Welcome back, Allie! To talk about what every Love Inspired author is abuzz with right now . . . Zombies! (Really? Well, okay. Take it away, Allie!)
Zombies.
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What’s the deal with every under-twenty male (and many over
twenty, I might add) obsessing about zombies?
Are they the natural successor to vampire obsessions? I shudder to think that vampires are the
gateway drug to zombies. Can cannibals
(yes, I intended that alliteration) be far behind?
I don’t see an inspirational zombie romance in my professional
future. The folks at Love Inspired
really would pitch fits if I pitched one, even as a joke (I considered it
once...). While zombies can somehow
inhabit the world of Jane Austen, it seems my world isn’t ready for them.
With one exception. I’ve
decided I’ll write my son a zombie story for his 17th birthday next year. Just to blow his teenage mind and to prove to
myself that my muse really is a virtuoso beast.
It’ll be loads of fun, right?
Flesh-eating, brain munching zombies from the mind that brought you
HOMEFRONT HERO?
Yeah, I didn’t think you’d go for it, either. I’m harboring no delusions that this
particular zombie tale will ever see publication. I’ll never hand it over to my editor or agent
unless its for laughs (or voluntary proofreading?). This one’s just for an audience of one: my
boy.
These are the things we do as mothers. We bend ourselves in ways that step into our
children’s world. We learn all the words
to Raffi’s “Bananaphone,” or endure gangsta rap dreck coming out of our car
stereo, or sit through the travesty that was the last Thomas the Tank Engine movie.
So, while I absolutely can’t see the humor in The Regular Show, I try to learn what he likes, how he sees the
world, because I love him.
You’d think a woman who’s written a compelling novel about the
Spanish Flu epidemic in WWI wouldn’t have to go so far to please a teenage boy.
You’d be wrong.
Allie Pleiter
Love Inspired
Historical
May 2012
#978-0-373-82916-3
Back cover copy:
Dashing
and valiantly wounded, Captain John Gallows could have stepped straight out of
an army recruitment poster. Leanne Sample can't help being impressed—although
the lovely Red Cross nurse tries to hide it. She knows better than to get
attached to the daring captain who is only home to heal and help rally support
for the war's final push. As soon as he's well enough, he'll rush back to
Europe, back to war—and far away from South Carolina and Leanne. But when an
epidemic strikes close to home, John comes to realize what it truly means to be
a hero—Leanne's hero.
Author Bio:
An avid knitter, coffee junkie, and
devoted chocoholic, Allie Pleiter writes both fiction and non-fiction. The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother
of two, Allie spends her days writing books, buying yarn, and finding new ways
to avoid housework. Allie hails from
Connecticut, moved to the midwest to attend Northwestern University, and
currently lives outside Chicago, Illinois.
The “dare from a friend” to begin writing has produced two parenting
books, fourteen novels, and various national speaking engagements on faith,
women’s issues, and writing. Visit her
website at www.alliepleiter.com
or her knitting blog at www.DestiKNITions.blogspot.com
