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Hello, and thanks for dropping by my website! I'm Lisa Jenn Bigelow, a Chicago-area youth services librarian and writer of middle grade and young adult fiction. My first novel, Starting From Here, will be published by Marshall Cavendish in Spring 2012.

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From Lisa's Blog

Zombie Overkill

Show of hands: who's over vampires? Put down your hands. Okay, now, who's over zombies?

I still hear people asking, "What's going to be the next big trend?" After vampires, they mean. And I wonder where they've been. How have they possibly missed the outbreak of zombie titles published in just the last two years, including the following: