Free Admission!
Join us for a reading and book signing of Ida Vega-Landow’s new book The Zombie Godmother!
Short Synopsis by Ida Vega-Landow
“They call me the Zombie Godmother because I’ve had to stand godmother to so many of the zombies I resurrect. The ones who don’t have any living relatives or close friends to ask me to bring them back after they are murdered. I only raise murder victims, those who died unjustly at the hands of others.”
Morgana Moros de Rosenberg
Somewhere on the Lower East Side of New York, right by the East River, is a homeless shelter run by a half-human fairy godmother, Fata Morgana Palmira Isabel de Moros y Rosenberg, born in 1492 in Montoya, Spain to Don Juan Miguel de Moros and his fairy wife, Fata Morena.
Morgana gives shelter, food, and medical care to the homeless, the abused, the runaways, and the illegal immigrants. She also uses a mixture of traditional elven and Caribbean magic to raise the murdered dead, resurrecting them as sentient zombies who still possess their souls and memories so they can take revenge upon their murderers. Most of the shelter’s staff and volunteers are zombies wearing a glamor charm designed by Morgana to make them look the same way they appeared before they died. Their lawful prey are sinners, who break the laws of God and mankind, and there are sure plenty of those in NYC.
In addition to dealing with muggers, rapists, gangsters, pedophiles, and a nosy ICE agent, there’s also her old frenemy, Lucien Estrella, aka Lucifer Morningstar, for whom she was once a soul collector. When he makes her an offer to extend the life span of her beloved husband in return for seven unrepentant souls, she discovers too late that she has endangered the souls of her most beloved zombie children as well.
Meet the Author!
Ida Vega-Landow is a native New Yorker whose parents were from Puerto Rico. After surviving her childhood on the Lower East Side, she briefly attended Borough of Manhattan Community College. At the height of New York City’s fiscal crisis, she dropped out and took the civil service test, passed it and became a clerk-typist for the State Insurance Fund, eventually becoming a secretary and being transferred to the Division of Human Rights, where she learned firsthand how low humans can go when they discriminate against their fellow humans.
Ida’s life has been a series of strange events, not all of them pleasant. Among them were racial discrimination, family discord caused by alcoholism (not her own), and a bout with breast cancer, which she won. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her cat, happily retired and pursuing her lifelong interests in religion, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, all of which have been combined to create The Zombie Godmother, which was written during the Covid 19 Lockdown.
*The Coney Island Museum is located on the second floor and is not wheelchair-accessible at this time