And playing Halo against twelve-year-olds. Listening to a friend’s children helped a little, or eavesdropping like a creepy person at the mall. It certainly isn’t The Smiths and The Cosby Show, stuff I grew up on. I’m almost 40, so I had to try to find out what they cared about nowadays. The harder part was getting into the mind of a 14 year old. That’s what she does for a living–uses snake venom to invent medicines to fight cancers and stuff. All the science in the beginning of the book is real. THOMAS: The scientific research was easy. It’s chaos…I love chaos.īUYZOMBIE: Was did you find difficult to accomplish within your book? The scientific research, character arcs, regional locations, etc? And the idea that whoever you team up with may save or kill you. No government, no cops, no laws against kids wielding weapons. I love the idea of there being no rules in a zombie story. I also wanted to do something a little new with the zombie genre. THOMAS: I’d been wanting to do a coming-of-age story for long time. And naturally the treens have to fight their way to freedom…whatever freedom remains.īUYZOMBIE: What was your motivation(s) to write in the horror/apocalyptic genre? Only these undead have some abilities beyond the norm that make them a bit harder to escape from. Of course on the first night of the weekend some undead show up. It’s more or less of coming-of-age story condensed into a few days. They’re beginning to talk about sex and liquor and all the weird “adult” things that high schoolers become aware of. They’re about to enter high school after the weekend and they’re experiencing all the angst and excitement that goes along with that. THOMAS: Hissers is about four teens(two girls and two boys) in a small town.
(And no, he’s not the guy on YouTube that lights himself on fire…)īUYZOMBIE: Can you provide a brief summary of your novel, Hissers? When he is not writing or rocking out, he is at home watching really bad B-movies or reading comic books.
You can also catch him on the road with his other musical act, Cash’d Out.
You can usually find him in the bars on the weekends playing with his band, The Buzzbombs. Ryan Thomas is the author of Hissers (which we reviewed here and works as an editor in San Diego, California.
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