New Prepper

[Ben Jackson]

Thank you Ben.
I'm not approving that post yet so only the mods can see it.

We will discuss your request and get back to, as soon as we can.

Thank you very much appreciate the time!

[Ben Jackson]

Helo and welcome.

Author? Of what?

Hmmm, I have a dystopian apocalyptic fiction novel that isn't published and some non-fiction books. I wrote a book about how to survive the zombie apocalypse (a beginners guide to prepping with a zombie flavor!) which is what got me interested in prepping. I'm working on an outline for a complete beginners guide to prepping. I live in Australia so joined an Aussie preppers forum, a UK and several USA Forums so I can get a good feel for how prepping is handled around the world.

[itsybitsy]

I wrote a zombie apocalypse beginners preppers book. I'll post my questions below, minus the links. Thanks you have all been really helpful!


I would like to introduce myself; my name is Ben Jackson, and I’m an author from Australia. I am also an aluminum tradesman for a 9-5, day job and travel between the United States, Canada, and Australia regularly.

I have written a book on prepping/zombies. I think that it is a decent introductory/beginners guide to surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. I’m attaching a link on Amazon below:

I am interested in getting some more feedback and reviews from preppers on my Amazon page. I run a free promotion through Amazon/Kindle every 90 days and just ran one over Christmas where I gave away over 1,000 copies.

I would like to offer my book to you to read in a pdf format for free, so you or any other admins could have a look.

What I am interested in for your members is getting them to buy a copy on Amazon Kindle for the $2.99 and if they leave a verified review I will refund them the $2.99 through PayPal.

When the book is on free promotion, I will send you guys a link so that you can all download it for free. I am in the process of writing a much more comprehensive book as a complete beginner’s guide to prepping so would also love to be able to ask members questions and opinions in regards to content and topics.

Thanks for taking the time to read all this!!! I would appreciate any of your thought or feedback. Thanks, Ben.

This sounds to the mods like you are here simply to tout your book. I have approved your post, but the fact that your book is about surviving a 'zombie apocalypse' doesn't really fill us with confidence. Prepping is nothing to do with a zombie apocalypse! This forum is for normal people, who live normal lives, who prep for realistic, plausible situations; we are not living an episode of Walking Dead. It is the continued assumption that those of us who choose to prepare ourselves for situations that could adversely affect us and our families, are tooled up and ready for an impending apocalyptic invasion by marauding un-dead! All that does is to give us a bad reputation, when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. This is part of the reason why we view any journalist/author with suspicion and distrust. Nobody has actually proved us wrong yet, sadly.

Please do not post any links to your book or any other site where you are promoting your work commercially. If you do this, you will be banned immediately. if you contact any of our members, unsolicited, you will be banned. If any of our members would like to purchase a copy, or they would like to get involved in any type of activity regarding your forthcoming book they can PM you directly.

[Deeps]

I'm curious what makes someone feel 'expert' enough to write a guide on surviving a zombie apocalypse. I've only been through the 3 zombie apocalypses myself and I don't feel like I'm in a position to be dishing out advice.

[itsybitsy]

I'm curious what makes someone feel 'expert' enough to write a guide on surviving a zombie apocalypse. I've only been through the 3 zombie apocalypses myself and I don't feel like I'm in a position to be dishing out advice.

I think one of those pretty pink 'zombie apocalypse' knives, decorated with rhinestones, would be a must for any zombie hunter.

[omega man]

here here!
When will they grasp finally that our main areas of prepping are for things like....

redundancy, unemployment, ill health, economic troubles, along with realistic sudden troubles like power outage and severe weather changes (flooding springs to mind) etc...

NOT the undead!!

om

[Ben Jackson]

Hmmm which question to answer first.

I'll start with the Zombie apocalypse situation. It's a hypothetical, about what ifs and questions. The book itself is a very general look at prepping/survivalism themed around the possibility of a zombie apocalypse and zombies in general. By no means a complete bible of surviving a zombie apocalypse and definitely not written by an expert by any means.

I was looking for information from people that are actually involved with prepping, hence, the reason I came to a number of prepping forums. One in the UK, two in the USA and two in Australia. I wanted to speak with mods first because I know people relish their peace and don't want 40 people flogging books. I won't be messaging anyone unless they message me first. I wanted people to know that I was an author and why I was interested in prepping to be as transparent as possible.

I understand that prepping itself is about much more than a world war or a zombie outbreak. The next book I'm about to start writing is more of a comprehensive preppers book bases around a variety of different situations. Natural disasters, economic collapse, internal conflict, outside influence, disease outbreaks and financial collapse.

There is a certain percentage of people who view preppers as crazy nutjobs, there always will be. There is also a percentage who see a show/movie/documentary about prepping and say "hey that looks cool, might be worth checking out." Just as among preppers themselves a certain percentage that have a house full of guns and ammunition and sit inside waiting for someone to dare and try to mess with them.

Joining a forum full of people interested in any subject and trying to "flog" your book to them is destined to fail and I wouldn't waste my time with it. I won't mention my book anymore, thanks for the welcome.

[Deeps]

Hmmm which question to answer first.

I'll start with the Zombie apocalypse situation. It's a hypothetical, about what ifs and questions. The book itself is a very general look at prepping/survivalism themed around the possibility of a zombie apocalypse and zombies in general. By no means a complete bible of surviving a zombie apocalypse and definitely not written by an expert by any means.

I was looking for information from people that are actually involved with prepping, hence, the reason I came to a number of prepping forums. One in the UK, two in the USA and two in Australia. I wanted to speak with mods first because I know people relish their peace and don't want 40 people flogging books. I won't be messaging anyone unless they message me first. I wanted people to know that I was an author and why I was interested in prepping to be as transparent as possible.

I understand that prepping itself is about much more than a world war or a zombie outbreak. The next book I'm about to start writing is more of a comprehensive preppers book bases around a variety of different situations. Natural disasters, economic collapse, internal conflict, outside influence, disease outbreaks and financial collapse.

There is a certain percentage of people who view preppers as crazy nutjobs, there always will be. There is also a percentage who see a show/movie/documentary about prepping and say "hey that looks cool, might be worth checking out." Just as among preppers themselves a certain percentage that have a house full of guns and ammunition and sit inside waiting for someone to dare and try to mess with them.

Joining a forum full of people interested in any subject and trying to "flog" your book to them is destined to fail and I wouldn't waste my time with it. I won't mention my book anymore, thanks for the welcome.

No offence mate but writing a book about how to survive a zombie apocalypse isn't going to make people think preppers aren't crazy nutjobs. Welcome to the forum, I hope you find some useful stuff here, I have.

[Briggs 2.0]

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