Our guest today, Karina Fabian, contributor to Zombie Cookbook has given us a little insight to herself and her work. The fun cookbook, which came out September 1st through publisher Kim Richards of Damnation Books as part of the massive launch of DB. They put out 25 books that day!  They’re touring it during Halloween because there’s nothing more appropriate to the season than food and zombies. To purchase your copy, go to  Amazon or Damnation Books.

Karina’s two stories in the book are:

“Wokking Dead” It’s war and love when zombies attack a Korean restaurant.

“My Big Fat Zombie Wedding” So he’s undead–doesn’t mean he’s not the perfect man for a romance that will last ’till death and beyond.

Interview:

Girls with Pens:  How different is this process than writing the typical spooky fiction?

KF:  My stories “Wokking Dead” and “My Big, Fat, Zombie Wedding” are humor despite involving zombies. I don’t write spooky fiction, so I really couldn’t tell you, except that my stomach hurts from laughter and not tension.

GWP:  What’s your favorite recipe from the book?

KF:  Becca Butcher made one for “Beer Battered Brains and Butternut Squash,” but I have to admit it’s an acquired taste. Not everyone likes squash. For humor, Scot Virtes’ “Brain Salad” was very gross and fun and definitely something that should have been in Zombieland, the movie.
GWP:  Give a brief summery of Zombie Cookbook.

KF:  Cooking With Zombies Has Never Been Easier or More Fun! The Zombie Cookbook contains eleven poems, recipes and stories to entertain you and help you entertain with zombies from writers who know. Romance and revenge, the Wild West and a wild train ride, exterminator tips and zombie tirades. Come, see how the other half lives…or doesn’t.

GWP:  What’s the first thing you wrote? What’s it about?

KF:  Oh, heavens! I can’t think back that far. The first thing I’ve written as an adult that sold was a sci-fi about an artificial intelligence that wanted to prove it was real. It went back to Descartes. The story is that Descartes isolated himself from all outside input to try to prove he existed and why he know that. He came up with: “I think, therefore, I am.” The computer did the same thing; but having been schooled in the scientific method, realized he needed a control group. So he isolated a human at the same time. The computer came away a year later having had much deep thoughts; the human slowly went insane.

GWP: What’s your favorite book, and why?

KF:  Too many to count. I love Madeleine L’Engle. Wrinkle in Time will always be my first love as far as books are concerned. I’m also very fond of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jim Butcher.

GWP:  Tell us a little about you.

KF:  I am very much alive, the mother of four and wife to Robert, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and my best friend and first point of reference for everything from ideas to advice. I’ve been writing publishable stories for over a decade and have six books out: two anthologies that I published, one novel, and three anthologies that I’ve got stories in. You can see them all at www.fabianspace.com. I have been president of the Catholic Writers Guild since it’s founding—and adore the people and the work we’ve done—and I co-organize catholic writers conferences online and live. I also have workshops on writing and marketing books. (If interested, click on Marketing Mentor in the menu at www.fabianspace.com)

I love writing funny stories and stories that involve the exploration of faith and religion. More and more, I gravitate toward the funny, though, especially in my DragonEye, PI, series. It stars a down-and-out dragon detective living on the wrong side of the Interdimensional Gap and solving mysteries with his nun partner. I love writing Vern, and my kids love Vern stories. Learn more at www.dragoneyepi.net.

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