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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.



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://www.gorelets.com

WD Prescott won a signed hardcover of my novel PLAY DEAD for:

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.” -Mae West d. 1980

E.A. White won a signed paperback of PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS for:

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” – Charles de Gaulle (Died 1970)

Chris Valk won a signed paperback of 100 JOLTS for:

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
– Woody Allen

John Pupo won a autographed CD of AUDIOVILE for:

The Monster Called Hollywood
“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ” -Clifford Odets (1963)

Ron McGillvray won a signed copy of FREAKCIDENTS for:

I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified like his passengers.
– Bob Monkhouse (December 2003)

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Though the contest is over, you can still post a ‘pithy morbid thought’ — a dark quotable quote from a dead person — if you would like to share it.

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