#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 88: A Raw Dog Screaming Press 2-fer

Today I have 2 finished copies from one of my favorite independent publishers, one I have reviewed and is already out and the other, by an author I recently got to know and whose work I LOVE. I will help you her  on your radar ASAP. Details below, but first, how 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. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. 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 87. Our winner three winners were, Veronica from Wheaton [IL] Public Library, Hamelin from New Bern-Craven County [NC] Public Library, and Kayla from Mississippi  Library Commission. 

Now on to this week's giveaway, which is for two books going to one lucky winner.

First, I am giving away Blood Mountain by Brenda S. Tolian. You can read more about this book including my Booklist draft review in this post from last month. I really enjoyed this book. It will have wide appeal, and as I wrote here, I was impressed. Perfect for fans of Horror that is rooted in a very real place. And that cover! You can use it for displays. 

Second is an author I had the pleasure of virtually meeting Eugen Bacon, as she was one of this year's recipients of the HWA's Diversity Grant. An African Australian writer of speculative fiction, Bacon's work stretches the boundaries of speculative fiction and I want to explore all of them.

Bacon's work has already been critically acclaimed, nominated for major prizes, and appeared in major speculative fiction magazines. Go to her website for all of the details.

Her debut collection, Chasing Whispers, is being released on September 8, 2022, but I have a finished copy for your library to add right now. As Bacon explains this collection herself, "In Chasing Whispers,  I sought to write a collection of mostly original stories, transformative black speculative fiction of culture, diversity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and mythology."

From the Goodreads description:

Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and folklore. It contains 13 stories, 11 of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson. The collection is aligned with the themes of Eugen Bacon’s other fiction, and her recognition in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for “doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction.”

Chasing Whispers casts a gaze at mostly women and children haunted by patriarchy, in stories packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope. The connecting theme is a black protagonist with a deep longing for someone, someplace, something… and a recurring phrase in each story: “a deep and terrible sadness.”

I received this book to late to give it an official review in Booklist or Library Journal, but I am telling you all now. This is a collection you will want to have. Bacon is an amazing, evocative, and immersive writer. I got lost in the worlds she creates in these 13 stories easily and completely. I was not surprised by this at all though. As the person who produced the Meet the Diversity Grant panel recording for this year's StokerCon [details here], Bacon had me hooked already. And again...look at that cover. It will do all of the work for itself on any display.

Please remember, all Raw Dog Screaming Press titles are great for library collections. They have fantastic covers, hold up to multiple checkouts, contain high quality prose,-- well edited, yes, but also fun to read-- and they have easy distribution to libraries through Ingram. You should check out their catalog right now.

In the meantime, enter to win this 2 pack of excellent titles you can add to your collections immediately. Remember, when you enter once, you are entered going forward, forever, until you win. And let me tell you, you want to be entered going forward. I have some HUGE titles to give away in the coming weeks. 

Good luck.