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A World on Fire Back from the Dead? April Fools!
Oh crap, wait … it’s no longer April 1st. I guess this means, A World on Fire is really back? Hells Bells yes. On an aside … I will say one thing … April Fools is probably my least favorite “holiday” type thing. Where jokes were once constrained to the odd whoopie cushion in the boardroom prank, it’s gone global thanks to the web. I hate April Fools because I can be pretty gullible some times and the web just gets clogged with phony stories. I actually made it through the entire day without taking any bait until I strolled over to The Zed Word and learned of George Romero’s passing. My wife was talking to me when I was like “Holy Shit! Romero … Read entire article »
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A Big Welcome to A World on Fire’s Latest Contributor, Ben
I just thought I’d give Ben, resident zombie taunter and Dead Rising expert, a warm welcome to A World on Fire. Ben’s a big fan of video games and enjoys killing zombies in a variety of interesting ways. From running them over in a golf cart to taking them out in boxing gloves, digital zombies just don’t stand a chance when Ben is on the scene. In between Dead Rising 2 and Left 4 Dead sessions, Ben has also been following developments on The Walking Dead like a hawk. He’s also keenly interested in providing zombie Halloween coverage. In short, there’s going to be a whole lot of zombie news coming down the pipe. Welcome to the apocalypse, Ben. Now give ‘em hell :) … Read entire article »
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1000th Post and Still Counting
It’s hard to believe that it has been a year and a half since I started this little site. Since that time, I have met a whole bunch of talented writers, filmmakers, comic book artists, musicians, and everyone in between who also share a love of the walking dead. There is so much wonderful zombie work being done out there that makes me think that we’ve entered a new age of zombie. Vampires be damned (wonka wonka). So this is my 1000th post and believe it or not, just the other day, the site received it’s 1000th comment. The comment was actually a ping from a really cool hombre named Cory who runs the equally cool site, The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse. If you haven’t … Read entire article »
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A World on Fire: State of the Zombie
This year has been an interesting year for sure in regards to the state of A World on Fire. By the start of the year, the site was going strong and by the time March swung around, I managed to complete the first draft of A World on Fire: Rage – the first book in a series about the rise of the dead. April was the time for change, and for the following three months, the site suffered from a rather dramatic changes in my own life. The book, the site, everything zombie related took a backseat to a rather difficult transition. It was an excellent transition mind you, but any change – whether it be good or bad – can be painful. My two … Read entire article »
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State of the Zombie
Over a year ago, I created the initial design of a WordPress website that would feature zombie news and events while I continued to write my zombie book. The site became a life line of sorts. It kept me focused on the end goal while it also provided a way for me to mark time at a job that had simply “lost that loving feeling”. The big goal was for me to leave my job in June and write full time. Alas when we crunched the numbers we saw that it was not meant to be. Long time visitors to the site will have noticed the steady decline posts in the past few months as my thoughts shifted from the living dead to the working dead. … Read entire article »
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Talk Zombies at AWOF Forums
If you like to talk zombies or would like to meet other fans of the zombie genre, feel free to take a stroll over to the A World on Fire forums. I started them up about a couple of weeks ago, and in that time, we’ve been talking zombie films, zombie weapons, zombie books, and of course, killing zombies. The easy thing about these forums is that they are Facebook compatible. The forums will create a user account for you based off your Facebook account. All that you have to do is provide a username and a password, and you are off to the races. There is no email verification or other hoops for you to jump through. … Read entire article »
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Zombie Forums Now Open
For those of you who have been hungering for a new place to meet people as well as discuss the various ways of killing zombies, you’ll be happy to know that I am cutting the ribbon for my all new forums. Believe it or not, I have been tweaking these forums for the past month. For one thing, account creation is a snap with Facebook. Just register with your facebook account and you will have an active membership without having to jump through the hoops of account creation. Unfortunately, the forum doesn’t seem to be importing facebook avatars (not sure why), but you can add your own via. the user control panel. … Read entire article »
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A World on Fire State of the Union
