Two free eBooks on Amazon right now:

The first Adrian’s Undead Diary omnibus is free until Friday afternoon. If you want in on my zombie apocalypse epic on the cheap, go nab it now.

Also, I’ve got Carl Meadow’s first Lockey vs the Apocalypse book free as well. No More Heroes starts the proper UK facet of Adrian’s nightmare, and you might’ve heard that her storyline and Adrian’s storyline collide in book 13 of AUD: Ghosts. You probably want to be caught up by then if you haven’t. Grab No More Heroes for free.

On the evening of the 31st, I sat down while writing and popped a livestream on. Many readers and listeners jumped in, and if you’d like to hear all of what I talked about, I just loaded it to YouTube.

Shout-out to Nahuel for downloading it, and setting it to sexy music.

COVID talk first: the family had it in rotation going back about three weeks now, and boy are we done with that crap. None of us had a serious case, but with the entire house in the dumpster with flu-like crap, things have been a real challenge.

Luckily our symptoms were mild, all things considered, but the need to quarantine, and keep the kids home from school, and then not going out to do anything for several weeks is pretty disruptive. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for delivery services.

And, as the headline gives away, I released an eBook bundle today over on Amazon. It’s the first seven releases in the Tales from the World of Adrian’s Undead Diary. Unhappy Endings, London Burns, Only the Light We Make, The Shed, An Ill Wind, The Other Side, and Dead Lucky are in it.

That’s four full novellas, plus thirty short stories (many written by the zompoc genre’s great voices), and all of it is canon.

So if you were holding out on reading these on your Kindle, or via the Kindle app, now’s your chance to snag it for 20% of the price of the regular releases. ($5.99, only on the Kindle, no audio coming, so don’t ask)

Click here, on the picture below.

Thanks to everyone as always for all the love and support. Keeps the sails full of wind, and reminds that the words I create are actually read and listened to by other people who are arguably just as weird as I am.

-Chris

Hey squad!

I know it’s been so long since I had a live interview, but rest assured: I’ve got one tomorrow at 2pm eastern.

The folks over at Written Undead are having me on their videocast, and like last time, it’s guaranteed to be a good time. Hosts Jack Childress, Richard Ryan Rose, and Jennifer Amato are all super fun to bullshit with, so I’m excited for a few fun hours of live inappropriateness.

Check out the live stream tomorrow at this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/written-undead-podcast-the-ret/883732019610613/

Lookie here, y’all.

I stole this idea from friend and fellow author Mark Tufo.

I ain’t ashamed. I asked his wife first.

Anyway, I get LOTS of requests for international signed books, but the price of shipping is INSANE. $20 or more for shipping for a single book, and that’s too much.

ENTER THE AUTOGRAPH STICKER.

These sumbitches can go anywhere in the world, in an envelope, for about $2.

So, if you want some, and you can cover the exorbitant fee of $4, I’ll send you up to 6 in a single envelope. If you want more than 6, we need a 2nd envelope, and that’ll be another $4.

All you gotta do is message me on social media, or using the contact system here, and let me know how many books, and to whom or how you want them signed.

I can take Venmo or Paypal easily.

I’m so excited to get these out!

-Chris

I sat down with Nico Pengin last night for an interview on his YouTube channel. We did a deep dive–talking about how games and gaming has affected my personal life, as well as my professional life.

Turned into a really fun interview that opens up your mind about what the hobby can do for people.

Check it out:

No but really.

I do. I love this movie, and the Retro guys and I go head to head, making the case for the best 80s machismo flicks. Also, we talked about writing.

There’s a lot of Swayze love.

Crazy fun.

https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/138fd390/the-brig-undead-diaries-80s-machismo-with-author-chris-philbrook-?fbclid=IwAR1JQV_ErHDwyamYVdlTuXRW7wbdx8vKmHvZ963pA2Qaggh0l9SzmgGHsJ4

A few weeks ago I sat down with the crew over at HP Lovecast; a Lovecraft inspired podcast that delves deep into horror and the writers who create it.

They asked some fantastic questions I’ve never gotten before, and it’s one of the most interesting interviews I’ve done. Plus, I read from The Awakening, and that’s fun.

The show opens with author Erika T. Wurth, and she talks about her novel White Horse.

Check it out here, or on your favorite place to stream podcasts.

Formats for Ghosts are releasing early.

No matter how hard I try to get it all done on the same day… some of the book formats like to sneak out, like a greyhound on crack that caught the scent of a squirrel in the backyard.

Reap the benefits of Audible and Amazon processing the new release far faster than promised! You can download the audiobook version right now, or order the paperback. The Kindle version (which is almost always first, but not this time) releases on October 31st.

Click here for audiobook or Kindle

Click here for Paperback

Enjoy, however you choose to.

-Chris

A weary Adrian Ring continues his dangerous push to find the missing members of the mythical second Trinity—saviors of mankind from the judgment of the undead. He’s fought those monsters for years now, facing off against unthinkable threats and challenges to his own safety, and sanity, and thus far, he’s prevailed. Others around him haven’t been so lucky, but that seems to be his curse.

Now, as he and his precious friends foray north into the heart of England to find Hal Parker’s dad, and search for survivors, they will encounter threats they’ve never dealt with before.

And worse yet, while they battle against faster, and smarter armies of the dead, and the wraiths of evil that now walk amongst them, a greater threat slips through the cracks, and joins them.

There will be death. There will be destruction. The darkness will shun out hope as it nears a final victory.
And yet Adrian will meet a new light, Erin Locke—a beacon in that darkness—and his encounter with her will change him for the better, and alter the course of humanity’s grim fate.

With major contributions from Carl Meadows, author of Lockey vs, The Apocalypse, an Adrian’s Undead Diary series.

Ghosts contains Adrian’s personal journal entries from November 28th, 2014 to January 1st, 2015. Intermixed with those diary entries are the short stories: A Mother’s Love, Be Someone Special, Bring Me That Horizon, Sabotage, The Paladin, and Now You See Me.

Hollis Social Library in scenic Hollis New Hampshire.

There will be books.

There will be stickers.

There will be bookmarks.

There will be shirts.

There will be dice.

And to balance that awesomeness out, I’m going to read from The Twelve, LIVE.

So register on the Hollis Library website, and come say hi tonight at 6pm.