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 giveaway #7. Our winner was Lisa from Algonquin Area [IL] Public Library from.
I have already written about how much I LOVED this book here in my Library Journal star review and here on Goodreads. Plus, I did this interview with Kraus that also ran in Library Journal back in April when we thought this book would come out in May. It now comes out on 8/4. So that gives you a month to read it if you win.
Real talk time here. This book could have been a huge disappointment. Kraus knew this himself as he writes about in the EXCELLENT authors note at the end of the book. He was asked to take Romero's unfinished epic novel and all his notes and turn it into THE book that unites the entire Romero universe. But Kraus took his job very seriously, did the research, preserved Romero's voice, inserted his own voice, and ultimately created a book that is both an homage and stands on its own as one of the best zombie books I have ever read. Seriously, this will be on my BEST of 2020 list when the year ends. No question.
More from me via the links above. You know you are ordering this for your library, but if you enter and win, you can read it early.
Good luck!
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