#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #4: Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

This is the cover
of the giveaway copy

#HorrorForLibraries giveaway #4 is here!

First, a reminder that these giveaways will be running every week, on Thursdays, for the foreseeable future. And here is the best part, if you enter any week, you are eligible for ALL weeks.

The only rule is that you need to be affiliated with a public library in America or Canada. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.

Okay now how to enter. If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.

Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm will be considered.

If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.

Why I am doing this? Well, one of the parts of my job that has gone away for the time being is my visits to libraries, library conferences, and library systems to provide general RA training. On all of those visits, I would  fill my suitcase with giveaway titles and they were mostly horror. It not only gave me a chance to give away books as prizes, but it also allowed me the opportunity to book talk horror even if that wasn't on the agenda.

Now that my services have transferred to 100% virtual, for the time being, I have an overflow of books in my house and less of chance to promote horror to the unsuspecting masses of library workers.

And thus my #HorrorForLibraries giveaway is born. This will be going on indefinitely, so the sooner you enter the better your chances.

Click here to see last week's giveaway. Our winner was Heidi from Bradford Library in Ontario, Canada.

But now back to this week. Today I have a paperback, finished copy [not ARC] of the Summer Scares 2020 YA selection Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida  Cordova courtesy of Sourcebooks.

I would like to highlight this title today to remind you of our Summer Scares programming guide, point you to our videos from the authors, including Cordova, and also highlight that Labyrinth Lost is the first book in the Brooklyn Brujas trilogy and the third and final book, Wayward Witch is ready for preorder right now! It comes out August 1, 2020.

This is key because the only reason Labyrinth Lost was NOT a Summer Scares pick last year was precisely because we knew the third book wouldn't be out until 2020, so we were willing to wait. Offering a trilogy start title to a bunch of teens when the third book is not ready yet is just mean.

While this title is technically YA, I will note that Labyrinth Lost, and actually all of the YA titles over the last 2 years of Summer Scares, are great choices for adult readers too.

If you win, this is a book you can keep for yourself or add immediately to your libraries collection. No matter what, win or not, you all need to order

Good luck.