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Thursday, April 15, 2021

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #39: StokerCon Librarians' Day Featured Author Tim Waggoner

It's #HorrorForLibraries Giveaway day, but it is also a special mini-series within the larger giveaway series. Today and for at least the next 3 weeks, I will be giving away books by authors who are appearing at StokerCon Librarians' Day. Plus I have a special multi-book giveaway set for LIVE during Librarians' Day [courtesy of Nightfire]. So you are going to want to enter now.

Click here for all of the details about this event. It is only $75 and you get to go to the entire StokerCon for that price, not just Librarians' Day.

Details on this week's giveaway below but first...

Here is a refresher on the basic rules to enter:

  1. You need to be affiliated with an American public library. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 each week will be considered for that  week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
  4. 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.
Click here to see giveaway #38. Our winner was John from Chattahooche Public Libraries [GA]

Today I have the latest novel by Tim Waggoner. Waggoner is the author of  Writing in the Dark which I reviewed in Library Journal last year, it is nominated for a Stoker Award, and is in my new book and on the blog as one of my go-to resources. This is an author you need to know about.

Waggoner is appearing on the first panel of the day at StokerCon Librarians Day: 

10-11 The Appeal of a Good Scare: Moderated by Becky Spratford  -- Tim Waggoner, Grady Hendrix, V. Castro, Jessica Guess, John Fram, Emily Hughes [Nightfire].

We will be talking about why people love horror. And we have a nice range of authors and horror professionals. 

But that's all focused on Waggoner the writing instructor. This is about his latest novel, Your Turn To Suffer. I have a full review posted on Goodreads here.  

This is a great example of a storyteller who understands his audience, gives them what they want, and yet still keeps them on the edge of their seat constantly guessing. 

Three Words That Describe This Book: mix of weird fiction and extreme horror, original storyline, deeply unsettling.

My review has way more detail and readalikes. 

This giveaway is a finished, hard cover copy courtesy of the publisher, Flame Tree Press. You can read it AND add it to your shelves immediately. 

Good luck. And next week I will be offering 2 books by a different panelist. Enter once and you are entered going forward. 

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