Author and writing teacher Donnie Smith recently released his novel, "We Got Zombies On The Lawn Again, Ma." It's the first in his Ax Handel's Special Zombie Notebooks series and is available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle formats.
Smith is a former resident and teacher of Orovada.
In this humorously irreverent take on zombies, Ax Handel is a present-day 19-year-old pizza delivery guy with a short fuse who is determined to take control of his wildly unpredictable life. His comical attempts to make sense of his relationships with his outrageous family members usually end up in disaster. Suddenly, his life changes - possibly for the better - when zombies stumble out of a nearby cemetery. Life has never been easy for Ax and his mother, and they refuse to be scared off by a horde of the dying impaired. Without any help from Ma, whose hard-living, heavy-metal past has left her strangely sympathetic to the plight of the zombies, or his volatile ex-girlfriend, Zenobia (who's certain he's a head case), or even his zoned-out fugitive father, it's up to Ax to protect his little town of Karbunkle, N.D., and what little he owns while getting revenge on some bad-mannered, lumbering stiffs.
Smith, of Windsor, Colo., got his start as a storyteller nearly 30 years ago by swapping yarns with inmates in the facility where he worked as a correctional officer.[[In-content Ad]]
