Shaun Meeks's Blog - Posts Tagged "william-cook"
Coming Soon
With Shadow Master an anthology from The Horror Zine now out, I thought I would give an update on releases still due out this year. There are still a few I am waiting on contracts from, but this is what I can tell for sure:
Dark Light 3 (Miriam) - July 2013
Fresh Grounds (The Old Man) - summer 2013
The Horror Zine Magazine (Angel In the High Tower) - Fall of 2013
Miseria's Chorale (Give Me Convenience) - Fall 2013
Fresh Fear (Perfection Through Silence) - November 2013
Shutdown (novel) - 2013
Dark Reaches (collection) - December 2013
I will add to this once everything else is confirmed, but already this has been a great year.
Dark Light 3 (Miriam) - July 2013
Fresh Grounds (The Old Man) - summer 2013
The Horror Zine Magazine (Angel In the High Tower) - Fall of 2013
Miseria's Chorale (Give Me Convenience) - Fall 2013
Fresh Fear (Perfection Through Silence) - November 2013
Shutdown (novel) - 2013
Dark Reaches (collection) - December 2013
I will add to this once everything else is confirmed, but already this has been a great year.
New and upcoming
SO here is a more updated version of upcoming releases from me for the rest of the year. This may change as I still have four other stories pending, but here's how it stands so far:
Dark Light 3 - "Miriam" July 2013
Fresh Grounds - "The Old Man" Late 2013
The Original Van Gogh's Ear Volume 8 - "Shelly's Tape" August 2013
The Horror Zine Magazine - "Angel in the High Tower" Fall 2013
Misera's Chorale - "Give Me Convenience" - October 2013
Fresh Fear - "Perfection Through Silence" November 2013
Shutdown - novel Late 2013
Dark Reaches - a collection December 2013
There will be more to come as the year isn't even half over. But if you don't want to wait, make sure you check the stuff that has already been released in 2013:
Zippered Flesh 2 - "Taut"
Fifty Shades of Decay - "Body Bag"
Brother's Ilk - a collection with James Meeks
Shadow Masters an anthology from The Horror Zine - "Red Velvet"
Dark Light 3 - "Miriam" July 2013
Fresh Grounds - "The Old Man" Late 2013
The Original Van Gogh's Ear Volume 8 - "Shelly's Tape" August 2013
The Horror Zine Magazine - "Angel in the High Tower" Fall 2013
Misera's Chorale - "Give Me Convenience" - October 2013
Fresh Fear - "Perfection Through Silence" November 2013
Shutdown - novel Late 2013
Dark Reaches - a collection December 2013
There will be more to come as the year isn't even half over. But if you don't want to wait, make sure you check the stuff that has already been released in 2013:
Zippered Flesh 2 - "Taut"
Fifty Shades of Decay - "Body Bag"
Brother's Ilk - a collection with James Meeks
Shadow Masters an anthology from The Horror Zine - "Red Velvet"
Fresh Fear anthology
Earlier this year I was contacted by William Cook to submit a story to his upcoming anthology, Fresh Fear. As soon as I received it, I began writing a new story called Perfection Through Silence. It took me about eight hours to write it and I sent it off pretty quick. I'm happy to say that it was accepted and will be featured in Fresh Fear along side some pretty amazing talent including JF Gonzalez, Adam Millard, Shane McKenzie and the legendary Ramsey Campbell. Here is a full ToC for the book which will be released around August:
Scathe meic Beorh – God of the Wind
Max Booth III - Everywhere You’ve Bled and Everywhere You Will
Roy C Booth – Just Another Ex
Robert Dunbar – High Rise
Ramsey Campbell – Welcomeland
Lily Childs – Strange Tastes
Lincoln Crisler – Nouri and the Beetles
Jack Dann – Camps
Thomas Erb – Spencer Weaver Gets Rebooted
Carole Gill – Raised
Lindsey Beth Goddard – The Tooth Collector
JF Gonzalez – Love Hurts
Dane Hatchell – ‘takers
Charlee Jacob – Buzz
K Trap Jones – Demon Eyed Blond
Tim Jones – Protein
Vada Katherine - Luna
Shane McKenzie – So Much Death
Shaun Meeks – Perfection Through Silence
Adam Milliard – The Incongruous Mr Marwick
Christine Morgan – Nails of The Dead
Billie Sue Mosiman – Verboten
Chantal Noordeloos – The Door
WH Pugmire - Darkness Dancing in Your Eyes
William Todd Rose – The Grave Dancer
Anna Taborska – Out of the Light
This is going to be an amazing collection and I am so happy to be a part of it.
