{"id":9356,"date":"2015-01-02T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2015-01-02T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:30:26","slug":"dont-spurn-me-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/dont-spurn-me-on-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t SPURN Me On This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The part of my &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; novel I take the most flak for is chapter 10.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase the Joker:<\/p>\n<p>You write one little scene about someone getting raped by a zombie and suddenly everyone loses their minds!<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Girls tell me they can barely read it.<\/p>\n<p>Guys think I&#8217;m some kinda psycho for writing it.<\/p>\n<p>And, some accuse me of trying to disturb and gross people out just for the sake of disturbing and grossing people out, and not having enough sense to &#8220;filter&#8221; my writing better.<\/p>\n<p>Are they right?<\/p>\n<p>Nah.<\/p>\n<p>For one, there&#8217;s a purpose behind all that violence. (It ain&#8217;t just thrown in willy-nilly.) And secondly, it&#8217;s a *zombie* book &#8212; not the Mickey Mouse Hour. It&#8217;s supposed to be deranged.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the sequel &#8220;Vampire Apocalypse&#8221; has its own derangement.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, in chapter 6.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 6 is VA&#8217;s version of chapter 10.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you read it, I HIGHLY suggest you turn on (and have it loop during the whole time you read the chapter) &#8220;The Brides&#8221; from the &#8220;Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula&#8221; soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPURN me not on this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what I listened to while writing it.<\/p>\n<p>(And editing it.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll make the experience a lot more creepy.<\/p>\n<p>Way more fun.<\/p>\n<p>And, a bit\u00a0more disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t that the whole point of a vampire story&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>You can read the first chapter or so free on amazon here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EnochWars.com\/vampire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EnochWars.com\/vampire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The part of my &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; novel I take the most flak for is chapter 10. To paraphrase the Joker: You write one little scene about someone getting raped by a zombie and suddenly everyone loses their minds! Sheesh. Girls tell me they can barely read it. Guys think I&#8217;m some kinda psycho for writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}