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Lyle Perez-Tinics is the writer and creator of www.UndeadintheHead.com a website dedicated to zombie books and the authors. He wrote his first short story, Dement, in April of 2010, and from there he has written one story after another. Dement was accepted for The Undead Nation Anthology, which is another charity project to help raise money for breast cancer research. Lyle is a true zombie fan and will never forget the first time he watch Dawn of the Dead with his dad. But it wasn’t until the Resident Evil games that Lyle became the zombie fan he is today. He enjoys writing about the undead and his goal is to one day raise enough money from his writing to open a horror themed bookstore. Until then, you can expect a lot more great work and charity projects from this 25-year-old writer. As of now, he has many fresh ideas in his head along with The Undead That Saved Christmas Vol.2 and The Undead That Saved Christmas Vampire Edition. Lyle is a big supporter of foster homes and has always wanted to do something like this to help raise money for them. He put in countless hours into this anthology to make it the best and most original anthology anyone has ever seen. He loves hearing from his fans. You can email him, Contact@UndeadintheHead.com or follow him on Twitter

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First, he led his own uprising. Then he captured a forsaken king. Henry had no intention of taking the crown for himself; it was given to him by popular acclaim. Alas, it didn't take long to realize that that having the kingship was much less rewarding than striving for it. Only three months after his coronation, Henry IV had to face a rebellion led by Richard's disgruntled favorites. Repressive measures led to more discontent. His own supporters turned against him, demanding more than he could give. The haughty Percies precipitated the Battle of Shrewsbury which nearly cost him the throne—and his life. To make matters worse, even after Richard II's funeral, the deposed monarch was rumored to be in Scotland, planning his return. The king just wouldn't stay down and malcontents wanted him back.

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How the Undead Saved Christmas When I first thought about doing this anthology I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I knew that I wanted my first book to mean something, but at the time I didn’t know what. I remember I was sitting at my work desk when it hit me; I wanted to put together a charity anthology. Now the only problem was choosing a charity. Have you ever asked someone the question, what would you do if you won the lottery? Well, my wife, Mandy, and I asked each other that one day. The first thing that came out of our mouths was to start a foundation to help children in need. There are many children in the United States who need love, care and attention. If we had millions of dollars that would be the first thing we’d do with the money. For some reason, when I thought about compiling an anthology, our little lottery conservation flew into my head. Then the charity came to me, I wanted to help foster children. I’ve never been a foster child myself; but in school a lot of my friends lived in foster homes. Now the next dilemma came up, what foster agency will I help? In December of 2009 I was, again, at my desk at work when an e-mail caught my attention. The letter was asking for toy donations for foster kids at Hugs Foster Family Agency. The e-mail came with an attachment that was a Christmas wish list. I looked over the document and there were over one-hundred children on that wish list. I knew I wanted to help those children that year. So I did, I donated. I was already familiar with Hugs so it was only fitting that I choose them as the charity. Now I needed a theme, this was easy. Everyone who is familiar with my writing will know that I love zombies. I run a website that is dedicated to zombie books and the authors. So a zombie-themed anthology was right up my alley. Everything else seemed to fall into place. I was thinking about the anthology and realized I’ve always wanted to do something that involved Christmas. Since I donated to Hugs at Christmas time and I was compiling an anthology to help the foster kids, I decided to put them together. The next step was to come up with a title. I knew the proceeds from the book were going toward purchasing Christmas presents for the foster children. Then it hit me, The Undead That Saved Christmas. After I got a title and knew the theme it was time to start spreading the word about my anthology. I used the connections I have made from my website and started spreading the word. Within a week I had many people asking me how they could help. One of these wonderful people was David Naughton-Shires, he is the artist who did the book art cover. He came up with the art idea and basically had it done within a few days. He has been a really, really big help. So, now I had a cover to show around. I created a Facebook fan page and very quickly word started spreading about my charity zombie Christmas-themed anthology. The number of fans quickly grew and as of right now there are 907 fans. It truly warms my heart that so many people support the anthology and most importantly support the cause. Since this is the first book that will have my name on the cover I wanted it to be one of a kind. After David finished the cover I was bombarded by e-mails from artists who wanted to do the book cover. I turned them away because I only needed one book cover. Then I thought about it, something that has not been done in any other anthology that I’ve seen. An art cover for each individual short story. Once the idea was stuck in my head, I emailed the artists and ran the idea past them. Soon after Christmas art was flying everywhere. All of the art did find its way into the anthology. With the deadline passing and the submissions stopping, the fun began. I had to make decisions. The stories, poems & carols and comics you find in this book are the result of my decisions. I read all of the submissions and these 16 stories were selected by me. They were the best of the best. You will also find 7 poems and 5 comics. All of which were selected by me as the best zombie Christmas-themed literature out there. Before I start putting together the stories and formatting this anthology I want to thank everyone who has made it possible. I want to thank all of the artists who contributed art cover and the random clip art which will be splattered across the book. I will try to keep blank pages at a minimum. I want to thank all of the authors who contributed a story. Mark Polarek, the representative from Hugs who I have been in contact with has been extremely supportive. I want to thank my wife (Mandy) and my little daughter (Kallalaya). Both of them keep my spirits up. Most importantly I want to thank the readers for picking up a copy of this book to help support the Hugs Foster Family Agency. Together we can give these kids a very merry undead Christmas. Your anthologist Lyle Perez-Tinics 8/25/2010

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“I never knew how awesome Christmas could be! You’ll never see Christmas in the same way again – nor will you want to.” - Bill Nelson (WeZombie.com) “Perez-Tinics has amassed a thick volume of quirky, fun and undeniably different Christmas tales full of elves, gingerbread and the hungering undead. A must for zombie fans and a great way to help some forgotten kids this holiday season." - Eric R. Lowther, author, "Area 187; Almost Hell" and "Area 187; Almost Home" coming soon from Library of the Living Dead Press

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