Scathe meic Beorh – God of the Wind
Max Booth III - Everywhere You’ve Bled and Everywhere You Will
Roy C Booth – Just Another Ex
Robert Dunbar – High Rise
Ramsey Campbell – Welcomeland
Lily Childs – Strange Tastes
Lincoln Crisler – Nouri and the Beetles
Jack Dann – Camps
Thomas Erb – Spencer Weaver Gets Rebooted
Carole Gill – Raised
Lindsey Beth Goddard – The Tooth Collector
JF Gonzalez – Love Hurts
Dane Hatchell – ‘takers
Charlee Jacob – Buzz
K Trap Jones – Demon Eyed Blond
Tim Jones – Protein
Vada Katherine - Luna
Shane McKenzie – So Much Death
Shaun Meeks – Perfection Through Silence
Adam Milliard – The Incongruous Mr Marwick
Christine Morgan – Nails of The Dead
Billie Sue Mosiman – Verboten
Chantal Noordeloos – The Door
WH Pugmire - Darkness Dancing in Your Eyes
William Todd Rose – The Grave Dancer
Anna Taborska – Out of the Light
This is going to be an amazing collection and I am so happy to be a part of it.
My current manuscript with "Five by Five"
What’s my current manuscript about? Find out with Five by Five…
Christian A. Larsen, author of Losing Touch, tagged me in the “Five by Five” writing meme, in which a writer posts five thoughts about their own work-in-progress (WIP) and tags five other writers.
Last year I wrote two novels, a sci-fi/horror story called Shutdown and The Gate at Lake Drive, the first book in the Dillon the Monster Dick series. When I started my new project, I wanted to do something very horror, and maybe a touch over the top, so I went to work on Maymon.
So, let's get this started:
1. When starting the novel, I'd a hard time with the setting. I kept going between New York and Toronto. I needed a big city with a big museum that also had an underground subway for this to work. I've lived in Toronto all my life and only had limited exposure to New York so I thought the choice was obvious. I was obviously wrong and it's now been set in the Big Apple.
2. The original story of Maymon came to me some years ago. In high school I wrote to original version, which was a short story called Demon's Night. In the late nineties, I wrote a 350 page version of the story, and that is what I'm basing this version on. It all started with the idea of being in an underground subway during an earthquake.
3. The name of the demon, Maymon, came from the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. I was given this book by my mom, who wanted to show me about family links in it (mainly the Goodwin witches), and when I stumbled on the part with Mammon, the original story came out. I did change the demon's name. Why? That's a mystery, even to me.
4. There are a few main characters in this one. But the story really focuses on three: FBI agents Darlene Snow and John Wallace, and Dr. Diane Goodwin (yes, that is based on my mother's name) who works for the museum of Natural History. Diane is a bit of a minor character in the first half of the book, but she's the key to so much later on.
5. The book is only about 30% done so far, but that's only because of other projects that have gotten in the way. The final draft should be ready to ship out by the end of September, and I hope I can find a publish fast for this one.
So that’s it–five thoughts about my current work-in-progress. But this meme isn’t called “Five”, it’s “Five by Five”, so I’m tagging Jim Goforth, William Cook, Weldon Burge, Chantal Noordeloos and K Trap Jones.
Christian A. Larsen, author of Losing Touch, tagged me in the “Five by Five” writing meme, in which a writer posts five thoughts about their own work-in-progress (WIP) and tags five other writers.
Last year I wrote two novels, a sci-fi/horror story called Shutdown and The Gate at Lake Drive, the first book in the Dillon the Monster Dick series. When I started my new project, I wanted to do something very horror, and maybe a touch over the top, so I went to work on Maymon.
So, let's get this started:
1. When starting the novel, I'd a hard time with the setting. I kept going between New York and Toronto. I needed a big city with a big museum that also had an underground subway for this to work. I've lived in Toronto all my life and only had limited exposure to New York so I thought the choice was obvious. I was obviously wrong and it's now been set in the Big Apple.
2. The original story of Maymon came to me some years ago. In high school I wrote to original version, which was a short story called Demon's Night. In the late nineties, I wrote a 350 page version of the story, and that is what I'm basing this version on. It all started with the idea of being in an underground subway during an earthquake.
3. The name of the demon, Maymon, came from the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. I was given this book by my mom, who wanted to show me about family links in it (mainly the Goodwin witches), and when I stumbled on the part with Mammon, the original story came out. I did change the demon's name. Why? That's a mystery, even to me.
4. There are a few main characters in this one. But the story really focuses on three: FBI agents Darlene Snow and John Wallace, and Dr. Diane Goodwin (yes, that is based on my mother's name) who works for the museum of Natural History. Diane is a bit of a minor character in the first half of the book, but she's the key to so much later on.
5. The book is only about 30% done so far, but that's only because of other projects that have gotten in the way. The final draft should be ready to ship out by the end of September, and I hope I can find a publish fast for this one.
So that’s it–five thoughts about my current work-in-progress. But this meme isn’t called “Five”, it’s “Five by Five”, so I’m tagging Jim Goforth, William Cook, Weldon Burge, Chantal Noordeloos and K Trap Jones.