It’s 2010. According to Arthur C. Clarke, this is the year we make contact, but according to Max Brooks, we’ll be making contact with zombies. Moral of the story, keep the shotgun loaded and the machete sharpened. Before we delve into all the zombie happenings around us, I thought I might talk about what you can expect in the upcoming year on this website. There’s a lot of cool stuff coming so hold onto your hat. “But wait!” a man wearing a camouflage printed turtle neck sweater yells from the back of the room, . “What about the December giveaway?” Have no worries. I”ll announce the winners tomorrow. … Read entire article »
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Examinier Zombie Column and Blog Comments
For those of you who just cannot get enough zombie news, feel free to head over to the Examiner and you can check out my daily column there. A lot of the content will be articles that I wrote here, but I’ll be adding some new content as well. If you live in Connecticut, you might be interested in reading it because I’ll be featuring a lot of Connecticut themed zombie content as well as any local horror happenings. You can also sign up to my Twitter feed which has been acting as a hub for any zombie related post. … Read entire article »
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Updated comments and possible forums
We interrupt the regular slate of zombie news to discuss two things: comments and forums. First of all, the comment system on the main site isn’t scaling very well. I’m finding it difficult to respond to certain statements and for discussion over five comments, sub conversations are easily lost. To fix this, I enabled comment threading but alas, my current theme doesn’t support it which has forced me to get knee deep into the code. Hopefully I should finish tweaking tonight, but if you spot any weirdness, do know that it should disappear soon. … Read entire article »
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A World on Fire Now on Twitter
I’m kind of a tech “get off my lawn” kind of guy. Mind you, I make a living on the internet. It took me forever to get on Facebook, and now with great fanfare and a gazillion years too later, I’ve finally created a Twitter account. I don’t suspect there will be much new content on the Twitter feed, but I will post status updates of any new zombie postings and any quick zombie updates. If you feel the need to get your zombie news in less than one hundred and fifty characters, head over to: www.twitter.com/zombietreats. … Read entire article »
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The Big Zombie Wallpaper Oops Faceplam
A few weeks ago, I posted an announcement about the addition zombie desktop wallpaper to the site. A World on Fire visitor Scott commented that he clicked on the link and saw a blank page which made me scratch my head. Every time I click on the link I saw the content. Alas, I solved the mystery today. I forgot to publish the article which made it only viewable to myself only. I found this out only today when I was doing a little housecleaning. This is the moment where I stick my head into a jet engine. So, if you feel like downloading some zombie related desktop wallpaper, the doors are finally open. Zombie Wallpaper … Read entire article »
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A World on Fire Facebook URL
When I first developed this site back in April, I never thought to create a Facebook page. It was my friend Ben – the Left 4 Dead loving zombie killing manic – who suggested that I create a facebook page as another way to get the site out there. I’m glad I took his advice because it’s just an awesome way for fellow zombie fans to meet and share each other’s brains. So today, I made the step of grabbing a facebook url. Instead of heading over to some crazy url which looks like a vomit pile of calculus, you can now simply type the following url: www.facebook.com/zombieblog I tried to get aworldonfire, but alas, Calvin Daniel managed to beat me to the bunch. In any case, … Read entire article »
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Zombie Wallpaper Added
For all you zombie fans who like to see a good rotting corpse on your computer’s desktop, I have started to upload my collection of zombie images from across the web. Feel free to download them, and pass them around. Or just look. Some of them are really cool, and yes, there are plenty more coming. Just note, I don’t own the copyright on these images nor do I know the people who do, so if you’re looking to use them in your own work, you’ll have to do so some detective work. Enjoy! Zombie Wallpaper … Read entire article »
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Apocalyptic Wallpaper
For those of you who are new to this site and if you enjoy visages of dilapidated buildings in the wake of a post apocalyptic nightmare, I invite you to head on over to the post-apocalyptic wallpaper gallery. There’s around forty or fifty desktop wallpaper depicting the fall of civilization in various states. Although there is no zombies to be found in these images, you can image the horde could be lurking just out of frame. In any case, I have been compiling zombie flavored wallpaper from the web and I will post the collection soon. In any case, enjoy the end of the world. Apocalyptic Visions Wallpaper … Read entire article »
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