Summer Scares Live on Stage and On Goodreads

 The entire concept of Summer Scares is really catching on and I cannot be happier.

After years of doing Summer Scares on their web platforms and promoting our titles Chicago Public Library is having us do Summer Scares Live on Stage AND online for FREE, 1 week from today. Click here or on the images below for the details.

On 6/26 at 6pm Central you can join us at Harold Washington Library Center or on CPL's Facebook page or on their YouTube Channel. All of the details are here. Please click through for details so you can join us. They will take questions for the authors from the online participants as well.

But it is not just me and my colleagues on the Summer Scares Committee who are out there promoting Horror as a great option in the Summer, Goodreads knows it is too. 

Recently, they had this post where they asked the authors of this summer's scariest books for their Horror picks (see graphic below for a preview of who those authors are). This list, alongside Summer Scares is a great vetted list of awesome reads for you to add to your collections and suggest to a wide range of readers.

Keep this Goodreads list and use it to make a display. Feel free to grab our Summer Scares Graphic to use to promote Summer Scares to all ages of readers at your library and then put out all your Horror books! Starting with our Summer Scares titles from this year, using the archive from past years, and the readalikes in the programming guides on the linked pages, plus this Goodreads list is a great place to start.

And don't forget to make it interactive. You should have a way for readers to leave a note about what their favorite scary summer read is in person or as a comment online. Also why not make this your conversation starter question for the next few weeks. Put a book mark in every book of the hold shelf, asking people to return their book with their favorite "scary" book. Reminder, I have a full post about how to encourage answers to conversation starter questions and turn them into displays here.

Embrace the scares this Summer. Horror is hot and people want to read as much of it as possible. And of course, I am here to help with that every single day of the year.