"Night of the Givng Dead" - A Charity Anthology by LotLD Press for "First Book"-SUBMISSIONS OPEN

Here's the first e-mail from First Book:

Dear Michael,

Thank you for contacting First Book! If you requested a response, you will be hearing from us very soon.

We are grateful for your interest in supporting First Book's mission to provide new books to children in need addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy – access to books.

In 2008, First Book celebrated the distribution of our 60 millionth book! Together with our committed supporters and partners, we look forward to bringing 60 million more books into the lives of children who are waiting for them.

Sincerely,
First Book

Excellent idea.  Let's get those children into reading.  Make for bigger brains, bigger brains.  I like it.  I'll surely send a story in!  You can count on me for that!

Sounds great! I'm in.

Any type of story? Any theme?
Would it be wise to keep it kid friendly (as far as possble) in case First Book want to have a copy?
Like tone down the cussing and child abuse. Or am I being too PC?

This anthology will not be for the children. Only the proceeds will go to First Book. The anthology will be like the Zombology anthologies. Short zombie stories, 6K max.

Here's the e-mail I received from Bonnie at "First Book" and my response:

Doc, you big fucking softie you! This is a fantastic idea! Aside from stories (wich I plan to write one) if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know

This is excellent.

This is wonderful! 

What I would really appreciate from all of you is, if you know an author, hit him/her up for a story. I'd love to have someone like Brian Keene give us a short zombie story for this anthology. I'm gonna hit up all of the one's I know personally.

Plus we will need some MAXIMUM PIMPAGE for this. Y'all can start hitting all of the boards your belong to.

Yeah, this is gonna be cool as hell!

Hey, Doc!  Make sure to mention it on the Funky Werepig when you're on!  There's a wide variety of authors that both participate and listen in.

I'll also make mention of it at Choate Road in the forum, maybe drum up some interest there, too.

this is both sweet and cool at the same time.  i will deem it cweet. 

i'll get to writing right aways!

FAntastic

I made a post on my review site www.hiveofhorror.vox.com

Okay, todays entry isnt a review.
Night of the Giving Dead is a recently announced charity project from Library of the Living Dead publishing ( www.libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com - official website of the comapny and podcast)
Dr. Pus is looking for authors and stories of the zombie persuasion. Any stories are considered "Donations" to the book and 100% of the proceeds for this book will go to First Book, a group dedicated to getting books into the hands of less fortunate children. You can check out the website here http://www.firstbook.org/site/c.lwKYJ8NVJvF/b.674095/k.CCA8/First_Book_Homepage.htm . If anyone reads this i would challenge you to tell all your friends to keep an eye out for this when it is published, and if anyone is a budding author, contribute a story of 6k words max. this is a wonderful charity and one worthy of our attention....
please, if you visit any message boards or forums, please reprint this post and spread the word around!

Thanks in advance!

If I can come up with something good enough, I'll be happy to contribute a story.  I'll see what I can do. 

Ooh!  Can we auction off An Evening with Stephen North at HorrorRealm?

For charity, I mean.

Hey, I posted a thingie at Choate Road.

Ooh!  Can we auction off An Evening with Stephen North at HorrorRealm?[image]

-ee-radicator

I bid 100€.

-nr

Hey now, what about me?  I am his co-author on Barren Earth ya know?  It should be a night with Stephen AND Eric.  NUFF SAID.
(yeah, I need some coffee). 

Now GET TO WORK STEPHEN!!!!