Shaun Meeks's Blog - Posts Tagged "year-s-best"

If you have been waiting to read my new story, They Say the Dead Don't Drink, you can now find it online at Amazon or at www.storybrewhouse.com. It is in the new anthology, A Six Pack Of Stories, which contains 24 stories where the center piece is beer. How can you go wrong there? There is horror, sci-fi, historical and general fiction in this set, a little something for everyone. Mine is a horror piece, and I look forward to hearing what people think.
As that is released, there ar two more anthologies due out soon with stories of mine in it, but as they get closer, I will give more info on them.
Right now I am hard at work doing a new novella that I have decided to add to the upcoming collection I am releasing with my brother, Jamie Meeks. The story is an end of the worl monster tale that started off with an idea of a slick gun man in a house at the end of the world and has grown into a horrific and at time, touching story of a man that is finding that the humanity he thought he lost years ago, is creeping back as humanity falls away from the world. The story is call House in the Valley (as in the valley of death). It will be the center piece of my set of stories in Brother's Ilk.
I have also been asked to submit stories to a few "Year's Best" anthologies for consideration and have sent out a few. Who knows how that will go?
All in all, this year has been very full and I have come pretty far. I look forward to growing as a writer and seeing new people finding my work.
Keep reading!

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.

Here is some more news on the publication front. I was told today that my story Open Book, will be appearing in The Best of Dark Eclipse and is due out in February of this year. If you haven't read it yet, now would be a great time to do so. Especially since I will be releasing a new story called Unopened in the collection Brother's Ilk in the same month. Unopened is a sequel to Open Book in a way and both are part of a bigger story, a mythos I am putting together about something known as The Great Nothing. I look forward to it And hope you all grab a copy.