Zombie Spring

by Chris Okusako, Shauna Okusako (Editor), Rita Okusako (Illustrator)

Overview

SYNOPSIS OF ZOMBIE SPRING: General Cartwright Jones, has been given an impossible task. He is under orders to take his 50,000 man army into LA and clean out the Zombie infection which is due to go airborne in just four days. If he cannot complete his mission on schedule, the President has made it clear he will solve the problem through nuclear depopulation. Arrayed against him are several hundred thousand of the Undead and over ten million southern Californians that may turn at any moment. The Canadian army has crossed our northern borders, three brigades of Mexican Special Forces are headed towards San Diego on our southern border, and the virus has found a toehold in the east. Jones has his hands more than full, but on top of all this, he has another big problem. No general worth his salt attacks an enemy head-on while forgetting his backside, but he needs every veteran combat troop he has for the vanguard. All there is left to man his rearguard are the band, the company of dramatic actors, an infantry second lieutenant on his first day of active service, his cowboy friend, an attractive science officer, and a bunch of UCLA coeds. This then, is the tale of two mammoth battles waged on two fronts: I-Corps Battle for LA and the Battle for Joyous Gard, the castle like fortification built by the rearguard to protect the general and the Army of the West. SPECIAL NOTE: To help people decide whether or not they might enjoy my series, I try to profile interested readers and steer away those who might be better off looking elsewhere. The Zombie Spring Series is a Zombie Lite version of the Zombie genre. Yes, it has plenty of gore and huge intense battles, but much of what I write is meant to be humorous. Mine is not a dour world-view of what would happen. The content is centered around happy, upbeat young people, who think they can win against all odds and maybe make a better life for themselves. If you like happy stories with a little romance interspersed with lots of military blood and guts, then you're in the right place. Dog lovers will love the conclusion. So who might not enjoy this book? Fans of the movie: The Road or the Walking Dead might consider looking elsewhere for their entertainment. If you liked Warm Bodies, Zombieland with Woody Harrelson, or Abraham Lincoln vs. the Zombies then you are more likely to have a nice evening pouring through these pages. Bruce Campbell could be a member of the ZS cast. One last point of interest: I'm a grandpa. Zombie Spring is an heirloom book because it has my family all the way down to my grandchildren playing the leading parts. For those interested in passing down an heirloom that will last forever and can be dusted off every Halloween, I offer Zombie Spring as a template.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015148824
Publisher:	Frank Okusako
Publication date:	08/27/2012
Series:	Zombie Spring Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	514
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

I enjoyed writing this book, although I found the experience very difficult. For a guy like myself, a 150,000 words is probably more words than I speak in a year, and maybe that’s why this book took a year and half to finish. I guess I can’t write any faster than I speak! Also, I should have learned to type long ago. Zombie Spring was typed with two fingers on a hard chair!

I am a grandpa, and I have a baby grandson that I daycare for one of my daughters. I had forgotten what it was like to change a diaper, and right now, I am infant challenged in every possible way. And… there is a second baby on the way.

I wrote a Zombie book as my first book because the Dead make a great enemy, and they're just plain scary. Most of the Undead books I have read were great, right up until the ending. Why is that? It’s because most authors kill off all of their loveable characters in horrible ways and send me to bed depressed.

My books are different because most of my heroes and heroines survive, and you readers out there will feel more like laughing and cheering at the end, than taking a cup of hemlock at bedtime.

For me, writing is not a profession. I write books with my children's and grand children's names in them to leave them an heirloom. My wife and I are in the stories too so that my grandchildren will know what we did during the Zombie Apocalypse. I also write to make people happy. I firmly believe that if a person can do something that brings some cheer into the lives of other people, then he should.

My hobbies are golf, historical fiction, westerns, shooting, opera, first person computer games, baseball card collecting, riding motorcycles, and I played ball for 20 years. My favorite authors are: Zane Grey, Louis L’Anour, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc EE Smith, Bernard Cornwell, and Sam Barone.