Sonar4 Publications is getting ready to release a new book and we thought you would enjoy learning a little something about a writer who has taken on the Zombie genre. Zombie-Killer Bill will be out soon and you can keep up with the book here.

Q. Can you tell us about your book and when it will be available to buy, or if it is available, where can we get a copy?

A. Zombie-Killer Bill is a freelance gunslinger who's hired to kill the Illegal zombies of the wild west.

The Illegals - raging, flesh-eating monsters - spread the infection unlike their docile Slave or coherent Legal-zombie counterparts and it's up to Bill to stop them. This new job however, is bigger than just his routine zombie slaying. Dozens of Legal and Slave zombies have been brutally murdered by a crazed individual.

To solve the murders Bill sets out with an unlikely partner and hits the dusty trail. Together they risk life and limb to catch the culprit before he changes the west as they know it.

"Zombie-Killer Bill" will be available in the summer of 2011. I'm certain the first place it will be available is Sonar4 Publications as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and few local haunts here in Alberta, Canada.

Q. So, you've been writing since you were 8? What became of the stories you wrote at that young age, and what became of the novella you wrote when you were 9?

A. For some reason, Grade 3 was when I realized I loved to make up stories. I adored Language Arts, especially when we were asked to write stories. It was almost better than recess.

Every story I had written around that age are in scribblers. Those three boxes are the heaviest I own. I've never thrown out a story, no matter how bad.

The novella I wrote when I was nine stayed where it was until last year. It's definitely a work in progress but there's almost two decades of nostalgia attached to it.

Q. How many stories have you written as an adult and how many are published?

A. As an adult I've written approximately 19 (including short stories). About half have been submitted and four have acceptance letters attached to them. I'm in the anthologies: "Shadows of the Emerald City", "Throw Down Your Dead" & "For the Oceans"

Q. What are some of your future writing plans?

A.To keep writing, learning and maybe find some local courses to take to make improvements. I would really like to get a few novels out there too.

Q. Who are some of the people you look up to in the writing field?

A. Jim Butcher, Robert McCammon, Richard Laymon, Richard Matheson are just a few of the big names that have influenced me.

Q. What are some of your favorite books?

A. Off the top of my head: "Let the Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist and "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson. I have a lot of favorites but these two left impressions on me that lasted long after I read the last page.

Q. How long did Zombie-Killer Bill take to write?

A. All in all it was maybe 2.5 months after re-writes when ZKB was sent off to Sonar4 Publications.

Q. How did you decide on Sonar4Productions, and how long did the submission/acceptance process take?

A. They had a submission call out for their anthology "Throw Down Your Dead." I wrote the short story "Zombie-Killer Bill" and they asked if I'd be willing to write a novella. I thought it was a fantastic opportunity and gave it a shot. I believe it was the end of May 2010 that I was asked and beginning of June I had a contract, so it was pretty quick!