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Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves

Since a couple of days ago, when I published Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves, zombie fairy tales have been all the rage. But to read it, you need a Kindle. And a lot of people don't own Kindles. No problem. Here's what to do...

- by Bob McLain, June 29, 2011

Listen, you don't have to tell me...

A story about flesh-eating zombies ravaging the fairy tale kingdom of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves isn't must-reading for the typical Disney fan.

You want Goofy... not guts.

I don't blame you. (And I promise my next project is a 30,000 word treatise on Disney World refillable mugs.)

What really surprised me, though, is the shallow penetration of the Kindle among Disney Dispatch readers, possibly among all Disney fans.

I've gotten e-mail from folks who'd like to read Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves: A Zombie Fairy Tale, but they don't have a Kindle, and it really is an imposition to download and install Amazon's free Kindle for PC just so you can read a book about, well, guts.

Luckily, I have the book in PDF format, too.

That's how I've been sending it to horror fiction reviewers.

The book is novella length, stays faithful to the original fairy tale (as long as you disregard the zombies), and has a few 'hidden' Disney references for diehard Disney fans to discover.

As a special offer to Disney Dispatch readers, good through July 6, I'll give any who ask a copy of the book in PDF format.

Free.

All you have to do is send me e-mail, and it's yours.

In exchange, I ask that you send me another e-mail when you're done reading the book and tell me, with no punches pulled, what you thought of it.

One note of warning:

The book is full-bore zombie horror. Some scenes may shock. If you don't like that kind of stuff, you may want to wait for the treatise on refillable mugs...

(If you do have a Kindle, or you're up for downloading the free Kindle for PC, and you also have $2.99 burning a hole in your pocket, you can get Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves: A Zombie Fairy Tale on Amazon.)