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At Tor.com, Brian James tells the shambling, ravenous tale of his research for Zombie Blondes.

No Daily Zombie report is complete without a zombie lolcat from ICHC:

Via io9: Publisher’s Weekly discusses the runaway success of paranormal romance in “When Love Is Strange”.

Paranormal romance—like romance in general—is doing extremely well during a period when the economic meltdown has exiled much of publishing to severe doldrums. “What’s going on in the world now has an impact. With wars and the economy, romance is fantasy—these books are the ultimate escape,” says Tsang from Avon.

Via Making Light: a whole thread full of zombie filk, apparently not the first one, which led me inexorably to Zombies on a Jet Plane:

Every time you run, we’ll follow you
Every place you hide, we’ll come for you
When we break through, you’ll know your hopes were wrong.

Via a mailing list: the Austin Daily News reports on zombie road signs.

Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of “zombies ahead.”

Via Cognition and Culture: io9 charts a statistical correlation between war and zombie movies.

Still, even correcting for the fact that there are more movies being made today, you can see that there are distinctive spikes in zombie popularity - and they always seem to fall slightly after a huge political or social event has caused mass fear, chaos, or suffering.

It appears to be World Zombie Day today, at least in Pittsburgh.

Today on the Daily Zombie, just a few lighthearted zombie links:

• The Zombie Apocalypse in Lego from io9.com
• Better Zombies Through Physics, an ongoing comic at Tor.com
• More reviews of The Living Dead from Night Shade Books
• A zombie lolcat for your shambling pleasure: