Coming Soon from Evil Girlfriend Media: “Roms, Bombs, and Zoms” including one of my short stories

Earlier this year, a friend requested that I take a look at a new publisher and the anthologies they were looking to publish.  She was going to be editing one of these tomes and thought I might want to try my hand at the writing a story for it.  Evil Girlfriend Media is a new publisher of novels and anthologies and the book my friend thought I might be interested in submitting a short for was intriguingly entitled “Roms, Bombs, and Zoms.”  In fact, it was clear that EGM likes titles with three rhyming words.  Other anthologies they have coming out:  “Stamps, Vamps, and Tramps” and “Witches, Stitches, and Bitches.”

The criteria for writing a story for Roms, Bombs, and Zoms was simple.  It had to include those three concepts: Romance, a bomb of some sort (literal or figurative), and of course, my favorite slouching dead things, zombies.  Simple, huh?  Well, not when you aren’t used to writing romance.  Sure, I’ve written about relationships in my stories and even have a story written that has a bit of an erotic slant to it, but romance?  This was a new genre for me to tackle.  So of course, because I am always up for a challenge, I proceeded to come up with an idea and write a story….but not until about two weeks before the deadline for submitting a story occurred.  I was able to squeak in under the wire with my submission, which was a bit longer than what the publisher would have liked (thank God for editing!), but there you have it.  I had written my first romance.  I guess the fact that the story also had zombies in it was like a security blanket for me…because, you know, I have this thing for zombies.  No, my story does not have zombies falling in love, but they serve as a very traumatic backdrop to the love story I created.  More shocking than the fact that I had written a romance was that my story was accepted.  Honestly, I didn’t know I had it in me, but you are a better judge of that than me if I truly did with this effort.  My story is called “Until The End” and I am quite happy with the results.  I hope you are too.

Today, EGM released the cover for Roms, Boms, and Zoms.  It is very sharp and has wet my appetite for the book itself.  I am looking forward to the book’s release, which will be next month.  I will share the links to where you can check this book out via Amazon and elsewhere once it is released.  But for now, check out the cover and stay tuned for more details!