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Congrats to the Thriller Award Winners
The International Thriller Writers organization has announced their 2009 "Thriller Award" Winners. Congratulations to: The 2009 THRILLER Awards: Best Thriller Of The Year: THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster) Best First Novel: CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing) Best Short Story: THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN by Alexandra Sokoloff (in The Darker Mask) ThrillerMaster Award: David Morrell Silver Bullet Award: Brad Meltzer Bravo! As a new member of this organization, I was pleased to read of these selections...all strong, worthy stories and authors.
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Pithy Morbid Thought Contest Winners Announced
For the record, the Pithy Morbid Thought contest has officially ended and prize-winners have been selected! Winners were announced live with much drama on twitter.com/MikeArnzen this morning. I assigned all entrants a number and used http://random.org to pull random winners out of the virtual hat, then announced as I went a long live on twitter. Below are the prize winners (visit their websites if they provided them) along with links to information about the titles they won. Congrats one and all. — Mike Arnzen, http://gorelets.com WD Prescott won a signed hardcover of my novel PLAY DEAD for: “When choosing between…
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Bizarro Alert: Borderline France
Hot on the heels of Skull Fragments, comes another appearance in France. Borderline magazine has just published Jerome Charlet's French translation of my short-short, "The Cow Cafe" (Au Vachement d'Cafe) in their 13th issue. Of import: this issue is focused primarily on the BIZARRO genre, and includes translations of work by such over-the-top and outre writers as Jeremy R. Johnson, Kevin Donihe, Andersen Prunty, Jeremy Shipp, Carlos Gardini, artist Maxime LeDain, and an interview with horror writer Kealan Patrick Burke. Good to see the 'bizarros' getting the international attention they deserve. The cover is wildly suggestive and weird.
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The Writer’s Workshop of Horror
I'm pleased to appear in this brand new book of advice for those who want to improve their horror fiction, called order The Writer's Workshop of Horror (ed. Michael Knost, Woodland Press, Aug 2009). It's focused exclusively and deeply on the craft of scary storytelling, with a stellar line-up of contributors that include the likes of Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, and too many more to list: from grand masters to rising stars, the book is a treasury of wisdom you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. If the (also fantastic) Horror…