Well, not your ordinary makeover with lipstick and hairspray, more like… a ZOMBIE makeover! Which for some reason, excites me even more. I love it sooooo much!!

The mastermind behind the zombie makeover is James Cheetham. He has worked at a maximum security prison as a Corrections Officer for the last 7 sevens years, most of that time spent on the psychiatric ward. Whilst working in the institution he gained inspiration for his stories.

He’s the author of dark fiction novel, Fade To Pale which has developed a cult following. And no wonder why! Cocktail Reviews calls Fade To Pale ‘psychologically acute and entertaining, dark and inspiring, deeply personal and universally appealing all at the same time’. It won Best Horror Novel of 2007 at Preditors and Editors. He’s also the author of The Beekeepers; a short story which was released in an anthology called Weirdly: A Collection of Strange Stories, and has published his short story, The Wilting May Flowers in NVH Magazine. His most recent novel; Seasons of The Brittle Harvest Volume One: Prairie Frost is a “Canadian take on the ominous world of the walking dead. The extreme winter weather of the Canadian prairies, and the infestation of the damned makes survival for those still alive remote at best. Add the mental effects of long term isolation and cabin fever, and you have a survival story of epic proportions”.

James also kindly offers his talents to the public in the form of zombie makeovers. You can see flesh eating zombies from around the world here and even become one - if you dare! Go visit him, I know you want to! Just email him a mugshot of yourself and expect a horrid image of what you’ll look like once your soul returns to earth to haunt the living. I’m thinking of sending mine to my relatives as an annual photo. They’ll say, “my, how you’ve changed”.

You can purchase Fade To Pale and Weirdly: A Collection of Strange Stories at Wild Child Publishing for an exceptionally reasonable price!

Big love & bloody marys,