#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 99: Wayward by Chuck Wendig

99th giveaway! Hard to believe even for me, the one who visits the post office every week to send the winners.

Well if there was every a time to start start celebrating it is as I inch toward my 100th giveaway here on the Horror blog. It all started back on April 30, 2020 with this giveaway of a book that would go on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. And here we are today, 29 months later on the cusp of my 100th giveaway [more on that giveaway at the end of this post] AND with October and my annual 31 Days of Horror just over a week away.

It seems the right time to go BIG and I am doing just that today with a giveaway of one of the "biggest" titles coming this Fall, big in both high anticipation and actual size. Details on this week's giveaway below, but first, the weekly reminder on 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 #98. Our winner was Christy from San Diego [CA] Public Library. Now on to this week's giveaway.

Wayward by Chuck Wendig is the highly anticipated sequel to Wanderers. Click here for my review of Wanderers. 

I read Wayward back in August and my GLOWING review will be in the October 2022 issue of LJ, but if you use this link you can get a preview. Spoiler alert....it is good. And it moves briskly even at 800+ pages. Here is one thing I really loved about the book from those review notes:

There was a heartbreakingly beautiful ending that not only tied up the world and the story but also was a nice payoff for those who were reading every word along the way. [Not going to spoil].

I am a sucker for a heartbreakingly beautiful ending but I also love when an author takes the time to make every detail matter. In an 800+ page book that is hard, but in my opinion, Wendig did that extremely well. Not just in the ending, across all 800+ pages this holds true. As a reader, that is very satisfying. 

I also want to use this time, as I have your attention, to tease an event I am moderating featuring Chuck Wendig, Gabino Iglesias, Linda Addison, Cynthia Pelayo, Hailey Piper, and Lisa Morton. It will be for the Book and Author Society on Monday, October 17th from 7-8:15 Eastern. More information soon, but it is virtual and FREE. I am super excited to talk Horror with this amazing range of authors.

ENTER NOW!

And now, as promised, we end today with news about next week. To celebrate giveaway 100 I will have at least 5 winners. I am considering more. And the giveaway is courtesy of my HWA Libraries Co-Chair Konrad Stump and his work for the Missouri Library Association Annual Conference. I will be there LIVE to grab some of the books he solicited for attendees and I will even be participating in a Horror Book Buzz [more on that on the general blog next week]. You don't want to miss that give away or this one for that matter.

Get on it. Follow the directions above and enter yourself. Again, once you are entered you stay entered until you win. And it is not just next week you want to be in for. I have another copy of Wayward to give away, at least 2 copies of Stephen Graham Jones' newest, a bound galley of the upcoming V. Castro's Big 5 release, books by Zoje Stage, Daniel Kraus, and so much more. 

And don't forget, 31 Days of Horror is coming October 1. You will want to visiting the Horror blog every day next month for all of your Spooky RA needs.