Kevin David Anderson was born in
Indiana, and currently lives and writes speculative fiction in
Southern California. Before becoming a writer and active member
of the HWA, Anderson earned a B. A. in Mass Communication (TCOM)
with a focus on Media Production from CSUF (Fresno State), and
worked as a marketing professional for more than a decade,
during which he managed award-winning campaigns for both
television and radio.
Anderson’s
debut novel the geeky, cult zombie classic,
Night of the Living Trekkies,
from Quirk Books, the publisher of
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,
is a funny, offbeat Zombie novel that explores the pop culture
carnage that ensues when the undead crash a Star Trek
convention. Publishers Weekly gave
Night of the Living Trekkies
a starred review and the Washington Post listed it as one of the
top five Zombie novels of 2010.
“A fun, highly readable action tale
packed with obscure Trek references, all wrapped in a sturdy,
fast-paced and cinematic story.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Shock Room
"…offers plenty of wit with its
alien-infested corpses." —Yvonne Zipp, The Washington Post
"Written in
tongue-and-cheek style, Night of the Living Trekkies is a
fast-paced, fun-filled, 256 pages of undead action."
—Jason Tonks,
Fangoria

Kevin with Night of the
Living Dead creator
George A. Romero
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Night of the Living Trekkies
and Anderson’s follow up,
Night of the ZomBEEs have
become required reading in college courses, most notably the
class designed for incoming freshman,
How to Survive Your
Freshman Year by Studying the Zombie Apocalypse, at
Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. Read More About this
in the Press Enterprise article:
How an Inland author’s zombie books wound up used in college
seminar

Kevin hanging with Ted Raimi
at ZomBcon
Anderson’s
short stories have appeared in more than a hundred publications,
from anthologies and magazines to podcasts and radio dramas. His
work has appeared in multiple languages and on every continent,
excluding Antarctica - mostly because penguins and polar bears
don’t read. Anderson was the first American to be published in
the award-winning South African Horror Magazine,
Something
Wicked. Anderson’s short story
Third Shift
took first position in the Top International Horror competition
from Rain Fall books in the UK. Anderson has contributed to many
award-worthy publications including the British Fantasy
Award-winning magazine Murky
Depths, and the Bram Stoker
nominated anthology, The
Beauty of Death from
Independent Legions Publishing. Several dozen of his stories
have been turned into audio productions with voice talents like
Jason Hill, Rish Outfield, and Mur Lafferty, on Parsec
Award-winning podcasts like Pseudopod, The Drabblecast, The
Dunesteef and on the very popular Simply Scary Podcast and the
No Sleep Podcast. For a complete list of published works,
Novels, stories, audio, visit Kevin's
Bibliography To find links to all Kevin's work produced in
audio (99% of which is free) visit the
Free
Audio page.

Upon seeing Night
of the Living Trekkies
the
Spanish edition
La noche de los trekkies vivientes
With a lifelong passion for monsters, the walking dead, and all
things that go bump in the night, Anderson was a guest at the
first-ever Zombie Culture convention, ZomBcon held
in Seattle 2010, with other zombie / horror genre icons like
George A. Romero, Bruce Campbell, and Max Brooks.
When not
writing horror, comedy, or horror-comedy, Anderson likes
to spend time at the beach with his family, attend horror
conventions and book festivals, work part-time with special
needs students, and write and tell bad, corny, nerdy jokes. Dad
jokes with a geeky twist are his specialty and with the help of
his son, he published The
Geektastic Joke Book for Kids
under the pseudonym, Giggles A. Lott and Nee Slapper. Giggles &
Slapper’s followed up with two more joke books for kids,
Jurassic
Jokes, A Book 65 Million Years in the Making
and STAR WARS: The Jokes Awaken. All available at AMAZON


COMIC CON

WonderCon!

Kevin's favorite Con - Midsummer Scream (Long Beach CA)
Kevin is a proud Active member of the HWA

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