Meet my Zombie Army

Heavy Metal Hair

I was at the 2nd annual Florence Festival of Books last weekend selling my horror novel Night Walk and my new short story collection The Nose Knows & Other Stories and I had a great time.  Books were sold and drawings were drawn.

I think for any of you who know me, you all know the real reason I attend so many book festivals is to show off my heavy metal hair. Yeah, I'm metal. Deal with it.

But more importantly, I've been building my very own zombie army. Now before you all get up in arms and waving pitchforks around while shouting "David Hudnut is a necromancer!" calm down. When I say I'm building a zombie army, I don't mean I'm actually going to graveyards and morgues in the middle of the night to steal bodies and later resurrect them in my evil wizard's tower. Because we all know, I would never steal bodies. But I do have my very own wizard's tower, and I may or may not have resurrected dead bodies in it now and then.

At any rate, what I WAS doing at the Florence Festival of Books was drawing a picture of each person who bought a copy of my novel Night Walk or my short story collection The Nose Knows & Other Stories in the book they purchased. In some cases, it was a gift for someone not in attendance, so I worked from a photo.

The zombie army

I did all of the sketches using a Pentel 0.5 mechanical pencil, inked with COPIC 0.35 Multiliner SP, and colored with Tombow Dual Brush pens while I chatted with the customers about eating brains and the end of the world. No surprise that zombies LOVE to talk about brains.

The Brain Lovers Society

As usual, The HUDNUT IMP was trying to steal my thunder by crowding me out and getting in the way the whole time. You can see one of his unnecessarily gigantic comic strips right there in front of my booth! What a scene-stealer and attention whore that guy is!

The HUDNUT IMP trying to steal my thunder

The HUDNUT IMP

But I love the little green guy, so I let him get away with it every time.

Now that the show is over, don't fret. You can still buy my novel Night Walk and my short story collection The Nose Knows & Other Stories on Amazon.com.

And if you want me to turn you into a zombie, I will be at Wordstock this coming weekend, October 13 & 14, in Portland, Oregon selling books and drawing people as zombies.

Until next time,

"BRAINS!!!"

the HUDNUT IMP, July 18, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 23, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 19, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 16, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 14, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 10, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 8, 2012

DIRTY, SHAMELESS, NOSE-PLUG

Everybody knows that Imps love nostrils. They love to climb up inside nostrils and take naps there because it's dark, warm and moist. The perfect place for a nap, don't you think?  I'm also pretty sure it's common knowledge that in particular, Imps love nose-hairs and boogers. Especially boogers. Can you blame them? Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure Imps make boogers. I mean, who else would?

I don't know if the the Hudnut Imp realizes it, but in today's installment, that little green imp is inadvertently promoting my novella The Nose Knows. But when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The Nose Knows is about what happens when a young man named Calvin Dunkley discovers that one of his nose hairs is growing out of control. And I mean seriously out of control. Sounds like the Hudnut Imp's dream come true.

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What makes this horrid nose-hair scenario particularly degrading for poor Calvin is that he's hoping to find true love. Calvin works at a grocery store, and one of his regular customers is a brunette bombshell named Claudia Aranda.

The bad news for Calvin is that on the same day Calvin has finally worked up the courage to ask Claudia out on a date when she comes into the store, his nose hair has decided to go rogue-mutant. Will Calvin manage to score a date with Claudia? Or will his monster nose hair ruin his chances?

If you want to find out what all the fuss is about in The Nose Knows, read the novella. It's full of all kinds of slimy, boogery fun. It's funny, horrifying, and satisfying all at the same time.

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the HUDNUT IMP, May 5, 2012

the HUDNUT IMP, May 2, 2012