Anyone Else Doing Nanowrimo (or thinking about it)

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In just a few weeks the Craziness of National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo) starts again. I love it. I've done it the past six years and have hit or surpassed the 50,000 word goal four times. I'm aiming for 75,000 words this year. I even go excited enough about nanowrimo this year that I put together a book called The Road to Success in Nanowrimo. It's a Kindle book over at Amazon if anyone is interested. One of my Nanowrimo novels, Dark Side of the Moon, was picked up for publication last year by Muse It Up Publishing and another one I'm finishing up editing also for Muse it Up. So, I'm excited. My novel for this year is going to be a new take on zombie novels. In my zombie world there is no apocalypse. Zombies (or as they prefer to be called "The Post-Dead") are integrated into society. What happened is a pharaceutical company was trying to create a treatment for alzheimers that would cause the brain to keep regenerating cells as it failed. But they created a virus instead which infected people so that when they died, their bodies died, but their brains kept going. In fact, not having to take care of details like keeping the heart beating, they actually improved their intelligence. Through frequent blood transfusions, prosthetics, synthetic skin, etc. The Post Dead can keep their bodies up for several years before the deteriorization goes so far it can't be stopped. Our main character is a cynical post-dead police detective. She is on the verge of having her brain transplanted into a new body when she gets an assignment. Someone has figured out how to kill a post-dead brain and they are going on a spree. She suspects that the pharmaceutical company is behind this, but she thinks everything wrong with the world goes back to Hansen's pharm. But whoever is behind it, she has to stop them before she ends up on their hit list. I'm calling the novel Who's Killing the Dead? What might you guys be writing.