Shaun Meeks's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-creek"

Today I shipped of At the Gates of Madness to two Year's Best anthologies. I was approached a few months back about it, but have been putting it off as I was unsure as to what stories to send. I asked people what they thought on here, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and checked reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Tower and Chapters. With all said and done, I had 3 top stories to choose from, but the overall winner was The Creek. It was followed by Atheist in the Foxhole and Madcap. I sent all three stories to both anthologies to let them choose.
The one anthology I am stoked to hear back from is the one Stephen Jones puts together called The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. These books are always packed with so much talent, I would be honored to get in there.
I will keep you all up to date.

So two of my stories, The Creek and Dreams of a Dead Man have appeared on a vote list for Year's Best short story. If you are a fan, have read these stories, it would be so nice if you would take a little time and vote for one of them. Here is the link:
http://critters.org/predpoll/shortsto...

So far I must admit that I am so happy at seeing how many have voted and shown report for my story The Creek. Not only have I received so many positive reviews for it when people have written reviews for my collection,At the Gates of Madness, but is current sitting on Stephen Jones' desk for consideration in the next Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and is currently sitting in the number two spot on P&E with several positive comments. I appreciate every single vote given. This story was one of my absolute favorites in the collection, calling on many childhood memories and nightmares that used to haunt me, to see people responding so well, and getting the recognition it is makes me so happy. Below I will add the link for anyone who wants to vote. But whether it makes it to first or tenth, it doesn't really matter. I've been given a prize already in seeing that so many have already read it and enjoyed it. I don't write for awards, I write for people to read, find a moment of escape in what I write and in the end to linger in your heads. Getting the awards or recognition is just another way to show how far the story has reaches. Thank you all again for your support this year and I promise that next year will be even bigger.

http://critters.org/predpoll/shortsto...

This years P & E poll is almost over and two of my stories made the vote list. One of them, The Creek is in the top ten, but I need your vote to get it up to number one. There is only two days left to vote, so head over now and get your vote in and see if we can make The Creek hit number one!
Here's the link:

http://critters.org/predpoll/shortsto...