own needs.
Will our Bigfoot hunter achieve in her undead state what she couldn’t in life? Find out today.
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Marvel Alien comic:New trailer released
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
42 years later and still no one can hear you scream
I love Aliens and cannot wait to see what Marvel has in store to renew the franchise given their great crossover covers in January. When the threat returns who are they going to call? Watch the brilliant trailer below.
When Maggie met Negan: New season opening minutes
Posted by Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
The Walking Dead is back with new episodes and the return of Maggie. AMC have revealed the first episode’s opening minutes when Maggie comes face to face with her lover’s killer Negan. All copyright AMC.
Zombie Blues: Diabetic Zombie
By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
Just like diabetes Mother Nature struck hard leaving an indelible impact on all our lives. At least I don’t have to prick myself every day to check my blood sugars.
Writers should use what they know in their stories either by way of getting the message out there to other about their experiences good and bad and/or as a kind of therapy to deal with conscious or subconscious feelings about whatever it is.
In life many people think things are hat happen to other people and until it comes knocking on their door, it is only then you have to learn and be forced to deal with something you always thought would happen to somebody else. As a diabetic I wanted to somehow share what I feel about this condition and fit it into the zombie universe. I denied for a long time that even though I had diabetes that anything would happen to me because I never felt sick, never felt different. I went to the gym but got caught up in work life that my eating habits were not great and I never really took care of it until it all hit in one shitstorm. With this story I wanted to warn others not to take it for granted because diabetes is a sneaky bastard. Its effects often aren’t felt for years. Like a zombie it rots you from the inside and affects you in ways you only hear as words from a doctor when you are first diagnosed.
As a writer you often hope that something in your stories will reach someone and help them with their struggles so Diabetic Zombie is really a warning to anyone like me who dismissed how deadly this disease really is. While becoming a zombie is a cure, let’s hope a real one os found in real life.
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The Time Warriors and Beyond 