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A Zombie
Success
Story
Building a readership,
one book (and one
day) at a time
BY JENNIFER MCCARTNEY
Indie author R. R. Haywood wanted a zombie outbreak novel that followed the gory action
in real time—so each book in his
bestselling Undead series takes
place in a single day. Readers loved
the idea, and the series now stands
at Day Twenty One, which became
#1 in Amazon’s horror category
upon its publication in February.
The success of the zombie
books caught the attention of
Amazon’s speculative fiction
imprint, 47North, which released
Haywood’s time travel novel,
An actor dressed as a zombie hired by
Haywood to visit the offices of literary
agents around London
