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About Isaac Marion
Isaac Marion was born in north-western Washington in 1981 and has lived in and around Seattle his whole life, working a variety of strange jobs like delivering deathbeds to hospice patients and supervising parental visits for foster-kids. He is not married, has no children, and did not go to college or win any prizes. Warm Bodies is his first novel.
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Zombies gross me out, but I loved your book! I really enjoyed your style of writing and use of language. Thanks for a brilliant book :)
Thanks for loving it!
After our convo, I was curious... And, so I googled. On Yahoo!Voices, there is a top10 list for a music group called Bayside. #10 is a song called "Talking of Michelangelo". Is this the song you were talking about, when referring to the line from my poem? (by kelizzy29)
No, that's not it. It was something soft and classic sounding, like Rufus Wainwright or Neutral Milk Hotel or something...
I have wanted to be a writer for a really long time but I hadn't written much in many months. And for a long while, especially since I am nearing graduation and have no job or college plans, I was really worried and confused about my future and having (by icterine)
all these horrible feelings about myself and how I am not suited to do anything and will never succeed and I couldn't bring myself to face the novel I started last year because I could never get the ending to feel right so I just never finished it...And I was really depressed like an hour ago & I saw this little image that gave me a whole idea for a novel that I am already eager to start and now I just feel like really happy & so much more secure & now that I feel so prepared and inspired for this novel, its making me feel like I do have a place and this is my calling."
You sound like me when I started writing Warm Bodies. Good luck! Make it happen!
You sound like me when I started writing Warm Bodies. Good luck! Make it happen!
Do you feel like things happens for a reason? (by icterine)
I've never seen anything happen for no reason.
How are u? Was you're weekend ok? I've been contemplating you're fresh new take on the zombie genre, and I've read some people's opinions, in that they do not believe zombies capable of evolving that way. Why not? I think they're awfully close-minded. (by kelizzy29)
I was playing tour guide to an out-of-state friend over the weekend, and we did a lot of drinking and staying up late. I think I'm just now starting to recover.
I'm getting pretty tired of those people you mention. Zombies are a strange corner of pop culture that fans are weirdly protective of. They have some kind of personal attachment to the genre and anything that deviates from what's been established so far seems to rock their universe. I don't have much respect for these people, because they have such a short-sighted view of pop culture history. They forget that zombies, like all fictional tropes, are constantly evolving. They forget that zombies were once nothing but living people put into an obedient trance by voodoo powder. Then George Romero made them mindless corpses reanimated by space radiation. Then 28 Days Later made them human beings being affected by a virus that makes them fast and hyper-aggressive. I'm not the first person to write thinking zombies. George Romero himself did it in Dawn of the Dead--a zombie talks and enjoys music, for chrissakes. And in Land of the Dead, the zombie leader was the only likable character.
People who insist zombies are only one thing are just angry fan-boys who don't want any outside influences getting into their little club. If they had any perspective, they'd realize their club only exists in their own minds.
I'm getting pretty tired of those people you mention. Zombies are a strange corner of pop culture that fans are weirdly protective of. They have some kind of personal attachment to the genre and anything that deviates from what's been established so far seems to rock their universe. I don't have much respect for these people, because they have such a short-sighted view of pop culture history. They forget that zombies, like all fictional tropes, are constantly evolving. They forget that zombies were once nothing but living people put into an obedient trance by voodoo powder. Then George Romero made them mindless corpses reanimated by space radiation. Then 28 Days Later made them human beings being affected by a virus that makes them fast and hyper-aggressive. I'm not the first person to write thinking zombies. George Romero himself did it in Dawn of the Dead--a zombie talks and enjoys music, for chrissakes. And in Land of the Dead, the zombie leader was the only likable character.
People who insist zombies are only one thing are just angry fan-boys who don't want any outside influences getting into their little club. If they had any perspective, they'd realize their club only exists in their own minds.