1. There have been
attempts by various groups to rename the Tenderloin district because the name
means a chunk of meat.
2. The building where
Neeta and Ted stay is not a YMCA like in the book, but is a retail store. I looked at it with Google Maps for an hour
to get a good feel for the building.
3. Before I could
write I Left My Brains in San Francisco, I had to come up with the characters
and episodes of Zombie Death Extreme—Bayou.
Some of that is on the website at http://zombiedeathextreme.com. I think I may novelize it later.
4. When Roscoe said
Marcel was a cad, I had no idea how true that was. I was VERY surprised at his behavior
later. I’m telling you—there are dark
corners in an author’s mind.
5. I originally
intended to have a casino attack in this book, but it wouldn’t work. I intend to write about zombies in Reno
someday.
6. The zombie attack
when Neeta and Ted start dating is in “Wokking Dead” in The Zombie
Cookbook. It’s actually the first Neeta
Lyffe story.
7. For those who read
Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator:
Remember the Cameron that Roscoe waxed poetic about in the episode where
they faced animatronic zombies that looked loved ones? That’s the Cameron Luke wanted to go see in
Reno.
8. Ted’s unusual
family is a nod to Caprica, which was a short-lived Battlestar spin off. One of the main characters was in a group
marriage. However, I have known people
in California who are in “multiple” living together relationships; they just
keep it on the down-low—hence, the “cousins.”
9. I asked a
biochemist and a geneticist to write Dunbar’s lines and told them to be as
academic as possible. I love the results.
I also had chemical engineers help me with the refinery. I love having brilliant friends with crazy
imaginations!
10. Someone reminded me that in Mad Max, Thunderdrome used
pig feces to produce methane to supply the town with energy and fuel. I was not thinking of that at all, and in
fact, had postulated that they were using something other than methane, which
is too volatile for cars.
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