Lipstick & Zombies: Rockin’ the Apocalypse

It’s not often that a writer can pin down the exact moment they came up with the idea for their book or series, but I can, because it was on twitter.

This person just wrote this big thing about how much they love 80s pop. They're one example of 80s pop they love: The Spice Girls.

— Faith McKay (@faithmckay) April 21, 2014

Yes, The Spice Girls were very big in the 1980s. *headdesk*

But anyhow this made me look up things about Spice Girls, and wow, I love Spice Girls fans. Y'all are fanatic.

— Faith McKay (@faithmckay) April 21, 2014

I wish I had need of a shower curtain, just so people would walk into my bathroom and see this. pic.twitter.com/kfifd9AMJl

— Faith McKay (@faithmckay) April 21, 2014

The world obviously needs a book where a pop girl band fights zombies in the post apocalypse world.

— Faith McKay (@faithmckay) April 21, 2014

AND THERE IT IS. I was kidding when I hit tweet. But then it wheedled its way into my thoughts. What would that story look like…. how would I do that… I was working on other stories at the time, but that never matters when those questions start nagging at you. And here I am a year and a half later. I’ve at least drafted the first three novels, and one novella, in the Deadly Divas series, and book one, Lipstick & Zombies, is out tomorrow!

LIPSTICK & ZOMBIES (Deadly Divas, #1)

WANTED. Five girls. Must be able to sing, dance, and kill zombies.

Five unknown students are desperate to change their lives.

They know they have what it takes to become one of the Deadly Divas.

Now they just have to prove it to what’s left of the world.

Buy it on Amazon

From tweet, to novel! Lipstick & Zombies will be delivered to the beautiful people who’ve pre-ordered it on Kindle at midnight tonight. The five divas and I have spent a lot of time together since that first tweet, and I’m so excited for them to finally be out in the world, getting all of the attention they so desperately want.

One last thing if you’re interested in the series: tomorrow I’ll be sending out an update for the people on the McKay Manor newsletter, which will include free a copy of Death & Fashion, a Deadly Divas novella. You can sign up for that (and get a free copy of Robert McKay’s novella) on McKayManor.com.