If you want to read more from the guy who wrote this—me—check out my horror/adventure novel John Dies at the End and its sequel, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It. At least one of those books has been made into a movie, available in whatever format movies are consumed in your era (I have no idea when you’re reading this, go stream it into your brain or whatever you people do now).
If you want to keep up with news of upcoming titles and other noteworthy things in my life, assuming the Internet still exists, I can be found at:
or on Facebook at:
www.facebook.com/FuturisticViolence
and
www.facebook.com/JohnDiesattheEnd.TheNovel
Or you can read my humorous nonfiction essays at Cracked.com, where I am the executive editor as of the writing of this Afterword:
http://www.cracked.com/members/David+Wong/
Special thanks to my wife, my friends, and my coworkers at Cracked.com, all of whom were neglected for months at a time while I painstakingly squeezed out the 140,000 words of this tale. I want to thank Mack, for spending a year researching the uncontacted tribes of New Guinea, including a six-month stretch living among them to learn their strange customs. Sorry all of that stuff got cut from the book.
No one in this story is based on a real person, though some parts of Zoey’s personality are based on a woman I used to work with who, like the protagonist, also indirectly caused several large buildings to be destroyed.
My next novel will be the third volume in the John Dies at the End series, and in fact may already exist, again depending on when you’re reading this. After that, maybe I’ll return to Zoey and the Suits in Tabula Ra$a. Or maybe we’ll all die next week. I do not know the future. I am just a man.
—David Wong aka Jason Pargin
January 2015