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Matt Hults is one of my favorite writers. Not one of my favorite ‘new’ writers, not one of my favorite ‘up-and-coming’ writers, but one of my favorite writers period. A big statement considering this is the man’s first book, I know, but it’s true.

When I started my little Books of the Dead publishing company, one of the first things I did was announce a submission call for my Best New Zombie Tales Anthology Series, which at the time wasn’t a series at all, but rather a simple idea for a single book. The submissions came flooding in and I was shocked by the amount of stories I received. Some were good, some were bad; many were somewhere in-between. A couple of months into my editing journey I announced a submission call for my Best New Vampire Series, and once again I had more stories than I knew what to do with. In all, I waded through over 800 tales within the span of a few months. Of the 800, twenty would find their way into each book. The other 700+ stories would be cast aside. Matt’s stories were accepted––not once, not twice, but three times. He was the only writer to achieve this. Not only that, but in every book I produced I placed his story strategically, in a place of importance.

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