It looks like Night Shade Books editor Jeremy Lassen has a bunch of free time on his hands, as he announced yesterday:

If you have a completed zombie novel, and it doesn’t suck, please send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the subject line “Zombie Novel Submission.”

Please attach the FULL manuscript as an RTF or Word file. In the body of the email, please include a SHORT cover letter covering your personal information and any relevant publication history. Do not give me a summary of your zombie novel. It’s a zombie novel. That’s all I need to know.

The open submission period for these zombie novels is the next 2 months... September and October of 2008. If it is past October 31, 2008, please do NOT submit zombie novels to the above address. They will be ignored.

I don’t know if Jeremy thought that his announcement would appear in a venue like Tor.com, but that’s the kind of scamp that I am.

So, got that zombie novel sitting on your hard drive looking for a brain uh, publisher? Send it on to Jeremy!