I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It Shorts (2009)

Permit me a bit of shameless self promotion. Running a blog about Halloween specials isn't exactly a full time gig; my day job is writing books. In January of 2010, Random House published I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked it, my ninth book. It's sort of a Halloween special of my own (in book form). (update May 2010: Disney Channel Original Movies has optioned the film rights; wouldn't it be something if it really did turn into a Halloween special?)

In the world of the book, vampires and zombies have been known to exist for a few years - Megamart, a discount retailer, was found to be raising the dead to work as zombie slaves in their stockrooms, and, in response, vampires came out of hiding to lobby congress to outlaw undead slavery. Now, people have gotten used to having the undead around, but dating a "post human" is a HUGE status symbol among teenage girls, and, as a result, even guys who would normally be wearing backwards abercrombie hats are going for the goth look. Every magazine is running stories about teen girls' dangerous desire to date a vampire who will 'convert' them. Every girl wants to convert* - except for Alley Rhodes, who says "dead people have no reason to live."

But then she meets Doug, a more sincere goth who sweeps her off her feet when he sits in with The Sorry Marios, a lousy local band. But after they start dating, she comes to realized that he's not a goth at all - he just LOOKS like a goth. That pale skin ain't makeup...he's just been dead for three years...

Anyway, to promote the book, I made a handful of short films: a "trailer" for the book and a few other shorts presenting vignettes about zombies and vampires as they're portrayed in the book. They're not really a Halloween specials by the standards I normally hold for this site, but indulge me, won't ya?

Check out ikissedazombie.com for more cool stuff, and pick up the book at your local book store!