Jim Avelli

Zombiepalooza Radio Live #ZPR The Voice of Indie Author Jim Avelli Please tell the readers a little bit about yourself I’m a native New Yorker, but I don’t spend much time in NYC. I’m from the East end of Long Island originally, where I spent my teens and twenties drifting in and out of metal bands, writing and trying to be a comic artist. It got to the point where I needed to pick ONE trail that I was going to follow, and I picked writing . What makes for a great dystopian novel? For me, it’s believability. Anyone can write about an oppressive regime or some all-consuming evil empire but, unless it’s framed in a way that relates to real-world social or political structure, they can come off as flat, generic fantasy backdrops that exist only...