On Tuesday morning she had watched the world around her die.Īlong with the rest of her colleagues, Donna worked an early shift one week in four. On Tuesday morning, without any warning, her familiar surroundings had become alien, nightmarish, and cold. And for these aspects alone, he is in my eyes one of the greatest post-apocalyptic authors.For most of the last forty-eight hours, Donna Yorke had hidden under a desk in a corner of the office where she'd worked since the summer. The messages that they offer are strong, emotive and very poignant. His novels are entirely believable within an utterly unbelievable premise. His novels show a clear passion for what he is writing about. By now Moody had given up his reasonably secure and stable job as a bank manager, and had become a fulltime author.ĭavid Moody is one of the best examples of what can be achieved with hard work, dedication and a passion for what you’re doing. Between the ‘Autumn’ novels and his uber-violent ‘Hater’ books, David Moody had formed a strong and loyal fanbase. Indeed, after racking up over half-a-million downloads, Moody’s novel ‘ Autumn’ (2002) quickly developed into a tightly-interwoven series, with the initial novels being printed through his own self-publishing label – Infected Books.ĭuring the rising success of the ‘Autumn’ books, David wrote and released his second hugely-popular series of novels – the ‘Hater’ trilogy. Starting out as a free-to-download online novel, Moody’s first ‘Autimn’ novel soon became an online phenomena within the growing post-apocalyptic / zombie fanbase. Moody’s books focus on the way these everyday individuals cope with the massive stress of the situations they are faced with, how they interact with each other during these ordeals, and ultimately how some of them hopefully pull through.ĭavid Moody is probably best known for his signature ‘Autumn’ series. Nor is it just rotting flesh, scares and devastation. It’s not all guns, explosions and violence. And through this, Moody narrows in on the characters’ emotional response to these traumatic events. Instead he writes about believable, everyday Joe’s who are faced with extraordinary circumstances. Moody doesn’t write about extraordinary heroes pitted against unbelievable odds. That said, outside of this recurring ‘end of the world’ theme, Moody also has another common factor that links pretty much all of his work to date. The modern day master of the post-apocalyptic subgenre. And as such, in a way Moody has become the new John Christopher.

Indeed, a strong end of the world premise is what links all of his novels together. British author David Moody is known for his post-apocalyptic novels.

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