There was a zombie movie recently with Carrie Ann Moss that I mostly enjoyed, until there was a little potential romance between human and zombie, even though that particular zombie was controlled by his collar thingee.

And another movie that came out recently (obviously these movies weren’t that awesome if I can’t even remember their names LOL) that had a bunch of vampires working in a factory. But these vampires didn’t just eat blood, they ate human flesh, albeit they mostly ate them served in their cafeteria prepared by the vampire cooks. Other than them not rotting, I considered them to be more zombie than vampire, because they ate flesh. There was some vampire/human flirting in that movie (I don’t recommend it, whatever it was called).

I read a very popular scifi/romance writer’s zombie story, and even though it was apocalyptic, and the romance didn’t involve zombies, I was somewhat disappointed at the “type” of zombies in that story, mostly because I enjoy the “destroy, or run away from the zombies” stories.

As far as romance between zombies and humans, or zombies with other zombies, there’d have to be some pretty good explanations about how the zombie virus mutated, or someone came up with a vaccine, so that there was no more rotting, and the zombies weren’t brain-dead retarded.

But, I take that back, even if a mutation or vaccine prevented rotting and stupidity, how would a zombie be with a human, and not expose the human to the disease via body fluids from kissing, and other fluid-exchanging activities?

I expect that 99.9% of my zombie stories will be the apocalyptic kind, where the only romance is with humans, cuz otherwise, ewww!

Zombies are one of my most favorite topics to read about, they can be funny and scary, but in a romance novel? IDK about that…

However, should there ever be a zombie uprising, I highly recommend The Zombie Survival Guide to help you get through it.

:D

If zombies will work only if they aren’t zombies, why bother?

Jane, in a world where people are happy to write Transformers slash mpreg, and stories where a Mary Sue can turn the Joker into a fluffy widdle kitttenwitten and skip off into the sunset together farting rainbows and butterflies, reality is not as important as you would think ;)

Zombies could only work if they’re not the shuffling, trailing-body-parts creatures we typically associate with the term.

If zombies will work only if they aren’t zombies, why bother?

She’s just written and offered to send a PDF to anyone who’s interested, so email me (logophilos at gmail dot com) and I will put you in contact with her. It’s a really good, somewhat sad story, works as horror and romance both. (Hard to believe, I know!)