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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.
July 12, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inData+Errata

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…
July 3, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inData+Errata

2008 Bram Stoker Awards Announced

This press release just came in, hot off the ether: *** Horror Writers Association celebrates 2008 Stoker winners At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Stoker Banquet held tonight as part of the Stoker Awards Weekend held in Burbank, California.  Nine new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year’s winners are: Superior Achievement in a NOVEL DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Scribner) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL THE GENTLING…
June 14, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inData+Errata

Goreletter 5.04 Mailed

The Goreletter Vol. 5, #4 was e-mailed to subscribers on 14 June 2009 @ 4am est. It contains extra material not available here on the weblog version, including exclusive discounts on several horrifying goodies! Note: the subtitle for this issue was dropped from the mailing's subject line. It is titled "The Goreletter 5.04: Black Saabath".  This was the 40th issue of the newsletter, publishing free since 2002. The next issue will begin Volume 6. If you subscribe and did not receive this issue, e-mail me for a replacement or review the archives at gorelets.com. Subscribe today...it's free and you can…
June 14, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inData+Errata

“Pithy” Contest Lost — But Will Return Soon

The "Pithy Morbid Thought" contest I was running on The Haunt (with a deadline of tomorrow) has been lost by their website! Apparently their boards crashed and the backup was unrecoverable. I will make up for this by starting over here on The Goreletter in the days ahead. [UPDATE, 5.15: You can now enter the contest here by July 1st.] If you participated in that contest, I do NOT have your original entries or names (I expected the webmaster to back those up!)...so I hope you will re-enter. I may use Twitter as part of this contest. More to come..…
April 30, 2009Posted inData+Errata