RR Haywood

Richard Haywood (born 17 May 1975), who writes under the pen name RR Haywood, is one of the UK's bestselling self-published authors.

Most known for the Undead series of post-apocalyptic zombie novels, Haywood has published more than 40 books and is a Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon, and Audible multiple bestselling author with 25 Kindle and Audible bestsellers and nearly four million copies sold worldwide.

His writing spans multiple genres including horror (The Undead), science fiction (the Extracted Trilogy, the DELIO trilogy), thrillers (A Town Called Discovery), and satirical action-adventure (Fiction Land).

Life and career Growing up in Birmingham, England, Haywood was a voracious reader from a young age, finding solace in books during what he describes as a "disjointed childhood". Thanks to the success of his writing career, he was able to retire from policing in 2017 after 19 years’ service. Haywood has readily admitted that these first few releases "were awful" on account of "being full of typos and other elementary errors which have, thankfully, since been corrected". The increasing popularity of the Undead series secured Haywood a three-book deal with 47North,

As of 2023, he has written 25 books in the Undead series. ) and The Code, the latter being one of the first Audible Original science-fiction series with Audible UK, narrated by actor Colin Morgan. He states that the only rule aspiring authors should follow is to read widely, suggesting they read 1,000 books before writing their first book.