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The Life & Mimes (& Zombie Apocalypse) of Ripper the Clown: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Zombie

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The book that simultaneously redefines and spoofs the zombie genre.

LITERARY AWARDS:
Finalist, Comedy/Humor: 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
First Place, General Fiction: 2014 Halloween Book Festival.
Runner-Up / 2nd Place, General Fiction 2014 London (England) Book Festival
Runner-Up / 2nd Place, General Fiction: 2014 Hollywood Book Festival
Honorable Mention, General F
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Paperback , 292 pages
Published July 7th 2014 by Createspace (first published July 6th 2014)
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karen
so, this is a story about a zombie clown. but it's not this kind of clown



nor is it this kind of zombie



therefore, it is not this kind of zombie clown



no, what we have here is an ornery stand-up comedian clown who becomes a zombie after a violent icepick incident coincides with a freak tornado that somehow causes all the recently dead to turn into zombies, or a version of a zombie. put your hand down, science, we are not taking questions at this time.

in this book, the zombies are similar to the zom
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Dave Rediger
Jake Aurelian has once again written a fantastic book! I thoroughly enjoyed this story and, as a die-hard zombie fanatic, I appreciate what he has done for the genre. Ripper & Jake have brought so many elements to an already stereotyped genre that has left me DEMANDING that others read this book.
If this were to ever grace a silver screen, you would need one helluva director to pull it off.
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Jake Aurelian graduated from the University of Illinois in 2000 with a degree in Media Studies/Communication & Rhetoric. Aurelian has taught English and media at the college level, and to date, has authored eight books (fiction, non-fiction and children's) and over 500 pop culture articles.

On Halloween 2012, Jake Aurelian took an obscure character from his fiction books, an angry clown named
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