Today's giveaway is a doozy. The second novel by this year's Bram Stoker Winner for Best First Novel and a bonus "defiantly joyful speculative adventure" for fans of John Scalzi. Here is how to enter:
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 #52. A winner was picked but they have yet to respond, so I may pick 2 winners tomorrow.
I have a huge stack of physical ARCs to giveaway as the Spooky Season begins in earnest so let's get to it with a 2-fer to kick off the speculative fun.
Summary of Children of Demeter via Goodreads:
In 1973, a commune of almost twenty-five people—mostly women and children—disappeared overnight from the small town of West Burma, WI. What happened to the hippie Children of Demeter has remained a mystery until this day, which is what draws Sarah Bisset, a sociologist on sabbatical, to the place.
With her personal life in ruins Sarah is more than happy to lose herself in the secrets of the isolated farmhouse, but soon those revelations have her questioning her own identity, and even her sanity. Is she prepared to navigate the labyrinth of lies and cover ups to expose the truth concealed inside Demeter House despite the consequences?
Children of Demeter is an excellent, female fueled, cult horror story. Cult horror is very popular right now. I mean it always has been, but it is getting a marketed bump in readership right now. Check out this recent list from Book Riot of great cult horror and add this new title to the list. Side note, I have read just about every title on that Book Riot list and can confirm they are excellent and should be in your collections.
This is also a great example of a frame that would make a great display because it crosses many genres. There are a lot of readers who love cult stories and not all of them read horror. Not all cult stories are horror, but for people who really love the cult frame, genre doesn't matter, so these horror novels may be perfect. By the way, to this list I would also add a title I enjoyed very much and gave away here on the blog over a year ago [giveaway 14], The Children of Red Peak by Craig DiLouie.
You can combine the Book Riot list with this Goodreads user generated list of books tagged "cults" to get a broader list of "cult" titles for all readers. Novelist also has "cults" as a searchable subject meaning you can also extend this list to your YA and Children's' display areas too. I do love when a display subject can be highlighted across a building. You can even have the AV department do movies and TV shows. I promise this will be very popular displays.
As a bonus, I have a copy of one of the buzziest speculative books coming this month. It is not scary but I am in a good mood and wanted to spread some of that joy. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki is from Tor [who sent me the ARC] to give away to all of you. Here is the publisher summary via Goodreads:
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
This book comes out on 9/28 and it is going to be popular. I am happy to provide it as a bonus for those who enter.
Good luck!
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